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Local businesses adjusting as County now in purple tier By DAVE SCHWAB | The Beacon
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museums, gyms, zoos, aquariums, and card rooms – must move outdoors or close. Bars, breweries, and distilleries pulled theasplug, areextinguisher, able to remain open longhit the fire — and it exploded. It just as they are able to operate outside blew up in my face, like little with food on the same ticket as shotalgunRetail shellsbusinesses going off.” and shopcohol. “It wascan a nightmare,” added ping centers remain open with Elliott of his loss. “It was my little 25% of the building's capacity. Food go-back-in-time sanctuary. It’s not courts are not permitted. a dollar thing.” Only schools already in session Fortunately, fire station can remain opentheforOBin-person was just around the corner and learning. they came and put it prompted out sparing Recent developments damagefrom to the residence. responses Dr.main Wilma Wooten, “[The fire]health took all my boards county public officer, and and tools, got my truck and camper,” noted Elliott. SEE PURPLE, Page 8
Longtime Ocean Beach surfboard shaper trying to rebuild after fire
With San Diego County recently demoted from red to the most-reBY DAVE SCHWAB | THEto BEACON strictive purple tier due an increase in COVID cases, Peninsula surfboard maker residents andBbusinesses continued Albert “Ace” Elliott lost to grapple with ongoing state-manmuch of what he’s dated health protocols to combat the acquired, pandemic.including 50-year-old irreplaceable “You must be memorabilia, in purple forwhen at histhree shaping shed on Froude Street least weeks,” said Michael near Saratoga Avenue caught fire Workman, County communicaondirector. Aug. 6. “You can come out tions Elliott’s and go back toworkspace red 'if' thewas last full twoof old are boards andThis photos friends weeks in red. just of continmadeyou custom boards for. in ues he’d on until get two weeks bike was on fire in my a row“I ofsaw red my numbers.” backyard and Imetrics tried to relied put it out,” Unfortunately, on said Elliott, who’s been riding ebikes for years. “I picked up a fire
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stands 65,501. The death toll remains at 926. Monday, Nov. 16 was the sixth consecutive day that more than 600 new coronavirus cases were reported countywide. Slipping back from the red to the purple tier means non-essential businesses – restaurants, family entertainment centers, wineries, places of worship, movie theaters,
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