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‘A Little Bit of Normalcy’ | Stanislaus County Flea Markets Are Making Cautious Comeback

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TURLOCK, Calif. — After being closed for six weeks, the Turlock Flea Market is joining other markets in the county by reopening their doors.

Back in March, the market, which has been going since the ’30s, closed for the first time since World War 2, according to David Linn, manager for the market.

“The why is pretty self-explanatory,” said Linn, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.

While the market was categorized as a farmers market and didn’t have to close, Linn said it came down to the cons outweighing the pros. They didn’t want big crowds at their market to be a source of spread for the virus.
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‘Open Really Slowly.’ Stanislaus Outlines Next Steps for Businesses Closed by Coronavirus

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As it starts a process of reopening the local economy after the coronavirus shutdown, Stanislaus County will allow dog grooming, drive-in movies and retail stores providing curbside pickup, starting on Friday.

County supervisors, who made the announcement at Tuesday’s board meeting, acknowledged many people will be disappointed by the meager reopening of commerce this week.

But a plan for unshackling more business sectors is promised for next week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, which could be a good sign for dine-in restaurants, hair salons and fitness centers.

Continue Reading on The Modesto Bee

Getting Back to Normal? Stanislaus County Sees a Surge in Coronavirus Infections

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Stanislaus County has trailed behind other areas marred by the coronavirus, and now infections are increasing in the county and its nine cities.

In the past week, county public health reported 68 new cases of people sickened by COVID-19, after the county caseload had remained under 100 for a month.

Since a shortage of supplies limits testing to those with worsening symptoms, it means 24 more people in Modesto wrestling with the dangerous respiratory illness and capable of spreading it to others. Ceres and Turlock had 10 and 8 new cases, respectively, and the unincorporated area had 9.

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Lenny Mendonca Steps Down as Newsom’s Business Adviser

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Turlock native Lenny Mendonca, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top business adviser and chairman of the High-Speed Rail Authority, is leaving the administration to focus on his family and personal business.

Newsom’s office announced the departure Friday night. In a statement, Newsom praised Mendonca for launching an initiative aimed at improving the economic fortunes of the state’s inland counties and kicking off Newsom’s Future of Work Commission.

Mendonca was often prominent in highlighting the Central Valley economy such as last November when the eighth annual California Economic Summit came to Fresno.

Mendonca, a former senior partner at the consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Company, has long been a go-to adviser for Newsom.

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No Face Covering or Mask? You Could Be Fined in These California Cities.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on wearing face masks, several cities in California are changing their protocol for essential businesses.

Some cities have even required anyone who leaves their home to wear a face-covering or risk a fine.

At the same time, other counties like San Diego have taken a more hands-off approach by allowing businesses to decide whether to deny entry to people who are not wearing face coverings.

On top of concern over reusable bags and transmission of COVID-19, businesses themselves have started to require face coverings for shoppers as well.

This is in addition to previous regulation on workers wearing face masks. Now, businesses may start to turn away those who do not have a face covering.

Nugget Markets, operating within the greater Sacramento metropolitan area and headquartered in Woodland, has begun to do just that. All stores will now require customers to wear a face mask or covering in order to shop.

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Small Business Rallies in Support of Colleagues

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There’s a small grassroots movement happening at the center of Oakdale and it comes at the hands of small business owners Bear and Allison Walters. The movement, however, has little to nothing to do with their downtown fitness studio, Get Fit Oakdale.

While to some the movement might seem simple, a T-shirt bearing the words “In This Together” down the front with #weareoakdale at the bottom, has generated much buzz. So much so, that the T-shirt sales idea will now roll out to other neighboring cities.

“We’re about to launch it in Turlock, Ripon, Hughson and Escalon as well,” Bear Walters said of the fundraiser they began to benefit local small businesses. “But that’s tied to a business who has a story to those communities like Butler’s Pantry will be the one spearheading for Escalon.”

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Cell Phone Data Reveals Which California Counties Are Not Socially Distancing

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Want to know which California counties are evidently not doing a very good job of obeying the statewide shelter-in-place order that has been in effect for over a week now?

The data company Unacast, a firm that collects cell phone location data for private companies, created an interactive map that shows which counties in California and beyond are correctly “socially distancing” by staying at home.

Each county and state is graded on an A-F basis on the “change in average mobility,” or the decline in distance traveled since quarantine measures were first put in place.

“To calculate the actual underlying social indexing score we combine tens of millions of anonymous mobile phones and their interactions with each other each day – and then extrapolate the results to the population level,” Unacast writes in its methodology.

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IRS Slow to Tell Taxpayers How to Get Stimulus Checks: People ‘Need These Payments ASAP’

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The Internal Revenue Service has not released information on how people should prepare to get the checks Congress promised when it passed a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus package last week.

The IRS says it will deposit your stimulus check to your bank account or mail it to your address based on your 2019 or 2018 filed tax return. But if you need to change or update your information – ensuring you’ll receive it sooner and in the right place – they have no answers on how to fix that yet.

The checks should be $1,200 for most adults and $500 for most dependents. At the section of the IRS website meant for coronavirus updates, which the IRS has directed people to visit, it specifically says there is no new information on the checks.

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In Stanislaus County, How Coronavirus Is Affecting the Way Mortuaries Do Their Work

in Health/Business & Economy

Next to health care, perhaps no occupation more than the funeral business calls for compassion in the time of coronavirus, for balancing safety with sensitivity.

Grieving families don’t need to be given more grief, and local mortuary operators say they are working to ensure that while also ensuring employees’ safety.

The California Department of Public Health issued, and the California Funeral Directors Association shared, guidance for facilities on the handling of the dead with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. Those include the use of personal protective equipment and body bags.

Continue Reading on The Modesto Bee

Coronavirus Hits Home for Renters, Landlords Alike

in Housing/Business & Economy

The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every facet of everyday life, leaving many renters, landlords and property management companies uncertain about the future.

At Stanislaus State, where in-person classes have been cancelled, students looking to move back home are flocking to social media messaging boards in an effort to find prospective tenants to take over their leases. Student Priyanka Chand has already moved back to her home in Stockton, she said, but is still responsible for paying $890 per month for her master bedroom in a shared student apartment at The Vista until the end of July.

“Because classes have converted online, there was really no point for me to stay there any longer because there’s no reason to be on campus,” Chand said. “I’m trying to get out of my lease, but management has been very uncooperative.”

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