The Purple People Bridge will be flooded with red tonight from 9 p.m. on end as part of a regional and national effort to recognize the demanding situations facing the hospitality and entertainment industry and its workers in the wake of the VOC-1nine pandemic.
MAC Productions, the Covington-based company that specializes in generating live events for national meetings and special occasions for businesses, associations and nonprofits and now offers a patented platform for meetings and virtual exhibits: lighting fixtures on the bridge, Northern Kentucky Convention Center and other such services are in red this week , as well as others in the industry who are doing the same, as a component of a “red alert” to raise public awareness of the fate of those corporations and their employees.
“This is a regional and national effort to raise awareness of the difficulties corporations face due to the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that they can’t function this time, which also means their workers can’t work,” Mike said.Claypool, owner and president of MAC Productions, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary as a company.
The arts, culture and live events, as well as conventions, were among the first closed industries due to the pandemic and most of them remain closed today, meaning that millions of others in our region and across the country who paint in this industry are unemployed.or underemployed, Claypool said.
Unfortunately, these corporations will also be among the last to resume operations once the crisis has passed, which turns out to take place in 2021 at the earliest.As a result, about part of these corporations are expected to lose between 70% and one percent of their business this calendar year, and unfortunately this means that many of them are probably not in favor of the pandemic.”
They are also asking the public for the RESTART Act, which would continue and expand the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act passed by Congress earlier this year that provided investment to many of those unemployed employees.This law is recently blocked in Congress.
Jack Moreland, president of Newport Southbank Bridge Company, the 501 (c) (3) organization that operates the pedestrian bridge between Newport and Cincinnati, said his organization is among those in the domain that were affected by the pandemic.
“As a non-profit organization without donations or public or personal investment sources, we operate the Purple People Bridge primarily through the rental rates we occasionally get on deck,” Moreland said.”Although the bridge remains open to the public the pandemic, since March we have not arranged any occasions on the bridge, a scenario that turns out to last for some time, unfortunately.”
Among the other red alert sites:
Each month, an average of 71,000 other people run, walk, bike and skate on the Purple People Bridge.The bridge is owned and operated through Newport Southbank Bridge Company, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit personal organization that operates and maintains the bridge.For more information, your website.
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