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VANCOUVER, CANADA / ACCESSWIRE / May 4, 2020 / Consumer Choice Award is thrilled to announce the 2020 Top Service Providers in their respective sectors for the Vancouver, North Vancouver and Surrey Regions. We would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to all this year's winners; your dedication to superior service has resonated with the people of Vancouver & Regions Area.

Each year across Canada, Consumer Choice Award gathers opinions, perceptions and expectations through the responses of thousands of consumers and businesses. All winners have gone through a rigorous selection process conducted by a third party research firm to ensure only the most outstanding service providers are the winners within their respective industry. Find the list of Award Winners below.

A Glass Act

WINDOW CLEANING | NORTH VANCOUVER155C Riverside DriveNorth Vancouver, British Columbia V7H 1T6https://www.aglassact.net/(604) 435-3550

Able Irrigation

IRRIGATION SYSTEMS | VANCOUVER4450 Dawson StreetBurnaby, British Columbia V5C 4B9www.ableirrigation.com(604) 584-7676

Allegra Printing

PRINTING AND DIGITAL SERVICES | VANCOUVER1290 Venables St.Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 4B4www.allegra.ca(604) 875-1919

Alpha Carpet Cleaning Ltd

CARPET AND RUG CLEANING | SURREY19349 94 AveSurrey, British Columbia V4N 4S1alphacarpet.ca(604) 580-0009

Amherst Funeral and Cremation Services

FUNERAL SERVICES | VANCOUVER1209 - 207 West Hastings StreetVancouver, British Columbia V6B 1H7http://www.amherstcremation.com/(604) 831-3023

Anago of Vancouver

JANITORIAL SERVICES | VANCOUVER302 - 19292 60th AveSurrey, British Columbia V3S 3M2https://anagovancouver.ca/(604) 336-6211

Andrew Reid North Vancouver Realtor

RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE | NORTH VANCOUVER241 West Rockland RoadNorth Vancouver, British Columbia V7N 2W2http://www.haddenproperties.com/(604) 618-1636

Arbutus Sundecks

DECKS AND PATIO CONTRACTOR | VANCOUVER1117 11871 Horseshoe WayRichmond, British Columbia V7A 5H5www.arbutusvinyl.com(604) 322-1059

Aroma Web Design

Web Design | VANCOUVER, NORTH VANCOUVER & SURREY73 Water Street, 6th FloorVancouver, British Columbia V6B 1A1https://aromawebdesign.com/(778) 387-3525

ARPAC

FORKLIFTS | VANCOUVER7663 Progress WayDelta, British Columbia V4G 1A2https://www.arpac.ca/(604) 940-4000(800) 946-8511

Avita Health & Massage Therapy Center

MASSAGE THERAPY | VANCOUVER407 - 1200 Lonsdale Ave.North Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 3H6www.avitahealth.ca(604) 980-4491(778) 227-9662

Automation One Business Systems Inc.

OFFICE EQUIPMENT | VANCOUVER1365 Boundary Rd.Vancouver, British Columbia V5K 4T9www.automationone.ca(604) 255-6622(888) 652-9922

Beaver Landscape

LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS | VANCOUVERUnit 4, 11720 VOYAGEUR WAYRichmond, British Columbia V6X 3G9www.beaverlandscape.com(604) 271-3060

Bella Turf

ARTIFICIAL GRASS SYNTHETIC TURF | VANCOUVER19347 24 Ave #107Surrey, British Columbia V3Z 3S9bellaturf.ca(604) 385-4727(888) 970-8771

Benchmark Painting

PAINTING CONTRACTOR | VANCOUVER17-3618 150 StreetVancouver, British Columbia V3Z 0W3www.benchmarkpainting.ca(604) 803-5041

Blue Sky Physiotherapy & Wellness Centre

PHYSIOTHERAPIST | NORTH VANCOUVER700 Marine Drive, Suite 120 & 130North Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 1H3www.blueskyphysio.com(604) 988-7761

Brite Blinds

WINDOW TREATMENTS | VANCOUVER4275 Phillips AveBurnaby, British Columbia V5A 2G9briteblinds.ca(604) 420-8820

Broadway Station Dental Centre

DENTIST | VANCOUVER12 - 2495 Commercial Dr.Vancouver, British Columbia V5N 4B8www.broadwaystationdental.com(604) 874-6322

Burnaby Blacktop

PAVING CONTRACTORS | VANCOUVER4641 Byrne RdBurnaby, British Columbia V5J 3H6burnabyblacktop.ca(778) 855-0513

Burnaby Pro Driving School

TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL | VANCOUVER5004 Still Creek AveBurnaby, British Columbia V5C 5V1Burnabypro.ca(604) 291-2255(800) 808-2332

Cambie Roofing

ROOFING | VANCOUVER1367 East Kent Avenue NorthVancouver, British Columbia V5X 4T6www.cambieroofing.com(604) 261-1111

Complete Accounting Solutions

ACCOUNTING SERVICES | SURREY#100, 17619 - 96th Ave.Surrey, British Columbia V4N 4A9www.completeaccounting.ca(604) 498-2655(877) 783-0599

Craftsman Collision

AUTOMOBILE BODY SHOP | VANCOUVER810 West 1st StreetVancouver, British Columbia V7P 1A1www.craftsmancollision.com(604) 904-8886

Cruise Connections

TRAVEL AGENCIES | VANCOUVER604 - 1201 West Pender StreetVancouver, British Columbia V6E 2V2cruise-connections.com(604) 684-9283(800) 661-9283

D'oro Gelato e Caff

RESTAURANTS - DESSERTS | VANCOUVER1222 Robson StVancouver, British Columbia V6E 1C1www.dorogc.com(778) 329-9560

Delton Denture Clinic

DENTURISTRS | VANCOUVER7313 120 St #209Delta, British Columbia V4C 6P5www.deltondentures.com(604) 590-1111

Dermal Laser Centres

SKIN CARE AND LASER CLINIC | VANCOUVER803 Davie St.Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1B7dermallaser.com(604) 638-7546 (SKIN)

Dhillon Bros. Paving

SNOW REMOVAL | VANCOUVER10780 Blundell RdRichmond, British Columbia V6Y 1L1www.dhillonpaving.ca(604) 839-5531

Disposal Queen

GARBAGE REMOVAL | SURREY508-5782 Berton AveVancouver, British Columbia V6S 0C1https://www.disposal-queen.com/(778) 929-1023

Econowise Sunrooms & Patio Covers

SOLARIUM SUNROOMS SKYLIGHTS | VANCOUVER12651 80 ave. #123Surrey, British Columbia V3W 3A6http://www.econowisesunrooms.ca/(604) 593 - 7496

Espresso Dolce

COFFEE SERVICE AND SUPPLIES | VANCOUVER1751 Boundary RdVancouver, British Columbia V5M 3Y7https://espressodolce.ca/(604) 326-3333(877) 888-2739

Evergreen Nursing Services

HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES | VANCOUVER313-2083 Alma StreetVancouver, British Columbia V6R 4N6www.evergreennursing.ca(604) 264-7959

Fraser Chiropractic Group & Massage Therapy

CHIROPRACTORS | VANCOUVERSuite 130 - 809 West 41st AvenueVancouver, British Columbia V5Z 2N6www.fraserchiro.ca(604) 321-6704

Freeman Audio Visual

AUDIO VISUAL SERVICES | VANCOUVER395 W 8th AveVancouver, British Columbia V5Y 1N7https://freemanav-ca.com/(604) 255-1151

HD Top Building Maintenance

JANITORIAL SERVICES | SURREY6423 130 St.Surrey, British Columbia V3W 4H9www.hdtopbuilding.com(604) 716-9399

Hillcrest Security

SECURITY GUARD SERVICES | VANCOUVER22420 Dewdney Trunk RoadMaple Ridge, British Columbia V2X 3J5www.hillcrestsecurity.ca(604) 908-3487

Hollyburn Eye Clinic

OPTICIAN/OPTOMETRIST | NORTH VANCOUVER#101 - 252 Esplanade WNorth Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 0E9https://www.hollyburneyeclinic.com(604) 984-2020

Honu Boat Charters

RECREATIONAL CRUISES | VANCOUVER750 Pacific BlvdVancouver, British Columbia V6B 5E7https://www.honuboatcharters.com(604) 818-1808

Horizon Chartered Professional Accountants

ACCOUNTANTS | VANCOUVER1400-650 West GeorgiaVancouver, British Columbia V6B 4N8https://horizoncpa.ca/(604) 697-7777

Integrative Naturopathic Medical Centre

NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE | VANCOUVER730-1285 Broadway WVancouver, British Columbia V6H 3X8www.integrative.ca(604) 738-1012

Iron Age Manufacturing Ltd.

IRON PRODUCTS | VANCOUVER2755 Boundary Rd.Vancouver, British Columbia V5M 3Z7www.ironagebc.com(604) 876-0914

La Belle Fleur Floral Boutique Ltd

FLORIST | VANCOUVER#148- 6350 120 StSurrey, British Columbia V3X 3K1http://www.labellefleur.com/(604) 591-3327

Langley Farm Market

FRUIT VEGETABLE RETAIL DISTRIBUTOR | VANCOUVER26 Fawcett RdCoquitlam, British Columbia V3K 6X9https://www.langleyfarm.ca(604) 520-7168

Lasik MD

LASER VISION CORRECTION | VANCOUVERHSBC Tower 885 West Georgia Street, Suite 110AVancouver, British Columbia V6E 3E8https://www.lasikmd.com(866) 961-2020

Life Maid Easy

MAID HOUSE CLEANING SERVICES | VANCOUVER301-7 w 7thVancouver, British Columbia V5Y 1L4https://www.lifemaideasy.com(604) 682-6243(833) 247-6243

Lionsgate Scaffolding

SCAFFOLDING | VANCOUVER8601 main streetVancouver, British Columbia V5X 0E6www.lionsgatescaffolding.com(604) 321-8852

MacLean Law

FAMILY LAW LAWYER | VANCOUVER1021 West Hastings Street, Suite 2900Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 0C3macleanfamilylaw.ca(604) 602-9000(807) 602-9900

Marpole Physiotherapy Clinic

PHYSIOTHERAPIST | VANCOUVER8337 Granville StreetVancouver, British Columbia V6P 4Z8http://marpolephysio.com/(604) 263-4414

Michael a Smith Duct Cleaning

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The Pineapple Inn and Housing Center is located on Richmond Road by TGI Fridays (WYDaily file)

Multiple industries have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and the local hotel business is no exception.

As hotels continue to operate at very limited capacity, many are still finding it difficult to stay above ground. In a letter from the Williamsburg Hotel and Motel Association, the organization asked Gov. Ralph Northam to consider allowing tourism businesses to re-open under certain restrictions.

That means reducing maximum occupancy in hotels, maintaining social distancing protocols and creating new sanitary practices in communal areas.

The letter also asks for Northam to have more consistent dates in his executive orders as the dates from Executive Orders 53 and 55 have different expiration dates. Having a more consistent set of dates would help the industry prepare for reopening, according to the letter.

Were not putting economics before health, said Ron Kirkland, executive director of the association. Were appreciative of what the governor has done, but were just looking for some consistency.

In the meantime, hotels, motels and bed and breakfast businesses in the area have had approximately a third of their normal business, Kirkland said. And two dozen have temporarily closed altogether.

Kirkland said a few might stay open because theyve borrowed money to build their structure and require someone onsite at all times.

But for those that have remained open and accepting guests, theyre changing their practices. Instead of daily maid services, some only have cleaning happen after checkout. In addition, when guests check in and out of the facility, staff are wearing personal protective equipment to keep themselves safe.

As the state prepares to re-open, Kirkland said the industry wants to know what best practices to adopt when moving forward.

Even with the letter to Northam, Kirkland admitted theres no real assurance that business will bounce back.

Thats the million-dollar question, he said. Theres going to be a group of people still uncomfortable with traveling but theres also the fact that people have been cooped up in their homes, so theres a pent up demand.

Kirkland said it will depend on when other attractions, such as Busch Gardens and Colonial Williamsburg, are able to reopen.

In the meantime, some of those locations are using the extra space to house the local homeless population.

When the pandemic first came to the area in March, Barbara Watson, assistant social services director for James City County, said the county reached out to hotels to see if they would be willing to shelter homeless individuals. The concern came after the Community Faith Mission winter shelter closed and left people without a place to go.

However, while two hotels, Best Western Historic District and Holiday Inn Express Lightfoot, responded saying that they would be willing to house individuals, Watson said there havent been any who needed the resource.

The [Community Faith Mission] shelter was only 25 people, but we didnt know whether or not there would be people losing housing during the pandemic, she said. What occurred was the inability to evict people, which made a difference.

Those in the homeless population have returned to other hotels in the area that have been providing housing services for years, such as the Pineapple Inn, Watson said.

We have a significant number of people in our community who make hotels their permanent residence year round, so that hasnt changed at all, she said. Those people are still there.

Watson said there hasnt been any need to quarantine anyone in the homeless population so far, but the county is compiling a list of possible locations to do so should the need arise.

The countys main purpose is to ensure that people remain housed during this time, she said. We dont want anyone on the street so we are working to provide and fill in those gaps.

Amy Lee, manager at Pineapple Inn & Housing Center, saidthey have implemented sanitation measures such as wearing masks, gloves and using physical, social distancing.

We have a process, she said. Most of my residents are longer term, but when they check out, we do a deep clean, full sanitation of the room.

Besides 3e Restoration, Pineapple Inn is working with localities, including James City County, New Kent County and Williamsburg, to house people who are homeless during the coronavirus.

Most of the referrals have been from James City County Social Services as well as nonprofits such as Williamsburg House of Mercy and United Way.

As of Wednesday, the hostel has 64 out of 114 rooms occupied and they are expecting more people this week.

The first is Friday and a lot of people will get their money on Friday, she said. So we are expecting more people.

Lee is not sure if the property owner has applied for FEMA funds yet.

When asked if how they were handling people who couldnt pay rent and Northams executive order regarding evictions, Lee said she doesnt anticipate they would be asking people to leave and the hostel works with people who cant afford rent on a case-by-case basis.

Other than implementing the social distancing measures, limiting visitors and increased sanitation efforts, not a lot has changed for the hostels operations.

The biggest difference for us is the outpouring from the community, she said, adding nonprofits, church groups and restaurants are bringing hot meals to the families multiple times a week.Tonight, we have La Tienda coming.

Kids meals are delivered three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and night-time meals twice a week on Mondays and Fridays.

This is all a waiting game for everybody, its one a day at a time, she said. Its keeping peoples spirits up and reiterating why we have to follow the rules in place currently. Were trying to make sure everyone who is here is safe.

Life is hard, when youre living in a hotel, its really hard, she added. Inherently, most people are good and we have a good group here.

Tammy Harden, executive director of 3e Restoration, a nonprofit that helps the homeless population in the area, said they have two rooms at Pineapple Inn, part of the nonprofits emergency homeless shelter program, Restoration Place.

Harden said they recently received a $3,600 grant from the Williamsburg Community Foundation to add two more rooms at the hostel.

Right now, were taking more families with children, she said.

Before the coronavirus, three people and one family were being housed at the inn. Now, they have added one family with another family pending, Harden said.

The COVID-19 Emergency Response Grant covers rent and additional rooms for a few months and the goal is to extend it to the end of the year, Harden said.

In the meantime, the nonprofit has partnered with home health care providers so their clients can work during the coronavirus and once the pandemic is over, they can access services like childcare assistance.

In terms of FEMA funding, Harden said she feels its kind of a last ditch effort since there are certainly requirements such as individuals being COVID-19 positive or being considered high risk.

So everybody is just trying to navigate it and the layers of funding and how we access them, she said. What we are seeing is a lot of the families who have been in hotels, who have lost their jobs, are the calls we are getting right now.

People the nonprofit cant house are referred to the regional homeless hotline or depending on their needs, other resources like Avalon, Harden said.

Sadly, right now a lot of the shelters are closed, she added. They may even have to go to Newport News or Hampton or Norfolk unfortunately.

3e Restoration is collecting donations for their COVID-19 Recovery Sponsor A Neighbor Initiative to help people with medical health, employment work and housing related issues when the coronavirus ends. You can donate here to the fund here.

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Let me guess, Patti LuPone says as she plinks olives into a martini. You came here to be a movie star.

Here, of course, is Hollywood, where dreams are made, faked, defeated and deferred. In Ryan Murphys Hollywood, a seven-episode limited series that comes to Netflix on Friday, LuPone plays Avis Amberg, a former actress married to the head of Ace Studios. Ace Studios, while fictional, looks like Paramount Pictures, walks like MGM and green-lights pictures more progressive than any the Golden Age birthed. Set in the late 1940s as the studio system began to wane, Hollywood enjoys this dizzy cocktail of history and hopeful make-believe.

As a kid, Murphy watched Hollywood oldies with his grandmother and became particularly attached to three actors: Anna May Wong, Hattie McDaniel and Rock Hudson all of them, he felt, stifled by the studio system.

I was attracted to the idea of lost potential, he said in a telephone interview last week. And maybe worried about it myself, that I was not going to be allowed to be who I wanted to be because of who I was.

After completing the first season of his series Feud, set in 1960s Hollywood, he mulled a more factual series honoring the systems victims. But ultimately, it was just too fragmented and also, to be honest, too depressing, he said.

He began to think along revisionist lines, instead, imagining what might have happened if people of color had been offered work commensurate with their talent, if the industry had allowed its queer members to live openly. Happy endings all around.

Hollywood, which he created with Ian Brennan, mingles actuality and what-if. Real people like Hudson (Jake Picking), Wong (Michelle Krusiec) and McDaniel (Queen Latifah) rub elbows and more with invented ones like David Corenswets Jack, an aspiring actor and sometime gigolo, and Darren Crisss Raymond, a biracial director who passes for white. Others merge fact and fictions, like LuPones Avis, inspired by David O. Selznicks wife, Irene Selznick, or Joe Mantellos Dick, a homage, at least in part, to the movie whiz Irving Thalberg.

To help sort entertainment history from fantasy, here is an introduction to the real-life figures who populate this counterfactual Hollywood and the inspirations for several of the seriess fictional characters. Action!

An actor who would ride the beefcake craze of the 1950s, Hudson, born Roy Harold Scherer Jr., came to Hollywood in the late 1940s.

He knew how he looked, said Picking, who wore facial prosthetics to play Hudson, a former Navy aircraft mechanic. He would stand out in front of the studio gates in his uniform hoping to bump into someone influential.

A bit player in the 40s, Hudson, who signed with the talent manager Henry Willson, graduated to westerns, adventure pictures and melodramas, earning an Oscar nomination for his work in Giant. In 1959, he starred opposite Doris Day in Pillow Talk, a comedy in which his character briefly masquerades as gay. He projected an attractive yet unthreatening masculinity, said Steve Cohan, an author and film historian.

Willson thwarted tabloid attempts to out Hudson as gay and Hudson later married Willsons secretary, Phyllis Gates, in what was possibly a lavender marriage meant to further allay suspicion. (Gates denied this. We were very much in love, she told a biographer.) In 1985, Hudsons publicist confirmed a diagnosis of AIDS, and two months later, Hudson became one of the first celebrities to die of AIDS-related complications.

A serial abuser and a starmaker with an impeccable eye for brawny, unformed talent, Willson helped rename and introduce actors such as Hudson, Tab Hunter and Troy Donahue, as well as women like Natalie Wood and Lana Turner. For a while there, he understood how to make his own little factory of these strapping all-American men and plug them into the movies, said Jim Parsons, who plays Willson in Hollywood. That doesnt excuse the despicable behavior by any means.

The well-documented behavior included demanding sex from his male clients and various forms of psychological abuse, even as he protected his roster from hostile press and blackmailers. He ranks right up there with Harvey Weinstein as one of the towns greatest monsters of all time, Murphy said. Deserted by his clients in later life, he died destitute.

Hollywoods first Asian-American star, Wong, a third-generation Chinese-American, grew up in Los Angeles, where her parents ran a laundry, and went on to appear in dozens of silent and sound films.

She was captivating, said Emily Carman, a film professor at Chapman University. Her presence radiated charisma and elegance.

A fashion plate and a publicity darling, she rarely won principal parts (her later B movies are an exception) or unexoticized roles. As Wong, played by Michelle Krusiec, says in the series, They dont want a leading lady who looks like me.

The role of O-Lan in The Good Earth, the film adaptation of Pearl S. Bucks China-set novel, seemed made-to-measure for Wong. But the production code, a self-censoring charter major studios adopted, prohibited romantic scenes between actors of different races. Since Paul Muni, a white actor, had been cast as O-Lans husband, the part instead went to Luise Rainer, a white actress who played O-Lan in yellowface and won an Oscar for it. The Good Earth producers offered Wong the role of a seductress, the movies villain, but she refused it.

An alcoholic who experienced periods of depression, she died in 1961 at the age of 56. Her lonely death, that for me was very sad to discover, Krusiec said.

The first person of color to win an Oscar, McDaniel, the daughter of former slaves, began her career in vaudeville, as did several of her siblings. She moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s and soon found screen work playing maids.

She was a scene stealer, Carman said. She knew how to mobilize that stereotype to her advantage.

She fought for the role of Mammy in Gone With the Wind, arriving for her screen test in a real maids uniform. She won an Oscar for it, though at the ceremony itself she was relegated by the events organizers to a segregated table. While she hoped the award might unlock a broader away of roles, Hollywood only saw her as a maid.

Later in her career, some African-American activists attacked McDaniel for accepting regressive roles. Her stock response: Id rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.

A woman had to make a living, said Queen Latifah, who plays McDaniel. But it was a waste of her talent. She was a powerhouse. She could sing. She could dance. She could act. She was smart. She was funny. She had timing. She was brilliant.

In the third episode of Hollywood, the film director Cukor (Daniel London) throws a wild party with an elite guest list, including Leigh and Bankhead, and a crew of sex workers to provide postprandial entertainment. Cukor, who directed The Philadelphia Story and Gaslight, did host louche parties, many of them all-male. Leigh (Katie McGuinness), who played Scarlett OHara in Gone With the Wind, and Bankhead (Paget Brewster), who tested for the role, were both close friends of Cukors. In the late 40s, Leigh was about to appear in the stage version of A Streetcar Names Desire and was experiencing episodes of bipolar disorder. Bankhead, known as one of Hollywoods most accomplished seducers of women (including McDaniel, according to a persistent rumor) as well as men, had recently had a hit with Alfred Hitchcocks Lifeboat.

Though Murphy disclaims any interest in Bowers, Dylan McDermotts Ernie runs a service station that doubles as an anything-goes bordello. This dovetails with Bowerss claims, aired in a controversial 2012 memoir, that he spent decades providing sexual services to the Hollywood elect, first as a pump jockey then as a party bartender.

Whatever folks wanted, I had it. I could make all their fantasies come true, he wrote in the introduction to Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. The book alleges that Bowers arranged liaisons for the likes of Hudson, Cole Porter and Leigh (who all appear in the series as clients), as well as Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. (The stars he wrote about were already dead but the families of some of them, like Cary Grant, disputed the claims.)

Within Hollywood, Jeremy Popes screenwriter character, Archie Coleman (glancingly inspired by James Baldwins Hollywood experience), sells a script about Entwistle, a 23-year-old aspiring actress who finally achieved brief fame by jumping from the H of the Hollywood sign, back when the sign still spelled Hollywoodland.

Born in Wales, she moved with her father to New York and began acting as a teenager, including a tour with the New York Theater Guild and in a number of Broadway plays. In the spring of 1932, she came to Los Angeles with a play and stayed to shoot her only film. Her contract was not renewed. After telling her uncle she planned to visit friends, she disappeared. A hiker discovered her body at the foot of the sign.

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Chennai-based president of South Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI), Ramachandran Ganapathi says, If they are not safe, how can we be safe, he wondered before adding, at the risk of offending them, they must be encouraged to take a test, given protective equipment, sanitisers and even a shower before they begin their work.

Priya Gopalan, a mother of three and a homemaker from Bangalore, would not think of letting her maid go. Where can one find such reliable people, she asked and said, I used to do more than half the work even earlier. But I have had this maid for the past four years and we have gotten comfortable with each other.

Jaipur-based senior Public Relations professional Jagdeep Singh felt that people would not mind paying maids their wages for March and April. But if the lockdown gets extended, then they might decide to do away with house helps, he said. At least one Noida based housewife, however, has been thanking the lockdown for giving her the opportunity to bid goodbye to her maid. She was never regular, came at her own convenience. Once the lockdown is lifted, I would not like to have her again, declared a resolute Renu Bhatia.

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An engineer from East Kilbride has carriedout essential repair work on the Maid of the Loch - 70 years after his father helped build the ship.

The remarkable connection spanning seven decades has delighted Eddie Van der Stighelen whose Belgian father was foreman of the engineering workshop at the Glasgow shipyard where the much-loved paddle steamer was built.

Eddie, whose company specialises in construction industry tools and plant maintenance, offered to restore the Maid of the Loch's windlass after discovering via social media that help was being sought with the ship's renovation.

However, the work took on a much deeper significance because of the family's connection to the ship.

Eddie explained: "My father, Jan Van der Stighelen, was a Belgian national who served in the Belgian Merchant Navy from before WW2 until the wars end.

"My parents had met during the war and were married in Glasgow in 1943, but after the war they returned to Belgium where their first two children were born.

In 1951, the family moved from Belgium to Glasgow and my father started working for the shipyard A&J Inglis at Pointhouse.

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"Later that year, work started on building the Maid of the Loch, and as foreman of the engineers shop, his skills would have been in much demand."

The Maid of the Loch was constructed at the Glasgow shipyard, but was dismantled and brought to Balloch where her sections were reassembled.

Eddie said: My brother, who is four years older than me, remembers being taken in my fathers van to Balloch, presumably to the slipway where the Maid was constructed and launched into Loch Lomond.

The ship's windlass - which is required for handling the mooring warps - was in poor condition and it had to be dismantled, cleaned and inspected to ensure it could still be made to work again.

Eddie said: "Thanks to the quality of the materials used and the robustness of the design the windlass renovation is almost complete."

Now he hopes his company, Vantech Engineering Services, will be given the chance to carry out more engineering work on the ship.

The Loch Lomond Steamship Company, the charity which owns the Maid, says the repair of the original piece of equipment is another step forward in its aim of returning the historic ship to full sailing condition.

It added: "So the Maid has benefitted from the skills of this amazing engineering family with Jan the father as the shipbuilder and Eddie his son, almost 70 years later, the renovator."

Maid of the Loch is the last paddle steamer to be built in Britain, and sailed on Loch Lomond until 1981.

A 1.1 million refit last year refurbished two of her public rooms back to her 1950s style, and restored her engines back into steam operation for the first time since 1981.

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SINGAPORE - Twenty victims of credit-for-sex scams have been penalised for flouting circuit breaker measures as they had left their residences to procure sexual services, a non-essential activity.

The victims procured these sexual services by leaving their homes to buy gift cards or to make payment at AXS machines and were each issued a composition sum of $300 for flouting safe distancing regulations under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations, the police said in a statement on Thursday (April 30).

Between April 18 and 29 this year, the police received separate reports from at least 20 male victims, aged between 18 and 52, that they had fallen prey to credit-for-sex scams.

In total, the victims were cheated of more than $50,000.

In most cases, the victims had befriended the scammers or searched for sexual services through online applications such as WeChat, Tinder and Michat, or websites such as Locanto and Skokka.

There were also instances where scammers would proactively approach the victims through these online applications or websites to offer sexual services. The victims were then instructed to either make advance payments via AliPay credits at AXS machines or buy iTunes or Google Play gift cards and send over the redemption codesin exchange for the sexual services.

The scammers then became uncontactable after the advance payments were made.

In the first three months of the year, the police received 237 reports of credit-for-sex scams, with more than $613,000 cheated. The number of cases reported increased by 40.2 per cent and the total amount cheated increased by more than $211,000 when compared with the same period in 2019.

The police advised the public to be wary of friend requests or online listings offering escort, massage or sexual services as they may be fraudulent in nature.

Police said scammers may employ scare tactics to threaten victims into making more payments. They urged the public not to accede to the scammers' demands or give out personal details such as their credit card information.

They added that people should take the circuit breaker measures seriously, and avoid going out during this period.

Those in doubt or have information related to credit-for-sex crimes can call the police hotline on 1800-255-0000, or visitthiswebsite.

People who need urgent police assistance can call 999.

To get scam-related advice, the public can call the anti-scam helpline on 1800-722-6688 or visit this website.

Members of the public can also join the "Let's fight scams" campaignby signing up to receive up-to-date messages and share them with their family and friends.

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Callous thieves have stolen a gazebo that was reportedly being used to treat patients at a Burton doctors' surgery.

The green gazebo was last seen on Friday, May 1, before thieves swiped it from Bridge Surgery between then and this morning.

It is thought it was being used as an outdoor shelter and consulting area in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen doctors change the way they work in order to combat the virus.

Staffordshire Police confirmed the theft was reported to them this morning.

A spokesman for the police force said: "It was reported to us at 9.30am that the gazebo had been stolen from Bridge Surgery on St Peter's Street.

"It was described as two-by-two metres and green and was last seen on Friday.

"Any witnesses or anyone with information can get in touch by calling 101 and quoting incident number 136 of May 4."

The surgery has been approached for comment.

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Another summer Shuswap tradition has been postponed due to COVID-19

The Wednesday on the Wharf (WOW) concert series, presented by the Shuswap District Arts Council at Salmon Arms Marine Park, will not be proceeding this year.

For 26 years the concert series has provided residents with a place to gather with friends and family on the grass at the park gazebo stage to enjoy the lively sounds of talented musicians, states the arts council in a media release.

In 2020, however, the events that have unfolded with the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the cancellation of many community gatherings, and WOW has now been added to the list of summer festivals that will not happen this year, reads the release.

The 12-week series was set to begin in June, but provincial health authorities are not expected to lift the restriction on gatherings of 50 or more people until the end of summer.

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Since WOW attracts anywhere from 300 to 600 people, stated the arts council, this clearly exceeds the limits of what is considered a safe outdoor gathering.

This is not the situation that any of us were hoping for, said program manager Astrid Varnes. We were hoping we might be able to offer a shortened season, perhaps with a mid-July or August start, but it is not to be.

WOW is not just about the music, its about connecting with friends and family, about audiences dancing and having a picnic, and we realized we couldnt offer WOW in a way that would ensure everybodys health and safety.

The arts council is committed to long-term, sustainable cultural planning, and will continue to work toward a 2021 season that is adaptable to the new reality that is the performing arts sector.

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Long before the coronavirus pandemic crushed the economy and slowed real estate sales, some high-priced residential properties were lingering on the market.

Asking prices were dropped and negotiations took place to close the deal. Here are examples:

621 N.W. Skyline Blvd. in Portland's Forest Park sold for $850,000 on Feb. 28, 2020 by Don Jones with Casey Jones of John L. Scott.John L. Scott

$350,000 price drop in Forest Park: 621 N.W. Skyline Blvd. in Portland sold for $850,000 on Feb. 28, 2020, a reduction of $350,000 since being listed for $1.2 million on April 24, 2018, according to public records.

The house with sweeping valley and coast range views was built in 1989 on 1.94 acres and has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and 3,473 square feet of living space. The gated driveway leads to a five-car garage, greenhouse, gazebo, tool building and raised garden beds and in-ground sprinklers.

Possible apartment with kitchen and separate entry in lower level with unbelievable storage and/or shop potential said listing agent Don Jones with Casey Jones of John L. Scott. See active listings

2524 N.W. Skyline Blvd. in Portland sold for $1,465,000 on March 25, 2020 by Mary Ann McDowell with Darrin Amico of Hasson Company.Hasson Company

$234,000 price drop in Forest Park: 2524 N.W. Skyline Blvd. in Portland sold for $1,465,000 on March 25, 2020, a reduction of $234,000 since being listed for $1,699,000 on June 24, 2019 (It was listed at $1.9 million on July 30, 2018).

The French Country-style house, built in 1995 on 1.22 acres, has a real concrete stucco exterior and real stucco interior walls plus three fireplaces. French doors, balconies, three bedrooms, four bathrooms and 4,625 square feet of living space.

Among the landscaped grounds are a saltwater pool, sauna and hot tub.

Quality construction throughout. Zinc windowsills and thresholds, said listing agent Mary Ann McDowell with Darrin Amico of Hasson Company. See active listings

3510 S.W. Sherwood Place in Portland sold for $1.35 million on April 16, 2020 by Dennis Laird of Windermere Realty Trust.Windermere Realty Trust

$200,000 price drop in Portland Heights: 3510 S.W. Sherwood Place in Portland sold for $1.35 million on April 16, 2020, a reduction of $200,000 since being listed for $1.55 million on July 19, 2019.

The custom home was built in 1962 on 1.03 acres and designed to frame city, river and mountain views over Marquam Park and have direct access to trails and OHSU. The house has four bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 4,383 square feet of living space.

There is a fenced yard and deep, two-car garage.

Designed for privacy by the father of Pacific Northwest architecture John Storrs. A recent remodel kept the original design integrity intact. Updates include a luxury master suite, complete kitchen and all bathrooms. Nearly every surface has been thoughtfully recreated, said listing agent Dennis Laird of Windermere Realty Trust. See active listings

13731 N.W. Glendoveer Dr. In Portland's Forest Park sold for $1 million on April 15, 2020 by Don Jones with Casey Jones of John L. Scott.John L. Scott

$195,000 price drop in Forest Park: 13731 N.W. Glendoveer Dr. in Portland sold for $1 million on April 15, 2020, a reduction of $195,000 since being listed for $1,195,000 on April 6, 2019.

The Craftsman house with a wraparound porch was built in 1999 on 1.02 acres and was showcased in NW Naturals Street of Dreams.

The custom luxury home has four bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, a bonus room and 4,876 square feet of living space.

Theres a double staircase, crown moldings and wainscoting, and refinished hardwoods, said listing agent Don Jones with Casey Jones of John L. Scott. See active listings

13810 N.W. Charlton Road in Portland sold for $1,050,000 on April 15, 2020 by Matt Mahaffy of Windermere Realty Trust.Windermere Realty Trust

$100,000 price drop in Sauvie Island: 13810 N.W. Charlton Road in Portland sold for $1,050,000 on April 15, 2020, a reduction of $100,000 since being listed for $1,150,000 on Feb. 20, 2020.

The custom house, built in 2002 on 2.11 acres, has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, an indoor sauna and 2,176 square feet of living space.

There is a covered outdoor patio with a wood-burning pizza oven and a three-bay, 30x50 shop.

Completely designed and reimagined by award-winning Olson Design Build at the end of Charlton Road, making it extremely private, said listing agent Matt Mahaffy of Windermere Realty Trust. See active listings

48000 E. Larch Mountain Road in Corbett sold for $850,000 by listing agent Michelle Smith of RE/MAX Equity Group.RE/MAX Equity Group

$75,000 price drop in Corbett: 48000 E. Larch Mountain Road in the Larch Mountain Corridor sold for $850,000 on Feb. 13, 2020, a reduction of $75,000 since being listed for $925,000 on May 30, 2019.

The two-level, traditional-style house, built in 1995 on 13.58 acres, has five bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 4,021 square feet of living space.

A gate opens to a blacktop driveway. There is extensive decking plus outbuildings, including a 3,600-square-foot shop and 1,200-square-foot tractor barn.

Get away from it all. Experience nature at its finest. Amazing opportunity to raise your family and animals on extremely quiet and private acreage in a low wind area in the Corbett School District, said listing agent Michelle Smith of RE/MAX Equity Group. See active listings

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