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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Something just for fun because life is pretty stressful right now: Check out this site to see the #1 song on the day you were born:
<a href="https://playback.fm/birthday-song">https://playback.fm/birthday-song</a>
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Sponsorship Blog By Sylvia Allen – suggestions for keeping your sponsors engaged when events are cancelled/postponed
<a href="file:///C:/Users/sheri.stuart/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/MN2OT78O/email.mht">
Click Here to Read</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Free Webinar: Impact of COVOID-19 on Retail, Thursday, April 16th at 10AM CST. Charles Parker and Austin Farmer from The Retail Coach will be discussing the impact COVID-19 has had
on the retail industry. To register - <a href="https://theretailcoach.net/?utm_source=Master%20Distribution%20List&utm_campaign=bb87ea759c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_17_08_58_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54d161b089-bb87ea759c-387146965">
Retail Coach Webinar</a> <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">AARP Community Challenge Grant – due May 15. Bandana w/AARP Oregon has offered to talk through your potential projects – she can be reached at
<a href="mailto:BShrestha@aarp.org">BShrestha@aarp.org</a>. applications and info can be found here:
<a href="https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/community-challenge/info-2020/2020-challenge.html?cmp=EMC-DSM-NLC-LC-HOMFAM-20200408_LivableCommunities_SC4N_899300_1316105-040820-F5-Challenge-Text-CTRL-4490152&encparam=WEQXZk0Q6CjtGSDxs%2b2usfap5v2wUjUKHSZK3wnY%2fZQ%3d">
AARP Comm Challenge Grant</a> <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Here’s a message from the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City about one thing they are doing to give back to frontline members in the region: “<i>Healthcare workers and First Responders
are on the front line in Eastern Oregon, protecting us from a new and scary global pandemic. We want to support these amazing people who are enduring unimaginable levels of stress while keeping us safe. Every front line worker is invited to enjoy an overnight
stay entirely without cost through the month of April. The famed Geiser Grand Hotel, standing proudly on Main Street in Historic Baker City, is donating 600 room nights, a value of a quarter million dollars, to bring joy and comfort to these local heroes</i>.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Destination Analysts (a west coast based tourism marketing research firm) just released the most recent findings from its Coronavirus Travel Sentiment Index Report, April 6. Some of
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">More travel was affected in the last week: now, 72.8% of respondents say they have had travel affected by the coronavirus situation. 65.3% cancelled a trip, the highest rate in the
last four weeks. There is an uptick in cancellations reported in May and June.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">The percentage of respondents confident coronavirus will be resolved by the summer travel season plummeted to 31%.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">53.1% of American travelers say they expect they will be traveling in the fall. The percent who say they have trip plans in September and later in 2020 has ticked up.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Even more travelers say they miss traveling this week: 69.1% can’t wait to travel again, up from 63% last week.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Half of American travelers (49.8%) say they will avoid crowded destinations in the six-month period after the pandemic ends.<img border="0" width="581" height="332" style="width:6.05in;height:3.4583in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D60D99.DF21F3F0"><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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