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Springfield awards $12.8 million in ARPA money; small businesses, community organizations benefit
SPRINGFIELD — As not too long ago as this 7 days, Lena Redd was actually praying for divine intervention to continue to keep her company afloat. Her Asian American soul food items fusion cafe, SouLao’d Kitchen, 606 Site Blvd., opened in November 2019, four months just before the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic. In Redd’s text, it has been trudging alongside because. “This week I was praying. ‘God, I do not know what to do. Make sure you tutorial me,’” she recalled. On Thursday morning her prayers were being answered with a cellular phone simply call. On the other end was not the Almighty, but the mayor’s business office, letting…