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"No Rent" Message Helps to Pay Employees at Jonesboro Restaurant

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published March 18, 2020 at 4:50 PM CDT

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The response to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has hit the restaurant industry hard. As KASU’s Johnathan Reaves reports, one message from a landlord to his tenant brought joy in the midst of fear. Click on the Listen button for the entire story.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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