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Memoriam/Card Of Thanks
IN MEMORY OF
MARY ROBINSON-NEAL Born: February 28, 1959 Died: February 21, 2019
We little knew that morning God was going to call your name. In life we loved you dearly, in death we do the same.
It broke our hearts to lose you. You did not go alone, for part of us went with you the day God called you home.
You left us peaceful memories, your love is still our guide, and though we cannot see you, you are always by our side.
Our family chain is broken and nothing seems the same, but as God calls us one by one, the CHAIN will link again.
Love, your family.
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY YOU WENT AWAY
MR. JEROME MERRITT “Big Rome” 2-16-2020
Today’s the anniversary of the day that I lost you. And for a time it felt as though my life had ended, too.
But loss has taught me many things and now I face each day, with hope and happy memories to help me on my way.
And though I’m full of sadness that you’re no longer here, your in- fluence still guides me and I still feel you near.
What we shared will never die, it lives within my heart, bringing strength and comfort while we are apart.
Dearly Missed by your loving wife, Beverly and family. Jerome, Jr., Michelle, Arjay, and Talon.
Local
Tampa Fast-Food Workers Join Others And Go On Strike To Demand $15 An Hour Wage Increase
Workers at fast-food restaurant chains in 15 cities around the U. S. went on strike on Tuesday demand- ing a raise in their minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The workers at McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s, joined by home care and nursing home work- ers, took action as the Biden admin- istration is attempting to push through an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25, in what would be the first increase since 2009.
Strikes occurred in Tampa, Miami, and Orlando, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago; Flint and Detroit, Michigan; Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina; Hous- ton; St. Louis; Oakland, Sacramento, and San Jose, California; and Mil- waukee.
Since 2012, the Fight for $15 movement has organized low-wage workers around the U. S. to push for state and local minimum wage in- creases and to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
“We hear you out there applaud- ing essential workers. We see the big show you make of thanking us. But to be honest, that hasn’t translated into changes for my life. We were liv- ing on a razor’s edge long before COVID-19 hit South Carolina. And we’re living on it still,” said Tai- wanna Milligan, a McDonald’s worker in Charleston who makes $8.75 an hour after working at the restaurant chain for eight years, in a recent op-ed demanding a $15-an- hour federal minimum wage in- crease.
Workers are conducting the strikes as a proposal to raise the fed- eral minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 is included in the coron- avirus relief package House Democ- rats plan to pass and send to the Senate over the next two weeks.
THANK YOU
MR. PHILLIP ALBERT ROBINSON
There are not enough words to fully express our heartfelt thanks for the sympathy, love, prayers and support you have ex- tended to our family during this time of loss of our beloved Phillip Albert Robinson.
The Robinson Family.
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