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04/23/2020
By Todd Davis
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Until the coronavirus, Frank and Lucy Campise’s Lakewood home of 45 years bustled with family, feasts and fellowship. COVID-19 changed everything. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
CORONAVIRUS
[Suspended grief: Coronavirus didn’t take patriarch, but his family is feeling its effects](
Until the coronavirus, Frank and Lucy Campise’s Lakewood home of 45 years bustled with family, feasts and fellowship. COVID-19 changed everything.
Visiting Frank, also known as Papa, and Lucy, both 80, became problematic. Papa’s already fragile health deteriorated. Papa died on March 22, in his favorite chair, with his Texas Rangers blanket on his legs. Two weeks later, his coronavirus test results came back negative. Now Papa’s loved ones are in suspended grief.
[This is death in the time of the coronavirus](.
Also: [Dallas County announced 80 new cases]( and seven deaths from COVID-19.
Relief package: [The House passed a $484 billion package]( to help small businesses, bolster hospitals and coronavirus testing.
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COMMUNITIES
[Collin County plans return to work after different stay-at-home approach](
After recently recovering from COVID-19 himself, Phil Crone is hopeful Collin County can get back to work soon.
As executive director of the Dallas Builders Association, [he knows the region needs a timely strategy for economic recovery](. He just isn’t sure what the right timing will be.
"We’re going to have to sit in the middle of that fulcrum," he said. "How do we thread that rope through the needle here to make sure we have the right balance?"
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Also: HOV lanes are to be shut down for at least four years for a [I-635 East project.](
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And: Want to enjoy the great outdoors at home? The [Irving-based Boy Scouts]( will host a virtual National Camp-In Day.
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BUSINESS
[International modeling agency Wilhelmina receives nearly $2 million in PPP loans](
An international modeling agency run by Dallas investor Mark Schwarz received nearly $2 million in low-interest loans from the program designed to keep small businesses afloat through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wilhelmina International Inc., which lists its corporate headquarters as Schwarz’s Crescent Court office, disclosed the loans from Zions Bancorporation totaling $1,975,200 in regulatory filings this week. The agency has a roster of 2,100 fashion models and celebrity clients such as pop star Shawn Mendes and rappers Swae Lee and Machine Gun Kelly.
[The Paycheck Protection Program’s average loan was $206,000]( according to data from the Small Business Administration and U.S. Treasury Department.
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Also: Plano-based Toyota will ramp up [North American vehicle production]( beginning May 4.
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And: [Southlake travel tech firm Sabre]( is furloughing one-third of workers.
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(Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer)
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Wyland was sitting at his home in the Florida Keys on a recent morning when he got the news. Given that he’s in quarantine, like everyone else in the world, the last thing he figured on getting was a breaking-news blast out of Dallas. A welcome news blast.
Now 63, Wyland is an artist and conservationist who got permission from a court to use only his last name. In 1999, he came to Dallas to paint a giant mural on the back of a downtown building. His creation — 164 feet long and eight stories high — depicts six life-size humpback whales swimming near a coral reef.
It covers the entire southwestern facade of the building at 505 N. Akard St., fronting a surface parking lot along North Field Street that, for the time being, sits mostly empty.
[Why his creation has been hard to see until now is an interesting story of coronavirus and commercialism](.
EDITORS' PICKS
- Health care: Abortion providers dropped a request for a court to block Texas’ ban after the state says [it’s over](.
- Tech advice: [What is Wi-Fi 6](
- Posh property: Feast your eyes on the soothing palette of this [three-story, Tudor-style home in Highland Park](.
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FINALLY...
[Here’s what the Cowboys' owner has to find tonight in the first round of the NFL draft](
SportsDay columnist Kevin Sherrington:
What will Jerry Jones do Thursday? Will he stand pat at 17, as he’s done the last six drafts? Or will he trade up or down, as he did constantly in his formative years with Jimmy Johnson?
The last time Jerry made a draft-day deal in the first round, he got Travis Frederick and Terrance Williams out of it. I objected to the deal at the time. [Clearly Jerry was right](.
Then again, the year before the Frederick finagling, Jerry traded up for the chance to get Mo Claiborne. The picks he dealt turned into Michael Brockers and Alshon Jeffery. Ugh.
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