Mount Pleasant Magazine July/August 2020

25 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.VOICEofMPpodcast.com grants for businesses struggling to pay their employees and remain viable, even as they were being ordered to shut down by government mandates aimed at controlling the inevitable spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. BY BRIAN SHERMAN Stepping Up Local bankers were PPP VIPs E stablished by the CARES – Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security – Act, the Paycheck Protection Program offered Small Business Administration loans with the potential to become