Government shutdown impacts on foothill community near national park

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- We are present approaching 3 weeks of a authorities shutdown, and foothill communities that beryllium connected visitors to the nationalist parks are feeling the impact.. some bully and bad.

"With the authorities shutdown it's been escaped to get successful truthful we person really had much tourists coming successful and locals from down the hill, they are astir taking vantage of that. They are enjoying the park, they are coming down and they are enjoying meals astatine section restaurants here," says Maritza Konnaris, proprietor of Tony's Taverna.

The owners of Tony's Taverna accidental the other concern has been a invited surprise, particularly since they opened conscionable aft the shutdown began.

But they're reminding visitors to enactment safe, with parkland resources limited.

"They request to beryllium precise cautious particularly with the snowfall due to the fact that determination are nary exigency responders up there, truthful idiosyncratic has to spell from down present and instrumentality a agelong time," expresses Antonis Konnaris, Owner Tony's Taverna.

Locals are besides urging visitors to support the parks clean.

"We request to instrumentality attraction of our wood a batch much than we do. They propulsion trash, that is our forest, that is our future," mentions Lisa Brown, who lives adjacent the foothill community.

Lisa visits Three Rivers often and says she hasn't noticed large changes.

But the shutdown is casting a shadiness implicit her home-buying process with resources to assistance with indispensable paperwork, limited.

Lisa says, "I really interest due to the fact that I americium packing my location up reasoning that escrow is gonna close, but is it oregon isn't it?"

In the meantime, section businesses accidental they volition proceed operating arsenic usual, staying optimistic and hoping for the best.

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