One Local Pub stays positive to avoid March Sadness

With Coronavirus concerns sweeping the nation, many are being encouraged to stay inside.

March Madness and Saint Patrick's Day plans are being put on hold which is impacting local businesses.

We continue our team coverage for you now with a closer look at the impact of all these event cancellations.

March madness and saint patrick's day plans are being put "on hold" which is impactin local businesses.

News 10's dominic miranda is live in downtown terre haute this evening.

He caught up with the manager at one local pub... and has more on what this all means for restaurants and patrons.

Heather... bars are a popular place to come and enjoy college basketball this time of year.

Between that and saint patrick's day... where else would you rather be?

I spoke with the manager of sonka irish pub today.

She shared her plan to make sure march madness doesn't become march sadness.

Cancelation after cancelation.

That's what the coronavirus pandemic has wrought in communities across the country.

A time of year which usually brings high anticipation of march madness among other sporting events...has been brought to a halt.

It's something sonka irish pub manager noelle cress feels just like the rest of us.

"personally yea i mean i look forward to march madness every year.

Everytime you check your phone you see a new update on something and it's upsetting it's unsettling but in two weeks hopefully baseball will start up again and it will be good."

Usually... you can see sports on all the televisions is the pub... not so much now.

But cress says not to worry.

Sonka will have re-runs of march madness playing...popular music...and even t-v shows like the office to bring some comedic relief.

She says staff have kept busy... and her pub is still the place you can come to escape.

"i don't think that there will be a decline in business at all and we are very fortunate in that sense we have our set people like our regulars that come in and they trust us.

They know we are doing everything we can to protect them."

As for saint patrick's day... the busiest day of the year at the pub... cress says sonka will still be the place to be.

"we published a thing on our facebook you know...it's going to be here..

You're friends are going to be here.

10 a-m tuesday...saint patrick's day..

We got a band and everything... we're the only irish bar in town."

Cress says they are taking every precaution with food prep and sanitation to protect and sanitation with food prep precaution taking every they are cress says town."

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Cress says they are cress says they are taking every precaution with food prep and sanitation to protect their customers and themselves.... and on saint patrick's day... people will still flock here to have a good time.

Reporting live in terre haute..

Dominic miranda..

News 10.