As small business owners across California anxiously await distribution of the latest round of stimulus checks while pandemic restrictions linger on, some Orange County cities—along with the Board of Supervisors—have created relief programs of their own. Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, and Mission Viejo are among the cities that have created their own grant programs to aid small businesses and restaurants, while district supervisors have reached into the county’s general fund to allocate more resources toward relief efforts. “Along with amusement parks, which were never even allowed to open up, it’s been a struggle,” Supervisor Lisa Bartlett told The Epoch Times. “All business sectors have been affected.” Officials throughout the county hope the new grants—combined with a state-funded relief package for small businesses that California rolled out on Dec. 30—will be enough to keep the struggling businesses afloat long enough to survive the regional stay-at-home order and the effects of the …