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Graduation ceremonies returning to normal Published by admin on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 8:22am In 2020, Mexico High School kept graduates socially distanced and the stands at Hawthorne Heights empty for delayed graduation ceremonies. [David Pickering Photography]
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Should the weather cooperate, Friday night’s Mexico High School graduation ceremonies will look familiar to who attended events before the pandemic year.
The school plans a time-honored commencement, to be held outside at Hawthorne Heights, the football field. With the district under green conditions on their COVID warning system, there will be no limits to capacity. And the mask mandate has been amended, dropping the requirement for outdoor events.
What will we remember from the year that is passing?
Perhaps it will be the election with its large turnout, lines forming during morning and evening rush. Maybe the economic growth that carried over from 2019 into the early months of the year. How about catching Korean baseball on television?
Yeah, that last one is a possibility. Otherwise 2020 will forever be the year of the mask, of COVID-19 and all the economic and personal devastation it wrought. In March, the unemployment rate for Mexico dipped to 3.7 percent, down from 4.0 percent a month earlier. In April it soared to 10.3 percent.
Local schools shut down. High school athletic fields were silent. The Audrain County Health Department issued a mask advisory.