there? i don t know if i can handle being being right in the situation. then, knowing we were preparing a report about the case, biegler made a strange request. try to keep me out as much as possible, like, just a few words here and there but i don t want to be talking about things. but hundreds of people, many who had never once met paige, searched on horseback, on atvs, on foot. they peered under bushes, walked mimes of desert brush in 100-degree heat, and nothing. truth be told, paige could have been anywhere. but then, four days after paige s disappearance, a driver stopped along a lonely stretch of highway 50. as he stepped out of his truck, a piece of litter caught his eye. a blank check trapped in the roadside weeds. the name on it, paige dixon, paige s married name. so then the flock of searchers
Jacey Fortin, The New York Times
Published: 18 Feb 2021 08:58 PM BdST
Updated: 18 Feb 2021 08:58 PM BdST A woman stands in a crosswalk in heavy falling snow on Central Park West during a winter storm on the upper west side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, February 1, 2021. Reuters
To get her coronavirus vaccination last weekend, Frances H Goldman, 90, went to an extraordinary length: 6 miles. On foot. );
}
It was too snowy to drive at 8 a.m. Sunday when Goldman took out her hiking poles, dusted off her snow boots and started out from her home in the Seattle neighbourhood of View Ridge. She made her way to the Burke-Gilman Trail on the edge of the city, where she wended her way alongside a set of old railroad tracks, heading south. Then she traversed the residential streets of Laurelhurst to reach the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Local Covid heroes helped communities during pandemic
Updated / Thursday, 31 Dec 2020
10:19
And, surprisingly, most are positive; overwhelmingly positive, in fact.
For sure, coronavirus has infected many lives with pain and suffering. Many people have lost their lives. And many others who contracted the virus are struggling to regain full health, weeks and months after infection. These are brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers: loved ones all.
Their suffering, even if we didn t contract the infection ourselves, has impacted severely on all our lives.
But when we come to review 2020, it would be wrong to dismiss the year as a locked-down write-off.