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It’s been one year since the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Michigan. We asked you: how has your life changed over the past year? We took to the streets in Detroit and Grand Rapids to hear what folks had to say.
March 10 marks one year since Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Michigan. Following that announcement, executive orders were issued that temporarily closed schools and restaurants, and limited gatherings. Michiganders began planning to stay inside in order to “flatten the curve” for at least two weeks.
But as the number of cases grew and hospitals became filled, it became clear that it would be a long while before things would feel like normal again.
‘La Llorona’ on pace to become Guatemala’s first Oscar nominated film John Benutty
Guatemala has only submitted three films for Oscar consideration in the history of the Best International Feature category. In 1995 it entered “The Silence of Neto” and in 2016 “Ixcanul,” but neither advanced in the race toward a nomination. This year, the director of “Ixcanul”
Jayro Bustamante is back in the race with Guatemala’s third-ever submission “La Llorona.” In February the film became the country’s first submission to make the 15-title shortlist and is now on pace to be its first nominee.
The supernatural drama film reimagines a Latin American fable using magical realism and horror to examine Guatemala’s dark past in a story of cultural guilt and justice. “La Llorona” had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival where it won the Best Film prize at the Venice Days sidebar and then screened at TIFF shortly after, a full year befor
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Khan Mwezi helps her daughter, Martinode, with schoolwork at their home in Aurora, Nov. 14, 2020.
When Khan Mwezi landed in Colorado eight years ago from a refugee camp in Uganda, she arrived with a high-risk pregnancy.
Her daughter, Martinode Hill Gift, was born prematurely and stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit for four months. During that time, Mwezi spent a lot of time with infants. As her husband scraped together a living for them, Mwezi attended to all her daughter’s special needs.
“Life was very, very difficult,” said Mwezi, who had no family support because most of her family was killed in wars and ethnic strife in the Congo.
2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval
December 24, 2020
Megan Whitermore celebrates graduation from the back of a truck on Main Street during Tuesday s parade. The ceremony was altered due to COVID-19 restrictions.
As I sat down to write the 2020 Year in Review, I thought: I don t want to relive this year, nor should anyone else. But tradition dictates an annual recap, which if left unwritten, would end my positive relationship with CVN bookkeeper Jane Pascoe. Plus, the newspaper is a weekly black hole of white space that must be filled. So here it goes:
A January 2020 blizzard that brought 50 inches of snow in two days prompted then-borough manager Debra Schnabel to declare a public safety emergency. She told the CVN she hoped the public would hunker down while public works crews cleared roads. The term would soon reappear in a different context two months after the severe weather event that, in hindsight, seems miniscule.