COVID 1-year anniversary: Pandemic like a year without hugs
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
For some people, it was the year with no hugs.
For some, it was a year without church.
For others, it was the year they lost a loved one to a disease they’d never heard of before 2020.
“I miss just getting out and seeing people and going to church,” said retired nurse and Red Cross volunteer Annie Kynard-Hackworth, whose husband died of COVID-19.
“I need to hug people and actually be around them,” she said.
For others, it was the year they lost a job, or their business went under, or they had to scrape by for months with little or no income.
Nate Thomas: ‘You’ve got to pay rent, got to do stuff’
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
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Nate Thomas had been working since he was 14. So when he lost his barista job at a Huntsville coffeeshop after the pandemic hit, resulting in him being unemployed for almost a month, “it was a really weird feeling,” he says.
He took a job at a grocery store as a stopgap “because you’ve got to pay rent, you’ve got to do stuff.” Thomas, now 22, eventually landed another barista gig, at downtown’s Honest Coffee Roasters, where he’s worked for eight months or so. He calls Honest Coffee owner Christy Graves continuing to hire during the pandemic “a huge blessing.”
âFlipping for the Futureâ dollhouse renovation challenge, UCP Huntsville Flipping for the Future By Kellie Miller | December 12, 2020 at 2:03 PM CST - Updated December 12 at 2:16 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - If youâve been walking around downtown Huntsville lately, you may have noticed some beautifully decorated dollhouses in a handful of store windows.
Itâs all part of the United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Huntsvilleâs first ever âFlipping for the Futureâ Renovation Challenge. Several local businesses have taken on the challenge to flip outdated dollhouses, which are put on display.
Leslie Walker, the Community Engagement Manager for UCP Huntsville said the pandemic has made fundraising extra challenging this year. Thatâs how the idea of âFlipping for the Futureâ was sparked.