Kuresha Noorâs life appeared to be in a good place.
She had a job working with refugees, and she could relate to their aspirations and fears, because she, too, had come to Buffalo to seek refuge. After a long journey here, fleeing her home country of Somalia and spending several years in a Ugandan refugee camp, Noor had a career, a home, a direction. She spoke with a sense of resolve and carried herself with a sturdy posture that rarely betrayed the trauma she had absorbed in nearly three decades of life.
One day at the office, Noor and a coworker were chatting about home and life, and her colleague remarked, âOh, youâre here with your husband and son.â She meant it as a good thing, as if to say, How nice it is that you have a support system in place.
Dec. 28, 2020
Bradley Cooper leaves the Statler Hotel during the filming of Guillermo del Toro s Nightmare Alley. Harry Scull Jr./Buffalo News
An ice house, a bag ban, Bradley Cooper in Buffalo and other news you may have forgotten
We all know what the biggest story of the year was, and it overshadowed just about everything else in Western New York.
But 2020 cannot be remembered just for the Covid-19 pandemic. There were other things that occurred that, in a normal year, we would have had no trouble recalling.
Some of them had to do with the weather. Others affected what we do for fun, how we get from here to there or our attraction for moviemakers.