The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on Utahns dominated the news this year. While it was five days after Gov. Gary Herbert announced a state of emergency over COVID-19, Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert s positive test on March 11 ultimately signaled that normalcy as we knew it would change.
Yet it was the moments outside of COVID-19 that dominated this year s most-read KSL.com stories list. It might not much of a surprise when taking into account natural disasters like earthquakes, windstorms and wildfires all hit the Beehive State over the course of 2020. There were also historic human moments, such as this summer s protests over social injustice, and plenty of political moments.
SALT LAKE CITY In many ways, 2020 was a year unlike any other.
If there was one headline in the news that could possibly sum it up, it was a CNN guest column with the headline 1918 + 1929 + 1968 = 2020, published back in the thick of protests over police brutality during a pandemic that also resulted in economic calamity.
Of course, 2020 didn t produce something as quite as deadly as the 1918 pandemic or as financially devastating as Black Thursday, or even as violent as 1968. Having those moments in one year, however, was unique. And 2020 produced hardships that those other years didn t, like some of the worst wildfires ever recorded.
IT’S the famous old adage which – despite the best efforts of some – has stood the test of time. Now, one of the city’s newest football teams is doing its bit to prove sport really does more to unite us than divide us by putting the community at the heart of everything they do. For the volunteers of Glasgow Saints FC what happens off the pitch is just as important as events on it and they’ve made it their mission to score support for those less fortunate in the East End. It’s worked, even if 2020 hasn’t been the maiden year chairwoman Emma Jones and head of football Kyle Burgess quite had in mind.
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