This week, we mark the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Exactly a year ago, we were overcoming the shock of learning a deadly disease was about to ravage not just a few countries, but the entire globe. The world as we knew it began to change dramatically.
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Since then, over 520,000 Americans alone have died from COVID-19 and nearly 29 million people became infected. We were introduced to the concept of social distancing, learned the meaning of WFH, the pros and cons of remote learning for teaching kids, and how to spell Zoom. As many as 18 million people were put out of work at one point, and 8 million people slipped into poverty at a result of the pandemic. And no one could find any toilet paper!
This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced they would no longer be publishing six books by the popular children's author because they contain images that are racially insensitive. The titles, including And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, If I Ran The Zoo, and four others, were published in the early 1950s.
This week, Silicon Valley-based Fry's Electronics announced it was closing all its remaining stores and shutting down operations immediately. This wasn't a total surprise, because Fry's had been shuttering stores for the last couple of years. Inventory was limited in those stores that remained open. What was special about Fry's? Long before
Business calendar: Upcoming events in the Houston area
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Monday
Job-Search Survival Workshop:
Online workshop hosted by Sugar Creek Baptist Church. March 1 and 2, 5:45-8:30 p.m. Day one: Social and Learning Styles, Networking, Mindset for Job Search, Job-Search Process Flow. Day two: Accomplishment Resumé, Interviewing, Hiring - Manager’s Perspective and Building Your Own Action Plan. The workshop is free and open to the public. Registration: https://sugarcreek.net/event/job-search/. Information: E-mail jobhelp@sugarcreek.net or call 281-242-2858, ext. 1083.
Tuesday
Free online class hosted by JS101. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Registration: JS101.org/workshops.
Advanced Legal Research:
This week, the rest of the country watched in horror at the situation unfolding throughout Texas. Extreme weather conditions resulted not only in unusual amounts of snowfall, but exceedingly cold temperatures close to zero degrees Fahrenheit -which nearly brought down the entire state electrical grid. Pipes froze and burst, families were forced to