Volunteers, organizations work to keep up with need
By Terry Date tdate@eagletribune.com Dec 28, 2020 1 of 10
TIM JEAN/Staff photo Volunteers from local churches load boxes of food into dozens of vehicles at a distribution center on Essex Street in Lawrence.
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TIM JEAN/Staff photoPallets of food from a big box truck are unloaded at a distribution center on Essex Street in Lawrence. The food is then organized and distributed by pastors and parishioners as part of the hunger relief effort across the region.Â
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TIM JEAN/Staff photoParishioner Evelyn Sentell of Methuen, right, speaks with Pastor Luis Leonor of Iglesia Cristiana Fuente De Salvacion Church as she picks up some food for her family.Â
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When 2020 began, no one could have imagined it would end with a world turned upside down by a virus no one had ever heard of, a virus that has now claimed the lives of close to two million people, more than 300,000 in the United States alone. Social distancing, mask wearing, and hand sanitizing took on a new urgency.
Here at BU, COVID-19 forced the University to quickly adapt to a remote learning model immediately following spring break in March. A massive testing and contact tracing system implemented by the University this summer allowed students to return to campus for the fall semester for a combination of in-person and remote learning, dubbed Learn