Vaccine rollout enabling more Mother s Day reunions in Chicago area
Vaccine rollout enables some Mother s Day Reunions
Many people will be taking mom out to eat for the first time in a year, thanks to vaccines and lowering COVID rates. Nate Rodgers reports.
CHICAGO -
Michigan Avenue is looking more and more like normal. Hundreds of mothers and their children were out and about Saturday, enjoying the brisk temperatures and great scenery.
Jamie Reynolds and her daughter Natalie Johnson were visiting from Springfield. They said the pandemic has made them value quality time much more. It’s been the two of us for a while, just spending everyday with her, getting a stronger relationship, it’s been the best, Johnson said.
Mother s Day 2021: Vaccines, pandemic recovery create reunions after a year of social distancing
By Jordan Smith
Mother s Day around the world
Here are how some countries outside of the U.S. normally celebrate their own versions of Mother s Day:
There will be no shortage of moms across the United States opening gifts like flowers and cards on Mother’s Day, but the most meaningful thing they open just might be their arms for a much-needed hug.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a real damper on the annual celebration of moms last year. Even beyond Mother’s Day, moms and grandmothers went without hugging or seeing their loved ones in person for long periods of time.
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SeaChange Capital Partners, an organization that helps nonprofits with complex challenges, warned a year ago that nonprofits would have to take decisive action to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the strategies they recommended were that nonprofits refocus on their missions, plan for the future and explore new fundraising options. That is exactly what local nonprofits have been doing.
The Manitou Art Center, for example, has repurposed its two buildings, and its leaders have used the pandemic slowdown to do the strategic planning they didnât have time to do before.
After closing its facility in March 2020, the Colorado Springs Senior Center found new ways to provide services and new collaborative partners.
Group image of 2021 AAPI Drinks Innovators. Composition courtesy of Larry Lee.
The overwhelmingly white image of alcohol culture eclipses the work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders whose influence rings through all three tiers of the system.
We have our stars: The recently retired Annette Alvarez-Peters, who moved markets from the helm of a $2 billion wine program at Costco; Alpana Singh, the youngest American woman and only South Asian to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier (which she renounced in 2020 in light of sexual harassment allegations in the organization); and Hae Un Lee, who in 1981 opened a small liquor shop in Las Vegas and grew it into the largest alcohol retailer in Nevada Lee’s Discount Liquor.