The Year of the Woman by Erie Reader Staff
2020 was the year of the woman. We celebrated 100 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment and the constitutional guarantee of women s suffrage and with that power we finally elected the first female vice president in a contest largely settled by the tremendous political power of women voters.
In Erie, even in the face of the pandemic we celebrated the centennial of women s suffrage with community events, murals, and educational initiatives to help uplift and showcase the contributions of women in American society and throughout Erie s history.
That celebration and the lessons learned came to a screeching halt in early January as four men on Erie City Council joined together to promote Ed Brzezinski to council president over Councilwoman Liz Allen, whom Brzezinski had publicly called a nut and a broad just weeks before. Brzezinski offered a half-hearted apology at the followin
Open Up Your World by Liz Allen
Liz Allen
Tired of being tethered to Zoom? I am, too.
But thanks in part to suggestions from Zoom friends and other sources, I ve cobbled together five ideas to help you beat the COVID winter blues.
Your Move
On my Monday Zooms with friends from the Villa class of 69, we vent about Trumpian politics and help each other cope with the anger, fear, and frustration about our country s descent into chaos.
We also reminisce, including about the time when two enterprising classmates started a Villa chess club. I joined but was never a stellar player. Still, given the raves for the Netflix blockbuster
The coronavirus pandemic has broken many hearts and squashed plenty of dreams, but for Samantha it has meant delaying - perhaps even giving up - on her dream of having another baby.
Buoyed by the improving Covid-19 situation in New South Wales last year, Samantha and her husband of over 10 years decided it was time a third set of tiny feet was running around their home.
But with Sydney and its surrounds cast under the shadow of another virus outbreak in December, the Central Coast couple made the difficult decision to put their plans on ice.
Sammy Stokes, her partner Andy and their nine-day-old baby girl Sunny pose for photos at their home in Kallangur, north of Brisbane, on May 5, 2020. The couple made the decision to have a home birth when Sammy was told that due to Covid-19 social distancing measure she could not have her support network with her at the hospital