For many Americans, March 2020 was the month the world stopped. On March 13, Governor Mike Parson declared a state of emergency in Missouri due to the COVID-19 virus. Everything changed, and things haven’t been the same since.
Closures began to happen quickly. A popular local bar and concert venue, Eastside Tavern, closed its doors temporarily.
On Feb. 19, Ruby Lane was the first band to host a live show at the venue in six months.
The Columbia band said that working together during the pandemic was extremely difficult.
“If somebody got exposed and was quarantined for two weeks we couldn’t really do anything,” Dylan Riggs, the band’s bass player, said.
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Luke Anderson and his sister, Sophia, started Para Ti Global, a locally based nonprofit. Para Ti Global recently began Project Protect by selling face masks for $3. Each face mask sold provides a face mask for three children. (Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic)
Green Valley nonprofit begins distributing masks to schools
FAIRFIELD A nonprofit started in 2015 by a Green Valley brother and sister has started to distribute masks to schools that have or soon will reopen their classrooms.
Sophia and Luke Anderson, through Para Ti Global, recently gave 350 masks to Holy Spirit School in Fairfield.
“A lot of the masks had been donated by (alumni) of Holy Spirit, so that’s why we started there,” Camille Anderson said. She is Sophia’s and Luke’s mother.