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Despite the darkness and misery the past year has doled out, bright spots and bravery abounded By: Jen Zoratti | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020
If you’re reading this, you made it. You survived 2020. Gold stars for all.
This year was, by most measures, the strangest, darkest timeline. A global pandemic upended our lives and rendered them unrecognizable. COVID-19 took away people’s lives and livelihoods.
And let us not forget that this was also the year that Election Day turned into Election Month in the United States; Prince Harry quit the royal family; Kobe Bryant, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen died; and the heartbreaking photos of bewildered, bandaged koalas and terrifying orange skies out of Australia, which was on fire, became something of a harbinger of all to come.
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Two high schools, two COVID strategies
St. Mary s Academy senior in class all 49 days of fall term; Grade 12 student across street at Kelvin present 22 days, the rest online
Last Modified: 9:23 AM CST Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020 | Updates
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High schoolers who attend a private academy in River Heights spent more than double the in-class time during the fall than their peers at a public school across the street.
When high schools unveiled every-second- and third-day schedules for Grade 9-12 students in the summer, independent schools touted timetables that would see students at school as much as possible.
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Niki Card and her son, Nolan Card, saw their family excursion on the Seine River in John Bruce Park turn awful when Nolan crashed through the ice and fell up to his waist in the freezing water. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
A Winnipeg mother is cautioning others about outdoor activities on ice after her 14-year-old son fell through the Seine River in John Bruce Park on Sunday.
A Winnipeg mother is cautioning others about outdoor activities on ice after her 14-year-old son fell through the Seine River in John Bruce Park on Sunday.
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