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Another reason to stay inside.
Rich Valcourt of Phillipston planned to do just that, but not before he picked up a few exterior doors for a house project. A house project he planned to delay.
“It’s terrible,” he said as he loaded a door into his pickup at the Home Depot on Gold Star Boulevard. “You cannot work, I can t work, especially installing doors. … I’m not gonna install these today. I’m going to get it in the truck and go home and get next to the fire.”
The finger-numbing cold of Thursday night is expected to last into the weekend.
A week after an all-night gathering of homeless people near the Green Street bridge left the area littered with trash, the area has been cleaned and at least four people placed into treatment, city officials said.
The coronavirus pandemic, protests over the police killing of George Floyd, the Blue Ridge fire, lockdowns, and the closing of schools rocked the Chino Valley and the rest of the nation during this extraordinary year.
The devastation was matched by the goodness of residents who helped school children cope with social isolation, collected food and items for those hit hardest by the pandemic, and rallied around frontline healthcare workers.
Barely had the year begun when the coronavirus pandemic originating in Wuhan, China spread across the globe resulting in 334,000 deaths in the United States by the end of the year.
There were 11 deaths in Chino Hills and 70 in Chino, with 26 of those at the California Institution for Men in Chino and one at the California Institution for Women.