Teachers: Our 2021 citizen(s) of the year

Perhaps we can look at The Pandemic as some hideous, great equalizer: it spares no person, no profession, no walk of life. COVID demands that everyone, regardless of age or status, adapt to new or modified practices that are at best unpleasant and annoying, at worst, life-changing.

Our health care professionals, caregivers, and first responders to whom we owe so much and, yes, our representatives at all levels of government (and their staff) whose lives have been upended for the past two years deserve our appreciation. So, too, do the restaurateurs and merchants and their hard-working employees who work each day to deliver a good dose of ‘the old normal’ as we push into this present and future we’ve grown tired of calling ‘the new normal.’