2020: Year In Review, Part 1 - Escalon Times

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2020: Year In Review, Part 1

Members of The Living Dead stand with the Grim Reaper, watching a realistic accident scene unfold along Escalon-Bellota Road on Thursday morning, March 12 in the Every 15 Minutes program. The program is designed to show how life can change at a moment’s notice, through a drunk driving incident. Ironically, following the ‘funeral’ the next day at Escalon High School, March 13, area schools shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, driving home the reality that life can change in an instant. Marg Jackson/The Times

e15 — Members of The Living Dead stand with the Grim Reaper, watching a realistic accident scene unfold along Escalon-Bellota Road on Thursday morning, March 12 in the Every 15 Minutes program. The program is designed to show how life can change at a moment’s notice, through a drunk driving incident. Ironically, following the ‘funeral’ the next day at Escalon High School, March 13, area schools shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, driving home the reality that life can change in an instant. Marg Jackson/The Times

The year 2020 started out ‘normal’ enough, with Winter Homecoming, City Council meetings, Farmington’s annual Fill The Boot and more, but mid-March saw an abrupt end to normalcy.

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