Kathy Plonka: Looking back at 2020

A global pandemic, protests that called for a reckoning on racial justice and a massively consequential election, that was 2020. Let's burn those calendars and pray for 2021!

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Wed., Dec. 30, 2020

"I'm here to protect their right to free speech," said armed citizen Dan Carson, left of Post Falls "I just don't want these businesses damaged," he added as he shakes the hand of protester Joseph Riley Pleasant of Coeur d'Alen during a protest about the killing of George Floyd in Coeur d'Alene, on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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A protester holds a rose for 8 minutes 46 seconds, the amount of time that George Floyd was pinned to the ground and killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. The group met in the parking lot of Winco in Coeur d'Alene and marched through downtown to City Hall on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Fox News coverage of the Senate Umpeachment Trial of President Trump in tuned in at Dashco convenience store in Rathdrum on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Diane Manns is photographed with her children, Adam Manns,14, left and Alexis Stojsic, 17, right in front of their Pope Francis Haven apartment in Spokane Valley on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. She and other tenants signed a voluntary termination notice and agreed to vacate by March 31, but because of the COVID-19 shutdown she can't find another apartment and has no where to go. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Because of worshiping online only, photographs of the congregation are taped to their usual seats during a tour of Manito United Methodist Church in Spokane on Thursday, August 13, 2020. They have come up with a toilet paper fundraiser designed to help maintain the historic building.

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Volunteers unload boxes of food during the Second Harvest Mobile Market food distribution at Rogers High School on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020.

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A shopper unloads items bought at Walmart in Spokane Valley on Saturday, March 14, 2020.

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The playground at Sorensen Magnet School of Arts & Humanities in Coeur d'Alene is wrapped in police tape to keep children off during the school closure in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19 on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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First grade teacher Gabi VandenBrink hands out bags of free food at Garfield Elementary as part of Spokane Public Schools COVID-19 food aid program on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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"Everyone laughed at me, they're not laughing anymore", says Karen Pagliaro as she walks into Yoke's grocery store armed with a bottle filled with a rubbing alcohol mixture and wearing a mask, gloves, a smock and hair net in Liberty Lake on Friday, April, 3, 2020. She suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and is protecting herself from COVID-19. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Father Connall conducts mass without a congregation at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes due to the coronavirus restrictions in Spokane on Friday, March 27, 2020. The mass is available through live streaming. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Cheney High School graduate Rhosewen Caskey walks through the names of her fellow classmates after graduation excerises that followed coronavirus guidlines on Monday, June 1, 2020.Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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The replica of the Statue of Liberty at Sandpoint City Beach Park is wearing a mask in front of the Cabinet mountain range on Monday, April 20, 2020. Kathy Plonka/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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