COVID one year later
James Stovern bottles his home-brewed beer from the comfort of his home. The Hayden resident said the unexpected symptom of losing his sense of smell after catching the coronavirus felt like a light switch had turned on, sending him into a panic. “I couldn’t imagine never being able to smell a hop again,” he said. “Honest to goodness, that was my biggest fear in that moment.” (Courtesy of Jen Stovern)
After the unknowns of the last year flung Jessica Kaminski into uncharted territory, the nail technician opened her own shop, Nail Boss on Dakota and Government Way. Taking control of her own destiny was how she says she dealt with the stresses and rigors of the last year. “Obviously, I need to have an income," Kaminski said, "but I need to make time for my family, and not just be at work all the time.” (Courtesy of Toni Kaminski)
(CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press file photo) Mike Lehosit said that, while the industry likely won't fully recover for the next year or two, the return of blockbusters like Wonder Woman 1984 have helped bring moviegoers back into theaters like Hayden Cinema. “After COVID hit, it’s just a matter of survival with the business,” he said, “trying to be creative, and doing whatever we could do to keep the doors open.”
Once upon a time, a 35-year-old man from Snohomish — a town of a little more than 10,000 people in western Washington, barely 300 miles away — felt run down and fatigued. He checked himself into a nearby hospital in Everett as a precaution, one that might have seemed unnecessary to most, but not to him...
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