Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note Getting By? Joseph Thomas

For most of 2020, it has felt as if on facebook or email me. You can find we are all just getting by. Facing job our usual drop list by clicking on the losses, health scares and an altered drop list tab at eyeonmag.com. While state of pretty much everything! It we are delivery during this shut down, has been scary and daunting and I’ll post our drop list each month. If mostly exhausting. I join ASUN you are seeing our magazines in your

Chancellor, Dr. Sandra Massey, in area and have something to share,

Thanking every essential worker, please email me at eyeonjoseph@ every College and Public School gmail.com. N faculty member who donned a mask all day for our children this year, and all of you for getting by, so we may all thrive yet again in this Southside HIPPY PROGRAM troubled country that is still so full Together we can make a difference. of potential and kindness between Family ~ School ~ Community the headlines and above the hate, #BetterTogether judgement and violence.

Please read on as we give you well penned articles by our terrific panel of writers you have come to know and love, such as: Dr. Sandra

Massey, Michelle Foshee, Robert

Montgomery, Nelson and Sandy

Barnett, Randy Chlapecka, Caroline

Beauchamp, Kimberlee Thomas and

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