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Sarah Eames | The Daily Star Jimmie and Roni Dayton from Oneonta shout at Black Lives Matter demonstrators from across the street during a rally at the Bainbridge Village Green on Saturday, Aug. 15.
Sarah Eames | The Daily Star Laurens resident Sadie Starr Lincoln, then 18, who organized a Justice for George Floyd rally Sunday, May 31, addresses a crowd of hundreds at Muller Plaza in Oneonta.
Communities large and small across The Daily Starâs four-county coverage area joined the wave of protests and demonstrations that swept the country this summer in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Author of the article: Anthony Dixon
Publishing date: Dec 27, 2020 • December 27, 2020 • 1 minute read • With the traditional Community Christmas Dinner gathering unable to be held this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the committee and a team or organizers still worked together to provide and deliver a full Christmas dinner to 261 people in Pembroke. Submitted photo
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A group of dedicated area volunteers came together while socially distanced apart on Christmas Eve to prepare a full Christmas dinner, not for their closest friends necessarily but most likely for people they didn’t even know.
This year would’ve marked the 13th Community Christmas Dinner, held in recent years at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on Miller Street in the city but because of the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the required restrictions on group gatherings, it could not be held. Not wanting to see the hundreds of people that take part go witho