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Sharon Oyat is from Uganda and previously worked as a newspaper intern in Cloquet and has many close ties in Carlton County and Minnesota. She writes an occasional column for the Pine Knot News and shared what the worldwide pandemic looks like in her country We are Africans. We have summer year-round. We eat healthful foods - ash is an ingredient in some of our delicacies. We are herbalists. This "corona thing" affects only the European countries. They are in winter now, it's very cold....
Three years ago, a dream came true for a 26-year-old woman from Uganda who had struggled all her life to get an education, who felt lucky just to make it through school. Then, a year after her graduation, there came a guardian angel who said, "Don't unpack your bags just yet." Cloquet's Tim Krohn was determined to make my dream come true - and eventually I found myself coming to the United States to work as an intern at the newspaper in Cloquet. I was excited when Tim (who knew my family...
