People Need People, Covid Or No Covid

By: Veronica Leighton

 

After two years of Covid-19 restrictions (masks, distancing, hand washing), we are now feeling free and no-worries at all in celebrating Christmas 2022 this time. Hallelujah! Of course, we have to be conscious of the health precautions that have been inculcated in our minds during the pandemic to keep ourselves safe and healthy as viruses, bacteria, and germs always lurk in many corners of the world that we live in.

These days of Christmas season, back again in our midst of activities are office parties, private personal parties, club socials, church fellowships, community get-togethers and dances — you name it all, and they are back with a vengeance for many party animals out there. Though Covid altered the ways we connect to one another, from limiting hugs and kisses to limiting the overall number of people we socialize with, we are now finding out that the party must go on. Socialization is a must f or humans, just like what Barbra Streisand sings in “People.” “People who need people are the luckiest people in the world…”, Covid or no Covid.

On this page shows what we are talking about through images/ pictures of various activities that have happened around us at the start of this busy month.

Welcome back dinner at Coarse Italian restaurant in Glenview Golf Club in honor of friends Don and Flor Kramer rom their brief stay in their Vegas home to escape the Chicago winter, from left, selfie fotog James DC, Elizabeth Regacho, Girlie Pascual, Don Kramer, Veronica, Flor Kramer and Salvy Marino.

Old school pals together upon election winning, from left, Bobby Leighton, Dimitri Giannoulias, Alexi Giannoulias (the newly-elected Illinois Secretary of State), and Joey Yao.

VT/CPRTV’s Maria Girlie Pascual and Veronica Leighton at the Thanksgiving for Life cause of the PMAC Auxiliary.

Attending former VT/CPRTV staffer Lou Cabalona’s surprise birthday party, from left: James DC, Veronica, Lou Cabalona, and Girlie Pascual. Party hosted by husband Baron.