First Place, Team Picture Story - Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”STORY SUMMARY: The coronavirus pandemic was battled through efforts including hand-washing, mask-wearing and social distancing to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Despite living apart, people still found creative ways to connect.Logan Armstrong, a Cincinnati junior, works while sitting inside a painted circle on the lawn of the Oval during the first day of fall classes on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Classes this semester are a mix of virtual and in-person because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Students wore masks across campus and were reminded to socially distance to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. The circles were painted throughout the Oval to allow students to maintain social distance while sitting on the lawn. "I'm acutally glad the school put these," Armstrong says of the circles. "It shows they're taking this seriously."
First Place, Team Picture Story - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Nursing home and home care nurse Julia Jalloh and Alice Foeller give each other a distancing hug inside Foeller's 1998 Shasta Cheyenne RV parked outside Jalloh's Northeast Side townhome on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Foeller is loaning her RV to Jalloh to allow her to segregate herself from her family during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to minimize their risk of being infected.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Senior pastor Virginia Lohmann Bauman is interviewed by WSYX reporter Ben Garbarek and photographer Dennis Spronck outside St. John's Church in Columbus on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The crew used a boom mic to keep a safe distance due to health concerns related to coronavirus.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Courtney Hergesheimer / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Madison Voinovich, the first valedictorian of the new Olentangy Berlin High School, should have addressed her class center stage from the Schottenstein Center on Ohio State's campus, but instead, she records her valedictorian speech for a film crew in an empty school auditorium, Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Assisted living facility visits are now allowed again after months of being prohibited because of the coronavirus. Janice Weiser, left, visits with her mother, Virginia Balk, right, at Abbington of Arlington on Old Henderson Road in Columbus on Friday, June 19, 2020.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Nationwide Children's Hospital Patient Champions, from left, Alina Krishnasetty, 8, Colt Marcum, 11, Sam Short, 14, Killian Madrid, 10, Anna Earl, 15, Cash Miller, 11, and Grace Kirura, 8, look out on the 18th green as they stand for a portrait during the visit to Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Instead of the kids visiting the golf course during the week of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, the kids and their families got to experience the course a few weeks early due to coronavirus restrictions the week of competition.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Barb and Rick Weber, with their dog Sadie, take advantage of a hole in the greenery behind their condo to watch the high school football game between St. Charles Prep Cardinals and the Bishop Hartley Hawks at St. Charles Preparatory School in Columbus on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”The Pickerington Central marching band sits socially distanced during the high school football game againts Pickerington North at Tiger Stadium in Pickerington, Ohio on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”A clever way to maintain social distance from trick or treaters was used at Gary and Jaymie Clark's home in Gahanna on Thursday, October 29, 2020. Candy was blown to the children through a long tube. Operating the blower is family friend, Kendra Stewart.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Olga Stavridis, 53, jump ropes in the driveway of her neighbor, Donna Reda, while working out with personal trainer Caitlin Kennelly in the garage of Reda's Upper Arlington home on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Gaelen Morse / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Zane Jones, right, pours a glass of champagne for Kate Nelson, as their close group of friends exchange dishes in the Jones family driveway in place of their Friendsgiving tradition in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 26, 2020.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch, “Social Distancing”Stephanie Gaskill, 7, of Cambridge speaks to Santa through a "magic shield" at Cabela's in Columbus on November 10, 2020. Cabela's is only allowing 25 appointments each night to see Santa.
