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s the Inlander team put together this year’s HOLIDAY GUIDE (page 19), it was clear there’s a lot more year-end fun in store in 2021 than there was last year. The gift of the COVID vaccine is the most obvious reason we can at least see some semblance of normalcy in the community’s Yuletide activities and traditions, and in this issue you’ll find several guides to help you celebrate the season with your friends and families. Be sure to browse the calendar and our suggestions, and catch up with some holiday tales from our staff writers reminiscing on particularly memorable gifts from their pasts. Also this week, Daniel Walters takes a look at what the end of the pandemic might look like when, and if, it finally arrives (page 8), Food Editor Chey Scott delves into how supply-chain issues are adding to restaurants’ pandemic headaches (page 63), and Madison Pearson introduces Joey Clift, an indigenous comedian and WSU alum making noise in Hollywood (page 14). — DAN NAILEN, editor
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