![Students in the National Art Honor Society work on the Mount Hood mural on the window of SouthLake Church. The students brought a variety of paints and mixed their own custom colors. “Instead of brushstrokes, we’re doing more dabbing, because it gives [a] better impression of tree foliage, rather than looking like actual brush strokes, because if we’re painting trees, we need it to look like trees,” Crawford said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_2397-1200x900.jpg)
![Main Street said farewell to summer on Aug. 30 through the second annual Chalk Walk Art Festival. Ruth Offer, Chalk Walk organizer, brought this tradition from Wyoming in an attempt to make use of the renovated sidewalks of Willamette Falls Dr. “[This is] a community event for the kids,” Offer said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-12-1200x803.png)
2020: A year in review
The West Linn Weekly Wake Up 2020 year in review episode explores the most exciting and influential events of 2020. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
To wrap up 2020, podcast and blogs editor Audrey Lippert and web editor Karina Rower break down the year, month by month, listing important events that took place in each of them. Though the COVID-19 pandemic made the biggest headlines this year, elections and impeachments will also define this year and our country for decades to come.
Closer to home, wildfires ravaged local forests and forced evacuations for thousands of people in Oregon. Social media apps got involved with politics as the popular video sharing app Tik Tok was nearly banned by President Trump multiple times, users also organized a protest on the platform, encouraging people to reserve seats at a Trump rally and not attend.
The Black Lives Matter movement gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd, and protests and riots were organized across the country in response. For a more in depth look on all of these events and more, listen to Lippert and Rower on the West Linn Weekly Wake Up using the Spotify link below.
You can also share your opinion on 2020 by sending a DM to their Instagram account @westlinnweeklywakeup.
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Audrey Lippert is a senior at West Linn High School. This is her fourth year taking journalism, and Lippert most enjoys writing current events articles,...
When she's not writing for wlhsNOW.com and the Amplifier, Karina Rower, senior, enjoys working to promote diversity with Affinity Club and volunteering...
