Chamber CEO reflects on the year of COVID-19 and local business

Looking back on 2020, Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Officer Lila MacDonald says one word comes to mind when she thinks about how the town handled the pandemic and all that came with it.

"The word that keeps coming to mind is resilient," she said in a phone interview. "When I went back and thought of everything, I think that we kind of forget things that we even went through. Especially in the beginning of 2020, when you look back at all the turmoil, not just COVID, because I think a lot of things happened this year. A lot of turmoil and then also just a lot of resiliency, a lot...