Got it! Check out this cmd, "umcli radio wifi on"! I had a little extra time so decided to search a bit more for a solution and found a post on the Zorin forum, [SOLVED] No WiFi adapter found after I upgraded to zorin 17, where some one used it and it worked for them. Apparently it will not work in all cases but did for me!
Just curious why and how it got turned off? Any thoughts on that would be appreciated. Thank you.