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 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 6 Nov 2020     Confirmed positive: 260, including 187 in Kawartha Lakes, 51 in Northumberland, 22 in Haliburton (increase of 3, 2 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland) Active cases: 6, including 1 in Kawartha Lakes, 2 in Northumberland and 3 in Haliburton (net increase of 1) Probable cases: 0 (no change) High-risk contacts: …

 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 5 Nov 2020     Confirmed positive: 257, including 185 in Kawartha Lakes, 50 in Northumberland, 22in Haliburton (increase of 1, in Haliburton) Active cases: 5, including 2 in Northumberland and 3 in Haliburton (increase of 1, in Haliburton) Probable cases: 0 (no change) High-risk contacts: 14, including 6 in Kawartha Lakes, 5 in Northumberland, …

 Boyd, Alex, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 3 Nov 2020     The elderly, the high risk, health-care and essential workers should be first in line when an initial COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, says a national advisory body tasked with giving immunization advice in Canada.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 4 Nov 2020     Fenelon Falls students scare up support for local food bank, dropping slips in local mailboxes asking for food donations on Halloween.

 Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 4 Nov 2020     Mustard explained that the task force met 13 times looking at three key areas to assist economy recovery post-pandemic.

      At the Committee of the Whole meeting on November 3, the Community Pandemic Recovery Task Force presented its recommendations to Council. The Task Force was created on May 26 to provide advice and recommendations to Council and Staff on resources and support to assist with community recovery from the COVID-19 …

 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 4 Nov 2020     Confirmed positive: 256, including 185 in Kawartha Lakes, 50 in Northumberland, 20 in Haliburton (increase of 1, in Haliburton) Active cases: 4, including 2 in Northumberland and 2 in Haliburton (decrease of 1 in Northumberland, increase of 1 in Haliburton) Probable cases: 0 (no change) High-risk contacts: 14, including 4 …

 Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 20201104     Mike Perry and Dennis Geelan believe that Kawartha Lakes should be looking at new and innovative ways to build back in the post-pandemic economy in Central Ontario and shared a vision with council at the committee of the whole meeting on Nov. 3

      Although the risk of becoming ill from COVID-19 remains low in Ontario, the local health unit and its community health partners continue to collaborate on plans should a case develop locally. Since COVID-19 was first identified in Ontario, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit ...

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, 7 Mar 2020     Tim Hortons gets rid of Roll Up The Rim paper cups amid coronavirus outbreak. Annual game moved to using the phone app.

 Hodgins, Bill, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 28 Mar 2020     Dr. Michelle Snarr, a Bobcaygeon physician, gave permission to Kawartha Lakes This Week to share her update on what life has been like inside the Pinecrest Nursing Home, which suffered the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in the province at the time, and in the community of Bobcaygeon.

 MacEachern, Barbara-Ann, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 29 Mar 2020     Some local churches offered online worship options for their parishioners and others who sought to fill the void left by cancellation of worship services during COVID-19. Jennings Creek Christian Reformed Church (Lindsay), Cambridge Street United Church (Lindsay), and Trentside Baptist Church (Fenelon Falls and Bobcaygeon) offered online worshipping options.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 30 Mar 2020     Bobcaygeon residents stepped up to support their community as it battled COVID-19 and the worst outbreak in Ontario in the community's long-term care facility, Pinecrest Nursing Home. The fund was administered by the Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes, advised by a citizens' group headed by Kawartha Lakes Ward 2 Councillor …

 Smith, Elaine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 30 Mar 2020     People paying mortgages made unpleasant discoveries after they requested mortgage deferrals from their lenders during COVID-19. Any mortgage payments that were deferred showed up as late payments on credit scores at Equifax and TransUnion, which can heavily damage the credit score especially if done multiple times. Banks and mortgage lenders …

      The City made a second appeal to the public for donations of personal protective equipment supplies for the Kawartha Lakes Paramedics Service.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 30 Mar 2020     The City announced that all park amenities would remain closed until further notice as the COVID-19 pandemic and state of emergency declarations continued into April. This included all playgrounds, sports fields and courts, skateparks, picnic areas, outdoor exercise equipment and washroom facilities. Park spaces remained open for walking so long …

      While park spaces remained open for public use, all park amenities such as playgrounds, sports fields and courts, and washrooms were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 27 Mar 2020     Local real estate associations in Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough reported a slowed housing market, less inventory, and realtors turning to tech tools to market existing inventory to limit face-to-face business where possible. The real estate market has long-reaching impacts, where every housing transaction in Canada between 2016 and 2018 generated …

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 28 Mar 2020     Dr. Steve Oldridge, a physician at the Bobcaygeon Medical Centre, had never felt so helpless than during the COVID-19 pandemic as a physician caring for residents at Pinecrest Nursing Home. But, he noted that the bigger threat to the public was misinformation, having experienced the effects of rumours and ignorance …

 Clysdale, Taylor, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 24 Mar 2020     On March 20, the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) reached a tentative deal with the province, ending the rotating one-day strikes which had been occurring since November 2019. Major arguments in the deal were related to mandatory e-learning and larger class sizes. The province publicly backed down from class …