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 Bowen, Lyndsay, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 6 Apr 2020     A list of ten ways patrons can use library services from home during COVID-19.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 6 Apr 2020     A list of 10 good acts that happened in Kawartha Lakes 1. "Sing 'Bobcaygeon' From Your Front Porch" effort with Richard Kyle, guitarist for The Tragically Hits, a Tragically Hip cover band. 2. Roby Lockhart organized a "impromptu" drive-by to support health care and frontline workers at Ross Memorial Hospital …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 7 Apr 2020     City of Kawartha Lakes works to close municipal boat launches, but people are already using them, ignoring stay at home recommendations.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 7 Apr 2020     Local Chambers of Commerce and Lindsay Downtown BIA partner with FanSaves mobile couponing app to streamline purchasing of gift certificates from local small businesses.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 7 Apr 2020     Emergency workers ask that the community stop sending restaurant food deliveries or bringing food to show appreciation for their efforts and instead donate to Kawartha Lakes Food Source.

 Hodgins, Bill, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 7 Apr 2020     Ontario Plowman's Association has no intentions to cancel or postpone the 2020 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo.

 Bradley, Brian, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 23 Mar 2020     Brian Bradley headed to Ancaster, Ont., Costco location with his mother to check out the safety measures put in place. Limited number of shoppers within the store, a steadily growing line-up of people (all provided with wipes to cleans hands and cart handles), and the orderly fashion of the store …

 Monsebraaten, Laurie, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 23 Mar 2020     Ontario partnered with municipalities and First Nations to open as many as 50,000 child care spaces for essential workers across the province in centres that will be free and available 24-7, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said Sunday. The spaces were initially to serve front-line workers including doctors, nurses, lab technicians, …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 23 Mar 2020     Kawartha Lakes reached out to the community, asking all manufacturers and non-essential health-care practitioners such as veterinarians, to help outfit its paramedics in personal protective equipment (PPE) as the paramedics service ran low. This included N95 masks, surgical gowns, face shields and hand sanitizer. Attending paramedics require up to three …

 Halliday, Chris, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 27 Apr 2020     Government of Ontario unveiled 'roadmap' to restart Ontario economy from coronavirus pandemic, a three stage approach with public health officials carefully monitoring each stage. The province warned that it is not a calendar and that they would not rush the process.

      When stay-at-home orders became imminent, Canadians arrived in droves to purchase hoards of toilet paper, sanitary wipes, paper towels, hand sanitizer, and face masks. While the toilet paper anomaly will not last, forest products industry leaders are calling on government support for sawmills as these businesses shut down across the …

 MacEachern, Barbara-Ann, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 18 Apr 2020     Habitat for Humanity launches online shopping and contactless donation drop off at Kawartha ReStore locations.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 18 Apr 2020     A patient in the Ross Memorial's Hospital's continuing care wing has tested positive for COVID-19 after being tested following a sudden onset of symptoms of respiratory illness while being hospitalized for an unrelated health issue.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 28 Apr 2020     City of Kawartha Lakes suspended all community events and gatherings until June 30, but warned not to get hopes up for Canada Day (July 1). The City targeted the end of June as the end of the suspension but recommended that events such as Canada Day would need to take …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 28 Apr 2020     Kawartha Lakes farmers, many full-time agriculture families, struggled to get first crops seeded and didn't know when the rest of their workers would arrive with government and border closures. Five local farms used temporary workers to assist on their farms during the busy seasons due to farmers not being able …

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 28 Apr 2020     As part of their pandemic response, Ross Memorial Hospital launched a team to support long-term care, retirement and congregate living facilities, providing infection prevention and control education, staffing, and mobile COVID-19 assessment and testing.

 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 28 Apr 2020     Organizers announced that the Bobcaygeon and Area COVID-19 Relief Fund donations topped $150,000 on April 27. Contributions were received from individuals, businesses, service clubs, and associations in Bobcaygeon, across Kawartha Lakes and from as far away as Miami. The fund, established at the end of March, provided immediate support to …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 29 Apr 2020     City of Kawartha Lakes set two pandemic recovery task forces. Staff will work to develop guidelines for an economic recovery task force and a community pandemic response task force. The economic task force will focus on local business support; building and development; stimulating the economy, prioritizing and expediting 2020 “shovelready” …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 29 Apr 2020     Though Kawartha Lakes City Hall managed its budgets through the pandemic, no solid numbers were available for residents before the end of May. All staff in every department were challenged to revise 2020 work plans, changing their view to be pandemic recovery, and the City planned to examine it's 2020 …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 23 Apr 2020     Those residents who practiced self-care like clockwork felt the impact of the loss of their routines like visiting the gym, the stylist or the esthetician as the state of emergency and COVID lockdown continued through April.