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 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 30 Apr 2020     While pre-planning and a cooperative community helped Ross Memorial Hospital avoid overwhelming their resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Emergency Department saw significantly lower numbers of people visiting due to public health measures in place to prevent COVID-19 spread also preventing other seasonal illnesses. However, the hospital noted that those …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 20 Mar 2020     Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes EB Games were open Friday for the arrival of two new video games, Animal Crossing: New Horizons by Nintendo and Doom Eternal by Bethesda, leaving some workers to question if the company was doing enough to protect workers and customers against the spread of COVID-19. Animal …

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 30 Mar 2020     Two Kawartha Lakes Police Service constables went into self-isolation following the arrest of a man in relation to a domestic abuse call on March 28, 2020 and remained off-duty and in isolation while they were tested for COVID-19.

 Riley, Mary, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Mar 2020     Former Kawartha Lakes This Week reporter and Bobcaygeon resident Mary Riley wrote about life in Bobcaygeon and the tragedy of the COVID-19 outbreak at Pinecrest Nursing Home

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Mar 2020     Kawartha Lakes council planned to hold their first regular council meeting virtually after legislation was passed by the province to allow municipalities to conduct council, local board and committee meetings electronically in case of local or provincial emergencies. Council's last regular meeting was held on March 19, 2020, already moved …

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 14 Apr 2020     City of Kawartha Lakes suspends some services and laid off and postponed nearly 300 positions, including more than 200 permanent part-time staff, seasonal and temporary employees across all departments, as well as 70 summer/seasonal positions.

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 14 Apr 2020     Volunteers Dave and Anne Blackburn have seen a big shift in what they do with Community Care Kawartha Lakes, moving from driving to appointments and office work to delivering for the Meals-on-Wheels program.

      Health Canada warned Canadians about risks of using fraudulent and unauthorized N95 masks in a news release. N95 masks are in high demand during the pandemic as part of a set of personal protective equipment and for their ability to filter 95% of very small test particles, such as pathogens …

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 16 Apr 2020     Pinecrest Nursing Home reports no new deaths and many residents who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 have been healthy for at least 14 days. Staff remained diligent.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 21 Apr 2020     Seasonal campground owners were allowed to open for their seasonal residents who had no Canadian address elsewhere, but felt forced to do so. Seasonal residents, whose parks did not open locally, expressed concerns over costs, noting many seasonal residents are seniors on fixed-incomes.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 21 Apr 2020     Ross Memorial Hospital launched the Heroes at Heart 2020 Spring Appeal donations campaign to help purchase urgent COVID-related equipment and technology needs and seven new electrocardiography machines (ECGs).

 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.

 Vandonk, Todd, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 4 May 2020     An inmate that arrived at Central East Correctional Centre (CECC) last week tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed in medical isolation upon admission. CECC had its own individualized pandemic plan in place like all correctional institutions. These measures included personal protective equipment for all staff, staff and visitors were …

 Head, Bruce, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 15 May 2020     Small and medium-sized businesses across southern Ontario that hadn't been eligible for other federal government COVID-19 business relief programs were given another option with the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund. Totalling $1-billion, the fund was accessible to businesses across Canada with $252.4 million earmarked for Southern Ontario businesses that did …

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 1 May 2020     Mariposa Elementary School teacher and mother of four Beth Wilson tapped into her own creativity when it came to COVID-19 lessons to support her children's' Learning@Home program and her own students.

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 1 May 2020     Service agencies and police said domestic violence calls were down, but worried it was simply a 'powder keg' as women in need were self-isolated or unable to get time away from abusers in order to call crisis counsellors or police for help due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The calls that …

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 26 Mar 2020     As families made sure to gather everything they would need for a two-week home isolation, the local health unit offered some helpful tips on the perishable foods with the longest shelf lives and protein choices to compliment meat.

 Cavanagh, Mike, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 26 Mar 2020     Cavanagh, owners of Kawartha Lakes Pharmasave and pharmacist, urged local residents to seek out reputable information from professionals like himself instead of trusting anything they find on Google. While many small recommendations were not helpful, but not harmful, some were ludicrous and dangerous. He also provided some information which included …

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 26 Mar 2020     Two residents of Pinecrest Nursing Home died from COVID-19. As of March 26, 14 staff members had tested positive for COVID-19 and 35 other residents including the deceased had developed symptoms of COVID-19. When the initial respiratory outbreak was declared by the health unit on March 18, 2020, staff at …

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 27 Mar 2020     Larry Hope, director of education with Trillium Lakelands District School Board urged parents to focus on the family's health and well-being and not worry about the rest of their child's education this school year.