Résultats

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 1 Apr 2020     Kawartha Art Gallery makes $2,500 donation to the Bobcaygeon and Area COVID-19 Relief Fund in honour of local artist who passed due to COVID-19.

 Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 1 Apr 2020     Bobcaygeon and Area COVID-19 Relief Fund has raised over $20,000 from the community within three days. Funds will go towards supporting health care workers, Pinecrest Nursing Home, their families, and others in need in the Bobcaygeon and area community.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, 20 Apr 2020     Though the post-outbreak situation at Pinecrest Nursing Home continued to improve daily, staff remained diligent.

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 Kawartha Lakes This Week, 12 Apr 2020     The Easter Bunny visits Pinecrest Nursing Home, which reported its third straight day without any COVID-19-related deaths.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 4 May 2020     The local health unit reported 3 new positive COVID-19 cases in Kawartha Lakes. This brought the total number of cases to 142. No new deaths or resolved cases were reported. Three outbreaks (Pinecrest Nursing Home [Bobcaygeon], Ross Memorial Hospital [Lindsay], Case Manor [Bobcaygeon]) were still ongoing.

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 22 Apr 2020     Local health unit dietitian Malik offered suggestions on how to keep kids moving and eating healthy while under lockdown, especially given Canada's poor grade for physical activity in children.

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 22 Apr 2020     King Albert Public School, Lindsay, continued to honour their code of conduct, the Knight's Code, by actively working to get technology into their students' hands and meet the needs of their students' families, such as food and support. They provided reading materials (donated from the Kent Bookstore) and reallocated its …

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      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 …

 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 …

 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 …

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 25 Mar 2020     The Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation established the special Heroes at Heart fund to support urgent equipment and technology needs as the hospital responded to the pandemic.