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Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 22 Mar 2020     The local health unit confirmed the news late on March 22, 2020 that a man in his 80s had died in Lindsay from complications related to COVID-19.

    Barb Curry and Lynwood Polley shared a thank you for the positive act to a family who passed by on North Water Street, Coboconk, picking up garbage out of the ditches while wearing protective disposa

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 19 Mar 2020     The local Canadian Mental Health Association director of programs and the medical officer for the local health unit offered some tips to deal with COVID-19 pandemic stress and reminded the public tha

    Host Denis Grignon spoke to a freelance musician, a church minister, a pizza place owner and a woman and daughter in self-isolation. And the RMH moved its COVID-19 testing area to the Lindsay Fair Gr

    The Maplewood Restaurant, Norland, offered free take-out soup to all customers on March 19, 2020 from noon to 4:00 p.m.

    Riverside Inn, Norland, announced they were open Fridays and Saturdays from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for takeout only.

Roderick Benns, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 13 Jul 2020     Imperial Stylish Fit alteration and tailoring got creative and sewed face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, selling them through contactless sales at their shop at 60 Russell Street in Lindsay.

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 16 Jul 2020     Local dine-in restaurants scrambled to prepare for the allowed July 17, 2020 reopening under strict health guidelines. Many restaurants set up plexiglass shields between booths, spaced out tables for

    The local district health unit announced that the outbreaks declared at Kawartha Lakes Retirement Residence (Bobcaygeon) and at Empire Crossing Retirement Home (Port Hope) were over. Outbreaks were d

    Shields Home Hardware (Coboconk) reopened to allow a maximum of 5 customers in the store at a time. Physical distancing was strongly encouraged.

    Mayor Letham issued a two-part message to residents in responses to the previous news release regarding payment of bills and utilities and to residents returning to the community from holidays outsid

    Laurie Scott, MPP Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, shared community displays of kindness from within her constituency. Examples were taken from Twitter and Instagram posts.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 17 Apr 2021     The Kawartha Lakes Police Service issued a statement that they would not be arbitrarily stopping pedestrians or motorists without causing following an announcement by the Provincial governments givin

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 20 Apr 2021     Three more staff at Fenelon Court Long-Term Care home tested positive for COVID-19 since the local health unit declared an outbreak at the facility on April 11. This made for a total of five staff se

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 20 Apr 2021     A COVID-19 outbreak at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in Lindsay that involved 2 individuals, impacted roughly 40 staff and students. The health unit determined that one of the two posi

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 1 Oct 2021     The provincial government made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for long-term care staff (in-home staff, support workers, students and volunteers) effective November 15, 2021 unless a staff member had

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 2 Apr 2021     As of Friday April 2nd, all residents in the greater Kawarthas region aged 70 and over in 2021 were able to make COVID-19 vaccination appointments through the provincial booking system. The governmen

McGinn, William, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 11 Nov 2020     With the hunting season in full swing in Kawartha Lakes, it's not unusual to see a littering of deer carcasses, but the increased amount of dumping seen in 2020 possibly had a COVID-related reason. A

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 18 Nov 2020     The Lindsay Agricultural Society and the 2021 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo announced a drive-through festival of lights as a joint fundraiser for five community groups and a local schoo

    Local police, fire and paramedics all came together on Thursday November 5 to help a Lindsay girl celebrate her birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic.