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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

Payne, Nancy, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 17 Dec 2020     While the upheaval caused by COVID-19 to the economy, education and daily life tended to dominate the public conversation, the pandemic had also profoundly altered the way people lived with and died

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 24 Dec 2020     Harry Hamilton considered continuing to volunteer as a specialized transit driver during COVID-19 a "small sacrifice" compared to helping others receive life-saving treatment

    Host Grignon speaks with Charlie McDonald about the downtown reconstruction happening in Lindsay and its effects on the local businesses on Kent Street West; Barbara Doyle about the popularity of tri

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 1 Feb 2021     Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes opened a second kitchen, effectively doubling the organization’s Meals on Wheels production capacity. Village Housing in Lindsay welcomed the program into its co

Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 12 Mar 2021     Pictured is Lorraine Button receiving her vaccination shot.

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 4 May 2020     The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on daily life, but residents were assured that support remained available for their general and emergency health concerns. Family doctors and nurse prac

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 1 Dec 2020     Community Care worked hard to support seniors during the second wave of the pandemic, a disjointed December holiday season and a potentially nasty winter. The organization's Care Crew was an excellen

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 5 Jun 2020     Local healthcare groups got a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic, but leaders were very aware of how easy it could be to lose that grip.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 18 Dec 2020     Newly launched Standing Together and Receiving Support (STARS) program expected to run several sessions of the children's grief support program in 2021 in response to a significant increase in demand

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 28 Nov 2020     United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes provided a second round of funding to community groups and organizations that applied.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 24 Mar 2020     Many emergency supports were still available to access in Kawartha Lakes during the COVID-19 pandemic though they changed how they could be accessed. Supports included food banks, mental health suppo

    City of Kawartha Lakes hosted a virtual town hall to discuss important information regarding COVID-19, such as service updates and availability, community and primary care resources and the latest ne

Benns, Roderick, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 10 Feb 2021     A Little Britain woman is concerned there are different rules for personal support workers (PSWs) who see people in their own homes versus the PSWs who work in retirement and long-term care. PSWs who

    The local health unit compiled a list of Food Access and Community Supports available to residents in their area during the COVID-19 pandemic. This included listing food banks and contact information

    Five creative solutions and new ways of working together emerged as a result of the unique situations health care providers and social agencies were faced with during COVID-19.

Roderick Benns, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 23 Jul 2020     The Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes dispersed $136,400 from the Emergency Community Support Fund designed to support local charities responding to COVID-19 in partnership with Community Founda

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 4 Dec 2020     The Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes dispersed $57,280 from the second round of the Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF) to ten local non-profit agencies to continue to support vulnerable co