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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

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 quest

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

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

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 departmen

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

    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 e

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, exp

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

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 machin

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

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 p

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 a

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 ca

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 prot

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.