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Morris, Jamie, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 22 Nov 2020     Greg Nisbett shared how he is in survival mode, having lasted through previous recessions in 1981, 1991, and 2008, and how he's in it for the long haul.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 16 Dec 2020     The John Howard Society's 2020 fundraiser built on last year's milestone anniversary celebration and helped support the United Way while promoting local businesses. The organization sound clear glass ornaments and for $10.00, local businesses could purchase them and have them decorated with their business information. The ornaments were then used ...

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 10 Nov 2020     Small businesses in Kawartha Lakes were able to apply to the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund through the Kawartha Lakes Community Development Corporation for loans for fixed operating expenses.

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 27 Nov 2020     Kawartha Lakes businesses owners and the mayor talk about not stigmatizing out-of-town visitors coming from high-COVID-19 areas as "sick" as restricted holiday shoppers head out of lockdown areas for less-restricted areas.

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 19 Dec 2020     Loyal patrons kept M's Bake Shop going following their reopening in May (closed due to the COVID-19 lockdowns through March and April) and their landlords' understanding to allow them to forego rent while closed.

Lindsay Advocate, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 21 Jan 2021     Connie Powers, Rude Awakening Granola owner, looked for ways of connecting to others in their home kitchen during COVID-19 and wanted to share more of her cooking and baking beyond granola and jellies. Working with locally sourced food, she turned to livestreaming on the TwitchTV platform with Rude Awakening TV.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 27 Jan 2021     Chris and Kali Schmidt respect businesses' rights to adhere to provincial masking regulations, but pointed out that there were legitimate exceptions that needed to be made.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 13 Nov 2020     Two Fenelon Falls businesses partnered to create a unique, pandemic safe shopping experience, allowing up to eight people in the same social bubble for 45 minutes.

    Patio season came to a close and Kawartha Lakes restauranteurs had to get creative to again consider the sustainability of keeping their businesses open during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 25 Dec 2020     In 2020, the community saw businesses struggle, innovate and rally amid shutdowns and never-before-seen health protocols such as social distancing. The local newspaper caught up with seven local businesses to talk about how they're doing 10 months later.

Coleman, Geoff, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 17 Nov 2020     What local retailers proved during hard times is that during the 2020 holiday season, if given the chance, they will go great lengths to prove that shopping local is the smart move.

Lentz, Marissa, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 4 Feb 2021     Janetville teen Kahale Steward's high school project became a money-making venture, putting his self-made logo for media arts class on clothing.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 8 Feb 2021     The Ontario government announced that it is moving to a regional approach and maintaining the shutdown in the majority of the public health regions in Ontario, including the Stay-at-Home order and all existing public health and workplace safety measures. When it is safe to do so, the province will gradually ...

McGinn, William, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 1 Dec 2020     Local cinema owners discussed their hopes for a vaccine in time for spring in order to reopen local theatres to greater capacity or even just to reopen at all with some places having been closed since October 2019 for their season.

    A collection of local and general news articles, photographs, experiences shared by citizens of the City of Kawartha Lakes during the COVID-19 global pandemic shutdown, March 17, 2020 to the present day. The COVID-19 pandemic made the world reconsider standards of public health care, childcare, and debate on the future ...