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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 ...

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 27 Apr 2020     While the federal government rejigged some requirements for small businesses to access COVID-19 support, there were still gaps in funding. The city considered reallocating funding from existing small business initiatives and continued to actively seek more funding from upper-levels of government.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 4 Apr 2020     S-91 year old Ted Pollock was a pretty big sports fan. He loved the Toronto Blue Jays but he was a “die hard” Toronto Maple Leaf’s fan according to his family. Pollock was the 22nd resident of Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon to die of Coronavirus. His family says he ...

    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 ...

Appia, Veronica, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 1 Dec 2020     The Ontario provincial government announced an update to their COVID-19 vaccination plan - one which Health Minister Christine Elliott said will by the "largest logistical undertaking that we've had in Ontario in a generation." The province had yet to decide who would get the vaccination first.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 1 Dec 2020     Confirmed positive: 321, including 199 in Kawartha Lakes, 86 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 9, including 1 in Kawartha Lakes and 8 in Northumberland) Active cases: 34, including 7 in Kawartha Lakes, 26 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (increase of 9) Probable cases: 0 (no change)High-risk contacts: ...

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 1 Dec 2020     Kawartha Lakes residents put a little more oomph behind getting into the Christmas spirit in 2020.

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 excellent volunteer program as it extended its scope from picking up and delivering basic needs to isolated individuals, but also ...

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.

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 1 Dec 2020     The Kawartha Lakes Food Source reported serving an additional 758 new individuals so far in 2020 in addition to the 1717 existing clients using 10 food banks across the city. COVID-19 only compounded the extreme challenges already faced by low-income community members and their ability to afford necessities as a ...

McGinn, William, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 1 Dec 2020     Two local businesses continued to pay a living wage to their employees (current considered to be $18.42/hour in Kawartha Lakes) in spite of the pandemic.

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 10 Dec 2020     Parents of students in the local Catholic school board who wished to move their children from in-school to online learning, or vice-versa, were asked to complete an transition form by noon (12 pm) on January 12, 2021. After this date, all learning choices were final and there would be no ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 10 Dec 2020     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 367, including 209 in Kawartha Lakes, 131 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 8, including 5 in Northumberland, 2 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 inHaliburton) *Active cases: 41, including 8 in Kawartha Lakes, 32 in ...

Benns, Roderick, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 10 Dec 2020     Local entrepreneur Bryant received authorization from Health Canada to sell his easy-to-use COVID-19 at-home test. The Anosmic COVID-19 Smell Tester is the first authorized product that can screen people in their own homes. This test was developed as loss of sense of smell was one of the first indications that ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 11 Dec 2020     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 377, including 212 in Kawartha Lakes, 138 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 10, including 8 in Northumberland and 2 in Kawartha Lakes) Active cases: 45, including 8 in Kawartha Lakes, 32 in Northumberland, and ...

    The Lindsay drive test centre hired a security guard to check addresses outside of the building for those from COVID lockdown zones and checking temperatures before anyone can enter the building.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 12 Dec 2020     A confirmed COVID-19 case in a reportedly asymptomatic staff member of Victoria Manor was reported. The staff member last worked on December 4, 2020. The local health unit did not declare an outbreak.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 12 Dec 2020     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 392, including 214 in Kawartha Lakes, 151 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 14, including 12 in Northumberland and 2 in Kawartha Lakes) *Active cases: 56, including 13 in Kawartha Lakes, 42 in Northumberland, and ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 14 Dec 2020     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays.As the health unit does not issue updates on Sundays, these numbers include December 13 and 14. Confirmed positive: 411, including 218 in Kawartha Lakes, 166 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 19, including 15 in Northumberland and ...