COMMENT – May 2020
An Attitude of Gratitude As we all know the Coronavirus has launched a reign of terror infecting hundreds of thousands globally. At first, the Coronavirus was something in the back of our minds, a distinct thing happening across the world, and now within two weeks things have escalated greatly. On Wednesday March 11 the…
Millbrook Food Share Redirects Potential Customers to Kawartha Food Share
When the province shut down most of the province in March and recommended that seniors take particular precautions to protect themselves from infection from COVID-19, our local food bank was forced to close its doors until the danger passed. All of their volunteers are more than 70 years of age, so the organization had…
Protect Your Pet
Local Veterinary Technician, Heather Paquette, spends her nights at the Kawartha Veterinary Emergency Clinic in the Mapleridge Plaza on Lansdowne Street West. These days, emergency visits to the vet are more stressful than ever, because pet owners are not allowed to accompany their pets into the clinic to adhere to COVID-19 restrictions for any…
Helping Seniors Cope through Telephone Reassurance Calls in Millbrook and Across the County
For the first time since WWII, Canadians have been confronted with new restrictions and are adjusting to new realities that involve event cancellations and physical distancing, which can cause some to feel very socially isolated. This new reality can be especially hard on our most vulnerable, our seniors. Before the pandemic, Community Care…
Coming Soon – A New Local Food Network
As farmers’ markets everywhere scramble to find safe new ways of operating during the current pandemic, one model in particular appears to be gaining traction in this region and elsewhere. Originally popularized in Finland several years ago, the REKO (meaning fair consumption) model directly connects food producers and consumers using a closed Facebook group. …
Letters to the Editor – May 2020
Since the fall, we have not been allowed to put our recycling into the blue recycling bags which kept the items off the roads and out of the ditches. Now our street is lined with recycling debris and ditches are collecting content that is blowing out of our blue boxes. On top of the…