BARRIE, ONT. Ontario provincial police charged six men from the Windsor area who they say were gathered at a short-term rental property in Oro-Medonte. According to the OPP, officers received information about the group hanging out near Parkside Beach on Thursday night. Police say the men rented a house through a popular short-term rental service. Under the current stay-at-home order, all indoor and outdoor social gatherings are prohibited, except for members of the same household. The six men are charged with failing to comply with the Reopening Ontario Act and were all issued provincial offence notices. Recently, residents in Oro-Medonte expressed their concern about an influx of out-of-towners with the May long weekend approaching.
ORO-MEDONTE, ONT. The Victoria Day long weekend is less than two weeks away, and as it approaches, some residents of Oro-Medonte grow concerned about a possible influx of out-of-towners. Oro-Medonte resident Dianna Gerrard says the shores were quiet and peaceful for years, but all that has changed with the pandemic. Every day there is a party, and there is no time to be outside, relax and enjoy the lake. Gerrard blames tenants of short-term rental accommodations for disrupting her tranquillity. I think it s going to become a ghetto of short-term rentals because you can t stand it, she adds. Some residents have joined forced to create the Oro-Medonte Good Neighbours Alliance - a group pushing the town to further enforce its short-term rental accommodation bylaw on disruptive tenants.