Betty Scrivens, 1947 s Miss Posture, was in this city. Of course I had to meet her. The first thing Scrivens recalled for me when we met on Thursday at her west-end apartment building was the skirt she was wearing in the photo: pink and brown squares on an ecru background, made by her mother.
Understanding the fatigue and pushback that increasingly defines the global pandemic could prove to be one of the most difficult knots to untangle, even as case counts and deaths continue to rise COVID deaths in Ottawa are expected to surpass 1,000 early this year.