Author of the article: Rocco Frangione • Local Journalism Initiative
Publishing date: Apr 22, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 4 minute read • Runners take to the streets of Powassan prior to the Maple Hill Sap Run. Last year and again this year, the run is organized as a virtual event where participants run in their own community Saturday or Sunday and choose their own route. Photo submitted by Jared Dupuis
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For the second consecutive year, the Maple Hill Sap Run in Powassan is a virtual event.
The run takes place this weekend and, unlike the physical event in a non-COVID year, participants are asked to pick their own route, place and time they want to run.
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Rocco Frangione, Local Journalism Initiative
The Powassan Lions Club isn’t allowing COVID-19 to interfere with one of its major fundraising initiatives for a second consecutive year.
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Each year around this time the Lions begin holding a Sunday pancake breakfast as a lead-up to Easter.
The club members hold five Sunday breakfasts and they also manage to get in a pancake breakfast during the Powassan Maple Syrup Festival.
Club Secretary Sue Oshell says the Lions could only get one of their Sunday pancake breakfasts in last March, before COVID-19 triggered the province-wide lockdown.
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It’s an understatement to say COVID-19 has changed how businesses carry out their affairs. And the maple syrup industry is no different.
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Lori Costello, who co-owns Bella Hill Maple Syrup in Nipissing Township with her husband Dan, says there’s no doubt the pandemic changed their business.
However, it may not be all bad.
Last year and again this year, COVID has seen the cancellation of the Powassan Maple Syrup Festival, an event Lori Costello says generated about 10 per cent of Bella Hill’s annual income.