Author of the article: Travis Dosser
Publishing date: Feb 02, 2021 • February 2, 2021 • 3 minute read • Encouraging messages, such as Everything is possible popped up along a portion of the Riverside Nature Trail in northern Strathcona County. Over the weekend, six additional Strathcona County residents died from COVID-19, bringing the local death toll to 29. Lindsay Morey/News Staff
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Six more residents of Strathcona County have died as a result of the COVID-19 virus.
Between Friday, Jan. 29 and Sunday, Jan. 31, five Sherwood Park residents succumbed to COVID-19 and one resident in the rural portion of the county died from the virus, according to COVID19Stats.Alberta.ca, the geospatial Alberta Health Services case-tracking site. That pushes the local death toll to 29; 25 in the Park and four in the rural county.
Author of the article: Travis Dosser
Publishing date: Jan 29, 2021 • January 29, 2021 • 3 minute read • Alberta s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. As of Thursday, Jan. 28, AHS reported there were 116 active COVID-19 cases in Strathcona County 97 cases in Sherwood Park and 19 cases in the rural county. Two more Park residents died from the virus this week, bringing the county s COVID-19 death toll to 23. IAN KUCERAK/Postmedia
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Two more local lives have been claimed by the COVID-19 virus this week.
As of Thursday, Jan. 28, Alberta Health Services reported 20 deaths in Sherwood Park, which is an increase of two new deaths since Monday, Jan. 25. One was reported on Wednesday and the other was recorded by AHS on Thursday. Along with three previous deaths recorded in the rural area, Strathcona County’s overall COVID-19 death toll has inched to 23 residents.
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Hark! the herald angels sing.
While concert halls might be empty this Christmas season, the Elk Island Regional Honor Choir Association (EIRHCA) is giving an early Christmas gift to local seniors care and nursing homes.
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The association, which is comprised of three choirs Trebles, Junior, and Secondary and are made up of children aged five to 17, has created an MP3 format compilation of Christmas songs and has dubbed it its winter concert project. Director Angela McKeown Nemetchek headed up the project with the Secondary choir, Grades 7-12, which provided all of the music for a 15-minute recording. The Junior choir, K-6, will also perform Silent Night for the recording.