The Williamsburg community has a lot of diversity and the businesses in the area are no exception. From a grocery store to a tailor to a religious South Asian store. There's also quite a diverse platter of restaurants from different parts of the world.
When the latest COVID-19 measures by the province shutdown indoor dining, one local restaurant group took an unusual step to keep its workers employed they offered them jobs at a local nursing home.
GUELPH Picking up a pandemic pastime has become a familiar trend, and at 85-years-young, Guelph retirement resident Lloyd Hetherington has landed on one that is pretty unique. He s now a podcast co-host. Hetherington arrived the village of Riverside Glen a month before the lockdown in March. “When I arrived at Schlegel Village, I was at loose ends, he said. I’d lost my wife, I’d been the caregiver for her several years because of dementia. I arrived tired, on medications to deal with nerves, and the manager very wisely tried to channel me in various directions.” Hetherington says the staff guided him towards this new podcasting venture as a way to help him channel his anxiety.