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Long before COVID and a slew of “modern day” epidemics and pandemics, we had polio. And in September 1959 with polio cases on the rise nervous local health officials organized mass vaccination clinics and contemplated closing schools until the epidemic slowed.
The obituary said she was 131 years old. That is how long the Glengarry News, the award-winning weekly newspaper that served North and South Glengarry residents, had been read by its constituents.
The thin blue line got a little thinner last week with the assassination of two young Edmonton police officers ambushed by a 16-year-old armed with a rifle as they responded to one of those so-called routine domestic calls.