Author of the article: Luke Hendry
Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 5 minute read • This graph using public health data for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties shows COVID-19 cases by month and transmission. Close-contact cases are green, outbreak cases blue, local transmission orange, travel purple, and pending grey. Photo by Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
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When seen in hindsight, the view is striking.
Medical and scientific experts in Ontario and elsewhere have described how the coronavirus pandemic, after the arrival of virus variants, seemed almost to involve a different illness entirely. People were infected more quickly; younger people began dying quickly, and in greater numbers; entire households fell ill.
May 5, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Baseball for Dad’s Knocking Stigma out of the Park Community Scavenger Hunt had to be postponed recently due to the current provincial lockdown from COVID-19. According to Baseball for Dad’s Louri Snider, this was done at the direction of Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. Snider hopes to reschedule the event for sometime later this summer or in the fall.
Baseball for Dad is a non-profit charity set up in honour of Mark Snider who tragically lost his battle with mental illness, taking his own life in 2019. It was set up in Mark’s honour by his mom Louri, to take the stigma away from mental illness. Since their inception, they’ve come up with a plethora of initiatives like placing baseball gloves around the world (as baseball was Mark’s favourite sport), the Buddy Bench program, their Kindness Moose program and their Moosing Around party rental business.
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QUINTE WEST â The Front Street Farmersâ Market will be open for the season next Saturday, May 8, at 8 a.m. New and returning vendors have been preparing their products and are ready to set up their booths. The Farmersâ Market features various local growers, bakers and makers with fresh, unique and delicious products.
This year, the market will look a little different as a mask mandate will be in place. Visitors and vendors will be asked to please wear their masks at all times while in attendance, and maintain their physical distance. This complies with the protocols put into place by Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
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QUINTE WEST â The Front Street Farmersâ Market will be open for the season next Saturday, May 8, at 8 a.m. New and returning vendors have been preparing their products and are ready to set up their booths. The Farmersâ Market features various local growers, bakers and makers with fresh, unique and delicious products.
This year, the market will look a little different as a mask mandate will be in place. Visitors and vendors will be asked to please wear their masks at all times while in attendance, and maintain their physical distance. This complies with the protocols put into place by Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
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QUINTE WEST â The Front Street Farmersâ Market will be open for the season next Saturday, May 8, at 8 a.m. New and returning vendors have been preparing their products and are ready to set up their booths. The Farmersâ Market features various local growers, bakers and makers with fresh, unique and delicious products.
This year, the market will look a little different as a mask mandate will be in place. Visitors and vendors will be asked to please wear their masks at all times while in attendance, and maintain their physical distance. This complies with the protocols put into place by Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.