Manitobans getting creative with pandemic hobbies Written by CHVN Saturday, Jan 23 2021, 11:43 AM Clockwise from the bottom left: Daniella Hildebrandt s leather working, Kathy Wiens wood-burned cutting board, Jess Goertzen s photography, and Joanne Dalton s crocheted cup cozy.
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In the midst of enduring COVID-19 restrictions, many Manitobans have embraced hobbies to help them get by.
Kandy Signorino lives in Steinbach. She says got into pottery making back in March when COVID-19 first hit. Since then, she notes she has bought a pottery wheel, a kiln, and even started an Esty store called Kandy’s Pottery Shop. It has become a huge therapy for me. It is definitely a good outlet. It keeps your mind off the not-so-pleasant things in life and gets the mental juices flowing and I have been able to interact with a lot of people I would have never met.
Winnipeg hospital workers spreading holiday joy through stairwell singing Written by Libby Giesbrecht Sunday, Dec 20 2020, 12:58 PM Allen Fehr (left) plays piano while Shirley Platon (right) sings Christmas carols in the stairwell at Seven Oaks Hospital. (Screenshot: Allen Fehr/Youtube)
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Shirley Platon and Allen Fehr had never met when Fehr first heard Platon singing through the walls of an elevator at Seven Oaks Hospital. I was singing through the stairwell and then Allen heard it through the elevator, Platon explains, Then, when we got off on the same floor, he asked if it was me that was coming out of the stairwell.
Stairwell singer at Winnipeg hospital inspires virtual holiday duet
There s singing in the shower, singing in the rain but singing in the stairwell has inspired a beautiful duet from a Winnipeg hospital.
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Shirley Platon recorded her part of the duet in the Seven Oaks Hospital stairwell where Allen Fehr heard her
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A stairway duet from a Winnipeg hospital
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3:00Two workers at Seven Oaks Hospital in Winnipeg performed a distanced duet of Silent Night.3:00