GODERICH, ONT. The phone’s been ringing off the hook at the Huron-Perth Health Unit. Since opening appointments up to those over the age of 80 on Wednesday afternoon, 3,500 appointments have been booked, temporarily shutting down the online and phone booking system. “We like being busy vaccinating people, much more than we like being busy following case and contacts,” says Huron-Perth’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Miriam Klassen. Clinics for those 80 and up open in earnest next week in Huron-Perth, with clinics at community centres and arenas in Stratford, Wingham, Milverton and Goderich, where they’ve already held two pilot clinics for high-priority health care workers.
Sam and Paul Guille sorting donations into food parcels at Wyre Forest Food Bank in Kidderminster. Photo by Colin Hill COMMUNITY heroes at a Kidderminster foodbank have been recognised for their tireless work delivering food parcels to those in desperate need during lockdown. Sam, Paul and Barbara Guille have dedicated countless hours to Wyre Forest Food Bank over the course of the last year after seeing demand for the service soar in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Franche Community Church had already operated as an independent food bank for 10 years, but was forced to expand its operation last year to cope with demand.
Hundreds more Greater Manchester schools praised by parents for supporting pupils and families during lockdown
Families have told us the schools and teachers they want to thank for helping them through the pandemic
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Hundreds more schools across Greater Manchester have been praised by parents (Image: Getty Images)
Hundreds more schools have been praised by parents in Greater Manchester for their efforts to help children during lockdown. Yesterday we revealed a list of more than 100 schools that mums, dads and grandparents said had gone above and beyond to support pupils and families.
We knew plenty more were worthy of similar praise and after asking parents to share the details, we ve been inundated with hundreds of comments.
A FORMER gastro pub chef is revolutionising Punjabi cuisine as part of a booming vegan business he started during lockdown. Food entrepreneur Bal Gill had to think outside the box to come up with an alternative when his freelance work was killed off by Covid-19 restrictions in September. Instead, the 42-year-old, who lives just outside of Bicester, cooked up a fresh new idea and began preparing vegan Punjabi food based on old family recipes passed down through generations. Mr Gill, who started his own plant-based journey only a year before, had to make just a few small tweaks to the traditional dishes like substituting ghee with vegan butter and meat with soy-based protein before he officially launched the menu for his Oxfordshire-wide delivery service V-Giyan.
The founder of the Canadian Farmworkers Union is remembered as a ‘titan.’
David P. Ball is a journalist based in Vancouver, B.C. SHARES Charan Gill’s activism spanned the co-founding of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, establishing of a national anti-racism organization and creating and heading the thriving Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society. He died Feb. 2, age 84.
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César Chávez was already a legendary champion for farmworkers’ rights in the United States when he arrived at David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver on April 26, 1980 to mark what would prove to be a historic day.
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