In-person Bingo back at senior center >Thompson Senior Center Executive Director Deanna Jones, far left, reunites with people who played bingo over the phone during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the last Friday in June, older adults gathered at the center to play together in person for the first time in more than a year. (Deanna Jones photograph) Courtesy photograph
Modified: 7/5/2021 9:06:40 PM
WOODSTOCK Wonderful.
That’s how people who have played bingo over the phone through the Thompson Senior Center in Woodstock described the first game they played in person together the last Friday in June.
Bingo players are a dedicated bunch and during the COVID-19 pandemic, executive director Deanna Jones was determined to find a way to keep them playing. Phone bingo ended up being a fairly easy transition and it had a hidden benefit: People who live farther away could participate, especially in the colder months when bad weather might’ve kept them from making the drive to Woodstoc
C. JEMAL HORTON
Barely two years after he could walk, Connor Goodman was learning how to perfect takedowns and escapes, while the most advanced things many kids his age were doing was singing along with Dora the Explorer songs and running through water sprinklers.
But even then, as a mere toddler, Goodman knew he wanted to be a wrestler.
He got his first introduction to the sport with his dad, Rob, as a young member of the Team Cabarrus wrestling program before transitioning to the well-known Darkhorse Wrestling Club when he was in middle school.
âMy dad helped me out with all the basics,â Goodman said of Rob, who wrestled at East Rowan High. âHeâd help me get good workouts in and building me up, and then he sent me to club practices so I would get better. He was one of my coaches (with Team Cabarrus).â
With more people shopping online for groceries during the Covid-19 pandemic, both in Britain and abroad, promotional efforts for Wales’s iconic farming exports have been ensuring that PGI Welsh lamb and PGI Welsh beef aren’t left behind. Online grocery sales have surged across the world over the last 12 months, it is also reported that shoppers in the United Arab Emirates spent more whilst doing online grocery shopping compared to when they visited stores. In Europe, key Welsh lamb markets such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland have also seen a large rise in e-commerce, with grocery shopping benefitting from an increase. It is estimated that approximately 28 per cent of European consumers who live in urban areas used online shopping as their main channel for buying groceries during lockdown.