Grieving mom marks sad milestone without son who died of overdose We can’t bring our loved ones back from the dead, but we can change things for the future, says mother of Jordan Sheard, who grew up in Barrie
Jan 10, 2021 2:30 PM By: Andrew Philips
A grieving mother doesn’t want other parents to have to go through the pain she’s experienced these last six months.
Tiny Township resident Angela Vos is working to reduce the prejudice surrounding opioid overdoses and what she sees as their close correlation to mental health and addictions issues.
In June, Vos lost her 26-year-old son, Jordan Sheard, who grew up in Barrie.
BARRIE, ONT. Shelley Wilson has been a personal support worker (PSW) for nearly 30 years and runs her own business, supporting dozens of seniors in their homes across Simcoe County, and is growing concerned she isn t a priority to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Because I work in the community now and no longer in a nursing home setting, I m afraid that I m going to slip through the cracks. One of Wilson s clients, 90-year-old Paul Sopuch, says it doesn t make any sense. Well, I can t understand why they are bypassing her because she is very important, just like the frontline nurses. She visits many clients in their homes. She s very important, he says.
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MPP for Parry Sound-Muskoka Norm Miller says the next few months will decide whether the COVID-19 vaccination plan done by the province was well thought out.
So far though, Miller thinks provincial officials have done “reasonably well” rolling out the vaccine. “The next couple of months are going to be the toughest for everybody,” he tells the MyMuskokaNow.com newsroom “For small businesses trying to survive and people who are just tired of being in lockdown.”
Miller says he recently spoke with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Charles Gardner who told him that long-term care and healthcare workers will be vaccinated by the end of January. “I believe they’ve vaccinated over 3,000 in Simcoe Muskoka,” he says. The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie is the only place for people in Simcoe Muskoka to get vaccinat