FAIRHAVEN Citing public uproar over social media, plans by the Health Board to enact emergency COVID regulations for farmers’ markets and other similar events, which would have an immediate impact on the Huttleston Marketplace, may not happen after all.
A recent Board of Health meeting saw a continuance of the debate of further regulating the Huttleston Marketplace. At previous meetings the board and the Tourism Director, Christopher Richard, discussed whether food prepared on-site should be allowed and whether the marketplace should be classified as an event, which would put greater restrictions in place.
Richard couldn’t make the Feb. 3 meeting as he told the board through email he had a prior engagement.
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A scramble for COVID-19 vaccines has broken out among some of the world’s wealthiest nations. This is understandable but too narrow a focus on their own needs is shortsighted as well as ethically wrong. Letting the pandemic rage on in poorer parts of the world will imperil their own efforts to end the emergency. Self-interest aligns with what should be a moral imperative. Increasing the supply of vaccines for everybody needs to be given a much higher priority.
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Penticton mayor attributes high police workload to homelessness in the Okanagan city
Penticton Mayor John Vassilaki says the high police caseload in the Okanagan city is caused by the influx of homeless people from other areas with fewer services.
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Mayor John Vassilaki says the RCMP caseload is boosted by an influx of people from other communities
Posted: Feb 10, 2021 8:15 PM PT | Last Updated: February 11
Penticton, B.C., Mayor John Vassilaki says his municipality s high crime rate and call volume to RCMP are due to an influx of homeless people from other communities.(Ben Nelms/CBC)
The city told NBC Connecticut that there are eight nurse vacancies to be filled but that all schools are currently staffed with at least one nurse. There is at least one school nurse assigned to every hybrid school that is open at this time, Bond said.
Darnell Goldson, a board of education member, said although that s the city goal, it has yet to be achieved. Goldson emphasized that the board made it clear that in order for schools to reopen safely that every school needed a nurse. But according to him, after a meeting held with the superintendent earlier this week that is not the case.