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Solidarity was the message at the 1000 Islands Gananoque Chamber of Commerce’s second annual International Women’s Day event Monday afternoon.
The event, held over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was a two-part affair featuring many prominent local women with dozens of attendees.
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The first half featured a keynote address by former federal minister Dr. Jane Philpott. Now the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University’s School of Medicine, Philpott’s address touched on multiple topics related to women in the health-care workforce.
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Mayors and chambers of commerce across the region are asking the province to lift the lockdown in Leeds and Grenville, on the strength of low infection numbers and in light of the pain that lockdown is inflicting on area businesses.
“Given our community’s consistently low COVID numbers, now is the time for the province to allow businesses to open their doors again. They simply cannot wait any longer,” said North Grenville Mayor Nancy Peckford, echoing remarks she made earlier in the week.
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