CAMBRIDGE Residents are putting pandemic protocols in place for garage sales despite grey guidelines. Louise Burbidge says she was in need of retain therapy that online shopping wasn’t doing for her, so she went out scouring through garage sales in Cambridge on Saturday. “You can’t get out to anything right now and I’m just hungry,” she said. “The thrill of the hunt, you always find something.” As of Saturday, no yard sale guidelines have been put in place by the province. The Ministry of Health says people must follow the Reopening Ontario Act for gathering limits, which caps out at five outside with physical distancing in place.
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 7,301 cases, 109 deaths, 6,821 resolved Brant County: 2,907 cases, 20 deaths, 2,729 resolved Haldimand-Norfolk: 2,440 cases, 46 deaths, 2,148 recovered Huron Perth: 1,622 cases, 53 deaths, 1,521 recovered An Arthur, Ont. family who moved to New Brunswick
last week are now isolating in their new home. Gwendolen Bultena and Matt Potts arrived in New Brunswick on Friday, but said the journey to their new home was anything but smooth “Absolute insanity,” Bultena said. “This whole process has just been a rollercoaster of emotions” The family was worried they would be denied entry into the province after New Brunswick implemented new mandatory hotel quarantine rules. They did not have a reservation booked at a government-approved hotel or approved travel registration forms before hitting the road last Wednesday. Fortunately, they were able to sort that before they got to the border on Friday.
KITCHENER A Kitchener woman said she was shocked to find a dead bat in the packaging of a furniture delivery. Laura Malek said she found the bat when her dining room set was delivered to her home on Wednesday. “We opened and started building and unfortunately didn t notice the bat until we were building our third chair,” said Malek. Malek and her husband didn t know what it was, and then realized it was a dead animal. She said they were filled with panic and disgust. “I was scared, she said. It took me about a minute to get the words out to my husband about why I was so freaked out.”
CAMBRIDGE Small business owners in Waterloo Region are bracing for another shutdown this week. The provincial government enacted a month-long stay-at-home order on Wednesday afternoon that will go into effect on Thursday at 12:01 a.m. Under the province-wide shutdown that came into effect last weekend, non-essential retail stores could stay open at 25 per cent capacity. However, they will need to change to curbside pickup only under the new order. Laura Malek, who owns The Sharing Squirrel in Cambridge, said said she s hoping online shopping and curbside pickup will keep them going. It s getting harder, for sure, Malek said. We were on board and really willing to do whatever it took and whatever was safe the first time around, the second time around and we will again. We ll continue to do it because I think it s important for our community, but it s definitely getting tougher on us.