May 5, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Baseball for Dad’s Knocking Stigma out of the Park Community Scavenger Hunt had to be postponed recently due to the current provincial lockdown from COVID-19. According to Baseball for Dad’s Louri Snider, this was done at the direction of Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. Snider hopes to reschedule the event for sometime later this summer or in the fall.
Baseball for Dad is a non-profit charity set up in honour of Mark Snider who tragically lost his battle with mental illness, taking his own life in 2019. It was set up in Mark’s honour by his mom Louri, to take the stigma away from mental illness. Since their inception, they’ve come up with a plethora of initiatives like placing baseball gloves around the world (as baseball was Mark’s favourite sport), the Buddy Bench program, their Kindness Moose program and their Moosing Around party rental business.
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Hastings Prince Edward Public Health says more people were able to book a vaccine appointment as of Thursday, in the Quinte region.
The updated list (group one workers who can not work from home,) includes: workers who respond to emergencies such as police/fire/special constables, funeral workers, food manufacturing/distribution workers and more.
For those who are eligible, the online booking system at www.ontario.ca/bookvaccine and the provincial phone number are available, from Monday to Sunday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The health unit says anyone who is unable to book a vaccine, should continue to follow health/safety measures, until they can book an appointment.
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Free rapid antigen tests will be given to workers in small- and medium-sized businesses In Quinte West and across the province in a new COVID-19 Rapid Screening Initiative by Ontario in partnership with Ottawa and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
The tests will be provided to businesses through local chamber offices, the province said Friday to screen for “asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the workplace that might otherwise be missed, helping to keep workers and their families safe and businesses open.”
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OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 110 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, pushing Ottawa s total COVID-19 case count past 25,000 cases since the start of the pandemic. One new death linked to the virus was announced. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 25,108 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 520 deaths. The 110 new cases in Ottawa on Friday follows 106 new cases on Thursday and 141 cases on Wednesday. Public Health Ontario reported 3,166 cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. There are 876 new cases in Toronto, 817 in Peel Region, 300 in York Region and 205 in Durham. Public Health Ontario reported 106 new cases in Ottawa on Friday. There is sometimes a discrepancy in COVID-19 numbers between Public Health Ontario and Ottawa Public Health based on when the data is collected.
Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: May 07, 2021 • May 7, 2021 • 3 minute read
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Opioid-related deaths increased by more than 30 per cent in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington in 2020, and by 60 per cent across the province.
According to a report from the Office of the Chief Coroner obtained by the London Free Press, opioid-related deaths have increased in Ontario from 1,516 in 2019 to 2,426 in 2020.
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“My initial reaction is dismay,” Susan Stewart, chair of the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Community Drug Strategy Advisory Committee, said on Friday morning. “It just goes to show us how vulnerable people use drugs are in our community, and how much work we need to do.