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KITCHENER Kitchener residents are raising concerns about crowds at local parks despite an ongoing stay-at-home order. Hundreds of people were out at Kitchener s Victoria Park on Thursday evening as the weather warms. With the weather improving everyone wants to get outside, and getting outside is encouraged, but when you congregate without masks and not follow the measures that the problems occur, Waterloo Region s Chief Administrative Officer Bruce Lauckner said. Kitchener bylaw officials said they ve heard multiple complaints about park gatherings, especially in larger outdoor spaces. Generally our focus has been education over enforcement, said Gloria MacNeil, director of bylaw enforcement in Kitchener.
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City councillors in Thunder Bay, Ont., will hear later this year about how a bylaw could be written to deal with abandoned shopping carts.(Pierre Fournier/CBC)
For those people shopping at big-box retailers or grocery store who don t have a car or truck in the parking lot, their shopping carts are a means to getting to their final destination be that a nearby bus stop or further afield.
Those shopping carts are then abandoned and can start to pile up, sometimes on public property.
City councillors in Thunder Bay will hear later this year how the city could implement a bylaw dealing with nuisance carts, by examining other cities in the province, like Kitchener, that have a shopping cart bylaw.
KITCHENER More people are heading to parks and playgrounds as the weather warms up in Waterloo Region. The spaces will likely get even busier next week when elementary and high school students have the week off for April break. Kids playing, that s an incredibly important thing to their mental health, infectious disease specialist Dr. Gerald Evans said. Playgrounds were shut down during the first wave of COVID-19, but they re currently open. Dr. Evans said that s the right call based on what is known about the virus now. Outside, the likelihood of transmission is so low from any of the modes of transmission that we see that I think we should be allowing children to go into these types of playgrounds, be a kid, enjoy that time, he said.
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