Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett called Friday’s announcement “great news for our community.”
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“This investment will provide choice and flexibility for families and new opportunities for children,” Barrett said.
The $1.7 million investment will result in 49 new licensed child care spaces and three new child care rooms at the Catholic high school on Evergreen Hill Road in Simcoe.
The Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board will now be able to review tenders for the project.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the government’s capital investment program demonstrates “our historic investment in Ontario’s schools and child cares, as well as our overall commitment to supporting our students and families.”
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health wrapped up a fourth weekend of rapid COVID-19 testing blitzes targeting Ottawa s schools, on the eve of new requirements for asymptomatic testing of students and staff in schools. Starting Monday, school boards in Ontario will be required to conduct asymptomatic testing of staff and students in at least five per cent of schools within their jurisdiction every week. Education Minister Stephen Lecce tells CTV News Ottawa that while COVID-19 rates are low in schools right now, it s important to keep layers of protection in place. The first is the necessity to keep our guard up, because we re doing something right. I think parents, quite obviously, are helping to limit congregation of their kids, which is following our stricter protocol, said Lecce in an interview with CTV News at Six anchor Stefan Keyes.
Residents over 80 who are living in the community are expected to start receiving COVID-19 vaccines next week, says Haldimand-Norfolk’s medical officer of…