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  VANCOUVER -- Mayors in the B.C. health region hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic are challenging each other to boost local vaccination rates. In a friendly competition, mayors across the Fraser Health region are seeing who can achieve certain immunization thresholds – and ultimately community immunity – first. The challenge will mark milestones at the 70, 75 and 80 per cent immunization marks. For now, those measurements will be calculated based on first doses of COVID-19 vaccines. "Fraser Health has seen the highest case numbers in our province and it is all hands on deck as we...

  TORONTO -- With the May long-weekend approaching and summer on the horizon, some Ontario municipalities are taking extra measures at its beaches and waterfronts that officials hope will discourage large gatherings and visitors from other regions. For the second summer during the pandemic, officials in Innisfil, north of Toronto, are restricting parking and the use of the boat launch at the popular Innisfil Beach Park to local residents starting on May 21. An entry gate will be installed at the park's entrance with town staff controlling access. Innisfil's mayor says the restrictions a...

ELKTON — There was a party times three at the Maryland Rural Development Council campus inside Hollingsworth Manor to celebrate the re-opening and expansion of Head Start, the official opening of Sheilagh’s Pantry and the placement of a free community library. Chris Benzing, MRDC executive director, explained to those attending the ceremonies last week that Head Start is growing phenomenally and will do even more so with the renovations to the center. “We had four Head Start classes and we are adding two more. We took advantage of the shut down to renovate inside and now 130 fa...

Alabama 117 between Mentone and Valley Head remains closed as a precaution, pending further investigation and repair of a landslide below the roadway on the side of Lookout Mountain. It closed April 1 following landslide after heavy rains, according to Seth Burkett, the Alabama Department of Transportation’s public information officer for the northern region. ALDOT’s ALGOtraffic.com website lists the road as closed until noon on April 30. That does not, however, necessarily mean that it will remain closed for that long. Burkett said drill crews have taken samples from the impacted area an...

Mentone summer camps are relieved to get the go-ahead to hold summer sessions in 2021, according to Mayor Rob Hammond. Hammond, who is owner of Camp Laney, said Friday that the camps will be subject to the same social distancing and sanitation guidelines as schools. Although he did not have an exact dollar figure, the cost of not opening in 2020 was “substantial” and impacted most businesses in town. While the hit to the overall economy was cushioned by very strong cabin rentals, camp owners were deprived of a year’s worth of income while continuing with operating costs such as...