South Africa has always had to manage its limited resources, especially in the public health sector and Covid-19 has had a major impact on these resources.
Denise Taylor from Hafford with an excellent variety of plants and local buyer Ellyn Scotton enjoying the warm morning sun at Saturday’s plant sale near Mayfair. Photo by Elaine Woloshyn
Dora Brown displays hardy pants from her greenhouse for the many buyers at a plant sale in the Mayfair area Saturday. Photo by Elaine Woloshyn Rain, rain, rain ‑ that is what’s happening late Sunday evening and all day Monday as I write my column. Farmers were begging for this. There were plants galore this past Saturday at Dora and Barry’s farm yard. The three vendors, Dora, Denise Taylor (nee Wolhberg) and Mayfair Library with Ellen Scotton the attendant, would like to send a huge thank you for the purchases of perennials, annuals, hanging baskets and houseplants. With the pandemic, most neighbours hadn’t seen others for over a year. Buyers came from Spiritwood, Rabbit Lake, North Battleford, Hafford, Blaine Lake and Speers areas. I can’t wait for the 2022 sale.
WINDSOR, ONT. We’re nearing the end of Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month, and Windsor Regional Hospital is encouraging the public to register and be a donor. “It’s so easy to register,” says Steve Erwin, manager of corporate communications. “Something we told people is it’s a lockdown. You’re going to be home more often. This takes two minutes on your phone or laptop.” Erwin says the numbers are up locally, despite the pandemic. Windsor has a 32 per cent registration rate, up from 20 per cent in 2014. From April 2019 to March 2020, there was a total of 11 donors who helped save 19 lives.