Food bank demand, donations up in Minden

April 24, 2020

The Minden Food Bank has seen about a 20 per cent increase in demand since the beginning of COVID-19 and anticipates even more people will need their services into the summer and fall.

“We’re getting a lot more calls from people we’ve never had before, and are distressed that they have to call the food bank,” Marilynne Lesperance told The Highlander April 16.

Lesperance added they have also seen a corresponding bump in donations. CanoeFM, for example, recently gave them $8,000 from bingo proceeds to buy for all area food banks. She said the lake associations have been generous, as have other clubs and associations.

However, with government regulations affecting businesses, it isn’t always easy to source food, Lesperance said. She said they had been “scrounging” at the grocery stores they usually buy from but have had to source regional wholesalers as well.

The upstairs commercial kitchen area on Newcastle Street is filled with tables containing supplies for all of the area food banks, including the 4C’s in Haliburton, Central East Food Network in Highlands East, and smaller food banks in Coboconk and Kinmount.

Joanne Barnes is there, continuing to help fill the tables for eventual distribution.

“Overall, donations are coming in fast and furious,” she said. “We are a huge way ahead of where we were a year ago, like several thousand dollars ahead.”

Like Lesperance, she said, “It’s amazing. We have the money coming in. It’s just laying hands on product.”

She is concerned about what she believes will be a lack of seasonal jobs this year and the impact that will have on families.

“We are now looking at a regular base of 150, plus 300 new families,” Barnes predicted. She added they also have limited volunteers due to the pandemic. Some of their regulars are aged or have compromised immune systems. Plus, they have to practice social distancing as best they can while at the food bank.

“I’m weary. I’m putting in long hours. I do help unload trucks but it’s more the mental exhaustion,” Barnes said.

However, Barnes said she remains buoyed by the fact, “It’s amazing how this community always pulls together.”

Due to regulations, they have one client come to the door to give their family name and size. They bring the food outside, loose in shopping carts, for clients to bag themselves. The carts are then sanitized for reuse. The food bank is also delivering to those who do not have transportation or do not want to go out.

You can contact them at: 24 Newcastle St., Minden, 705-286-6838, mindencommunityfoodcentre@gmail.com

Not all county heroes wear capes

Lisa Gervais

April 24, 2020

One manages an office, another drives a truck and a third volunteers for community radio. Collectively, they’re just some of Haliburton County’s heroes in the war against COVID-19.

The Highlander asked local health care providers to nominate one from their ranks and the majority recommended Kim Robinson, the executive director and office manager of the Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team/Haliburton Family Medical Centre.

While not on the frontlines, Dr. Nell Thomas said without Robinson “nothing would be where it is today. She keeps the clinic running, created the COVID-19 assessment centre, makes sure people get paid and coordinates the sick time and meetings. In most of our cases, if each one of us stepped away, things would carry on but if Kim stepped away, I can’t imagine what would happen.”

Robinson said she’s honoured but it’s a team effort. “Without them, none of the work that we have done around the COVID-19 pandemic would be possible.”

She said they face daily changes with ease, pick up work where they see the need and support one another and herself.

“I truly didn’t think twice about what this pandemic would mean for me. My concern was the team, physicians, patients, etc. I couldn’t have managed to do what I have done without the support of our entire healthcare community and community at large.”

Robinson said the pandemic “has consumed my time, but in a way that has actually been a blessing, so to speak. It has shown me exactly what this team can do. It has taught me to not be complacent and that we should practice such care with each other and our patients every day. I am fortunate to be able to come to work each day … I am not fearful of contracting COVID-19. I feel protected and educated thanks to our physicians.”

The trucker

Rick English lives in Carnarvon but spends the bulk of his work weeks on the road as a transport truck driver. He’s been driving for 48 years, and at 68, says he should retire but admits, “I enjoy doing it. I love the highway.”

This week, his route took him to Sault Ste. Marie, then into Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, and back to Toronto and home.

He said his work life has not changed all that much during COVID-19, other than he cannot break up the routine by going into a restaurant for a sit-down meal. However, he has a refrigerator and microwave in the truck and says his wife always fills the fridge with leftovers. He can still get takeout and the washrooms are open and clean.

As for border crossings, he said he can’t bring his wife since only co-drivers are allowed as essential workers. Other than that, the crossings are probably faster since there are fewer cars on the roads.

Asked how he feels about truckers being treated as heroes, English said, “Everyone is waving at us when we go by, and wanting us to blow the horn. We get more respect now than we did before. But, how will they treat us after this is over? We’ll see if the tradition carries on.”

The radio guy

Mike Jaycock has been a voice of information and inspiration throughout the pandemic on Canoe FM. He has shows Mondays from 7-9 a.m. and Fridays from 3-6 p.m. as well as doing the mayor’s report Tuesdays and Thursdays. He’s conducting other COVID-19-related interviews as well.

“I’m fortunate to have a mini-studio at home with microphone, phone connection technology, mixer and computer software that allows me to record and edit phone interviews as well as record commercials and station promos,” Jaycock said. “I’m able to mix in music, if needed, and produce a finished product to send into the station via Dropbox. Between preparation for the shows I do and the interviews, I probably put in eight to 10 hours a week, from home. As a result, it sounds like I’m in station a lot more than I am.”

Jaycock said since he’s a senior with a history of asthma and some breathing problems, he’s extremely cautious and concerned around trips away from home. He goes to the station and comes home.

“The station has been very proactive in terms of setting out the protocol and providing materials (disposable microphone socks, wipes, soaps) to ensure we stay safe. It’s important for us to be at the radio station because, as a community radio station, it falls to us to provide as much current information as we can while at the same time providing friendly, neighbourly voices for members of our community. It’s in times like these that community radio excels. So, while the family is a little concerned, I am glad to do what I do, thanks to the radio station’s concern for its volunteers. I feel pretty darned safe.”

County ‘a long way from being out of the woods’

Lisa Gervais

April 24, 2020

While the province may be getting over the first peak of COVID-19, Dr. Norm Bottum of Haliburton says there could be a second, and subsequent, peaks before a safe vaccine is rolled out in possibly a year’s time.

Speaking from the Haliburton Hospital on April 21, he said, “things are nice and quiet but we are a long way from being out of the woods.”

Haliburton Highlands Health Services CEO Carolyn Plummer echoed the sentiment, telling The Highlander on April 21, it’s too soon to know for certain whether the virus has peaked in our region.

“We are in regular communication with our local public health unit and will continue to monitor the situation. In the meantime, we remain focused on ensuring we are prepared to safely manage through the COVID-19 pandemic and to continue supporting our community, particularly those who are most vulnerable.”

Dr. Bottum said it appeared Ontarians had done a great job of mitigating the initial surge. He added the County has been fortunate to have only seven confirmed cases since people travelled for March break, returned from Florida and cottagers are coming despite pleas not to.

In particular, he said we’ve been lucky it has not hit our long-term care homes.

“We have had the benefit of time to get prepared and be ready,” he said of preventative measures at Highland Wood and Hyland Crest.

He also credited non-essential businesses for shutting and following health guideless. However, he remains cautious.

“This is the first phase. The big thing is we’re in Haliburton County, cottage county, and in another month, people will want to come up. There’s a risk of still introducing the virus.”

He said it will be key to see how the provincial regulations roll out from here since “that virus is still out there.”

He personally predicts it will be a quiet summer in Haliburton County with a majority of events being cancelled.

As for HHHS, he said “we’ll probably have to carry measures right through the summer.” That means maintaining 21 COVID-19 acute care beds in Haliburton and nine non-COVID-19 beds in Minden; separating the hospital sites and ensuring long-term care homes are isolated from the hospital buildings to avoid cross-contamination. He said the assessment centre will likely remain is place as well with more people being encouraged to do self-assessments and getting swabbed. The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has changed the assessment to include more symptoms. It is also encouraging essential workers to be screened.

“Getting a swab is the key, especially as we start opening up the economy.”

He said he anticipates the recovery will be staged but “even at stage 3 we’ll be still social distancing, regular hand washing, and avoiding large groups.

“I think it’s going to be slow and cautious.”

In its weekly community update, HHHS said “we are implementing further measures to separate both Long-Term Cares facilities (Highland Wood and Hyland Crest) from the hospitals, and better protect the health and safety of our residents.”

How you can help HHHS

• Volunteering with the HHHS Community Response Team to help deliver groceries or offer friendly visiting by phone. Contact 705-457-2941 or infocc@hhhs.ca for more information. • SIRCH Community Services is helping to coordinate the creation of fabric face masks. Visit sirch.on.ca and look for “Can You Sew? Sewing for a Great Cause” under the ‘News’ section for more information.

• Stay informed via local media. HHHS is also keeping HaliburtonCares.ca up-to-date with new information about supports from local service providers, different levels of government (including emergency financial assistance), and more.

Clarificiation: In last Thursday’s Highlander, “HHHS responds with unprecedented action,” Plummer said, although it is true that funding specifics have not yet been detailed for COVID-19 related changes, such as new acute care beds, the actions were sanctioned by the Ministry of Health.

Cell providers get call to improve services

April 23, 2020

The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) has issued its first request for proposals to build new cellular infrastructure as part of a massive $213 million project.

The bidding process will aim to identify partners who can expand cellular coverage throughout eastern Ontario as part of a wider effort to improve mobile broadband. The initiative involves all three levels of government.

“Now more than ever, our government understands that families and businesses in Ontario need to be connected to prosper in this 21st-century digital economy,” Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott said in a press release, adding the project will take a number of years to complete.

Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin serves on the EORN board. He said the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet caused a substantial delay in the process. He further said getting proposals back from service providers would normally take about three months.

“Given the current status, I’m not sure whether that drags out. Most people are involved in technology and connectivity. We all work from a distance anyway, so that may not be such a big deal as it is for some organizations,” Devolin said.

COVID-19 shows need for connectivity

The pandemic has increased people’s reliance on cellular and internet services, with many now working remotely.

County library CEO Bessie Sullivan said the library internet hotspots are seeing use, accessed frequently from parked cars. The County has 22 hotspots in total, seven at libraries.

“It clearly points out that we are not where we need to be in terms of the digital divide,” Sullivan said. “When we have a situation like this, it just points out where our gaps are. The fact that there are options is a good thing, but I think it really does say that we really need to have a better internet infrastructure.”

Jacques Larroude is a Blairhampton area resident. As a manager for the CARE International Rapid Response Team, part of the major international humanitarian organization, he works remotely and needs reliable internet for his job. He said it has been steady during the pandemic, but he has experienced unworkable slowdowns in the past. Due to his location, he also only has access to one provider, with an alternative unwilling to extend its coverage an additional 700 metres to accommodate him for cost reasons.

Larroude further said as one of the poorest counties in Ontario, Haliburton should have some priority for new infrastructure.

“If anything happens to the particular service – I only have one choice, one option – I’m basically out of a job. That is a concern,” he said.

However, Devolin said the COVID19 situation has further emphasized how vital connectivity is and hopes that could expedite future projects.

“Accelerated connectivity will benefit us all. I’ve always believed this could never happen fast enough and in light of COVID-19, I’m more firm in my views,” Devolin said. “This needs to be perceived as kind of a basic Canadian right. That we should all have access to reasonable connectivity from coast to coast.”

Rails End Gallery cancels Art and Craft Festival

Lisa Gervais

April 22, 2020

The Rails End Gallery and Arts Centre has cancelled its signature Haliburton Art and Craft Festival for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive director/curator Laurie Jones made the announcement April 11, citing concern for the health and well-being of festival-goers. The annual three-day event, now in its 57th year, attracts thousands of visitors and normally runs at the end of July in Head Lake Park.

Jones said it is a significant loss for the artists and for Haliburton. She said tourism impact studies indicate the festival usually brings in more than $1.4 million to the local economy.

“It brings so much into the town,” Jones said. “I am really going to miss the artists.”

Jones said the gallery board of directors had a special meeting and decided upon the cancellation, based on the information available about the impact of COVID-19 stretching for months to come. Other spring and summer festivals across the province have begun announcing cancellations as well.

She said they wanted to ensure artists knew well in advance.

“It’s their livelihood,” Jones said, adding drawing out the decision would leave artists in a tenuous position. “Were we to have continued, they’d have to create product and then potentially no event.”

Jones said the cancellation is a pretty big financial hit for the gallery, as it usually accounts for a third of annual revenue. However, she noted there is an associated decrease in expenses.

“We’ll have to be creative about how we recoup it,” Jones said. “We’re a charity and there are some federal programs that are rolling out that are going to be helpful.”

Despite the cancellation, Jones said they want to highlight each festival artist on their website, which they do every year.

“I’ll have to expand that and also speak to artists to see what they need from us.”

Jones said artists were appreciative of the early warning, adding the gallery wants to ensure the festival remains one of the best in the province in the years to come.

“We really want to preserve this festival’s place in the galaxy of high-quality, wellrun, friendly festivals in the province,” Jones said.

Fleming cancels all Haliburton summer programming

Lisa Gervais

April 21, 2020

Fleming College has cancelled all of its summer programming at the Haliburton School of Art and Design due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The college announced the move April 8, halting more than 300 weeklong and weekend courses at the school which run between May and September every year.

College vice president of academic experience Tom Phillips said based on the information available, it is unlikely it would be possible to run the handson art courses in the summer.

“The Haliburton summer school is very much face-to-face, very much hands-on, the nature of it,” Phillips said. “Everything in the world going on is a clear indication that … being face-to-face in a condensed environment in say, June, July, August, is very unlikely.”

Torontonian Rhoda Payne has attended Fleming’s summer school for more than 14 years and taught a course about upscaling art last summer. She said the cancellation was understandable, but it hurt.

“Still devastating for everyone I’ve spoken to,” Payne said, adding she was looking forward to teaching for her second year. “I’m so disappointed that I won’t get to do that again.”

Like many post-secondary institutions, Fleming has had to adapt to online and alternative learning to finish its winter and spring semesters. Though nothing has been announced for summer, Phillips said there would be some exploration of alternatives.

“We are still looking at possibilities of something online,” Phillips said. “We’re doing that across all our programs. We’re looking at ways we can connect people without having face-to-face contact. We are exploring that, it’s just a matter of finding what could be done and then devoting some resources to it.”

Payne said it would make sense to try out classes through online meeting software like Zoom.

“I’m becoming comfortable with Zoom, as I’m sure most people are. I think it’s entirely possible that we could teach and take courses and get critiques and do all kinds of things with technology,” Payne said. “It’d be great to give it a shot.”

Phillips said staff are preparing different delivery scenarios for the fall semester, including the possibility of returning to face-to-face learning.

“We’re developing contingency plans and things in place if that were not true. We’re convinced that there will be face-to-face contact in the fall at some point. The probability of that is very high,” he said.

Payne said the loss of summer programming is significant for the Haliburton township.

“I’m heartbroken for the town of Haliburton to not have the masses of people that come into the school in the summer,” Payne said. “It helps, I’m sure, the economy and it’s just a wonderful environment. It’s heartbreaking.”

Increased demand at food banks

Lisa Gervais

April 21, 2020

Local food banks are reporting spikes in demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic but say they are managing for now.

Both the Central Food Network and the Haliburton 4Cs Food Bank reported more people have needed their services in the past few weeks. The Minden Food Bank could not be reached for comment before press time.

Central Food Network operational and administrative director Tina Jackson said March was one of their busiest months outside of the usual peak of December. They served 105 households, 16 per cent more than February.

“It has been incredibly busy,” Jackson said. “We served almost 240 individuals in March, which is pretty high for us.”

Food Banks Canada has raised concerns about the impact of COVID19 on food banks across the country, with increased demand, strained operational capacity and drops in volunteers. The federal government responded by announcing $100 million towards food banks April 3.

But Haliburton 4Cs Food Bank manager Judy MacDuff said for them, the increase has not been as high as expected, with about 10 new people in the last few weeks of March. She credited it to government support programs like the Emergency Response Benefit.

“I know people have got it and that may be why we aren’t seeing the numbers we thought we’d see. But this (pandemic) is not half over,” MacDuff said.

The volunteer base is holding up as well, she added.

“We’re still able to look after the people we have and the donations. Right now, we’re in okay shape,” she said.

Food banks have also had to adapt by disallowing public entry to their facilities, instead providing hampers for pickup. Jackson said there are reduced quantities of food at stores, which has required some adaptation as well.

“We would normally have a lot of our volunteer shoppers that clip coupons, watch the sales, go into local grocery stores to really stretch our dollars,” Jackson said. “Given COVID-19, that’s not a safe option and because many of the grocery stores are struggling to get the quantities of food in order to meet demand, we’re very mindful … What that has resulted in is having to establish contacts with food distributors.”

Still, both food banks are anticipating the demand to get higher in the weeks to come. Jackson said they are expecting a 15 per cent increase, and “time’s going to tell” on how well they’ll manage.

“We’re definitely going to be here and we’re definitely going to do everything we can to meet needs. We have many donations which we’ll stretch as far as we can,” Jackson said. “High hopes that we’ll have the support we need from various levels of government in order to continue to be there.”

Food banks are looking for cash donations. Donations can be made through respective food bank websites at mindenfoodbank.org, haliburton4cs. org and centralfoodnetwork.org.

“Thank everybody for all the support we’re getting,” MacDuff said. “We really appreciate it.”

County libraries breaking into online sphere

Lisa Gervais

April 20, 2020

The Haliburton County Public Library Board is allowing the library to continue its upped online services as it navigates through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The board held a special meeting over a Zoom call April 8, the first public meeting with local councillors since last month. They discussed how the library was faring with its online and remote services and whether they might continue beyond the pandemic.

Library CEO Bessie Sullivan said programming such as daily online storytime has been popular, attracting thousands of views.

“Over the last three weeks we have taken as many services as possible online,” Sullivan said. “That’s been a fairly frantic, busy process.”

That has included expanding its online collection with discounted offerings from publishers such as online Canadian daily newspapers, offering remote library card renewals and signups, and other livestreamed programming. The extra programming costs have been $9,062 so far, Sullivan reported, but that’s been offset by three employees requesting leave. To maintain the online programming in the months to come, Sullivan said it will require about half the staff.

“We are so far behind in terms of our ability to deliver a lot of online services,” Sullivan said. “What we have done in the last three weeks is probably where we would have wanted to be, prior to this, if we had staff capacity.”

Board member Carol Moffatt said there is a chance to maintain some of the expanded online offerings in the future, though it would take more resources.

“Everybody agrees, there’s probably a really exciting opportunity – pending money of course – to continue to reach out to people with the online stuff,” she said.

However, board members also discussed the limitations and the potential for layoffs once inventory work is finished.

Sullivan said there were some overtime hours as people worked to get the online programming set up, which board member Liz Danielsen said she was concerned about.

“We have to be careful we’re not offering more than we can manage,” Danielsen said. “While I appreciate every effort that’s being made – and it sounds like there are really fabulous opportunities here – we do need to pace ourselves.”

Board member Lynda Buch said public expectations must be managed. When libraries eventually re-open, she said it would be impossible to keep the same level of online programming that is running right now.

Vice-chair Andrea Roberts said the library should keep numbers to determine how valuable it is to keep some programming running.

Moffatt said, for now, it is best to maintain the programming as everyone adjusts during the emergency.

“I would like us not to be too concerned so much about people being annoyed if online program opportunities fall by the wayside after the fact,” she said. “We’re doing that with municipalities, we’re making changes to operations that are not going to be continued or sustainable after the pandemic.”

Board members also decided to put off library advocacy work and strategic planning.

“We’re going to have new ways of doing things,” Roberts said. “It may alter the whole conversation about how we want to go in the next five years.”

Community rallies to welcome home girl injured by dogs

Lisa Gervais

April 18, 2020

With a procession of vehicles, signs, and cheers, Haliburton welcomed Sadie Lester as she returned home from treatment at SickKids Hospital in Toronto April 17.

Lester was the six-year-old critically injured in attack by two Saint Bernard dogs April 12 in Dysart et al, according to the family. She was airlifted to Toronto, requiring extensive treatment and surgery according to the family, including over 400 stitches. Her mother Lindsay Lester also suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the attack.

But the community has rallied around the family, putting up welcome signs and lining up in cars outside the family home, including police cruisers and a fire truck. The community has also raised more than $33,000 on GoFundMe to support Sadie as of April 18.

“The welcome back into Haliburton was beyond anything we could ever imagine,” AJ Lester, Sadie’s father, said in a Facebook post. “I truly can’t thank you all enough … This community has banded together and have shown us what a real community is.

“Your time and effort mean the world to my family and Sadie was beaming ear-to-ear. She said she’s famous. You gave a little girl who’s going through hell on Earth a huge gift today.”

Tiffany Prentice said she knows the family through the Lakeside Church and participated in the gesture.

“We’ve all kind of adopted Sadie as our own this week,” Prentice said. “Just as they (the Lester family) kind of crested the hill, it was a cloudy, overcast day. I swear to you the clouds parted and the sun shone down on that truck … There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that God was with them on their journey.”

AJ Lester has posted regular updates to Facebook during Sadie’s recovery process. He described a difficult experience given the severity of Sadie’s injuries. Lester said she would require a walker to get around their home and expects more surgery in the next 12 months.

“Please understand if you don’t hear back from us, it’s just so overwhelming,” Lester wrote in an update April 16. “We are grateful for all your support, love and prayers, we just don’t emotionally have it to talk to everyone, to talk to hardly anyone. We just want to wake up from this, but it’s not a dream.”

Lester said the family is declining media interviews.

In another update, he said he has encouraged Sadie with the thought of a trip to Disneyland when the experience is all over.

“I just want to give this beautiful little creation something to set her sights on in the midst of all this pain. Her questions break my heart,” he posted April 15. “Truly thankful to God for sparing her, just still in total disbelief.”

Police said they are still investigating the attack, and the dogs are quarantined outside of the community by order of the local health unit.

“We are upset, frustrated and angry, but I want those who are watching to know we don’t have hate in us right now,” Lester said.

Prentice recalled how the community supported her family when they went through an ordeal several years ago, where her son was also airlifted to Toronto hospital. She said they wanted to make sure that support happened for Sadie too.

“We do this with everyone when this happens. The community itself really takes on that family as their own and becomes so close. They just have to help in some way, and it makes them feel better. Especially right now with the isolation,” Prentice said.

The GoFundMe for the Lester family is available at https://ca.gofundme.com/f/sadie-lester.

Townships keep boat launches open

Lisa Gervais

April 17, 2020

The County’s four townships are keeping municipal boat launches open for now despite public concern about the possibility of people flouting social-distancing rules.

Algonquin Highlands, Dysart et al, Highlands East and Minden Hills have all said they are keeping boat launches open for now. But other jurisdictions across the province have made the call to close them due to the pandemic, including the neighbouring City of Kawartha Lakes.

Local municipal leaders have said they are closely monitoring boat launches. Algonquin Highlands Mayor Carol Moffatt said the issue has been frustrating. She added the municipality sought clarification from the province regarding its order to close all outdoor amenities, and were told boat launches are considered essential only if they are used for transportation to primary residences, not recreational purposes.

“I’m currently engaged with people who are actively challenging or looking for ways around the order, and with the warmer weather coming the entire situation is only going to get worse. Many years’ experience – and a wee bit of cynicism – tells us that even if we put up ropes or barricades, people will move them,” Moffatt said.

Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin said it is on their radar, but launches have not had any activity with lakes still frozen over. He noted it is also important emergency responders have access to boat launches.

“We’ve been monitoring and will continue to monitor,” Devolin said. “If it becomes problematic, then we’ll respond.”

Highlands East Mayor Dave Burton said in his years, he has not seen boat launches as a place where people congregate. He said the municipality is considering closing launches but added it will be difficult to enforce.

“It’s going to be a bit challenging. Not that we can’t do it, but it just takes a lot of staff time,” Burton said. “It’s a big decision and I don’t take it lightly.”

Dysart et al Mayor Andrea Robert said the municipality will continue to monitor the
situation, adding many launches are remote and allow only one vehicle at a time, so physical distancing is possible.

“It’s important to note that marinas are deemed non-essential and they can not do boat deliveries at this time. The only people that could launch a boat is someone who has it stored at their own home,” she said.

The County and local doctors have asked seasonal residents to stay home during this time to help prevent the spread of COVID19. Moffatt said many feel closing boat launches will restrict cottagers from being here, but she noted the authority to exclude people from their own properties falls on the province.

“There are too many moving parts and conflicting jurisdictions here,” she said. “The real shame is that instead of folks willingly working with us to do the right thing for the entire community, we have to spend time figuring out how to barricade and enforce. Marina owners are being hassled about the provincial order of their closure, and people are debating the definition of residency.”

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