The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported another COVID-19 related death today. The website states the victim was from Oro-Medonte, but no other information is available yet.
This is the 16th COVID-19 death in the region.
There have been no new cases reported in Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Clearview, or The Blue Mountains today.
There have been nine cases reported in Collingwood. One person moved out of the region, seven people have recovered. The most recent local case was reported yesterday.
Ontario is reporting 86 COVID-19 related deaths today, 459 new lab-confirmed cases, and 593 recoveries.
The region’s medical officer of health said yesterday he thinks field hospitals and off-site locations like the one planned for the Legion in Collingwood will be important for future waves of the virus to allow hospitals to keep elective surgeries and other services running during the pandemic.
Collingwood restaurant owners have collaborated to create Local Restaurants Helping You, which offers complimentary meal packages to those in the community affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For more information on the program, read our story here.
The town’s Parks, Recreation and Culture department has recruited four artists to paint a mural on some plywood fencing lining a Collingwood street.
Artists Lily Findlay, Ruth Hurdle, Sam Nellicks, and Blaze Wiradharma are going to be working separately to create a mural in spray paint on the shoring that lines Huron Street near the corner of Heritage Drive. Weather permitting, the artists will be working on the mural over the next couple of weeks.
April was National Poetry Month, and Collingwood Public Library staff were inspired by the town’s Poet Laureate Day Merrill to post videos of themselves reading poetry. Merrill posted a poem every day on the town website. You can see the videos the library staff posted here.
You can also celebrate poetry month this evening at the Pints and Poems event hosted by Merrill online. Join the poet laureate tonight at 7 p.m. and read some original poetry or share a published poem. You’re also welcome to listen. Register for the Zoom meeting here.
Members of the Bienn Gorm Highlanders pipe and drum band are keeping their pipes warm with nightly concerts at the end of their driveways in support of frontline workers and in solidarity with their neighbours. Want to know where the closest piper is? Click here to read our story.
Today’s essential workers of the day are Steve and Luann Wong.
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