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SOCIAL DISTANCING

One way to maintain social distancing, but still enjoy the fresh outdoors is to go ice fishing. These ice fishers were taking advantage of the great conditions at Mons Lake, just north of Lamont County, Mar. 21.

Fosters of Bruderheim juggle work, school, playtime and self quarantining

BY JANA SEMENIUK Keeping families contained during the covid 19 outbreak is a very challenging task for most families, and the Fosters of Bruderheim are no exceptions.

With nine family members, including five children, routine and order are the only way to manage each day.

“I purchased a copy of the Canadian curriculum books online to hopefully keep everyone on track during the outbreak,” said mom Nakita Foster. “The teachers have all been keeping in good contact with us, so that also really helps. Online learning will start on Apr.6.”

Foster’s family includes husband, Jonathan, brother-in-law Kevin, sister Taya, and children Brooke 14, Rylan 9, Serena 5, Kaydanse 3 and Lain 1.

Foster added that so far during the province-wide business shut downs, Jonathan is still working as a heavy equipment operator and she is still employed at Tim Horton’s in Redwater. Taya and Kevin are on-hand to help with the children while Foster and her husband are at work.

“Jonathan goes out of town sometimes so Taya and Kevin do a great job helping with the kids. Taya helped me

set up activity bins to help the kids stay on track every day,” she said.

Foster mentioned that each day, after breakfast, the kids set themselves up in their living room to do kids yoga following videos on youtube.

“We found one video that does kids yoga to different kids’ movies. The kids really like it! Even Lain tries to do it,” she laughed.

Foster did say that not only are the children missing their friends and time in school, but their extra-curricular activities as well.

“Rylan is missing out on hockey. He was drafted to go to spring hockey this year and now he will have to miss it.

He is pretty upset about that,” she said.

“Serena and Brooke take dance classes at the Expressions Dance Studio in town and are going to miss their yearend concerts and competitions they have been working hard for.”

While Foster acknowledges the hardships of quarantining her family, she also understands the very real risks of not staying home.

In July of 2019 Foster was diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer.

“It was a very aggressive cancer that showed up only eight months after a clear pap test,” she said. “I was

shocked.”

After 25 rounds of radiation, five rounds of chemotherapy and 58 hours of internal radiation, Foster’s cancer went into remission. Today she has been cancer free for six months.

“I’m always scared of it coming back, but I can’t let it stop me from enjoying my life with my kids and my family,” she said.

Foster added that although her cancer is in remission, she is considered immune compromised, due to her cancer treatments, and needs to be careful with her health.

Foster also added that next on the list of kids’ activities Nakita Foster (far right) with her children; Lain, 1 (in front) will be getting ready Serena 5 (above Lain) Brooke 14, Rylan 9 and Kaydense for Easter.

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Former RV building may become used car dealership in Mundare

BY JOHN MATHER The former home of Young Farts RV Parts in Mundare will soon become a used car lot, if all requirements are met and permits properly filled out.

The developer, who is unnamed at this point, has been in touch with Mundare Council about proceeding with the project and Mundare administration along with municipal planner Laraine Stuart have several conditions which had to be met.

“One of the conditions is that the new owner would pay any outstanding taxes,” Mundare Chief Administrative Officer Colin Zyla told council Mar. 3. “So he would like council to waive the late fees associated with those.”

Mayor Mike Saric stated he wouldn’t be in favour of waiving the back taxes on the property.

Councillor Cheryl Callinoiu made a motion to deny waiving the late

fees on taxes and it was carried.

In addition, Zyla said there was a fee to hook up to the 50 St. waterline which had existed for years, but has never really been charged.

“Is there any cost to the town for him to hook up to that water line,” asked Councillor Jaimie Burghardt.

Zyla replied there wasn’t. The developer would have to pay all costs and the only cost to the town would be an inspection to make sure any hook up was installed correctly.

“As long as we can be guaranteed the connection is done properly,” said Mayor Saric. “I have no problem in waiving that fee.”

“The water line is there,” he said. “And there really is no cost to the town.”

Burghardt agreed saying she would like to see more properties hook up to the waterline in the long term.

Councillor Irene

Talaga agreed adding it could encourage more people to developed some of the empty lots on 50 St. Zyla said the contractor had contacted someone to do the hook up to the water line.

Burghardt moved waiving the hook up fee but added the developer guarantee a bonded contractor did the hook up.

Zyla also said Stuart suggested council maintain it’s $5,000 security fee to ensure all development requirement were met.

One of those conditions was required by Alberta Transportation will be the installation of a fence long Highway 15 to prevent access to the site from highway 15.

Zyla told council, the developer had agreed to erect the fence but it was part of the town’s development permit conditions.

“I’m not sure how much Alberta Transportation would get involved, but since they insist on it, then we should put it in the development permit.”

Young Farts RV Parts moved their operation from this building in Mundare to a new location in Vegreville in 2018. Now a used vehicle lot is planning to locate here.

Zyla further suggested the $5,000 could be deferred until a later date. He told council there were some preliminary plans for the development, but they hadn’t yet been finalized.

Council decided to defer the deposit motion until they had further information.

On March 10, he followed up with council reporting the developer wanted to put up a seven-foot high chain link fence around two sides of the property including along Highway 15.

In addition, he waned to put up a corrugated steel fence on the south and eastern sides of the property even though this is not required.

Council wonder why he wanted to do this since the existing building on the east and south almost touches the property line.

“He will not even be able to get a lawn mower in there with a fence,” said Mayor Mike Saric.

“It could become overgrown with weeds.”

Zyla said Stuart wasn’t the biggest fan of the corrugated fence but had stated where the chain link fence must be placed.

Zyla also told council the developer wanted to erect the seven-foot tall fence, while only a sixfoot height is required so a variance to the zoning would be required.

Burghardt asked if the neighbours would be notified of the fence construction and Zyla said if the variance was required they would be but if it fit within existing zoning requirements no notification would be needed.

Zyla said he would mention the issue to Stuart because council thought the developer might not have been aware of the six-foot requirement.

No decision was made on the deposit from the developer.

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Pewarchuk resigns Lamont town council seat

BY JANA SEMENIUK Lamont town council will be down from seven to six members effective immediately.

Doug Pewarchuk Doug Pewarchuk, a councillor for the past seven years, handed in his resignation letter to Lamont Chief Administrative Officer, Christine Beveridge, on Mar. 11 citing a new employment opportunity in Montreal as prompting his resignation.

“I was really hoping to stick it out with our council (until the end of the term). I think we have a really good coun-

cil and they are doing a bang-up job,” said Pewarchuk. “But the wheels of life turn and sometimes when you are given an opportunity, you have to act on it because it might not come around again.”

Pewarchuk, whose father Fred Pewarchuk served as Lamont mayor from 1995 – 2007, secured his seat on Lamont council in Oct. 2013. He was re-elected in Oct. 2017.

Although Pewarchuk is sad to leave the town in which he was born and raised, he is looking forward to new opportunities in spite of the current coronavirus fears.

“The opportunity came pre-corona. I’m not as worried about how the coronavirus will affect things as much as I am about the price of oil,” he said. “I’m just grateful to the Lord for giving me this opportunity because I think it’s going to be a little bit

rough there (in Alberta) for a while.”

Pewarchuk may have left behind his position on Lamont town council and his childhood home, but he did not leave his company Pewarchuk Park Services which is still under contract to operate and maintain the

Elk Island Golf Course.

“I have staff that will continue to maintain and operate the golf course in my absence,” said Pewarchuk. “It’s been this way for years.”

Plans for filling Pewarchuk’s position on Lamont town council are still being decided.

Lamont seeks exemption from holding byelection

BY JANA SEMENIUK The resignation of Lamont town councillor Doug Pewarchuk on Mar. 11 has presented a special challenge for council – how to conduct a byelection to fill the vacancy during a worldwide pandemic?

A special meeting of council was held on Mar. 20, both to approve a motion to cancel the next council meeting scheduled for Mar. 24 in light of the pandemic, as well as approve a letter drafted from administration

to the minister of Municipal Affairs, Honourable Kaycee Madu, requesting an exemption from conducting a byelection.

In attendance at the meeting were mayor Bill Skinner, deputy chief administrative officer Dawn Nielsen, councilors Al Harvey and Perry Koroluk in person, as well as remotely councilors Dave Taylor, Jody Foulds and chief administrative officer Christine Beveridge.

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Opinion Now more than ever, shop locally A customer once said to me when I was pricing a print job for him, that he could have got the work done a little cheaper in the city but he thought it was worth more to have me do it for him. I thanked him, then asked him what he meant.

“I kind of like the convenience of having a printer just down the street, and by supporting you I help make sure you stay there,” he said. “Plus I know who to get hold of, if I have any problems.”

I thought that was an excellent summation of why we should all shop locally as often as we can.

Through this COVID-19 scare and isolation, with business closures and lost jobs, it is really important to remember how significant our local businesses and services are to us all.

Look around at the number of businesses that have closed to protect their staff and customers from the contagious virus, and to cooperate by self-isolating to prevent its spread.

Now picture these businesses not re-opening, and how different our small towns would be without them: Imagine no place to grab a pizza, or a light bulb, or some bread, or gas, or parts for the swather.

That’s already the reality for a lot of little towns. If your town still has these services, do your best to protect them. Support them during this crisis if they are still opened and appreciate how vital they are to us all.

As for the essential services which remain open during the crisis because we simply can’t do without them - wow! Great job everyone. Thank you.

Stores are bringing in products that maintain life, like food and drugs. Doctors and nurses and staff are treating the ill. Postal workers and media are delivering information to the sequestered public.

Restaurants are still providing food either delivered, self pick-up, or drive-through. EMS are still helping the ill or injured. Firefighters are still saving lives and property. Service stations are still providing fuel. Nursing homes and auxiliaries are still caring for the elderly despite being in lock-down from visitors. Truckers and trains are still hauling goods, and warehouses are still storing items for stores. Phone companies are still offering communication.

Municipalities are still providing water, collecting waste, and operating infrastructure. Power companies and utility service workers are still on duty keeping us warm even as Spring arrives.

Of course there are many more services that I didn’t have room to mention. So, thank you too.

The point is that tragedy and hardship are great opportunities to judge people’s character. If you see anyone benefitting from others’ grief, make a mental note of it. If you see people helping others beyond what is expected of them, also take note.

There is no place better to be during a crisis than in a small town.

Neighbours helping neighbours, friends and acquaintances chipping in to lend a hand.

A simple thank you is not only appreciated, but during economic hardship it is one of the things that’s free.

Kerry Anderson

COMMENTARY So what’s in your freezer?

BY JOHN MATHER For the past two weeks it’s been Coronavirus this … Coronavirus that. It is everything, everywhere.

It’s all media can focus on.

So this week, I’ll lighten it up a little.

I don’t think I’m talking about Coronavirus this week.

No Covid-19.

I don’t think.

I’m going to talk about what’s in the bottom of your freezer.

With the shelves emptying as rapidly as harried store clerks can fill them of must have items, and toilet paper, I’ve resorted to digging to the depth of my freezer to find good food to make into nutritious meals.

Now, this can be a scary proposition.

I remember as a much younger person, when my parents retired, I helped move a 21-cubicfoot freezer from the garage onto a truck and to the new location of their retirement home some 80 miles away.

To accommodate this move we emptied the freezer … but not totally.

There were some cuts of mystery meat that had become one with the freezer walls locked down in lower depths of this huge ice chest. Who knows when they had been put there.

I remember my parents getting this behemoth

food chiller from Sears in the mid-60s, so some of this carcii, (plural of carcass) may have been there since.

Certainly a day spent moving wasn’t either going to dislodge them or thaw them.

Fast forward thirty years to when my parents had passed away and it was time for the kids to empty that freezer for the last time.

What is with old people having a 21-cubic-foot freezer filled to the brim, but only one square foot of food is recent.

And they eat out on senior’s Tuesday at the local Chinese place.

Ours to wonder why, but still that freezer had to be emptied.

We could have used a jackhammer to free some of the captive frozen products.

It may have been beef, chicken, or even a long lost cat … we’ll never know.

But when we approached the bottom of this ark of food preservation, there were those same cuts that had been there 30 years earlier!

Was it even safe to exhume them? That was a question we had to answer.

With no time to spare we quickly chiselled them out, rushed them to the local dump site, buried them where they could thaw and decompose

without harming the general population. Or, hopefully the environment.

Now to this weekend.

I have a small apartment size freezer in the basement, which I have owned for the best part of a decade.

I went spelunking for dinner the other day and found a bag of chicken quarters which will make good soup. The spices and other ingredients, I thought, should kill any skunky several-year-old chicken taste.

But, I thought, have I become my parents?

What was that container of Soylent Green looking substance sitting next to the chicken? Was a former nutritious zucchini by-product just waiting to be thawed so it could attack. Maybe that’s why we need the toilet paper!

Dare I exhume that freezer paper wrapped packet that has a scrawl marking it a bison steak?

While I was clever enough to label it, I suppose I should have dated it.

Not sure what’s in your freezer? Finding out now? Email me at lamontnews@gmail.com and let me know the grossest, most disgusting things you’re finding in your freezer and it will make for a future column.

Meanwhile, I have to go back to getting a roast carbon dated before it becomes a stew.

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Lamont mayor Bill Skinner speaks to some council members remotely during a special council meeting called for Mar. 20.

Byelection?

Continued from Page 3 According to the Municipal Government Act, should a vacancy on council occur within 18 months of the next municipal election, a byelection to fill the vacancy would not be required and the council could operate with one

less member until the next election.

Pewarchuk’s resignation came a little over 19 months before the next municipal election.

Lamont Chief Administrative Officer Christine Beveridge is not confident a byelection would be successful given the current pandemic situation.

“There is undoubtedly a lot of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and what will occur over the next several months,” Beveridge stated in a council request for decision. “Administration has prepared a letter to the minister of municipal affairs, Honorable Kaycee Madu, requesting an exemption (from conducting the byelection).

Administration recommends that the request to

the minister is necessary, timely and appropriate.”

Beveridge went on to explain further during the special meeting.

“Administration has been inundated with trying to manage this situation and determining what the essential services need to be at this moment in time. We recognized soon after (receiving Pewarchuk’s resignation) that a byelection would just not be possible. Although we expect support (from the government in providing exemption), there is still a process that needs to be followed,” said Beveridge.

Council voted unanimously to submit the letter to the minister of municipal affairs requesting exemption from conducting a byelection.

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SENIOR’S BREAKY

Seniors happily serving and eating breakfast at Bruderheim Senior's Centre monthly pancake breakfast Mar. 7. L-R: Ruth Bartz, Claude Sarrasin and Ed Lawrence.

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Final number updated in REA vote

BY JOHN MATHER The final tallies are in on the Lakeland Rural Electrification vote last week.

The vote had the REA members reject a bid by ATCO Electric to pur-

chase the REA in an unsolicited bid. It was the second such bid in four years.

A total of 67 per cent of the REA membership turned out to vote on the proposal and ATCO

needed 637 votes to green light the sale.

Once the votes were counted only 550 members supported the sale, so it was defeated.

This means the REA will continue to serve its

members who live in an area from eastern Lamont County east to Derwent and from Smoky Lake County south to Holden.

Some residents not impressed with Bruderheim snow removal

BY JANA SEMENIUK Some Bruderheim residents were not satisfied with their service level of snow removal this year as indicated by councillor Pat Lee during the Mar. 18 town council meeting.

“I’ve had a few residents telling me that they were not impressed with the snow removal.

It was only done once this year. I’m wondering how this will reflect on our budget in terms of money that we had allotted for snow removal,” Lee asked.

Chief administrative officer Patty Podoborozny communicated the factors surrounding the budget in terms of snow removal.

“The budget for 2020 was $10,000 for three snow removals, and so far, this year we have had one. We don’t do snow clearings past March 1, but there could still be snow clearings in the fall,” she said. “The snow removal policy is pretty clear.”

The winter maintenance policy Podoborozny is referring to indicates the first priority for snow removal is given to arterial roadways, second priority is collector or secondary roadways, third are sidewalks and pathways, fourth priority is residential roadways, and the fifth priority is alleys.

Roadways are cleared

of snow in sequence according to the snow removal map also located on the town website.

Dennis Tomuschat, director of public works for Bruderheim, explained the threshold for residential snow removal.

“We are following the bylaws for the snow removal schedule. The threshold for snow removal in priority four

(residential) is 15 – 20 centimeters packed. Not accumulated snow, but packed snow. There’s a difference,” he said.

“Priority one and two is accumulated snow.”

While priority one and two are done with equipment owned by the town of Bruderheim, priority four is supplemented by contracting out additional trucks.

“Generally, we hire

two to three additional trucks to help remove snow from residential roadways in addition to our own truck,” added Podoborozny. “It would be way too slow with just one truck. If it’s a lot of snow we also hire a loader to help us get it done faster.”

In the fall, snow clearing generally picks up again after Oct. 30.

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Mundare council makes changes due to Coronavirus

BY JOHN MATHER Mundare chief administrative officer sought council direction in dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak at the Mar. 17, council meeting.

“The province has put in a state of emergency under the public health act,” he said. “Mass gatherings have been shrunk to 50 or less and I would like authorization from council to make the necessary closures in Mundare.”

Zyla said in the Mundare municipal building there was also the town’s ATB branch and a chiropractor office.

He told council, he has shut down any town sponsored events and planned to talk to both the chiropractor and ATB officials to find out their plans regarding hours of operation.

“So far the town office is open,” he said. “Our council meetings can be held electronically, but they still must be accessi-

ble to the public.”

He told council if the town declared a local state of emergency, they could then have the power to close businesses.

He said he had talked to neighbouring communities to find out what they were doing.

Most had closed their town offices and public works buildings to the public but staff were still at work.

Zyla had closed the public works office to the public, but wanted direction on what to do with the town office.

“I’m recommending we close it and keep people working. We’ll have to deal with payments. If people bring in cheques they could slide them under the door or we could put out a box where they could be dropped off.”

He said concern had been expressed about people who maybe should be self quarantin-

ing but weren’t.

“We’re small town and we know who’s been travelling,” he said. “If staff know people have been travelling I’ve told staff to tell them to leave.”

Burghardt said if the doors were closed they would have to look at waiving any late penalties.

“We take e-transfers right now,” added Zyla and said he didn’t think it would be a big problem.

He said Vegreville had even closed down its recycling centre.

Mayor Mike Saric said

Zyla had the authority to close the office, but Zyla wanted a motion from council.

Councillor Jason Kowal suggested the town help people, who couldn’t make payments, maybe get started on online payments or help in setting up etransfers.

“As long as there’s someone here to answer the phones if someone calls,” he added.

Council gave Zyla the motion to shutter the town office.

He added he would post daily updates on the town’s website.

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Churches find new ways to reach congregations

BY JOHN MATHER Churches in Lamont County have had their services put on hold by the coronavirus, but they are still reaching out to the faithful in any way they can.

“We're trying to be imaginative in reaching our congregation,” said Lamont United Church minister Deborah Brill.

"I'm creating a service that I'm emailing to everyone She said she has an older congregation and the church isn’t up with the latest technology so "I'm sending something they can open on their computers and read."

She said during the week she would send them messages which they could reflect on.

"In addition, I'll be picking up the telephone and having conversations with them."

Brill said there are about 45 to 50 members

in her congregation, but the church also ministers in Andrew, Partridge Hill, and at the Lamont Health Care Facility where she is the chaplain.

She said some of her members were feeling a little isolated during the crisis, but "listening is a very easy way to help them out."

"I can do that and ask them some question and really, just being a presence in their life at this time."

She added her congregation was very good at being there for each other.

The Elk Island Pastoral charge, she said, has a Facebook page and she is reaching out to the congregation through it as well.

"I'm posting some prayers and hopeful thoughts and I know some of our members have been taking that in."

She added she currently can’t go into the Health Centre, but she also ministers at the

With service cancelled at area churches such as Lamont United, above, local clergy are finding new, novel ways to reach out to their congregations.

Morley Young Manor and she ministers there through reaching out and phone calls.

She said moving forward they would try to send out a video message via Facebook, but that was still being planned.

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She said confessions are still being heard but not in a confessional to respect the six-foot social distancing rules.

There are approximately 180 families in the Lamont County area.

Pastor Rev. Kristopher Schmidt added he had several other ideas he had to reach his congregation.

"I will start making phone call and start checking in on people and getting them to send in prayer intentions for me to pray for them."

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and all of our folks, in the end we decided to follow suit," said Pastor Wayne Larson.

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She added the priest would be making personal calls starting this week.

The church streams live services Sunday starting at 10 am at olafortsask.cadem.ca In addition, if people are feeling stressed she said the priests would be reaching out.

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FROM WHERE I SIT

BY HAZEL ANAKA My, oh my. A lot has happened since I sent The Leader a batch of columns in anticipation of my March 3rd surgery.

Where to begin?

On March 3rd, I had my second fundoplication surgery. Some of you may remember that in March 2013 I had this surgery to repair a hiatal hernia that led to my entire stomach being above my diaphragm and twisted (a medical emergency) and leading to my collapse at a Mexican resort. Last year the surgery began failing and led to this second one at the Royal Alex. On the 5th I was discharged to begin the recovery

process at home. I’ll spare you the details of learning to eat again, pain, and puking. On Monday, the 16th I had my staples from five laparoscopic openings removed at a clinic in Fort Saskatchewan.

In hindsight, I was lucky to get the surgery done before procedures like this were ordered postponed. Even luckier, I was in and out before the outbreak of Covid-19 turned real in Alberta.

For this introvert with multiple compelling interests and pastimes, practising social isolation has been easy and soul satisfying. I urge everyone to take this seriously and rediscover what being home means. I’ve turned into a jigsaw puzzle ninja both as recreation and as a tool to slowing my eating, chewing thoroughly, and stretching eating a bowl of porridge out for an hour. I’ve spent hours creating art, reading, binge-watching a couple

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Hilary has been the caring nurturer we rely on. From being ‘my person’ in the hospital (she participated in phone meetings from my private hospital room) to doing some of our emergency grocery shopping to reminding us of real priorities, she’s been awesome. But she also hovers at the edge of the 35-54 age group that represents the highest number of confirmed cases in Alberta. Seeing pictures of young people sunning on Florida beaches makes me wonder how some people can be so irresponsible and others

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Figuring out what I can tolerate and reintroduce through the post-surgery soft diet is another trick.

What is good one day has led to problems the next. Like most people with means, our pantry and freezers are full. This seems a perfect opportunity to eat our way through what we already have on hand. Saving money, avoiding food waste, and actually cooking real ingredients are all good things; that may be another good activity for the kids.

There will not be a single soul who is not affected by this pandemic. In the non-stop coverage of this fast-moving challenge, we’ve all but forgotten the other body blows Alberta has suffered mere weeks ago (pipeline delays or cancellations, rail blockades,

oil prices bottoming out).

Most of us are suffering some financial effects whether through direct loss of income or watching investments tank.

Frivolous things (like celebrating St. Patrick’s Day) seem to be getting an inordinate amount of attention I don’t quite get. Some, no doubt are struggling emotionally with the need to stay home. Child care issues are a problem. How long frontline workers are able to function at this exhausting phase is unknown.

Daily, there are stories of people rising to the occasion and doing all the generous, heartwarming things that restore our faith in humanity. Having factories retool to build medical equipment; having distillers switch to making hand sanitizer makes me think of what I imagine were wartime efforts where everyone pulled together against a common enemy.

Equally as predictable, there are the scoundrels and nitwits who are attempting to profit from the situation. Online sites have shut down sales of sanitizer and toilet paper at criminal prices.

Let’s get real and put things into perspective.

Play dates, parties, meetings, performances, travel, most errands can be delayed or cancelled. If we do the right things now, we can avoid the horrific situation in Italy.

As the medical system there became overwhelmed, doctors were forced to choose who would live and who would die because there wasn’t enough manpower, space and equipment to treat every one? No one should be forced into that dire ethical dilemma as the ‘decider’ or the victim.

Staying safe and being smart during the biggest test of our lives will lead to the best outcomes, from where I sit.

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