Everyone from the prime minister to community and spiritual leaders are saying “we will get through this together.”
We hear a lot from our elected officials and health officials.
Now, the Empire-Advance is encouraging the public to communicate through the newspaper.
Parents homeschooling, maybe you have some tips or fun ideas you would like to share. I hear that some siblings are teaching each other gymnastics, or helping their mother paint or bake. They’re also getting some school assignments done. I wonder how long that will continue?
All ages and situations, send in your stories / photos, concerns or news tips in the following ways: for editorial (stories) Email: [email protected]; or phone me at: 204-412-0050 during working hours Monday – Friday. Text after hours.
In Hamiota, we are seeing neighbours more than ever before … at a distance. And it feels good to give a wave, shout hello, to talk, albeit with metres between you. People now have the time (and the need) to do that.
Parents and their kids are out together on the street. And dog owners are being exercised.
While churches are closed, some pastors have connected virtually, putting messages of hope and encouragement on Facebook or holding zoom calls for Bible study and prayer.
In my personal life, members of our immediate family living in the USA have weathered COVID-19 and are coming out the other side. From travel to a UN conference in Geneva, Switzerland to sequestering in their Minneapolis apartment, the illness drove one of them to hospital due to shortness of breath. After days spent in hospital on oxygen, the couple is back together in their apartment, recovering. They were very ill.
Locally, in the rural area, a friend seems to have had COVID-19, although there was no test available closer than Winnipeg, at that time; and he was not advised to travel there for it. He had been to a trade show in Winnipeg some days prior and came down with all the symptoms. He was very sick at one point. He isolated himself in his rural location.
Current information in the USA says to wait until you are three days symptom-free, before coming out of self-isolation.
How lonely this virus can make us!
So, please, share your anecdotes, happy and hard. Write in to us and share a few words, send in a photo.
Every week, I am excited to see what our next issue will be like. Sharla George’s Front Step Project (cover of the March 27 issue) is uplifting. We plan more to come from Sharla, in our next issue.
Most of the Empire-Advance staff are working from home with the exception of one at a time, for a few hours, to get the necessities done in the office. And of course, we’re closed to the public.
Newspaper delivery continues and digital subscriptions, of course, are uninterrupted.
