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LONDON’S DOWNTOWN THE MYSTERY OF THE MONTENEGRO WITH CALLING TO PEOPLE ALL MARQUETTE AND BESSEMER SUSAN ELIUK OVER THE CITY Page 4 Page 6 Page 10 - 11 A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER ALWAYS FREE! June 16th 2021 | PG 1 London Clean & Green volunteer organizing committee members joined with City of London and ReForest London staff to plant trees thanking frontline and essential workers at Celebration Forest in London on Tuesday, June 15. Pictured (left to right): Jay Stanford, Director of Climate Change, Environment, and Waste Management, City of London; Dan Marina, Planting Programs Manager, ReForest London; Cleveland Brownlee, volunteer organizing committee member, London Clean & Green and General Manager, The Better Bin Company / Try Recycling; Ron Scar- fone, co-founder and volunteer organizing committee member, London Clean & Green and General Manager, Joe Kool’s; Brianne Curry, Director of Programs & Westmin- ster Ponds Centre, ReForest London; Matthew Brown, Communications Specialist, City of London. CleanGreen21_Ad_LDNReview_FP_Print.pdf 1 2021-06-15 5:52 PM JOIN US! June 19, 20, 26 & 27 Community-wide Clean Up Day Grab a bag and gloves and head out in your neighbourhood to pick up litter and help spruce up our city. #519cleangreen June 24 Greening Your Backyard online seminar Learn how you can make your backyard "green" this summer by introducing native species and pollinators, and growing Stay safe while putting your own food. www.londonenvironment.net/ trash in the right place events_calendar Visit londoncleangreen.ca or June 25 londonenvironment.net for online events 20 For more than 25 years, London Clean and Green has been encouraging successful community clean-ups. Now that Ontario is starting to reopen, households, Tidy up outside your small groups and businesses are invited to take a little workplace for just 20 minutes. time to help clean up in their community. You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish! Before you head out, make sure you’re following all Win a FREE pizza lunch! local health guidelines from the Middlesex-London 2M Health Unit and the Province’s Roadmap to Reopen plan. #20minmakeover London Clean & Green events proudly supported and sponsored by: PG 3 | June 16th, 2021 REGION BEGINS TO REOPEN AS CASE COUNTS CONTINUE DECLINE By London Review Staff up to 10 people. As for outdoor dining on that the test positivity rate was 2.6 percent. only option for students for the remainder of patios, those are restricted to four people Through that date, Ontario had reported the school year (they had returned to online On the day lockdown restrictions were to be (with exceptions for larger households). 539,683 lab-confirmed cases of the novel learning on April 19). lifted – at least, in part – a third death of a Outdoor recreational activities, including coronavirus – including 8,957 deaths – since young person locally as a result of COVID-19 team sports, are permitted with up to 10 the beginning of the global pandemic in “The experts couldn’t tell us that [opening was announced. This time, it was a man in his people participating. Meanwhile essential March 2020. schools] wouldn’t risk spreading dangerous 30s, and it underscored the complexity of retail stores are allowed to be open at 25 variants and avoid us from moving to other the province’s reopening. On the one hand, percent capacity, while non-essential retail The day before, in London, the Middlesex- [reopening] stages, [that] it won’t risk the cases are down – including within London can be open at 15 percent capacity. Neither London Health Unit (MLHU) reported just five health of our kids,” Ford said. “While no one and area – but on the other, the virus is far faces restrictions on the goods that can be new cases of COVID-19 – and no new deaths. wants kids back in school more than I do, as from gone. sold. Through June 13, the MLHU had reported your premier, these aren’t risks I’m willing to 12,418 total cases – including 222 deaths – take. “While we have reached the point where “Thanks to the ongoing success of Team since the beginning of the pandemic. we can safely move into Step One, now is Ontario’s vaccine rollout and the ongoing “It was a hard choice to make, but I will not not the time to get complacent,” Dr. David improvements in public health trends, we Locally, vaccinations continue to rise, a good take unnecessary risks with our children.” Williams, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer are able to enter step one of the Roadmap sign for the entire community. With more of Health, said in a statement. “We must all and begin to safely and cautiously lift vaccine expected to arrive, the MLHU put The province’s three-stage reopening plan, remain vigilant, as the fight against COVID-19 restrictions,” Premier Doug Ford said in out a call on June 10 for more qualified people which was introduced on May 20, will take is not over. a statement. “As we begin to enjoy the to help support the region’s vaccination a step-wise approach. Step One will last at benefits … like meeting friends on a patio or efforts. That meant an ‘immediate call for least 21 days, and there will be considerable Adding in the fact that new variants of the visiting your favourite local store, please do Clinical Supervisors and Managers, as well leeway on the dates based on case numbers virus are not only more transmissible but so safely by continuing to follow all public as vaccinators and administrative staff to and vaccination rates. vaccines are less effective against them, health guidelines.” expand the local vaccination effort at mass and the end result is a mixed bag of news vaccination clinics and community-based “The speed at which we get through this heading into the summer. The province’s reopening plan kicked in as mobile clinic sites,’ the Health Unit said in a reopening will come down to one thing – a result of certain thresholds being met – statement. how quickly we get people vaccinated,” “By continuing to follow public health specifically, 60 percent of Ontario’s adults Ford said upon announcing the plan. “If you advice and measures,” Williams said, “we can having received at least one dose of a “We are currently vaccinating about 4,000 haven’t received your vaccine yet, please continue to reduce transmission, safeguard COVID-19 vaccine (and for two weeks). By people each day, but we want to be able go and get it now … and please encourage health system capacity and save lives.” June 6, 72 percent of the adult population to do more,” Dr. Chris Mackie, the MLHU’s a friend, a family member or a neighbour to (18+), in fact, had received at least one dose Medical Officer of Health, said at the time. get theirs.” Effective June 11 at 12:01am, the province of the vaccine. The province also required “With the diverse needs in our community, entered Step One of the ‘Roadmap to new daily case counts to drop to safer levels we want to add more mobile community In London, individuals can book an Reopen,’ which has seen outdoor activities in order to reopen in any capacity. clinic vaccination capacity so that we can appointment to receive a vaccine by visiting opened (with restrictions on numbers), go to where the people need us. In order to www.covidvaccinelm.ca or phoning 226- as well as restaurant patios and clothing On June 13, two days after restrictions had do that, we need to hire a team of qualified 289-3560 (open 8am to 7:30pm daily). For and ‘discretionary’ retail stores. That was been lifted, the province confirmed 530 professionals to support these ongoing more information about vaccine eligibility, evident immediately in London and area new COVID-19 cases – as well as seven more vaccination efforts in our community.” Londoners should visit www.healthunit. – particularly with individuals partaking in deaths. That put Ontario’s rolling seven- com/covid-19-vaccine-eligibility. outdoor dining. day average at 514, down from nearly 800 Schools remained shuttered, and they won’t a week prior. On that date (June 13), the reopen until the fall. Premier Ford made Step One includes outdoor social gatherings province reported that 20,731 tests had been that official at a press briefing in early June, and ‘organized public events’ to be held with processed in the previous 24 hours, meaning confirming that virtual learning would be the AS FAMILY GRIEVES, COMMUNITY THANKED FOR ‘COMPASSION, KINDNESS’ By London Review Staff hit-and-run crime that police have said was the government’s support in this endeavour. a ‘planned, premeditated act, motivated by It was a horrific crime that has sent hate.’ Virtually every political party leader, at the “This is the Canada that we know and that shockwaves throughout London, and in the federal, provincial and municipal levels, we love. We understand that people are aftermath the community is trying its best to “Our peace was shattered on the evening of was on hand for the vigil, including Prime concerned about the young boy and we show its support for the family of those who June 6, when our loved ones were targeted Minister Justin Trudeau, who, in his remarks, are grateful to be able to share that he is lost their lives – as well as the local Muslim in a hate-driven terrorist attack in London, said his government would take action on recovering well and is surrounded by loved community as a whole. Ontario,” the family’s statement read. “Hatred Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiments in ones.