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The First COVID-19 Vaccines Arrived in the City on Monday /3 WWW.TBNEWSWATCH.COM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER INSIDE THIS WEEK Canadian Publications Agreement No. 0662445 Vol.17 No.51 PROVINCIAL LOCKDOWN Vaccine arrives The first COVID-19 vaccines arrived in the city on Monday /3 The province-wide lockdown will begin on Dec. 26 /2 KEEP POSITIONS Union calls on city to not eliminate any firefighter positions /4 FESTIVE PAINTINGS Artist helps decorate Westfort businesses for the holidays/11 STAYING HOME Team McCarville turns down berth at DOUG DIACZUK Scotties Tournament of Hearts /14 LEADING BY EXAMPLE: Sean Bolton, a personal support worker, rolled up his sleeve to receive the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the city of Thunder Bay. 2 Thursday, December 24, 2020 For your daily news visit www.tbnewswatch.com L OCALNEWS FILE LOCKED DOWN: Premier Doug Ford announced the lockdown on Monday. Province-wide lockdown coming All of Ontario will enter a lockdown on Dec. 26 and will be in effect for two weeks in northern parts of the province ONTARIO outdoor dining is also prohibited and restau- By Doug Diaczuk - TB Source rant and food services can offer takeout and delivery only. ith new COVID-19 modeling show- Students will also see some changes when Wing the province could see as many as they return from winter break. All publicly 5,000 new positive cases per day in January, funded and private elementary and the province is taking sweeping actions to secondary schools are to move to teacher-led try to slow the spread of the virus. remote learning when students return from As of 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 26, the entire the winter break on Jan. 4. During the period province of Ontario will be put into between Jan. 4 and 8, after school programs lockdown. will be closed and emergency child care for “This is necessary to save lives and health care and frontline workers will be prevent our hospitals from provided. becoming overrun in the coming Elementary and secondary weeks,” Premier Doug Ford said students in northern parts of the during a media briefing on Monday. “This is nec- province, including Thunder Bay, “If we fail to take action now the essary to can return to in-person learning on consequences could be dire.” save lives Jan. 11. The lockdown will be in effect in “Asking students and staff to Northern Ontario for 14 days and and prevent stay home a little longer will help 28 days in Southern Ontario. our hospitals control the spread,” Ford said. Ontario has reported more than from becom- Ford is also asking all Ontarians 2,000 cases of COVID-19 per day ing overrun.” to avoid travel, including inter- for the past week. According to provincial travel. DOUG FORD Ford, there has been a 70 per cent “The risk of inter-provincial increase in hospitalizations and an travel is a real concern,” he said. 80 per cent increase in ICU admis- “People are moving from region to sions in the past few weeks. region and bringing COVID with them. “Above all, we need to preserve capacity Province wide action is needed.” in our ICUs and hospitals,” he said. “But People are being asked to stay home as because of increased cases of COVID-19 much as possible and only leave for essential filling up our hospitals, we are on the verge reasons. of cancelling more surgeries. And we And while the COVID-19 vaccine has already have thousands of backlogged started to roll out in parts of the country, surgeries.” including Ontario, Ford warned that while The lockdown will see restrictions on there is light at the end of the tunnel, the indoor public and social gatherings, province is still a long way away from mass prohibiting in-person shopping in most retail immunizations. settings, though essential services like “Due to limits and supply, it will be grocery stores and pharmacies will remain months before we have mass immuniza- open with limits on capacity. tion,” he said. “In the meantime, we need to Retail stores will also be permitted to do everything to protect our hospitals and provide curb-side pickup. Indoor and our most vulnerable.” For your daily news visit www.tbnewswatch.com Thursday, December 24, 2020 3 L OCALNEWS Weather Forecast WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY A mix of sun Scattered flurries and clouds Scattered flurries Probability of Precipitation: 40% Probability of Precipitation: 30% Probability of Precipitation: 60% HIGH -3 LOW -9 HIGH -1 LOW -6 HIGH 0 LOW -8 SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY DOUG DIACZUK HELP ARRIVES: Jackie Park, Manager of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre's COVID-19 Assessment Centre prepares the vaccine. Cloudy with Mainly sunny sunny breaks Scattered flurries Probability of Precipitation: 20% Probability of Precipitation: 30% Probability of Precipitation: 40% First COVID-19 shot HIGH -6 LOW -8 HIGH -1 LOW -3 HIGH 1 LOW -7 A long-term care worker received the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine THUNDER BAY vaccine will be voluntary for all front-line staff. By Doug Diaczuk - TB Source “We are starting off slowly because it’s the prudent thing to do,” she said. “We need to work very collab- ean Bolton, a personal support worker with St. oratively to establish a process to make sure people SJoseph’s Care Group, was more than willing to are coming in and coming back after the 21 days. It roll up his sleeve and become the first person in the really is our hope that the majority of our staff choose city of Thunder Bay to receive the COVID-19 vac- to be vaccinated.” cine. “Being able to protect those residents and our staff “Being a PSW for as long as I have I feel like I and their families, the resident’s families is very should lead by example and I always have,” he said. important. It’s a very exciting day.” “To be the first one to get it was actually a great The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre honour and pride and to show everyone else that it will also be vaccinating health care workers who will will be good and fine and hopefully we’ll be able to be administering the vaccine in remote First Nation get over this hump.” communities. The Thunder Bay Regional Health “We don’t have the direct knowledge of the Sciences Centre received its first shipment northern remote strategy,” Crocker Ellacott of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday “Being a said. “We are working with the provincial and began immunizations for long-term care PSW for as and federal government on the strategy. workers Tuesday morning. long as I What we know is our hospital will have a The hospital was among several additional have and I role to vaccinate the workers who will sites to receive 90,000 doses of the vaccine, deliver the vaccines to remote communi- but due to security reasons, the exact amount feel like I ties.” sent to Thunder Bay cannot be disclosed. should lead Hospital staff are not being vaccinated The province’s COVID-19 vaccine task- by example with this first shipment, as the priority force has determined front-line long-term and I always remains long-term care workers, and while care workers will be the top priority to have.” there is no delivery date for any more ship- receive the vaccine first. ments of the Pfizer vaccine, Crocker Ellacott “This is why we are moving forward with SEAN BOLTON said there will be more vaccines coming to long-term care frontline staff first,” said the region during phase two of the roll out. Rhonda Crocker Ellacott, president and CEO of the “The anticipation is the Moderna vaccine will TBRHSC. “It’s to support the most vulnerable within become available in the near future and it is likely our population and we’ve certainly seen that the long- that vaccine will be the one that travels to remote term care residents are very vulnerable.” northern communities,” she said. Several long-term care homes in the city have And while the vaccine is voluntary, Bolton said he reported outbreaks of COVID-19, with Southbridge hopes other front-line workers in long-term care will Roseview Manor seeing more than 70 cases and 14 follow his example. resident deaths. “Trust science. They have some of the best minds “The priority is homes that are not in outbreak,” in the world working on this. Don’t’ listen to social Crocker Ellacott said. “The concern is if you start to media. There’s so much negativity. Have faith in vaccinate staff in homes with an outbreak, you may science and get the shot,” he said. have more issues with staffing for a very short period “I think it’s an important step in the right direction while you vaccinate.” to get past COVID. The health of the residents is Tracy Buckler, president and CEO with St. Joseph’s vitally important, as well as my co-workers. All it Care Group, which oversees Hogarth Riverview takes is one person. We want to put a stop to this and Manor and Bethammi Nursing Home, said the hopefully, we don’t get any more outbreaks.” 4 Thursday, December 24, 2020 For your daily news visit www.tbnewswatch.com L OCALNEWS Firefighters raise alarm over changes Staffing reductions planned through attrition will negatively impact public safety, the union representing the city’s firefighters warns THUNDER BAY told councillors on Dec. 14. Brescacin told Tbnewswatch Monday. By Ian Kaufman - TB Source Hankkio expects a responding fire- The union also raised concerns about fighter or pumper driver could take on potential changes to the number and he union representing Thunder Bay those duties without impacting safety, location of fire stations, saying all three Tfirefighters is raising serious con- since the change would be accompanied options suggested by consultants would cerns about the city’s plan to find sav- by increased deployment to possible decrease the department’s response ings at the department, warning the pro- structure fires.
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