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In a video taken by staff of Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, health care workers at the home applaud as 91-year-old resident Lorraine Button goes for a walk on April 17, 2020 for the first time since the deadly outbreak of COVID-19 in the home, which has claimed the lives of 29 residents. (Screenshot)

Watch this Pinecrest resident head outside for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak

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91-year-old Lorraine Button, a resident of the Bobcaygeon nursing home, tested positive on April 1st but is recovering.
This man is wanted by the Kawartha Lakes Police Service in connection with in a stolen vehicle investigation in Lindsay. He was on video surveillance at a gas station in Cobourg on March 31, 2020, where he stole gasoline. (Police-supplied photo)

Kawartha Lakes police seek public’s help in identifying car thief suspect

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Man who stole car in Lindsay on March 21 then stole fuel from Cobourg gas station on March 31.
Healthcare workers at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon wave as passing cars honk support on April 1, 2020. (Photo: Fred Thornhill / The Canadian Press)

Pinecrest has ‘turned a corner’ according to home’s administrator

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No deaths at Bobcaygeon nursing home home since April 9, remaining residents with COVID-19 are recovering.
The midway at the Cobourg Waterfront Festival, which was scheduled to take place from July 1 to 4, 2020. The festival has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with all other activities related to Canada Day, including the annual parade and fireworks display. (Photo: Experience Cobourg / experiencecobourg.ca)

Town of Cobourg cancels all Canada Day activities due to COVID-19

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Annual parade and fireworks display is cancelled, as well as Cobourg Waterfront Festival.
Prosecutors have withdrawn second-degree murder charges against 23-year-old Aaron Simmonds and 18-year-old Zachary Simmonds, who were arrested following the shooting death of 18-year-old Alex Tobin in Omemee on February 18, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Tobin family)

Murder charges withdrawn against two Bethany brothers in February shooting death of Omemee teen

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High-profile defence lawyer Marie Henein says Aaron and Zachary Simmonds did not shoot 18-year-old Alex Tobin.
There'll be no boats passing through the Peterborough Lift Lock or elsewhere on the Trent-Severn Waterway until at least June 1, 2020 after Parks Canada announced the opening of the navigation season has been delayed because of COVID-19. (Photo: Parks Canada)

COVID-19 delays opening of Trent-Severn Waterway until June

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Navigation season was to begin on May 15, but Parks Canada has suspended all services and facilities.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - April 16, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – April 16, 2020

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Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
The COVID-19 Assessment Centre at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). Assessment centres are also available in City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland County (Cobourg and Trent Hills), and Haliburton County. (Photo: PRHC staff)

Peterborough-area residents with any respiratory illness symptoms asked to get COVID-19 assessment

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Assessment centres also available in City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland County, and Haliburton County.
Pinecrest Nursing Home is a 65-bed long-term care facility in Bobcaygeon, Ontario. (Photo: Central East CCAC / YouTube)

A full week with no resident deaths at Pinecrest in Bobcaygeon

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Many COVID-19 positive residents at nursing home have been healthy for at least two weeks.
“Their courage is simply amazing as they risk their own lives to save others," says Patricia Morton of health care workers at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). She and her husband David will be matching the community's donations to the PRHC Fundations's COVID-19 response by providing a gift of up to $50,000. (Photo: PRHC staff)

Local philanthropist couple will match community donations to PRHC with a gift of up...

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David and Patricia Morton hope to encourage others to support Peterborough Regional Health Centre's COVID-19 response.
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