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The manufacturing of face shields for health-care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic gears up today through Camosun College’s innovation centre, where 9,000 will be made over the next few weeks.

Take all of your ideas about who is needy, and toss them aside. Odds are, you are wrong. The COVID-19 crisis has created a whole new group of needy people, made up of individuals who never thought they would ever have to ask for a handout.

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April 1 came and went without much in the way of clarity for renters and landlords in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, many of whom remain unsure how to proceed with payments in the coming weeks. Uncertainty has led to speculation on both sides.

Consider giving your mailbox a wipe and please keep your distance from letter carriers as part of the fight against the spread of COVID-19, says the president of the Victoria local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

A three-week campaign to raise money for people who cannot afford healthy food has netted more than $30,000.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says in the face of a global pandemic there are many examples of generosity and caring — including the nightly outdoor cheer for front-line workers doing essential jobs.

Dear Helen: This is normally a busy time at garden centres. What protocols are in place to keep customers safe in this time of physical distancing and COVID-19? G.L.

A commentary by a retired journalist living in Sidney. The capital region’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic underlines two things you should already know. First is that our communities have a lot of good people who’ll step up when they’re needed.

A commentary by a substitute teacher from Victoria working in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut We were told on March 16 that Nunavut schools would be shutting down for the next three weeks.