In it for the long haul
Doug and Lisa Cochrane love to travel and have few prior health issues, but for the past eight months they're only goal has been to get one thing done everyday.
They Cochranes are COVID "long-haulers", a term that refers to people who continue battling a range of symptoms long after tests show they are no longer positive for COVID-19.
They travelled to the U.K. in March before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plea for Canadians to “come home.” They spent two weeks trying to book flights back to Halifax. The morning after their return, the symptoms started: sore throat, pain and tightness in the chest, and a low-grade fever.
The couple recently shared their story with the Chronicle Herald's Nebal Snan with the aim of warning Atlantic Canadians against being complacent and urging them to follow public health protocols.
Click here to read the story and watch the video interview.
Accessible fishing
Improvements at John Bernard Croak Memorial Park in Glace Bay, N.S., will allow fishing to become more accessible to those with disabilities.
The project will see the construction of a barrier-free fishing area to allow up to five people in wheelchairs or walkers to fish at one time, reports the Cape Breton Post's Elizabeth Patterson.
Jeff McNeil, president of the association, tells Patterson it’s a good news story that nearly didn’t happen.
“All of our fundraising that we do each year went by the wayside because we couldn’t hold any of the events because of COVID,” said McNeil on Monday. “It was challenging to get it to this point and I’ll be quite honest about it ... we had one week left before our organization was ready to scrap the project before funding started to come through … We were saying this is impossible, we’re not going to be able to pull this off and lo and behold, we ended up sourcing enough funding.”
Check out how the project took shape and why organizers wanted to make it happen.
Staying put
It's been a busy and uncertain couple of years for Nimrods in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
The owners had a food truck at different locations in Charlottetown, and then in April 2019, city council rejected its application to have a licensed mobile canteen set up in a vacant lot. That led to opening a licensed wood-fire pizza and pasta bar at the Peake’s Quay Marina floating food court for the past two summers.
But now, as the Guardian's Terrence McEachern reports, the restaurant finally has a permanent home in a former - and retro - KFC location nearby.
