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Chatham-Kent resident Murray Hebblethwaite, 71, earned an award recently from the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority for donating $1,000 to help clean up McGregor Creek, shown in the background.
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The Municipality of Chatham-Kent is not putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to supporting local. A Freedom of Information Request revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, departments such as tourism spent a huge chunk of its ad dollars on tech titans that put zero tax dollars back into the local economy. From March 2020 to the end of the year, Chatham-Kent’s Community Attraction and Promotion division spent $11,756 on Facebook ads for its tourism department. Municipal departments in total spent more than $35,000. The tourism ads in particular were part of a campaign designed to encourage local residents to get out and experience Chatham-Kent in a safe manner, according to Audrey Ansell, director, Community Attraction and Promotion. Back in
September 2020, community attraction brought a report to council to support the local tourism sector through COVID. “When we were planning out the marketing activity and the expenditures, we were very much focused on ensuring that we could reach as wide an audience as possible, reach all age demographics, which is why we went with digital, print and radio. We sought to do everything,” said Ansell. Bruce Corcoran, general manager of The Chatham Voice, believes the municipality could have reached more by spending those Facebook dollars with local media. “The idea that local media is not able to reach all age groups is a bit of a stretch. Our online traffic numbers, for example, show that more than 60 per cent of our online readers are between the ages of 18 and 34,” he said. Continued on page 2
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“And newspapers – hold-in-your-hand editions – are heavily perused by people age 35 and up.” Chatham-Kent’s four locally owned independent print publications, The Chatham Voice, Thamesville Herald, Blenheim News Tribune, and Ridgetown Independent collectively received $6,541.03 in tourism spending. The Southpoint Sun, which is owned and operated in Leamington but serves some members of Wheatley, adds an addi-
tional $2,315.04 to that total. Combined, that is still less than Facebook received from the municipality. Ansell said 31 boosted ads on Facebook reached 1.5 million people. The population of Chatham-Kent is hovering around 104,000. “It appears that they attempted to split it equally, however, if you’re doing a targeted marketing program, I really question why you would use Facebook which would attract people from outside the boundaries you’re looking at,” said
Heather Wright, board member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association and owner of the Thamesville Herald. “There’s no disputing that anyone who’s doing marketing right now needs to use social media. That is a way to reach people in certain target groups. But I feel like the municipality doesn’t recognize that there’s an opportunity to use, particularly local print.” Corcoran said he thinks the municipality needs to shop local more often when it comes to its ad-
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Some municipal departments aren’t exactly following the buy local, support local approach when it comes to advertising. A Freedom of Information request by The Voice has uncovered some large-scale social media advertising.
vertising. “If the municipality showed some deserved support to local print media – which studies show almost nine in 10 Canadians read in print or online every week, and where studies also show newspapers, in print and online, as the most trusted ad source by readers – it would be placing their informational ad content where it matters most. It would also reinforce to
the community that the municipality supports locally owned businesses. Buy local, shop local, inform local,” he said. According to data from the News Media Canada, 86 per cent of Canadians read a community or daily newspaper every week either in its print or digital format, a rise of one per cent since 2012. Nine out of 10 of those readers follow the news for its local content. More than $6,000 in the tourism campaign was spent advertising on the regional radio stations, owned by Blackburn Radio Inc. out of London,
while Chatham-Kent’s independent radio station, CKXS 99.1, received $2,000 less. Chatham-Kent’s bigbox print media, owned by PostMedia, received $5,195.85 in tourism ad dollars. This year, when the pandemic hit, PostMedia closed down seven community newspapers in Ontario and eight in Manitoba. One of those hit was the Tilbury Times, which at the time was one of the longest-serving newspapers in the municipality, having opened in 1884.
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C-K senior urges others to get vaccinated By Jenna Cocullo jenna@chathamvoice.com
One woman is highly recommending everyone get vaccinated, especially in Chatham-Kent, after she had a “very friendly, cheerful and efficient” experience at the local clinic. When Lynn Hume first heard through local media that CK Public Health was issuing vaccines, she immediately got her husband Doug Brown, 73, to book himself an appointment as he was now in the eligible age range. The couple expected to hear back from public health in two weeks time because phone lines were inundated with calls. To their surprise they got a response within three days and Hume, 69, was
also given permission to get inoculated despite being under the age of 70. “He said ‘I want to add my wife,’ and they said, ‘No problem; you guys come at the same time.’” By March 29, both Hume and Brown had received their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine after getting a thorough briefing on what was going into their bodies. Hume said her experience at the vaccine clinic, located at the John D. Bradley Centre, was even better than expected. Staff provided the couple with medical-grade masks, a COVID screening questionnaire and ensured that each visitor washed their hands. The inside of the main vaccination area looked
like a maze with a zigzag of rope sectioning off each station. There were several people ahead of Hume in the winding line, which was concerning because she has arthritis in the knees and walks with a cane. Luckily, one volunteer noticed. “I thought ‘Oh, I’m going to have to wait a while,’ and then a lady came over and said, ‘We’re going to fast track you because you have a cane.’ Within a minute, she took us over to a very nice young man who took all our information, and the next minute we were getting our vaccines.” The couple got to share the same vaccine booth, which was nice for Hume who is actually terrified of needles and suffers from
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Chatham residents Lynn Hume and Doug Brown were very impressed with Chatham-Kent’s vaccination clinic and hope to see the community get inoculated soon so they can get back to hugging their grandkids.
drug allergies. “I am a real baby when it comes to needles. I actually fainted once.” Hume said the staff member covered the needle with a cloth and asked her questions about her day as a distraction.
“You just start talking, and before I knew it, she’d given me the needle. I didn’t feel a thing,” Hume said. “It was really nice, and we didn’t even sit there for five minutes.” The next step was to sit in the monitoring area
for 15 minutes, which in Hume’s case, was increased to 30 minutes because of her medical history. During the wait, several nurses checked on her and offered up some ice packs.
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Unfortunately Hume did experience a minor allergic reaction when she got home which was easily cured by a dose on Benadryl. “I’d rather not end up in the hospital and ICU, thank you,” Hume said when asked why she chose to take the vaccine despite her allergic reactions to drugs. “I was a little scared because of how I react, but I wasn’t sceptical of the vaccine because I read up on how it was working in other countries. And I just thought at this point with the pandemic, we have to try something – something has got to work,” she said. Hume said she is frankly losing patience with the COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, anti-vaccine advocates, and residents who are gathering in large groups. All she wants to do is hug her grandchildren but feels like individuals spreading anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine messages are the cause of the recent surge in cases. “I’m tired of people saying, ‘Oh I didn’t know
we had to do this in lockdown.’ There’s been so much information passed from neighbour to neighbour and in the news all over that you have to know what’s going on. Don’t tell me you don’t know.” Hume and her husband have been utilizing their backyard and only leave the house twice a month for groceries. When it comes to the rules and recommendations for COVID-19 safety, they are not joking around. “If we’ve seen our grandchildren, it’s been from over six-feet away. We can’t even hug them or go in their house. I really miss it,” she said. “My 12-yearold granddaughter, what she’ll do when she sees us is hug herself and then she makes the sign of a heart with her fingers. It just brings tears to my eyes.” “We are sticking to the rules and that’s why I’m getting tired of people not sticking to the rules.” Hume just hopes everyone will do the same, and get vaccinated as soon as possible, so she can get back to hugging her grandchildren.
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Gratitude for first responders By Sarah Schofield sarah@chathamvoice.com
First responders – including EMS, fire and police services – received an unexpected show of gratitude from Chatham’s Mercato Fresh on Tuesday last week. Approximately 200 free of charge, prepared lunches, including a variety of sandwiches, sushi and beverages, were ready to be distributed to any first responders who walked through the grocery store’s doors. Within a half hour of the lunch starting, a quarter of the meals were already spoken for. “If we run out, we’ll make more. We won’t let anyone leave empty-handed,” said co-owner Jonathan Reaume, who runs the grocery story alongside co-owner Marc Romualdi. “I saw some things on the news the other day and I got kind of choked up, and I said, ‘We’ve got to do something, just put something out and here’s what I’m thinking we can do.’”
After talking to his head chef Maria Tape, Reaume said she along with other members of their team deserve the credit for making the lunch a reality. “I’m the architect, she’s the builder. She put this all together and it was on short notice.” Having family members in the health-care field, the look of exhaustion on the faces of those in uniform is something Reaume and his team see at their store on a daily basis. “These people are genuinely burnt out. We see it,” said Reaume. With the sole aim of the lunch being to give back and say thank you to those working the front line, Reaume said any attention the store would receive as a result was the farthest from their purpose for doing the event. “It may not be big on the grand scheme of things, but if it changes somebody’s day for the better, even if it gives them some kind of boost for the day, then I’m fine with that.” When the doors to their store first opened in February of 2020
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Mercato Fresh employees from left to right, head chef Maria Tape, corporate chef Josh Jenner and assistant store manager Emma Holleran all worked to make the First Responders Lunch a reality on Tuesday, March 30. Approximately 200 fresh and free of charge meals were prepared to be distributed as a way to say thank you.
and the onset of the pandemic began, the decision was quickly made to never charge first responders for their coffee. “We started with that thought in mind that these people are spe-
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Although COVID-19 caused a significant drop in surgeries at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) over the past year, officials hope a new operating room will help clear the backlog. According to CKHA president and CEO Lori Marshall, there were 2,000 fewer surgeries performed at the alliance in 2020 compared to the previous year. From April 1, 2019 to Feb. 28, 2020, a total of 6,486 elective surgeries were performed, but from April 1, 2020 to Feb. 18, 2021 only 4,485 elective procedures were completed, marking a 30 per cent drop from the previous year. The first wave of the pandemic, a planned hospital slow down to accommodate the installation of new technology, and a re-direction of surgical staff to the intensive care unit are the reasons for the slowdown, Marshall says. The hospital is now looking at ways to catch up. “We do need to put a focus towards surgical renewal,” Marshall said in a recent media conference. The new surgical unit will bring the facility’s operating room complement to eight. It’s expected to open soon and will be geared primarily to urological surgery, a service added at CKHA last summer. Marshall says the hospital is actively recruiting for the new OR, as anaesthesiologists and highly trained surgical nurses are needed.
Other strategies will be examined, Marshall says, including adding more outpatient and day surgeries. Some of the procedures backlogged include orthopaedic surgery, such as hip and knee replace-
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Buy local, shop local Newspapers are not dead. This despite the fact many so-called marketing experts living in large urban centres believe such tripe. And that is an insult to you, our dear readers. Unfortunately, the big-city mindset that print is no longer read has made it to small towns as well, where that belief is even further from the truth. But such fake news impacts the ability for small community newspapers to make money, to provide larger news holes to spread important and entertaining information to the public. We have municipal staff opting try to sneak in some free advertising via press releases – trust us, it happens pretty much weekly. Others decide to advertise through Facebook and Google despite the fact they are trying to reach citizens inside C-K. As a Chatham-Kent owned and operated media company, we’re left scratching our heads. Yes, you see municipal advertising in this newspaper. It’s in here fairly regularly actually. Some content winds up online as well on our website. But when you see more spent on Facebook from one municipal department, Community Attraction and Promotion, as was spent with all C-K print media combined – on ads targeting local residents – that’s where we have an issue. Add in a second municipal department, Economic Development, spending lavishly on social media, it is frustrating. For starters, this is not just about The Chatham Voice. There are five independent, locally owned newspapers serving Chatham-Kent. And there are the Postmedia products. Our reach in print and online ensures the news is delivered, and read, by the young and older in Chatham-Kent. The readership for these papers is by and large right here in the communities we serve. In the case of the local independents, so are our head offices. We pay rent locally, pay taxes locally, buy and shop in local stores, and support local at most every opportunity. Facebook and Google? They have no actual footprint here, employ no local residents, and sure as hell do not pay a dime in taxes here. Yet, there are municipal divisions that are very happy to do business with them; divisions urging people to buy local and shop local. We see the annoying irony. Do you?
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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2021
Opinion
Enjoying the simplest of things Normal. What the heck is that anymore? This past year has tested our concept of “normal,” for sure. For me, it’s sitting in the backyard with a cold beverage, relaxing. Or maybe it’s having a haircut that is not straight out of the early 1980s. In recent days, as we are now in Lockdown #3, I’ve had my hair cut following six-plus months of growing the flow, and I checked to see if the backyard beverage fridge survived yet another winter. First off, the hair. It’s back to short and sweet, thanks to none other than our own Sarah Schofield here at The Voice. She mentioned that she cuts her father’s hair, and I asked if she’d be willing to give mine a shot. She said she’d be happy to take the electric trim-
Bruce Corcoran mer to my melon. At this point in time, after six months of having it grow, and looking more like an extra from the original Magnum P.I. than a man of the current century, I didn’t even worry about it. Worst case, she sneezed and I had a stripe down the centre of my head, I could wear a hat for a while. But Sarah came through like she’s a professional stylist. We set up shop late in the afternoon in our warehouse – we both had masks – and opened the back garage door on a
warm afternoon. Sarah wasted no time, working up the sides and back of my head to relieve me of some excess follicle weight. Last, it was the top, and before I knew it, as I had almost dozed off on a couple of occasions (I really was not worried), she was done. My head was so much lighter! I looked around and saw why, as it looked as though Sarah had been trimming a hedge; a hedge of brown and grey. So, armed with a fresh, light head of hair, I spent much of Sunday chilling in our backyard on a beautiful afternoon. I set a simple task: clean off the furniture and tables, and clean out the old backyard beverage fridge. One problem. I actually forgot to empty and unplug the fridge from last
fall! Yes, we had to chuck out several cans of beer, wipe down the interior and defrost the fridge, which to me was a great sign, as it was working! This is a fridge that sits outdoors year round. It’s not large, just big enough to hold a case of beer or other cans of beverages, and it’s certainly not young. I have owned the fridge for probably 15 years, if not longer. I have always unplugged the thing. Not last year, it seems. So, we wiped it out and left the door open to allow it to thaw. The best way to celebrate the firing up of the beer fridge is with ... beer! Oh, and Mary Beth made up a charcuterie board. Delicious. A nice end to a rather quiet Easter weekend. No big dinners. No big family gatherings.
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Support for local papers coming? he said. The situation is not unique to Wright said she would like to see Chatham-Kent and is representa- the municipality go beyond just tive of the larger issue within Can- “throwing” tax dollars at a probada’s media landscape, with print lem and to develop a “true underpublications losing huge chunks of standing” of the barriers facing the its ad revenues to companies such media right now and have a more as Facebook and Google and being co-ordinated approach to their adeaten up by larger companies to vertising spending. survive. Economic Development spent Out of the 50 news outlets that more than $7,000 for Business Reclosed this year tention and Expanbecause of the “One of my thoughts sion advertising. The COVID-19 pandemfour local and indeic, 48 were commu- would be that we pendent print papers nity newspapers, would, with all the local received $2,000 comaccording to data col- newspapers, have a bined. lectable by J-Source, weekly spot put in and Stuart McFadden, a Canadian journal- put out general infordirector of Economism publication that ic Development said promotes national mation regarding the the ads were to tardiscussion about the municipality, because get people residing industry. Wright add- we can’t rely on the in Toronto. It was all ed that the OCNA re- newspapers to put done via social mecorded 25 papers in dia. everything out free.” the province which The Sydenham Cur- C-K Mayor Darrin Canniff closed its doors or rent, owned by the stopped printing. spouse of WallaceThe Chatham Voice was one such burg Coun. Aaron Hall, received a publication, temporarily ceas- large portion of their local spending printing between April and ing, with more than $4,500. mid-September in 2020, and from Hall has said that, prior to being Jan. 1 to mid-March of this year. on council, the online publication Just last week, the federal govern- did business with the municipality ment held a committee meeting to and that he no longer is associated discuss potential ways to tax the with its production or advertising. digital giants to pay traditional Municipal Library Services told news companies for their journal- The Herald it had no advertising ism. budget to spend. Yet the departThe Municipality of Cha- ment used $764.52 on social media. tham-Kent is trying to take the first “We’ll see something that (municsteps to better aiding its locally ipal departments) posted on social owned independent newspapers. media and we will approach them, At the April 12 council meeting, but finding the right person to apCoun. Kirkwood-Whyte is to bring proach is often difficult because forward a motion requesting that there’s no centralized person who Chatham-Kent recognize and en- says, yes or no to advertising,” courage other municipal councils Wright said. across Canada to acknowledge Meanwhile, the residents in rural that a robust news media is “es- Chatham-Kent – who are still resential to the proper functioning ceiving paper packages from the of democracy,” to endorse legisla- school board for at-home-learning tion and regulations to “support because they do not have reliable and rejuvenate” news outlets, and Internet – will likely not see those to urge the federal government to messages. move quickly to pass said legislaLegally, municipalities must adtion. vertise public notices (i.e. public Mayor Darrin Canniff said he tenders) into their local papers, would like to go a step further a source of revenue for the indeand also support Chatham-Kent’s pendents. Wright said the Assonewspapers by putting more ad- ciation of Municipalities of Onvertising dollars into them. tario (AMO) is currently pushing “One of my thoughts would be to change legislation so they can that we would, with all the local make their public notices via social newspapers, have a weekly spot media only. put in and put out general infor“If Chatham-Kent is serious about mation regarding the municipality, supporting local media, they will because we can’t rely on the news- oppose that and tell the AMO to papers to put everything out free,” back off of that,” she said. Continued from page 2
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Allison Jonescu is seen with her daughter Eowyn enjoying some warm Easter Sunday weather at Kingston Park in Chatham. Although the Easter Bunny may not have made a large appearance this year, there was an abundance of sun.
Over the Christmas season, Dresden shone bright; and as we head towards Earth Day, the hope is Dresden will have a clean sweep. Operation Clean Sweep is in its infant stages in the North Kent community. Liz Kominek, head of the Dresden and District Horticultural Society, said the idea, which is to give the entire community a good spring cleaning during Earth Week from April 18-24, evolved in the wake of the success of Dresden Shines. “Dresden had a group last Christmas. We did something for the community that we thought would light up everyone’s life during the pandemic,” she said, as volunteers helped string lights in businesses and public buildings, as well as in private homes to spread the holiday cheer. “This is our spring edition.” The goal is to build on the momentum from the Dresden Shines event. “We engaged the communi-
ty and had lots of volunteers who stepped up,” Kominek said. “We’re hoping to engage them in helping to clean up the town. Dresden shines when everyone helps. We want to keep the community looking good. After the winter and snow is gone, there is a lot of litter.” Kominek is part of a growing group. Lynda Weese, Dresden and District Horticultural Society Secretary and long-time organizer of Dresden pitch-in and cleanups is also asking the entire community to step up. “Operation Clean Sweep will focus on engaging community volunteers to clean up parks, public spaces, sidewalks and our rural roadways. We have mapped the public spaces and will ask community members to take on cleanup responsibility for various areas,” Weese said in a media release. Kominek said the organizers will encourage everyone, from school-aged kids to adults, to clean up their section of the community. “While our primary focus will be on public areas, we’ll
be encouraging neighbourhoods throughout town to start at home and pick up trash and litter on their local streets and sidewalks, being respectful of private property,” she said. “Whatever we can do in our own homes and the community to take care of our local environment.” Cindy Brewer is another organizer of Clean Sweep. “I know the people of Dresden, and volunteering, caring and love of their community is in their heart. Dresden always rises to the challenge,” she said. The Rotary Club of Dresden is part of Operation Clean Sweep as well. By the end of it, organizers hope to drive home the message to make every day Earth Day and to take the time to pick up litter every day of the year. Organizers stressed that all activity would involve COVID safety protocols. More information will be available at www.dresden. ca. Anyone interested in volunteering can e-mail volunteers@dresden.ca.
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Man donates $1,000 for clean up Continued from page 1
The Imagine McGregor Creek project is a collaboration between the Sunrise Rotary Club of Chatham, the municipality and the LTVCA. Some of the work envisioned by the program will be to control invasive species, clean up the stream, help migrating fish pass through culverts, and beautify-
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