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Niagara Health to begin vaccinating hospital patients 80 years and older against COVID-19

In the coming days, Niagara Health will begin booking appointments to vaccinate patients who are 80 years of age and older and are currently admitted to a hospital bed or have been admitted and stayed overnight in the last six months. This will include patients at all sites of Niagara Health and at Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre.

“We are taking this interim measure, while Niagara Region Public Health completes planning for mass vaccination sites, to get vaccines into the arms...

Free Food Giveaway Saturday, March 6

This Saturday, March 6 at 1 p.m., Bethel United Church is hosting a free food giveaway on Princess Street between Catharine Street and King Street. 

Princess Street is one way, and vehicles must enter from Catharine Street.

Bethel United Church has partnered with Forks Road United Church in Wainfleet and the City of Port Colborne to host this event. 

People must stay in their vehicles, and all volunteers will be wearing masks and practicing physical distancing.

There will be a separate...

Pleasant Beach entrance closed March 4 – 12, 2021

Starting Thursday, March 4, 2021, until approximately Friday, March 12, 2021, the Pleasant Beach Road beach entrance will be closed. Rankin Construction will be moving equipment from the end of Pleasant Beach Road to complete shoreline protection work on a neighbouring property to the east of the beach.

Signs will be posted, and residents are encouraged to avoid the beach entrance until Rankin Construction has completed this project.  

We appreciate your patience and cooperation while this...

Niagara announces planned locations of COVID-19 vaccination sites

Niagara’s mayors, in partnership with Regional Chair Jim Bradley, are announcing the planned locations of the community’s COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics.

Once vaccine supply is available, the following 11 locations have been identified as clinic sites:

• Fort Erie - Leisure Plex
• Grimsby - YMCA
• Lincoln - Community Centre
• Niagara-on-the-Lake - Community Centre
• Niagara Falls - MacBain Community Centre
• Pelham - Meridian Community Centre
• Port Colborne - Vale Health and Wellness Centre
• St. Catharines /...

Fire & Emergency Services distribute masks to residents Tuesday, March 9

On Tuesday, March 9, from 4 – 6 p.m., Port Colborne Fire & Emergency Services will hand out non-medical masks to Port Colborne residents.  

As part of a generous donation from MedSup Canada to the Niagara Health Foundation, Niagara Region received more than five million non-medical masks for the community. These masks were distributed to municipalities, with Port Colborne receiving more than 60,000. City staff have already donated masks to community partners and have plans to distribute...