50 Good Things That Happened In Chatham-Kent During The Pandemic
A newspaper in Milwaukee wrote a story about the 50 good things that happened in their city during the pandemic. CKMORNINGS is collecting “good things” for our own list.
What have you got? Text yours to 519-354-8684.
- May 16th Miracle
- Birthday/Anniversary drive-bys
- Mark Reinhardt’s Duct Tape Art
- Restaurants supplying essential workers with meals
- PPE donations
- Local artist Facebook Live performances
- Decorated sidewalks
- Businesses showing support with signs
- More time with our children
- Online graduations
- Neighbour that shared a Joke of the Day on garage door (Shout out to Mark MacDonald!)
- Cheap gas
- Local businesses providing supplies for home made face masks– Trim King Upholstery put out rolls of 1/4” elastic in 3 yard packages for anyone making and donating masks.
- Pollution reduced
- Hometown Hero lunches
- CKMORNINGS Honk for Healthcare (Wednesday mornings at 8:05!)
- Ron the Cat (Facebook/Instagram) A local nurse who posts her cat in different outfits and talks about the pandemic.
- Grocery store deliveries
- Stores with curbside pickup
- Elizabeth Downey‘s Facebook “artist lessons”
- Reconnecting with families
- On line free home workouts
- Trainers getting to see their clients with online workouts!
- People are learning new skills and adapting with innovative ideas
- Meeting their neighbours and being a neighbourhood again
- Local businesses that began offering services to help the vulnerable during pandemic
- Nature/animals that are returning
- Working from home…in your PJ’s
- Realizing, time after time, how great a community we live in
- Being a small business in a small community, I have seen how much the local people have supported me and helped me keep going.
- People stopped being so busy and started caring about each other again
- Clear skies and clean air, consistently being able to see the Cleveland skyline across Lake Erie.
- Strength and resilience demonstrated by our children/students/teacher.
- Community recognition/support of mental health.
- Given me the time to explore trails with the family I didn’t know about
- Jerzie Rylett going around to nursing homes, hospital, fire halls etc singing
- Tech donations to schools
- Neighbours helping neighbours
Young Orlagh painting rocks- Not having to see annoying co-workers! haha
- The opening of the Safe Shelter for the homeless!
- Agencies coming together to assist the homeless.
- Meals being delivered to homeless off site at the hotels daily.
- Signs thanking front line workers.
- Hill family children on Rondeau Estates Line, made an exercise course out of sidewalk chalk.
- Soybean Man’s YouTube videos.
- Discovering some new restaurants!
- Businesses that have re-invented themselves.
- Realizing what really matters.
- CKMORNINGS! You guys kept us smiling!
