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Marshall Gowland Manor Staff Member Tests Positive for COVID-19 Virus
Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 01:59 PM
Sarnia, ON - The administration team of Marshall Gowland Manor learned today that a staff member has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.
People living in the long-term care home and their families were notified of the positive case today, and informed that as a result, Lambton Public Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the Home.
The employee has not entered the home since testing positive, and is not a direct care staff. All staff and residents will be tested as per the Ministry of Health...

Lambton COVID-19 Immunization Task Force Update – February 23
Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 11:26 AM
Point Edward, ON – The Lambton COVID-19 Immunization Task Force met Tuesday, February 23 to discuss updates to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan in Lambton County.
At this meeting, the Task Force:
- Heard the first shipment of Pfizer vaccines arrived in Lambton County on Monday, February 22 (3500 doses).
- Received an update from the Mobile Immunization Team. The team began vaccinating the remaining retirement home residents on February 23.
- Was informed that Bluewater Health began immunizing their...

Temporary Relocation of Services at Lambton Shared Services Centre
Posted on Monday, February 22, 2021 02:19 PM
Wyoming, ON - Effective Monday, March 1, 2021, services currently available on the first floor of the Lambton Shared Services Centre will be relocated to the lower level of the facility.
This temporary move will allow for renovations to be completed on the first floor.
Services moving to the lower level include the Ontario Works, Housing Services, and Homelessness Prevention and Children's Services departments, as well as the Ontario Disability Support Program.
The Lochiel Street entrances to the...

2021 Draft County Budget Presented to County Council
Posted on Monday, February 22, 2021 01:02 PM
Wyoming, ON - Lambton County Council will be considering a net increase of 1.75% to the County property tax levy when it meets to discuss the County's 2021 budget early next month. This is the lowest County levy increase presented to Council in the last seven years.
The Draft 2021 County Budget was presented during a special joint meeting of Committee A.M. and Committee P.M. in Wyoming on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The draft document calls for $82.3 million to be raised through local property...

Retirement Home Outbreak Declared
Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2021 09:17 AM
Point Edward, ON – Lambton Public Health (LPH) is investigating an outbreak at a Retirement Home, declared on February 19, 2021. LPH received the laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 test result for one staff member at Twin Lakes Village Retirement Home in Sarnia.
A long-term care or other communal living setting outbreak is declared facility wide when one or more lab-confirmed COVID-19 case in a staff member or resident and possible exposure to others in the setting has occurred.
“The individual...