How are You Coping? Community Groups Seek Resident Feedback with COVID Community Check-In Survey - theHumm August 2020
How are You Coping? Community Groups Seek Resident Feedback with COVID Community Check-In Survey - theHumm August 2020
Lanark Country residents: how have you been doing since the pandemic arrived?
That’s the main question behind a survey that’s been launched on behalf of nearly two dozen community service agencies from across Lanark County in an effort to gain insight and identify gaps when it comes to community services and programming.The Table Community Food Centre, North Lanark Community Health Centre, and the Lanark County Situation Table are conducting the survey on behalf of an informal group of community service agencies that are working to ensure the community is well supported going forward with the pandemic.
“We’d like to know how you are doing, how to improve ongoing services, identify anything that might be missing, and hear about helpful community initiatives that may have flown under our radar,” explains Ramsey Hart, Executive Director with the Table Community Food Centre.
The survey touches on topics such as employment, mental health, financial well-being and food accessibility.
Hart adds that the groups hope to collect 400 survey responses in order to gain a solid understanding of the community needs and possibly build future programs and services to address what’s in those responses.
“Once we collect the survey data, we’ll look to identify gaps and needs within the community,” he explains, adding that they want all residents to respond to the survey.
“This survey isn’t only for community members who have used community service agencies in the past,” says Hart. “It’s open to the public and we want responses from across the community landscape.”
Hart adds that they’re also seeking to hear about good news stories coming from the past five months. “We want to feature how our community members have demonstrated resiliency and ensure we hear those stories as well.”
Lanark County Warden Brian Campbell says public engagement is necessary to gain a solid understanding to the community’s needs.
“Whenever we ask our residents to help out, they always step up,” says Campbell. “This request for more insight is no exception. We need our community members to take the 15 minutes to complete the survey so we can best support each person moving forward.”
As a further incentive to complete the survey, residents who wish to include their name and contact details when completing the survey will automatically be entered into a draw for one of four $100 grocery cards.
This survey is confidential and no personal information will be included with the report. All survey data and contacts will be deleted once the organizing groups complete the survey report. They will not use the survey information to add responders to a distribution list.
To complete the survey, visit surveymonkey.com/r/X226GYM or visit thetablecfc.org and find the survey link on the homepage.
Colleen Gray — Indigenous Artist, Strong Woman, Good Human - theHumm August 2020
By Sally Hansen
In June of 2019, Colleen Gray received the Governor General’s Sovereign Medal for Volunteers “for her role in supporting art exploration through access to art supplies and creative art programs in Canadian remote Indigenous schools through the Art for Aid Project”. Gray is the founder and indefatigable driving force of the project that: “…works to support Canadian First Nations, Inuit and Métis art education programs through......
Scotland in the Yard Richard Gill’s 2020 Show,with Guest Artist Jack Stekelenburg - theHumm August 2020
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Since it is much safer to gather outdoors and since Richard’s work is weather-worthy, they are making good use of the gallery grounds to enable a safe environment for patrons to view the works in person while maintaining social distance.
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By Sarah Kerr
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Empty Bowls are Back! - theHumm August 2020
By Hinda Goldberg
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Lanark County Letters An Interview with Sarah Reside - theHumm August 2020
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theHumm: Can you describe how the group works for readers who may not be familiar with it?
Sarah Reside: “Lanark County Lette......
Ally Is a Verb - theHumm August 2020
By Sarah Reside
On Saturday, July 18, approximately 700 people attended a walk in Almonte to support a resident who was experiencing racism and share messages of love and anti-racism. There was a huge turnout and so much love! It was really inspiring to see, but this is just the beginning. Here are some suggestions and resources for white folks to explore how to be an ally:
Being an ally is a practice, one action after another that becomes a pattern of allyship. Because the system was built......
AGH Run/Walk for Women’s Health — Virtual Version - theHumm August 2020
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Known for six years as the Mississippi Mills River Walk and Run, this late......
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theHumm: First of all, how have you and the Cove been faring since COVID hit?
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Bouffage A Beautiful Box of Fabulous Food - theHumm August 2020
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Speaking Volumes: A Chat With Ben Seaman from Riverwood Acoustics - theHumm August 2020
By Kris Riendeau
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How are You Coping? Community Groups Seek Resident Feedback with COVID Community Check-In Survey - theHumm August 2020
Lanark Country residents: how have you been doing since the pandemic arrived?
That’s the main question behind a survey that’s been launched on behalf of nearly two dozen community service agencies from across Lanark County in an effort to gain insight and identify gaps when it comes to community services and programming.The Table Community Food Centre, North Lanark Community Health Centre, and the Lanark County Situation Table are conducting the survey on behalf of an informal group of community se......
Libraries Reopen! - theHumm August 2020
By Amanda Robinson is the CEO at Lanark Highlands Public Library
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The health and safety of our patrons and staff continues to be our priority and measures including physical di......
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Safe Decadence in Westport - theHumm August 2020
By Rona Fraser
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The BlueHappiness Jacket - theHumm August 2020
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It was a true “dreaming ......
Friday Night Films in Perth - theHumm August 2020
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If you want to be sure to get a ticket, you can also reserve over the phone. Just call 267–7469, leave a message on the answering machine wit......
Solstice Gathering and Pipe Ceremony - theHumm August 2020
By Andy Fisher
Something powerful happened on the Summer Solstice this year at the Perth Healing Forest Memorial. Elder Francine Desjardins led a gathering and pipe ceremony that both celebrated the Solstice and witnessed the systemic violence experienced in Canada by Indigenous and Black peoples. The event honoured Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two Spirit People, and the Black Lives Matter movement. With demonstrations circling the globe in this moment against racial violence and police brutality, it was an important time to stand together in ceremonial space here in unceded Algonq......
Apr 20 Perth Trashure Hunt Clean-up
Apr 20 Solitary Man
Apr 27 Festival of the Maples
Apr 27 The Moth Project
May 4 - 5 Spring Fine Art Show
May 5 Music at Mera: The Andrew Collins Trio
May 11 - 12 Art in the Attic
May 11 Engelbert Humperdinck & Tom Jones Tribute
May 16 MMLT Talk & AGM
- IS THIS A PROTEST?
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- Celebrate the ClassicsWith the Arnprior Choir
- 4F Auction Concoction Food, Fun, Fashion & Favourites
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- Electrify to Decarbonize Lanark
- Volunteer Forum
- Frankenstein Comes to The Station Theatre
