On today’s CHMA local news:
- Mount A releases a student guide to pandemic life on campus;
- A look at Sackville town council’s agenda for tonight;
- CHMA’s Meg Cunningham Checks In with Anthony Madalena of Uptown Bagtown;
- The CBC looks into internal RCMP review documents;
- The heat warnings continue through to Wednesday;
- Renaming the Lorne Street Retention Pond;
- And the COVID numbers update.
Maritimes down to two active cases
New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia reported no new cases of COVID-19 yesterday.
The two active cases in New Brunswick are resolved, leaving the province with no active cases.
Over in Nova Scotia, where four new cases have been identified in the past five days, a government news release says there are now just two active cases in the province.
The government has yet to explain the early resolution of the two cases.
That leaves a total of two active cases in the Maritimes, both in Nova Scotia’s central zone.
Mount Allison’s new COVID guide for students released
Mount Allison has released a new student guide giving further details about its COVID response plan, and outlining expected behaviour for students and anyone else on campus.
In order to provide for enforcement of the rules, the university will be adding a new offense to its student code of conduct: Failure to comply with stated health and safety measures.
The rules cover everything from mask-wearing to following directional signage, to restrictions placed on visitors to residences.
Students, faculty, and staff will be required to wear a mask whenever physical distancing is not possible and when in transit on campus.
Students living on campus will also have additional restrictions on alcohol and substance use, access to common areas, and guests to their rooms.
The university says it may lift and re-impose these restrictions over time in response to the state of the pandemic.
The university will be setting aside one residence, Hunton House, to accommodate on-campus students who need to self-isolate during the fall term.
Students living off-campus will need to self-isolate within their living situation.
Students from outside the Atlantic bubble are expected to arrive in Sackville in about 10 days, on the weekend of August 14th and 15th, in order to be able to complete 14 days of self-isolation before others arrive.
Students living off campus are also required to self-isolate, and must make arrangements for food and supplies delivery before they arrive.
The guide also mentions the Mount A – Sackville Bubble, a co-initiative of the town and university involving a community commitment to public health and safety rules. Stickers will be available to those interested in making the public commitment.
A brief look at town council’s discussion agenda for tonight
Sackville town council will be meeting online this evening at 6:30pm for its monthly discussion meeting.
The agenda includes a presentation from the Mayor’s Roundtable on Climate Change and a discussion of the marketing strategy presented to council last month.
The strategy, a 50-page report prepared by Moncton consultants Portfolio, is critical of Sackville’s marketing efforts to date, pointing out that in the past eight years, the town has used nine different slogans or tag lines.
The report recommends that Sackville work internally and consult with citizens to develop a positioning statement for the town.
But the consultants also point out this could be challenging, because Sackville residents do not necessarily agree on what the town stands for and how they want it to evolve.
Also on the agenda is the appointment of a town representative to the Mainstreet Redevelopment Sackville business improvement association.
Mainstreet Redevelopment Sackville recently held an AGM and elected a new president, Anthony Madalena of Bagtown Brewing.
Council will also discuss a request for proposals for Public Art, a tender for improvements to Cattail Ridge Road, and crosswalk signaling.
You can find the agenda on CHMA’s community news page at chmafm.com.
Tuesday’s meeting will start at 6:30pm and streamed online.
This will be a discussion meeting for council. A regular council meeting will follow next week.
RCMP internal review records finally released after over two years
The CBC’s Shane Magee is reporting on RCMP internal review records that found illegal arrests, failures to offer support services to domestic violence victims, and a lack of supervision that affects the quality of policing in the province.
The reports came to the CBC at the end of May—nearly two and a half years after the network requested them in freedom of information request.
For that reason, the records include reviews no later than 2017.
RCMP spokesperson Jullie Rogers-Marsh sent the CBC a written statement saying there has been “significant organizational changes” since some of the reviews were done, and that many of the issues raised in the reports have been addressed.
Renaming the Lorne Street Retention Pond
The town of Sackville wants to rename the area around the Lorne Street Retention Pond, and they’re asking for ideas from residents.
The town is asking for suggested new names to be creative, appropriate, and respectful, and to be submitted by August 14th.
The town will choose three submissions for a public vote later in the fall.
Heat warning continued to Wednesday
Environment Canada has extended the heat warning for southeastern New Brunswick through to Wednesday.
Temperatures will reach up to 30 degrees celsius.
With humidity, the temperature will feel as high at 38 degrees.
The agency recommends staying in the shade and drinking plenty of water.
THE CHECK IN: Uptown Bagtown Boozy Market
Reporter Meg Cunningham brings us a fresh instalment of the Check-In with Anthony Madalena of the Bagtown Brewery — now called Uptown Bagtown Boozy Market.
That’s it for the CHMA local news.
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