Coronavirus concerns have sunk plans for the 40th annual Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny event in Port Hope, Ont. The popular event on the Ganarasaka River features hundreds of people who build their own watercraft to float in the 10-kilometre race.
The event commemorates the destructive flood that ravaged downtown Port Hope in 1980. This year’s event was scheduled for April 11.
There has been one confirmed case of COVID-19 in Northumberland County, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit said on Friday night. “In keeping with the guidelines recommended by the federal and provincial governments to practise social distancing, and to do our part to slow the spread of COVID-19 regionally, the organizers have made the very