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COVID-19 lockdown isn’t easy, but these small Newfoundland towns are pulling it off
COVID-19, Mayor Georgina Ollerhead got a call from the mayor of Deer Lake, about 430 kilometres away.Deer Lake Mayor Dean Ball was calling to offer support and a few pro tips. He’d had to shut down his town a few weeks earlier as a cluster of cases emerged, and he knew it wasn’t easy to ask businesses to close and people to stay calm in the face of a pandemic.“It was actually quite an honour to have the conversation,” Ball said in an interview Wednesday.Shortly after Ball phoned, the town of Harbour Breton posted its public notice urging residents to stay home as much as possible and calling on non-essential businesses to close.“Mayor Ball certainly put us on the right steps to proceed forward,” Ollerhead said.