The COVID-19 pandemic has changed holiday traditions for Manitobans, as places of worship held virtual services while the province’s top public health official Dr.
Brent Roussin repeatedly asked people to stay home from Easter dinners and Passover Seders. It’s changed Siloam Mission’s holiday traditions, too.
The homeless shelter and mission normally serves dinners to hundreds of people on holidays — last year, between 600-800 sat down to break bread at its Easter Monday meals. “Every year, as long as we can remember, we’ve been doing an Easter meal,” Luke Thiessen said, Siloam Mission’s communications manager.
However, this year is anything but normal. “This is the first year it’s going to have to look a little bit different,” Thiessen