{"id":452,"date":"2020-04-20T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:03:13","slug":"algonquin-highlands-covid-19-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/20\/algonquin-highlands-covid-19-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Algonquin Highlands Covid-19 Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" height=\"110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ah1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ah1.png 337w, https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ah1-300x98.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Following is a summary of the latest news &#8211; full details can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.algonquinhighlands.ca\/news-notices.php?id=984\">https:\/\/www.algonquinhighlands.ca\/news-notices.php?id=984<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.&nbsp; Declaration of Emergency<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic and specifically in relation to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing\u2019s letter dated April 16, 2020 regarding O. Reg. 157\/20 relative to staff redeployments, the Township of Algonquin Highlands has declared a state of Local Emergency effective Friday, April 17, 2020 at 12:26 pm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Events<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 All summer programming and events have been cancelled. This includes;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Oxtongue Lake Canada Day<\/li><li>Oxtongue Lake Summer Speaker Series<\/li><li>Dorset Family Movie Nights<\/li><li>Dorset Museum Heritage Day<\/li><li>Stanhope Heritage Day<\/li><li>Swimming Lessons and Aqua-Fit<\/li><li>Stanhope Soccer League<\/li><li>Dorset Kids Fish Derby<\/li><li>Dorset Arts, Crafts and Antiques Show<\/li><li>Dorset Community Garage Sale.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Fall programming and events will be re-evaluated in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.&nbsp; Extension for Tax Installment Due Dates<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; The due date for the first installment of the 2020 Interim Taxes has been extended to May 29, 2020.&nbsp; The due date for the second installment of the 2020 Interim Taxes has been extended to June 26, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.&nbsp; Household Hazardous Waste Event<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 the event scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 16 at Maple Lake Landfill has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.&nbsp; Dorset Lions Bottle Collection<\/strong>&nbsp;at the Dorset Transfer Station has been suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;The Province\u2019s emergency order has been updated to include the prohibition of recreational camping on Crown land as of April 9, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong>&nbsp; The seasonal opening of the Dorset Tower has been postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a summary of the latest news &#8211; full details can be found at https:\/\/www.algonquinhighlands.ca\/news-notices.php?id=984 1.&nbsp; Declaration of Emergency&nbsp;\u2013 In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic and specifically in relation to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing\u2019s letter dated April 16, 2020 regarding O. Reg. 157\/20 relative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintlake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}