COLLECTING BURLINGTON'S STORIES
Our community and coping with Covid-19

The Museums of Burlington is inviting our local community to send digital files of photographs, drawings, documents and/or videos reflecting how COVID-19 is impacting you and your families.

We are living through a historical event that will impact us and future generations, perhaps in ways we don’t even understand yet. We are collecting stories about how our community is looking out for one another, coping and pulling together.

Please email your contributions to museuminfo@burlington.ca. Please note, submissions may be shared via social media, our website, and/or future exhibitions for the purpose of sparking conversation and learning.

For more information visit museumsofburlington.ca/exhibitions/ online-galleries/our-community-and-covid-19

A notice for Adult Language and Learning English as a Second Language Students:

Your teachers have been working hard to create a website for you, and it's finally ready! They wanted to help you learn English during the school closure. Please check your teacher's class page for posts and activities that you can do at home. If you have not heard from your teacher yet, please check your email inbox! If you want to email your teacher, you can do this from your class page on the website.

The link to the website is: www.ALLenglishforeveryone.com

If you are in need of help with baby and maternity supplies during the covid-19 pandemic Refuge can help. They offer FREE maternity and baby supplies. They can help with clothing, diapers, wipes, baby food, accessories. If you or someone you know could use a little help during these difficult times please contact them at (519) 352-3576.

If you visit one of the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Areas please keep in mind social distancing applies there too! Keep your distance from other users. Carry out all your litter and your pet's litter! Bring your own water, facilities are closed. Do not gather in groups.

Watch YourTV on Thursdays at 8:00pm for our Belleville Bulls Throwback Thursday Specials! 

We've gone into the archives and repackaged games that highlight some great memories for this community!  Each week will feature a game from the Bulls seasons that recorded by us as our former entities CogecoTV and TVCogceo!  

With all of the talk about toilet paper shortages, it is important to remember that it you turn to alternatives they should not be flushed.

Please DO NOT flush anything but the 3P's - pee, poo, and paper (toilet paper only).

There is never a good time for a toilet to back-up in your home, or the sewer line for your apartment building, or your whole street. “But now, at a time when we are being quarantined or self-isolated at home due to COVID-19, nobody wants a situation that would force you out of your home where you are safest”, observed Robert Haller, Executive Director of the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA).

The CWWA knows there has been a rush on toilet paper and that some people may need to consider alternative products. Yes, there are many alternatives, but they CANNOT BE FLUSHED. Our municipal sewer systems are built to handle human waste and toilet paper that is specifically designed to deteriorate quickly. Anything else put down your toilet or sink causes problems that lead to clogs, blockages and wastewater equipment damage. Any of these situations can shut down sewer systems.