March 28 2020 HLSC Meeting Cobourg Cancelled
There have been growing concerns and cancellations of members who have registered for our March 28 meeting in Cobourg. Even our national sport, hockey, has been affected. Playoffs for all minor hockey have been canceled and small towns around Ontario have closed arenas and postponed meetings with gatherings as small as a dozen even though there are no confirmed cases of COVID19 in their area. If we were to go ahead with our meeting, I would feel bad if even one of our members came down with any type of flu. The flu has been around every year we have had our meetings. This being a new type of flu it has us taking extra precaution, as we should. COVID19 will now be around forever and hopefully they will create a vaccine for it and make us feel more comfortable with our surroundings. The one good thing this outbreak has done is the fact that everyone should be practicing better personal hygiene which will hopefully help us all in the future. I shudder to think how the world will react when a real super virus comes around. I am sorry to say that we feel our meeting has to be cancelled to error on the side of precaution. Therefore, our HLSC meeting Mar. 28 2020 in Cobourg has been CANCELLED. Your registration cheques have not been cashed and will be destroyed. If you find it was cashed please let our Treasurer know and your money will be returned. I am looking on the bright side for our meeting in Niagara Falls in the fall. We will have to wait and see. Joe Barton President HLSC March 15, 2020
P.S. Just as I finished the above Notice I watched on the news that Cobourg has its first confirmed case of COVID19. A lady who got home from traveling from Spain and Portugal. Thanks for your continued support, have a good summer and stay healthy.
There have been growing concerns and cancellations of members who have registered for our March 28 meeting in Cobourg. Even our national sport, hockey, has been affected. Playoffs for all minor hockey have been canceled and small towns around Ontario have closed arenas and postponed meetings with gatherings as small as a dozen even though there are no confirmed cases of COVID19 in their area. If we were to go ahead with our meeting, I would feel bad if even one of our members came down with any type of flu. The flu has been around every year we have had our meetings. This being a new type of flu it has us taking extra precaution, as we should. COVID19 will now be around forever and hopefully they will create a vaccine for it and make us feel more comfortable with our surroundings. The one good thing this outbreak has done is the fact that everyone should be practicing better personal hygiene which will hopefully help us all in the future. I shudder to think how the world will react when a real super virus comes around. I am sorry to say that we feel our meeting has to be cancelled to error on the side of precaution. Therefore, our HLSC meeting Mar. 28 2020 in Cobourg has been CANCELLED. Your registration cheques have not been cashed and will be destroyed. If you find it was cashed please let our Treasurer know and your money will be returned. I am looking on the bright side for our meeting in Niagara Falls in the fall. We will have to wait and see. Joe Barton President HLSC March 15, 2020
P.S. Just as I finished the above Notice I watched on the news that Cobourg has its first confirmed case of COVID19. A lady who got home from traveling from Spain and Portugal. Thanks for your continued support, have a good summer and stay healthy.
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Who we are: Founded in 1981, the society is for all who have an interest of lighting of the past, and attracts membership from across Canada, the U.S. and abroad. With a mandate to gather and share knowledge, to encourage study and research, to obtain and record relevant material, and to liaise with other organizations having parallel interests, the Society welcomes all those with a casual or beginning interest in historical lighting, as well as those fro whom it is a major avocation.
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