{"id":81804,"date":"2022-02-09T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=81804"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T15:17:15","slug":"tantramar-report-sackvilles-rental-housing-shortage-is-resistance-to-amalgamation-futile-another-drew-nursing-home-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tantramar-report-sackvilles-rental-housing-shortage-is-resistance-to-amalgamation-futile-another-drew-nursing-home-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Tantramar Report: Sackville\u2019s rental housing shortage; is resistance to amalgamation futile?; another Drew Nursing Home outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On today's Tantramar Report:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Affordable rental housing is an issue throughout the province with widespread reports of low vacancy rates leading to higher rent. David Gordon Koch takes a look at the situation in Sackville, and speaks with Douglas Murray, a resident on the hunt for affordable housing, and ACORN NB spokesperson Peter Jongeneelen about the situation province-wide.<\/p>\n

Also:\u00a0We\u2019ll listen in on a discussion about the impending forced amalgamation of Sackville and Dorchester at town council, as one resident asks councillors, \u201cwhat can be done?\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus, CHMA\u2019s daily news and information briefs:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Drew Nursing Home outbreak<\/h2>\n

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Nine residents at the Drew Nursing Home have recently tested positive for COVID-19, according to Linda Shannon, executive director of the facility. Some of those residents are fully recovered, she said on Tuesday in an email. Shannon said there have also been 13 positive cases among staff members, and all but two of them are now back to work. There have been no deaths associated with the latest cases, she said. A spokesperson for the Department of Health didn\u2019t respond to queries from CHMA about the situation at the Drew Nursing Home.<\/p>\n

Mount Allison\u2019s active case count down to 6<\/h2>\n

Mount Allison has six active cases of COVID-19 in its community according to results of rapid tests self-reported to the school. One person is living in residence, and the other five people are students, staff or faculty who live off-campus. Since last week, an additional 9 new cases have been self-reported to the school, for a total of 92 cases since January 3rd. That number also includes cases from individuals who are not presently on campus or in Sackville.<\/p>\n

Council to consider approval of $92,500 in grants<\/h2>\n

Sackville town council will be asked to approve $92,500 in community grants at their meeting next week.\u00a0 Community, arts, and sports groups applied for nearly $120,000 in grants, a number that has dropped for the past two years running.\u00a0 The grants range in size from $500\u2013for the Sackville Golf Club\u2019s junior program,\u00a0 to $8500 in operations funding for Sackville Minor Hockey.<\/p>\n

Climate Change week events today and tomorrow<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s Climate Change week in the Tantramar Region, and EOS Eco Energy is presenting a series of talks and workshops all week to celebrate.\u00a0 Today at noon, EOS director Amanda Marlin is hosting a virtual tour of community-based natural infrastructure projects in the Tantramar Region such as rain gardens, green roofs, and food forests.\u00a0 Tomorrow night at 7pm, Sackville\u2019s climate change coordinator gives an overview of Sackville\u2019s various climate and sustainability plans.\u00a0 Registration is\u00a0online at the EOS Eco Energy website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On today’s Tantramar Report: Affordable rental housing is an issue throughout the province with widespread reports of low vacancy rates leading to higher rent. David Gordon Koch takes a look at the situation in Sackville, and speaks with Douglas Murray, a resident on the hunt for affordable housing, and ACORN NB spokesperson Peter Jongeneelen about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":81806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,219,223],"tags":[12554,7162,571],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81804"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=81804"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=81804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}