The LocalSKIM for Thursday, August 5 – Local Skim St. Catharines

Niagara Falls will be illuminated yellow on Friday night for National COVID Awareness Day and to honour frontline workers and to remember those who died from the virus. (610 CKTB)
Local theatre group The Foster Festival will be putting on The Ladies Foursome from September 14th – September 26th at four different golf courses in Niagara. (610 CKTB)
Niagara’s acting medical officer of health, Dr. Mustafa Hirji, said that with the anticipated surge in COVID-19 cases in the coming months, it would be wise to keep all COVID-19 measures in place to limit the increase in case counts. (St. Catharines Standard)
This past Civic holiday was a tragic long weekend in Ontario with a motor vehicle driver, a motorcyclist, two off-roaders and a kayaker losing their lives in separate incidents. (101.1 More FM)
The province of Quebec has announced that it is imposing a vaccine passport system to curb the spread of COVID-19. The passport will allow people who are vaccinated to return to a normal life with some non-essential services only being available to vaccinated people. (Global News)