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Nominations open for 2021 St. Catharines Arts Awards

Online nominations are being accepted for the 2021 St. Catharines Arts Awards.
Local artists, residents, businesses, volunteers, patrons and organizations are eligible to be nominated.
Nominations are available for the categories: Arts in Education, Emerging Artist, Established Artist, Making a Difference and Patron of the Arts.
This year’s awards will be held in the fall of 2021.
Learn more about the St. Catharines Arts Awards and how to make a nomination at www.stcatharines.ca/ArtsAwards.

St. Catharines is providing funding for the building or expanding of community gardens.
Incorporated charities and not-for-profit groups can apply for matching funds from the city to cover up to half of eligible start-up costs, including lumber, soil, seeds, rain barrels and other materials and equipment.
The city hopes to encourage more community gardens for the purposes of growing produce.
To learn more about the program and to apply visit www.engageSTC.ca/community-gardens.

The city of St. Catharines is seeking public input for a new recreation facility allocation policy.
The new policy will include all city recreation facilities, creating a uniform process to ensure facility use is fair for all users.
In late 2020 the city held consultations with existing user and stakeholder groups and is now expanding those consultations to the public through an online survey.
Residents can take the survey by visiting engagestc.ca/RecFacilities before March 1, 2021.

Niagara Health will open a new COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Seymour Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre.
The clinic will be available by appointment only for health care workers including long-term care and high-risk retirement home staff and essential caregivers, and Niagara Health staff and physicians.
The clinic will use a full rink as well as space in the main atrium and will replace the current clinic held at the St. Catharines Hospital.
The larger clinic will allow for more people to be vaccinated each day and will maximize physical distancing.