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Collected Item: “Pandemic Reactions in the West Bend and Roncesvalles Areas”

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Pandemic Reactions in the West Bend and Roncesvalles Areas

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photographs of local reactions to the COVID crisis, ranging from businesses to neighbourhood yards.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Residents of the West Bend and Roncesvalles areas of Toronto have reacted to the coronavirus outbreak in many ways that promote consideration and support for their neighbours and patrons, ways that range from declaring support for Essential Workers to sharing bits of humour through shop windows and creating fun, social-distancing appropriate activities such as front lawn "I Spy"!

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#West-Bend, #Roncesvalles, #I-Spy, #Support-Workers, #Humour, #Caring

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Erin Baxter

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2020
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