Port Cares Announces Service Changes Due to COVID-19

Friday, 13 March 2020 17:16

By Marcie Culbert

Parents of young children will have to find other forms of child care in Niagara.

Port Cares has decided to close all of it's EarlyON Centres due to to COVID-19.

It offers free child care for newborns and kids up to six-years-old.

Port Cares has also decided to close the Reach Out Centre Dining Hall until further notice.

Pre-packaged takeout meals will be available for registered clients.

Port Cares says the food bank will remain open, but they will implement social distancing.

This means they will only allow three clients at a time.

Hand sanitization stations have been set up at all Port Cares facilities.

Anyone who enters a Port Cares site must sanitize their hands immediately.

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