Chapleau Town Council's waiting a little longer to decide whether to extend this year's ice season.
While the arena's ice is normally removed at the end of March, Council had received a request from Chapleau Minor Hockey to keep it in until April 17th - but Mayor Michael Levesque notes a decision's been pushed to the March 22nd meeting.
As Levesque referenced, Public Health Sudbury and Districts has issued a "Letter of Instruction" going beyond the province's restrictions for the health unit - while provincial restrictions limited team sports to training with no contact or coming within two metres of each other, the health unit's prohibiting training, too, as well as activities likely to result in individuals coming within three metres of each other.
That's prompted the Township to close the Recreation Centre until further notice.
The health unit's "Letter of Instruction" - which took effect at midnight this morning - also requires restaurant or bar patrons to be from the same household to sit together - with some exceptions for those who live alone or are caregivers - while the patrons must verbally attest to this to the business, and provide more information to support contact tracing.