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Affordable housing is a challenge for any city. Now the city of Oshawa is trying to tackle the issue, partnering with Habitat for Humanity GTA to build new 50 new townhouse units in the South end.

The City of Oshawa is looking to recognize local volunteers who contribute to community-based organizations. Individuals must be nominated for recognition by their volunteer organization. Each organization can nominate two individuals annually.

The City of Oshawa is looking for people to join their newest consultative committee – the Community Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. The committee’s goal is to develop a community-driven model for supporting the implementation of the Diversity and Inclusion Plan.

Partnering with Global Medic, Oshawa firefighters dropped of food boxes to 100 families in need. Tiffany Wallace, a dispatcher with Oshawa Fire Services who helped organize the project, explains the food came from Toronto through a partnership with GlobalMedic and Hand Up Toronto.

Teresa Shaver used to sew about once a week. Now she does it every day to help fight the spread of COVID-19. The Oshawa, Ont., woman is one of the founding members and co-ordinators of Canada Sews, a volunteer organization that's making homemade masks for Canadian health-care facilities and communities.

They came by the thousands over this past weekend to celebrate hockey in Whitby. Rogers Hometown Hockey, the travelling celebration of Canadian hockey that hits a town every weekend during the NHL hockey season, drew more than 6,500 residents, minor hockey players and members of the community to events at the Iroquois Park Sports Centre.