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3 | W aterloo C hronicle | T hursday,June 4,2020 w aterloochronicle.ca For more information: 519-575-4400 • www.regionofwaterloo.ca/water 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Remember that lawn watering days are based on the last digit in your house number. If your address ends in: 0 or 1 your watering day is: Monday 2 or 3 Tuesday 4 or 5 Wednesday 6 or 7 Thursday 8 or 9 Friday The following activities are permitted during the above watering hours for even-numbered addresses on even days of the month and for odd-numbered addresses on odd days of the month: • Watering of shrubs, trees and gardens • Washing of vehicles • Pool top-ups Thanks for doing your part! For newly planted sod/seed lawns and nematode applications contact the Region for a permit. WATER CONSERVATION BY-LAW STARTS MAY 31 OUR OFFICE IS REOPENED FORALL FOOTCARE NEEDS Our clinic puts your feet first. We offer care and preventative screening services to patients of all ages - from children to seniors. Whether you're an athlete or have a specific medical condition, such as arthritis, diabetes or a foot deformity, we'll give you the appropriate podiatric care. "Low-level laser therapy is precise, easily applied and non-invasive, offering safe and effective treatment for a wide range of conditions." Serge Petrusic BSc, DCh, Chiropodist 279 Weber St. N. Suite 17 Waterloo, ON N2J 3H8 519-884-4200 • kwfoot.com Services covered under extended health plans Doctors referral not necessarySome Of The Conditions We Treat We believe feet shouldn't hurt. The presence of pain indicates something is wrong and should be treated immediately. We have treated all forms of foot problems. If you don't see the condition listed that you are suffering from, please give us a call. "To reduce your chance of developing bunions, wear wide comfortable shoes, and get custom orthotics if you have fallen arches." • Cosmetic Foot Procedures • Diabetic Foot Assessment • Electroanalgesia • Electrosurgery • Extracorporeal Therapy • Fungal Nail Laser Therapy • Injection Therapy • Laser Surgery • Low-level Laser Therapy • Nail Regeneration Procedure • Needling Therapy • Percutaneous Tenotomy Therapy's include: • Achilles Tendon Injuries • Ankle Sprains • Arthritic Feet • Athlete's Foot • Bunions • Calluses and Corns • Children's Foot Problems • Chondromalacia Patella • Diabetic Foot Problems • Diabetic Wound Care • Flat Feet • Fungal Nails • Ganglion Cyst • Hammer Toes • Heel Pain/Plantar Fasciitis • High Arches • Ingrown Toenail • Metatarsalgia • Morton's Neuroma • Odour and Wetness • Peripheral Neuropathy • Plantar Warts • Seniors Foot Care Conditions we treat include: Nominations for - Best Chiropodist & Best Foot Care Clinic For the safety of our staff and our patients, we are now operating with additional precautions due to covid-19. If you feel unwell at anytime before your appointment, please call us to rebook. Thank You! Torstar -- a print and digital publishing company that owns the Toronto Star as well as six other daily newspapers in Ontario, 70- plus community newspa- pers, numerous news sites and digital properties across Canada -- an- nounced the roughly $52- million deal with NordStar Capital May 26. "We are committed to in- vesting in the news busi- ness, along with preserving the Atkinson Principles, as fairness and accuracy will continue to guide the pap- ers' prevailing value sys- tem," said Jordan Bitove, who along with Paul Rivett formed NordStar Capital in order to buy Torstar and take it private. (The purchase must still officially be approved at a meeting of Torstar share- holders in mid-July.) Bitove and Rivett have pledged to keep the Star true to its progressive roots. To that end, they brought former Ontario Liberal Premier David Pe- terson on board and intend to make him vice-chair. "The progressive report- ing is what we support, and quite frankly, that's exactly why we brought David in. Someone with an incredi- ble reputation who lives those values every day," Bi- tove, who was part of the group that founded the To- ronto Raptors, told The Star. Rivett also said they don't intend to hack and slash their way to success. "Our current focus is that we're excited to bring new potential revenue sources and partners to the business and find ways to grow, not cut," said Rivett, who recently retired from Torstar's largest indepen- dent shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. As far as specific plans for Torstar's community newspapers, not much has been said, at this point, but Hinds doesn't expect any major changes. "Local is key right now and we've certainly seen that in the community sec- tor. I don't see that the own- ership is really going to change that," he said. "It's really about serving those communities and being the medium of record in those communities, which Met- roland (now Torstar Com- munities) has been for a lot of those communities." Hinds noted the new owners have talked about shifting to a more "digital strategy," but added it's "something you guys have already embraced and are moving forward with." The sale of Torstar comes at a time when the al- ready struggling newspa- per industry is being fur- ther battered by dramatic declines in advertising rev- enue caused by the corona- virus pandemic. "Unfortunately, we've got huge (readership) demand at the same time when a ma- jor source of revenue, and for many the community sectors the primary source of revenue, has disappeared or has been severely cut back," Hinds said. But the pandemic has al- so revealed how vital local newspapers are to the com- munities they serve, he added. "The real silver lining is that this crisis has shown how much people rely on, and appreciate, and value their local news brands," he said. "Nobody else is telling readers in their specific communities where to get COVID testing; how many cases there are, all of that stuff... and we've certainly seen that readers have re- sponded by viewing and reading the product at hugely increased rates." Hinds said Torstar's new owners are bound to find that appealing. "It's all about eyeballs and, I think, the industry has proven, yet again, when Canadians or Ontarians go to look for information and news about their communi- ty, we know where they're looking. That's got to be at- tractive to anybody looking to run the business." - with files from Josh Rubin, Rosa Saba, Canadian Press NEWS Continued from page 1 'LOCAL IS KEY': PANDEMIC HAS SHOWN THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS, SAYS HINDS Jordan Bitove Paul Rivett John Hinds