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Local business owner spearheading campaign to “match” medical facilities with with much needed Personal Protective Equipment

By Pamela Vanmeer

April 17, 2020

KAWARTHA LAKES-Laurie Dillon-Schalk owns a maple syrup farm just outside of Bobcaygeon. Usually this time of year is spent producing the tasty treat, but she’s got a sweet new project that’s taking up a lot of her time this spring. Schalk is the Co-Founder of Conquer COVID-19. They are pairing up medical facilities with much needed PPE or Personal Protective Equipment and they have some big name celebrities helping them spread the word.

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Pamela Vanmeer https://www.kawartha411.ca/

Pamela VanMeer is a two time winner of the prestigious Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Award. Her investigative reports on abuse in Long Term Care Homes garnered international attention for the issue and won the Ron Laidlaw Award. She is a former reporter and anchor at CHEX News, now Global Peterborough and helped launch the New CHEX Daily, a daily half hour talk show. While at CHCH News in Hamilton she covered some of the biggest news stories of the day.

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