Hamilton’s mayor and emergency operations centre (EOC) director says they hope to work with many “major” event organizers in the months ahead to alter programming as strict distancing orders from the province are likely to continue through the summer.
Mayor Fred Eisenberger told Global News on Friday it’s “not likely” many traditional events “as we know it” will be a part of the city’s summer in the absence of a vaccine for the coronavirus. “I cannot foresee that we’re going to be allowing, you know, hundreds of thousands of people to drop through for Supercrawl or an agricultural fair at Rockton,” the mayor said. “It just doesn’t jibe with the circumstances we’re in now. “So I think the likelihood of them happening is very small.” The