Dear readers,
We find ourselves in strange times. As I write this on Monday afternoon, the sun is shining, birds are chirping, and flowers are blooming.
As far as nature is concerned, it’s a glorious day.
But, as we all know, we are not in glorious times, due to a novel coronavirus that is causing consternation everywhere and causing us to change the way we live for now and in the unforeseeable future.
The entire world is impacted, of course, but as editor of the Ponte Vedra Recorder and a resident of Ponte Vedra Beach, I am concerned for our community.
I am concerned about the people, and also our businesses, because our fates are intertwined.
Please do heed the warnings about keeping social distances, but if you do need to shop, do it locally. If you don’t want to venture out of your house, pick up the phone and call to see if they deliver.
Do the same for restaurants, see if they have drive through services and/or delivery.
Keep in touch with your neighbors, especially those who are older, and offer to help them navigate how to keep up with their needs, be it food or medicine.
On the Ponte Vedra Recorder’s website, www.pontevedrarecorder.com, we will continually post stories and information as they come in. This will include items that impact Ponte Vedra area residents as well as restrictions, cancellations and postponements from the wider Jacksonville and St. Augustine areas.
We are working closely with state and county and city officials, along with hospitals and healthcare providers, to bring you the most updated information available.
If you have information to share, or have been affected by the pandemic, please reach out to us at pvrecorder.com.
Please continue to follow guidelines created by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
And get outdoors when you can, even if only to sit on your patio or in your backyard. Go for a bike ride, or a walk, waving to friends and acquaintances from a distance, but greeting them all the same. The experts say getting outdoors and exercising are great ways to keep your immune system strong.
Read books. Garden. Call people on the phone to talk, just like people used to do before texts and emails.
And please, please, remember to support local businesses.
Together, we will get through this.
If you have information or have been affected by the pandemic, please reach out to us.
In the meantime, please continue to follow guidelines that have been created by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Those guidelines also can be found on our website.
