You're invited to join our Community Connections advisory board

You have inspired us at NewmarketToday.

You stepped up as a community, again and again, to overcome the many hardships of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

In the last 18 months, you helped neighbours and strangers alike, supported our frontline heroes, and did your part to help local businesses survive. 

While that unparalleled community spirit helped us rise against the odds, the pandemic is not finished with us yet. It has not only created some daunting challenges that will remain with us in the foreseeable future — the stark toll it has taken on our mental health, to name but one — it has also shone a hard light on some existing cracks in our community’s well-being and prosperity.

Poverty, homelessness, food and employment insecurity, ageism, and education inequity are among the disparities exacerbated by the pandemic.  

Now, as we strive to find our “new normal,” NewmarketToday wants to continue to partner with you, to tap into that inspiring community spirit, and to ensure that needed new and different perspectives are heard.

We’re inviting you to join our volunteer Community Connections advisory board to share your insights and ideas about the issues that matter to our community as it moves forward into life after a pandemic.

We’re seeking citizens from a variety of sectors, and who represent a range of voices and diversity, including age, income, occupation, ethnicity, ability and gender.       

You don’t need to be a member of an established organization, but you do need to be willing to share your opinions and engage respectfully with a diverse group focused on creating connections, forming partnerships, building bridges and exploring solutions.

You’ll have the opportunity to write opinion pieces, collaborate on a series of articles and, potentially, a “town hall” event, as well as help ensure NewmarketToday is covering the issues crucial to community progress.

We’re asking you to commit to attending four meetings in a one-year term — current public health guidelines will determine the format, but we’re hoping to host the first meeting outdoors in August.

If you’re interested in applying, please send an email to [email protected] by Thursday, July 1 highlighting your background and reasons for wanting to join the board.

We’re ready to listen.