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SpringwaterDISPOSAL News • August BIN RENTALS 6, 2020 • Edition • 705-733-BINS 579 • Phone (2467) 705.322.2249 • www.clarksonbins.com Cell: 705.321.2653 Location of my desk: 44.5864°N - 79.8659°W • Altitude: 224 meters! 4944 kms to Equator • 14,894 kms to South Pole • 5110 kms to North Pole In Door Dining • 2 Patios Open 7 days a week Take out & Delivery 705 322 2249 • [email protected] Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 23 Queen St. W. Elmvale 705 322 2652 Detached homes in www.SpringwaterNews.ca Detachedthe heart Customer # 0003684814 / Publication/Admail # 0040027838 homesof Elmvale. in the heart of REGISTERElmvale. Your Locally Owned Community Newspaper REGISTERONLINE ONLINENOW NOW Edition 579 - August 6, 2020 Next Issue Aug. 20 • Deadline is Mon. Aug 17 greenmeadowselmvale.comgreenmeadowselmvale.com Craighurst W I Doings County set to reopen more public services and facilities Midhurst/July 30, 2020 – Effective August 4, 2020, the County is reopening additional services and facilities to support our residents and work towards a regional recovery. The County's Health and Emergency Services team and Return to the Workplace Task Force have worked closely with our partners at the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit to ensure enhanced and thorough procedures and protocols are in place for a safe and sustainable recovery. The following services and facilities will reopen as of August 4 Service Simcoe Contact Centre (Administration Centre As of August 4, 2020, the Service Simcoe Contact Centre will be open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Public access will be restricted to the atrium area via the Administration Centre’s front entrance. Safety measures have been installed to ensure the safety of both staff and the public. These measures include: • Plexiglass barriers • Floor social distancing markers Pictured is the Outdoor Lunch Craighurst Style. • Designated visitor washrooms Craighurst Women’s Institute, not daunted by COVID 19, met responsibly at the • Touchless POS Craighurst Park for a distanced picnic. We brought our own chairs, lunch and • Roped barriers beverage. • Directional signage The meeting opened with the Ode, the Mary Stewart Collect and the Institute Guests are reminded to adhere to safety precautions when visiting the Administration Centre, grace. On the Agenda was get well cards for absent members, what and when and including wearing a face covering at all times when in common areas inside the building how will we resume (no definite answers to that one). We did decide that our August and exercising proper hand sanitization. Additional sanitization stations have been set up to meeting will take the same shape as June and July. accommodate this. We then continued with updates on internet service (term used loosely), how the Simcoe County Museum gardens are growing, how the neighbours are, and will Carol bring her ukulele next As of August 4, 2020, the Simcoe County Museum will be open seven days a week, with Meeting? Don’t sit Under the Apple Tree and Irene Goodnight were featured today, reduced hours between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to allow for enhanced cleaning. Residents will with no accompaniment. (July’s meeting had guitar and song boards.) be required to reserve a time in advance of their visit. Bookings can be made through the The members are all in good spirits, are all staying home and minding the Premier, Museum’s website at museum.simcoe.ca no earlier than five days prior to the visit and can and send best wishes to the Community of Craighurst. We recommend Loobie’s and be completed the day of if space remains. When booking, residents will be required to answer Amiche’s take-outs and/or Patios. screening questions for their entire group. If the screening test is failed, the time slot will be cancelled to ensure safety of staff and other guests. Groups are limited to a maximum of 10 people, and time slots are bookable in 30-minute increments, allowing time between visitors for adequate physical distancing, but tours may take between 1 to 2 -hours. All guests are required to wear a face covering when indoors. Admission is by donation only; all donations are to be made through debit or credit card as cash is not accepted at this time. Select outdoor buildings and interactive displays, including the cottage, green barns, Red Pine House, and the Longhouse will not be accessible. As the provider and manager of emergency services, paramedic services, social and community services, long term care and seniors services, waste management, tourism and economic development programs, the County has responded during COVID-19 to offer recovery initiatives, continue program delivery, keep residents safe and offer program Treating You Like Family Since 1983 expansions during the pandemic. County staff quickly adjusted to virtual work from home options and continued to provide services and programs to residents, clients and partners at a high level. Close to 80 per cent of the County’s 1,900 staff work in, or directly support, service Call for Professional Advice and program areas deemed essential by the Government of Ontario, and more than 90 staff members working in non-essential roles during the pandemic have been redeployed to support Barrie: 705-726-2551 Orillia: 705-326-5664 critical needs in the County’s long term care and seniors services division – a sector greatly impacted during the pandemic. Colin Marshall [email protected] RVH resuming more services and opens Simcoe entrance to outpatients As the number of new COVID-19 cases declines in North Simcoe Muskoka, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) continues to safely and gradually resume some surgeries, procedures and ambulatory services. This includes cardiac, paediatric, medicine, some Imaging services such as mammography, mental health and renal services as well as opening the clinics at the Rizzardo Health and Wellness Centre in Innisfil. Throughout the pandemic, Automobile Residential Business Farm Recreational RVH continued to perform emergency surgeries, as well as most cancer services. As the majority of RVH’s outpatient clinics are located near the lower level Simcoe entrance, www.wmib.ca this entrance will re-open for ambulatory patients effective Tuesday, August 4. Patients will be advised prior to coming to the health centre if they should now use the Simcoe or Main entrance depending on which clinic they are attending. If an outpatient requires assistance from a support person, this must be communicated to the booking clerk GBGH encourages medical attention when needed prior to arrival. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Georgian Bay General Hospital (GBGH) Patients and support people will be screened upon arrival and are asked to bring and wear is reassuring patients it is safe to receive care based on the many safety measures their own clean face mask, otherwise one appropriate mask per person will be provided. the hospital has implemented over the past four months. Whether individuals Masks must be worn at all times in the health centre. Patients are to wait only in the designated need Emergency department care or have an elective procedure booked, GBGH is waiting areas, maintain physical distancing and practice thorough hand washing. prepared to meet the health care needs of the community it serves. RVH recently welcomed back a limited number of visitors as part of its safe, staged plan to In mid-June, the hospital safely resumed some elective procedures and surgeries resume visitation. Anyone arriving for their pre-scheduled visit with an inpatient will use the based on specific criteria laid out by the provincial government to help maintain Main entrance only. As a reminder, designated visitors must book their visit with the patient’s safety. These include enhanced cleaning practices, a stable rate of COVID cases in care team by calling the inpatient unit directly by 4 p.m. the day prior. Visitors must be on an the area, a reliable supply of PPE and medication, having a plan for pre-operative approved list to be permitted entry. Currently, patients are allowed one visitor over 16 years diagnostic testing, and having staff and space to care for patients in the event of a old during one of the daily visitation blocks --10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. once a week COVID patient surge. for no more than one hour at a time. As surgeries/procedures ramp up to 60 per cent of the hospitals’ capacity, GBGH If you are coming to Emergency, you may request one support person to accompany you if continues to work through the backlog of cases in a safe and efficient matter while you require support but this is at the discretion of the care team and that support person may keeping patient safety a priority. only be in designated areas of Emergency. For more information please visit www.rvh.on.ca. Page 2 Springwater News • August 6, 2020 • Edition 579 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.springwaternews.ca Additionally, the hog sector support program will provide farmers with up to $5 million to help cover their maintenance fees. The province of Ontario is also providing up to $1.5 million to process and package surplus pork for food banks, and to provide those in need with fresh, Springwater News locally produced pork products. This funding comes to our community through the 9 Glenview Avenue Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a fiveyear, $3-billion Elmvale ON L0L 1P0 commitment by Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial Publisher/Editor/Owner: Michael and Margaret Ann Jacobs governments to support Canada’s agri-food and agri- product sectors. Additionally, the province is expanding the Tel: 705 322-2249 • Cell: 705 321-BOLD (2653) Agri-food Workplace Protection Program and committing e-mail: [email protected] up to $15 million to enhance health and safety measures www.springwaternews.ca on farms and in food processing facilities.