Month: April 2020

We know it isn’t business as usual for either customers or businesses during these COVID-19 days, but it’s wonderful to see how many Bay businesses are finding creative and careful ways to keep serving our community. Please share all that and more on Discover St. Margaret’s Bay (see specific links below)!

Our volunteer website team is still available as usual to review posts, answer questions and solve problems.

Include the word COVID in your post, as appropriate, for website visitors searching that keyword.

Businesses may self-post in our local directory. Each post allows for your website link and a printable PDF, which may be information on your current offerings, or other information you wish to share.

During COVID-19, we are also encouraging area businesses to describe how you’re still serving the community on our bulletin board.

Are you holding a virtual event? Tell everyone about it on our community calendar.

Our content editor wants your stories for our blog:

News stories should be one or two paragraphs, preferably with a photo or graphic.

Reflections should be personal, not business-oriented, and should capture something you want to share about life in the Bay—why you moved here, why you stay here, your favourite walk, encounters with wildlife, and other stories that make this beautiful area such a great place to live.  Reflections should be 150 to 300 words, accompanied by a photo of the author or an illustration relevant to the story.

Below, in response to requests received to share these, are the safety protocol the Seniors Association of St. Margaret’s Bay uses to provide delivery assistance to members.

The following precautions are suggested to help you deliver groceries, medicines and other urgent needs in a safe manner for both you and the recipient. By avoiding touch and droplets in the air from a possibly infected person (or any person), your exposure remains low when making deliveries.

1. 1. Before you leave your house, wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds, dry your hands with a paper towel, and discard the paper towel in a covered waste receptacle.
      
      
   2. Organize your supplies to take with you: new bags that can be fastened, containing latex or vinyl gloves, disinfectant wipes, paper or plastic disposal bags and hand sanitizer to take with you.
      
      
   3. Put on your protective gloves.
      
      
   4. Wipe down your steering wheel, door handles, gearshift, keys and any other surface you touch in your car.
      
      
   5. Proceed to the grocery store, pharmacy, or other designated location, and pick up the order. Wipe your gloves with a sanitizer wipe or hand sanitizer.
      
      
   6. Leave the client’s order, preferably outdoors on their doorstep or, if necessary, just inside the door. Ring the doorbell, stand back 6 ft. (2 metres) and wait for the person to pick up their goods. DO NOT GO INTO THE RECIPIENT’S HOUSE OR ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM THEM.
      
      
   7. Wipe your hands with a disinfectant wipe when you get back in your car.
      
      
   8. If you are making a second delivery, remove gloves using a glove to glove/skin to skin technique: grasp outside edge of first glove near wrist and peel away, rolling glove inside out as you peel it off. Reach under the second glove with your now bare fingers and peel
      away the second glove the same way. Discard both gloves immediately.

      Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds, dry with a paper towel and discard the paper towel in a covered waste receptacle or a paper or plastic bag, which you will then fold closed and discard safely.

   9. When you return home, wipe down your steering wheel, door handles, gearshift, keys and any other surfaces you have touched in your car. Follow step 8 above if making another delivery.

Please conserve your supplies – there is currently a shortage of all supplies.

If face masks are available:
Place mask over nose and under chin, moulding the metal piece to the bridge of your nose. Face mask ties and straps are considered clean, and can be touched by hands.

To remove the mask, pull mask forward, bending forward to allow the mask to fall away from your face, and discard the mask immediately .