Springwater News – We support you!
It was great to see the many letters of support for
our fine local community paper in the last edition of Springwater News. It is nice that letters
were sent to the paper, but I encourage those that wrote the letters to also
send them or email them to the Township and address them to Council. I say that
as our two current heads of council have a knack at reaching out to there
supporters soliciting letters supporting their position and they may become the
only reference for some future motion. As you know the Mayor and Deputy Mayor
did not support retaining the status quo and were in favour of cutting the
Springwater News portion of the budget in half. If you do not send your letters
to Council supporting Springwater News, there will not be an official record of
support, and in the next term someone could argue that they only have opposition
to supporting our local paper, so why not cut off advertising.
Supporting Township Business During COVID
It was good to see the province adjust their restrictions
on our local eateries under the Red designation. I encourage you to get out and
support our restaurants in Midhurst, Elmvale and Hillsdale and don’t forget the
Fry Guy in Anten Mills. They can use the business and they employ many local
people. My wife and I specifically frequent a local restaurant once a week and
do so in a low volume time. I feel very safe doing so as the precautions they
have taken are above and beyond in my view. It would be good if possibly the
Township could develop an Eat Local and promote our local eating
establishments. Now that we are in a Stay at Home order try to help our businesses by take out or curb side pickup.
COVID Spread
As mentioned before, I believe research will confirm
most of the spread is coming from the large retailers and pharmacies. They are
permitted up to 75% capacity. Did you know that most retail and big box stores
never achieve more than 25 to 30% of their actual safe occupancy capacity even
during Christmas in non-COVID times? In other words, with big retail there are
no restrictions! When this started, there were lineups, the counting of people
as they entered and control, and now nothing. There should be hard and fast
restrictions in these stores of no more than 50 people at a time and that would
reduce the spread. In the meantime, lets do what we can by Wearing a Mask,
Keeping Physical Distance and Sanitizing and consider seriously taking the
vaccine if you are able.
Again, please remember these are my thoughts and I am
not asking you to agree. I respect your freedom of expression and encourage you
to SPEAK UP, before that freedom is taken from us!! This is already happening
in Social Media and is worsening each day!
