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Subject: COVID-19
As of April 1,2020, Dr. Brent Roussin, Chief Provincial Public Health Officer ordered all environmental services are essential under The Public Health Act (Section 67) Environmental Services. (44). A business engaged in waste collection or recycling, waste and sewage treatment and disposal, the operation of a landfill or hazardous waste disposal.
Gateway Resources is continuing curbside collection as per schedule and the depot remains open. If resident’s have traveled or present symptoms of COVID-19 it is recommended you do not drop off and or place your recycling on the curb for collection.
Gateway Resources staff manually sorts recycling. It is prohibited to include the following in you recycling such as used Kleenex, face masks and latex gloves. In order to ensure recycling sorting staff does not have to handle these materials directly, please only include accepted items in your recycling container.
Also, please maintain a minimum social distance of two metres when interacting with recycling collectors and wait for the truck to depart before removing your bins from the curb.
Like many of you we were looking forward to our annual fundraiser - Faces of Gateway. This is where we share many stories of the individuals we support and services we offer. Unfortunately, we have decided we will cancel this year’s fundraiser due to the threat of Covid-19. We realize that there are too many unknowns right now for us to continue plans and promote this year’s fundraiser. This was a very difficult decision to make as this is our one fundraiser of the year. We appreciate your continued support now and in the future. We thank you for understanding and we want to assure you that the Faces of Gateway Fundraiser will be taking place in 2021. If you have purchased tickets or donated a prize please look for an email from us.
Staff working with people living with disabilities do much of the same duties health care workers do and more.
Giving medications, tube feeding, lifts and transfers, personal care, cleaning, cooking, driving and more.
If these staff are not essential then who will do these things if they don’t? They need the same level of support as health care staff (PPEs, child care assistance, infection contour protocols etc).
If you agree please follow this link and sign the petition. chng.it/qjvHRPCRXQ
Also thank a DSP they are the unsung heroes of many organizations! Ensuring services and support continue. THANK YOU!
I agree that we do an essential service. My only question is what benefit is it to be labeled as such. The only benefit I can find is employer protection from collective worker action. I am unaware of any unions in this field that could accomplish that.