Local Businesses Adapt well to COVID-19 Pandemic Protocols

Local Businesses Adapt well to COVID-19 Pandemic Protocols

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Some of the local businesses revealed how they have been affected or have not been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Bert Loves, owner of Love’s Custom Meats, said his business has been able to offer full services and has not been affected by the Coronavirus. “We have been open the whole time of the COVID- 19 Pandemic. We have been following all the special protocols needed at this time including the social distancing, hand washing, and sanitation practices that are required,” Loves said.

Dayton Gegolick, one of the owners of Vantage Building Supplies Ltd. said their stores are open and people can come and go. “If you want you can call us up and place your order there. We can give you a price and if you are in town, we can also deliver it to you; if you are somewhere like in Mundare, we can possibly do free delivery if we time it when we are going into the city.

We are now offering full services. We always stayed open during the COVID- 19 Pandemic. For about a month there, our doors were locked but if you knocked on the door, they let you in. We reduced our hours a little. This year, we were open on Saturday’s but we temporary removed Saturday’s because of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

But then yes, the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected us especially on the Vantage Builders’ side where we design buildings and do houses, commercial and farm buildings; everything stopped on that side but hopefully things start improving, we will see how that works,” added Gegolick. “The special protocols we are practicing are we have a sign on the door that says to keep a certain distance away. We always had hand wash stations at the entrance of our door in our building as soon as you walk in, so we still have those. We are also washing down and spraying down everything in the building four times a day; more often for the exterior handles and we hope that people wear masks but that is not a requirement.”