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Mayor David Kogon has an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. To view his message, please go to: https://youtu.be/qNfkI-KXlGY
Amherst proclaims April to be Essential Services Workers Month
The Town of Amherst has declared the month of April to be Essential Services Workers Month.
“Our police officers, firefighters, public works crews, correctional officers, doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health-care workers, pharmacists and pharmacy and retail workers are vital to the health and safety of our community,” Mayor David Kogon said on April 3, 2020, as he signed the proclamation.
At the direction of the Minister of Municipal Affairs, and pursuant to the Emergency Management Act, all parks in the Town of Amherst are closed. Persons found on park premises will be trespassing and subject to fines.
To read the minister’s order, go to: https://bit.ly/399RtlF.
The Town of Amherst, like many other Nova Scotia municipalities, is asking the public to refrain from flushing disposable sanitizing wipes down the toilet.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have been encouraged to use the wipes to clean flat surfaces like counter tops, but Deputy-CAO Jason MacDonald says the wipes can harm sanitary sewer systems.