Rocanville
Having taken over as Rocanville mayor after the fall election, Ron Reed has been focussed on ensuring the public is following all guidelines, but having fun where they can.
“It was challenging,” said Reed. “I think we handled it very well. We stayed up on the Saskatchewan public health advice and regulations and everybody followed everything quite well. We had a bit of a parade the other day just to kind of break the Christmas doldrums of not being able to see some of our friends and family like we normally do and we handled that well.”
It’s been a balancing act with following health protocols while still giving the Rocanville community safe activities and events to keep moral up says Reed.
“We’re setting up an outdoor rink because there’s less restrictions there and other stuff like that,” he said. “We’ve just been focussed on getting all the stipulations in place, even with things like the golf course over the summer because that wasn’t allowed originally. I think we’ve done really well. The outdoor rink was definitely a positive because it gets the conversation going on it. What we’re doing this year is very temporary, but we’re hoping to work towards something a little more permanent for down the road.”
The uncertainty around 2021 is concerning, but Reed is hopeful things will be opening up more sooner rather than later.
“I don’t know if 2021 will be the end of Covid or not,” he said. “I think even with a vaccination we’re probably going to have regulations that we’ll have to follow for quite some time. Definitely things will get back more to what we consider normal, but we’ll have to wait and see.”
