City officials, in addition to cautioning residents, about maintaining physical distancing on sidewalks, are now going to restrict access to Cranberry Flats Conservation Area. The city wants to stay in line with the public health order of avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people.

Mayor Charlie Clark says having already closed play structures and the crossing at the weir because it is so narrow, the City of Saskatoon continues to make adjustments to avoid situations where either COVID-19 gets on surfaces, that residents could come into contact with, or people could be physically bottle-necked.

“When it comes to things like Cranberry Flats or the canoe launches that the MVA has, the major concern there is that people gather and have bush parties. You know, that you create, outside of the city gathering points which could also be places where the virus spreads and so that’s the balancing act there.”

Summer hours at the landfill start next Monday. Those hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. You need to remember thought that cash transactions are not being accepted. They will accept card payments.

Keep in mind, at many of the pedestrian crossing signals in Saskatoon, you don’t have to actually push the button to get them to go on. To limit contact during COVID-19 city crews have adjusted pedestrian crossing signals so you don’t have to actually touch the buttons, they just activate by themselves.