(Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)

By Mat Barrett

Re-Open Saskatchewan

Local spa, fitness centre excited to be back in business

May 27, 2020 | 11:58 AM

On June 8 marks the beginning of Phase Three of the Re-Open Saskatchewan plan. Gyms and fitness facilities are permitted to open along with places of worship, childcare facilities, and more personal services.

Linda Madraga, owner of SpaFit by Linda in Melfort said they are very excited to be able to re-open shortly. She said she’s looking at it as a positive step for businesses in the area and hopefully they can continue limiting the transmission of COVID-19.

A major piece of the next set of businesses re-opening is enhanced cleaning and sanitation throughout the building.

“Although we had high requirement before this all happened,” Madraga said. “At the same time we will still be maintaining requirements going forward, in order to be re-opened.”

She said SpaFit has always used hospital grade sanitizer to make sure surfaces and equipment are all clean.

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Social and physical distancing will also have to be regularly watched at these businesses. For SpaFit, they have a spa and a fitness centre in their building. Madraga said distancing on the spa side should be manageable as they have numerous private rooms for various services. She said they’ll have to watch the gym side much more now.

“The gym side, social distancing definitely will be a highly enforced area that we are going to be maintaining,” she said. “And a staff member will be on the gym side at all times. The equipment and the weights will be sanitized thoroughly by an actual staff member.”

She said needing to constantly sanitize is something they’ve always had to do, and while it’s needed even more now, they’ve always had to deal with skin on skin contact. Madraga said they’ll continue to take high precautions.

“I don’t see how we would ever lessen that to begin with,” she said.

Madraga added they have not yet decided if they are going to be putting up plexiglass barriers, but staff are likely to be wearing a mask and gloves at all times. Clients will also have to wear masks on the spa side at all times.

She said there’s been plenty of communication with the staff at SpaFit to make sure everyone is on the same page, and it’s going to be lots of cooperation with staff and clients.

“It’s a very high priority, and they know that already,” Madraga told northeastNOW. “So, it just makes our clients much more at ease entering our facility knowing we are taking care of them.”

Gym memberships that were frozen when the gym was forced to close will resume with the same amount of time left on the membership. Madraga said she’s also had lots of people already contact her about appointments on the spa side.

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