Summer Update #4 Added July 19
1. PICNICS
July 21 - PVSS sponsored Picnic in the grounds of the Pemberton
Catholic Church. Lunch provided for members who have
registered. Bring your own drink, chair and
sunprotection. Starting at 11:00 a.m.
August 11 - PVSS Sponsored Picnic at Helmer's Farm, starting at
11:00 .. there will be tents, tables and a few chairs, Lunch will
be provided for members but please bring your own drinks and a
chair if you can.
2. VACCINE PASSPORT - How to apply
1.
Vaccine passport? BC residents already
have one but you may not be aware!
(Canada has not yet made one available so
we are ahead of the curve and this is exciting news for future
travel).
You can now carry your government confirmed proof of
vaccination in your smart phone.
Getting
started: Find your health card (CARE card) sometimes on the
back of your driver's licence.
Go to your
phone's app store. Load. 'BC
Services Card'. Free
Follow all
prompts - i.e. scan the new health card, they will ask you on site
to take photo and video
These are your
very secure health records so they take a lot of pains to ensure
security and that no one else can access your health records.
In 1 to 2 days they will send you an email
authorization. Go back to the loaded BC services card, click -Find
services tab, then scroll down and look for
Health Gateway written in blue- click it
It will then
ask you to login with your secure login. Then you can access a
number of services including prescriptions, lab tests and in the
future much more health data.
Your immunizations will show there but
also there is a separate tab for Covid passport -isn't that cool!!!
thank you BC.
Screenshot it.
Print it out
When the Canadian US
border opens they will not have the Canadian vaccination passport
or secure records otherwise ready yet so if you want to avoid a two
week quarantine you need to have loaded this so you have an
official government "passport" as those little cards that we give
you are not really official (but in the interim they will
"probably" accept them.
And when you are logged into HealthGateway, it will let you
download the PDF (looks digitally signed) record of your vaccine
shots. (Choose Immunization) That might be useful to download to
your phone before you maybe crossing a border and potentially not
have wifi or cell data working. Note some airports actively block
wifi and cell data in customs areas for various
reasons.
3. Community Fitness Centre - new hours as of
July 26.. Please check the websites: onepemberton.ca for
updates on Phase 3 of reStart Plan and pembertonrecreation.ca to
book your timeslots.
4. Canadian Government App for travellers
returning/arriving in Canada
Below is a link to the
Help page so you can read about it before using the link on that
page to download the app.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/arrivecan/help.html
Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2021
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