Article content The Municipality of West Perth’s first priority is to ensure the health and safety of residents, visitors and staff. Effective April 8, with other restrictions added nine days later on April 17, the municipality looked after ensuring additional lockdown measures related to the stay-at-home order under the Province of Ontario COVID-19 Response Framework: Keeping Ontario Safe and Open be enacted. “We’re all doing our best to respond to provincial announcements and we respect that the province is doing its best to adapt to this very complex situation as quickly as they can and expecting others to adapt inline with the province’s new measures,” said West Perth CAO Jeff Brick during council’s meeting April 19.