{"id":69428,"date":"2020-06-18T04:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/mp-offering-free-sanitiser\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:10:23","slug":"mp-offering-free-sanitiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/living\/mp-offering-free-sanitiser\/","title":{"rendered":"MP offering free sanitiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMBER for Western Victoria Stuart Grimley is offering free sanitiser for small businesses to provide to customers throughout the region assisting the public to maintain high levels of hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the COVID-19 pandemic I saw people, including the elderly and mothers, unable to purchase sanitiser because it was either out of stock or expensive,\u201d Mr Grimley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s taken since the start of the pandemic to actually have them made, but as we\u2019re all aware this need to keep hygienic will continue for many years so we should keep these habits going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said businesses could contact him to get their free sanitiser, and that offering the free product to businesses was a fast way to increase community usage of hand sanitiser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69434\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/Grim-3-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/Grim-3-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/Grim-3-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/Grim-3-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cBusinesses, small businesses especially, have been hit extremely hard, and despite having less income they\u2019ve had to change their whole game plan. In most cases this has actually cost money, customer screens, extra cleaning, so this is something really small that can help the businesses be COVID-responsible but not cost them anything either,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping with more readily available sanitizers and other products available, good self-hygiene will just become the new norm and hopefully reduce any future outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Grimley said all small businesses within the Western Victoria electorate were eligible for the free sanitiser including the Surf Coast, Bellarine, Geelong region as well as Ballarat and the Golden Plains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just need to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:stuart.grimley@parliament.vic.gov.au\">stuart.grimley@parliament.vic.gov.au<\/a> or through my social media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter in everyone else\u2019s pockets than in my office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Businesses are limited to 25 sanitisers, which are 70 to 80 per cent ethanol. Offer available while stocks last.<\/p>\n<p>Find Stuart on social media:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On face book \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StuartGrimleyMP\">FB.com\/StuartGrimleyMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Instagram \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/StuartGrimleyMP\/\">Instagram.com\/StuartGrimleyMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On twitter \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StuartGrimleyMP\">twitter.com\/StuartGrimleyMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><b>PAID ADVERTISEMENT \u2013 SPONSORED CONTENT<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Funded by parliamentary budget<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMBER for Western Victoria Stuart Grimley is offering free sanitiser for small businesses to provide to customers throughout the region assisting the public to maintain high levels of hygiene. \u201cDuring the COVID-19 pandemic I saw people, including the elderly and mothers, unable to purchase sanitiser because it was either out of stock or expensive,\u201d Mr [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/living\/mp-offering-free-sanitiser\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":69429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-69428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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