KEVIN PARNELL
Black Press
The District of Lake Country will be asked to spend more money on improving the entrance signs to the community to make them more visible and unique, before they are installed.
The district heard a presentation from its public art committee saying the signs they currently have are not big enough. The group will be asking district council to fund an improvement to the signs.
The district has signs to put up, but the art committee wants them changed before that happens.
“We’ve done a fair amount of exploring of our options (on the entrance signs),” said Sharon McCoubrey, public art committee chairperson.
“It takes awhile to combine everything we want to add to the signs. We want to make them more striking and we are waiting on quotes to come in on what it will cost.”
McCoubrey said a request for funding for the signs will be presented to council once the final quotes are in.
With the district about to undergo a drastic change to the way traffic is routed through the area with the new Highway 97 coming online this summer, McCoubrey said it is important that the entrance signs are as visible as possible as motorists drive into Lake Country.
Coun. Rob Geier sits on the public art committee and says there are many great ideas about the entrance signs, they just need to focus on one.
“There are exciting things happening and we have discussed a lot of the things around the Pelmewash Parkway and the entrance signs,” he said.
“Nothing against flowers but there are lots of entrance signs around with flowers. We want it to be something unique and different.”
