The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is going ahead with its plan to make part of the town a little more colourful after council agreed to water the flowers it will be putting out next month.
“I’m hoping they’ll be out by the end of the first week of June,” said Crystal Godbout, community development co-ordinator for the Chamber of Commerce.
The flowers, part of the Chamber’s town beautification project, will be hanging in 30 baskets on telephone poles from the corner of Central Avenue and Second Street East to the Fort Frances Cemetery.
They’ll also be in 21 large concrete planters–16 on the islands at the intersection of Central Avenue and Second Street East and five on the island at the east end of Scott Street.
“The company we bought them from [Lowey’s Greenhouse and Market Gardens] are going to be putting them out,” noted Godbout, adding the reason the flowers aren’t out already is that they’re now being grown.
Besides the Fort Frances Rotary Club’s work at McIrvine Park, the flower project is the only one being carried out under the beautification committee. But Godbout noted the goal to beautify has been a little contagious.
“I know there’s been some residents in the Kaitlyn Drive area who are going to hang some flowers in baskets from telephone poles there. I think they’ll be in a two-block area,” she noted.
“It’s nice to see residents get involved in their own little beautification project,” she added.
Godbout admitted she was anxious to see the flower project get off the ground as soon as possible. “Hopefully, after we see the flowers out, people will see it’s actually happening and maybe get inspired,” she reasoned.
The planters and baskets will be taken down and stored by Lowey’s in the fall.
The Chamber got permission to hang the flowers at the April 23 council meeting.
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