Look up and you’ll be seeing flowers above you this summer. Or rather, you’ll see what the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce will be doing for its part of the town beautification project.
“We got permission from the town last week to have hanging flowerpots from the telephone poles on the end of the 100 block of Scott Street to the cemetery [across from MacKenzie School],” said Crystal Godbout, community project development co-ordinator for the Chamber.
She added the idea is to extend the stretch of flowers the Business Improvement Area will be hanging from poles on the 100, 200, and 300 blocks of Scott Street.
“It would be nice to extend the flowers to either entrance of the town but I think that’s something we’ll have to look at for next year,” said Godbout.
The project will get underway later this spring or summer–about the same time the 2001 mural committee hopes to get to work on a second mural on a local building.
Committee chair June Cunningham said yesterday the project is ready to start but has been put on hold until they receive word on funding. A building has been chosen but won’t be revealed until it’s certain the project will go ahead, she added.
And third beautification project is the work the Fort Frances Rotary Club has been doing at McIrvine Park in the west end.
“It’s an ongoing thing for the next five years,” noted club member Bill Badiuk. “We plan to make it a full-scale park.”
The club already has planted trees there, and plans to do more now that winter is over.
Godbout stressed that while the beautification committee has been working on ideas, it can only do so much without community support.
“We really need some commitment from some groups to get all this town beautification really going,” she stressed, adding big events will be happening here in the not-too-distant future, like the WHO conference next May and the town’s centennial in 2003.
Any service club wanting to support a beautification project, or do their own, are urged to call Godbout at 274-5773.
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