The city is looking at ways to beautify city entrance ways, including doing some cleanup along the Second Avenue meridian. (Charlene Tebbutt/paNOW Staff)

By Charlene Tebbutt

city beautification

City looking to make a better impression

May 16, 2019 | 5:00 PM

The City of Prince Albert wants to put its best foot forward, and is looking at ways to beautify entrance ways and corridors to make them more aesthetically pleasing for tourists and residents.

City Parks Manager Tim Yeaman said $25,000 has been approved to get the work started cleaning graffiti, weeds and debris from entrances to Prince Albert. Yeaman said local entrance ways are the first impressions people get when coming into Prince Albert.

“It’s important that they’re clean, it’s important that they’re presentable,” Yeaman said. “I think it speaks loudly to the pride that we take as a city when visitors come through our city, or even residents who live here, it’s the first thing you see when you’re driving in and it’s the last thing you see when you’re leaving.”

The city is looking to clean up several city entranceways, including the areas at Highway 2 North and South, Highway 55 East and West, Highway 3 South East and Highway 302 East.

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“There’s opportunity there for us to do a better job and we’ve certainly been looking for those opportunities,” Yeaman added.

One of the first areas earmarked for improvement is the wrought iron fence located on the centre meridian along Second Avenue West. Crews were out in recent days clearing dead grass and washing the fence.

Yeaman said the area will first be filled with bark mulch until a more permanent plan can be finalized.

“That’s a perfect example of an area that’s just been let go over the years,” Yeaman said. “This year it’s very important that we get that area taken care of.”

The city will also contact business owners along the Second Avenue West corridor to remind them of their landscape agreements with the city. As businesses change hands, landscaping responsibilities can sometimes be forgotten, Yeaman said.

“We recognize that maybe not a lot of those property owners now, business owners, actually recognize that there was a landscape agreement tied to that property,” he added. “This is everybody’s responsibility, we want to make sure that we have the best city entrance coming off Highway 2 and I think it’s important that they we represent ourselves well, and that starts with the city, but it follows with the business owners as well.”

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