The District of Sicamous will be sprucing up the areas around its highway, thanks, in part, to a $150,000 contribution from the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Economic Opportunity Fund.
The board approved two $75,000 contributions, one of which will to go to the purchase and installation of electronic signs that will be included among the three current welcome signs, while the remainder will be spent on buying and putting up white lights in the trees along the highway boulevards.
“As you know, Sicamous has been struggling financially and economically. We have a lot of highway traffic go through Sicamous, and our thought is if we can get three to five per cent of that to stop for more than just gas at the Shell station, it would be instrumental in our community’s success,” said Sicamous mayor and CSRD director Darrell Trouton.
“We are trying to do as much as possible to clean up our roadways and highways… We want the community to look from the highway like Sicamous has a lot to offer.”