New looks for Lake Avenue? Facade liftforVillage stores by Fran Wallis Denver and Silverton. of the total costs to improve the SILYERTON - The The major portion of the building front of $350 per linear Silvery Slocan region may grant for New Denver comes metre," said Dorothy Mellen, soon shine again with the under the facade program with clerk administrator at the Silver- help of funos from the $25,000 available to assist owners ton Village office. A further $200 provincial government. in improving their storefronts in per linear metre or one fifth of the Sizable grants from the Min- the downtown business area. total costs can be granted to im- istry of Municipal Affairs are allo- Silverton has $5000 available. prove the sides of the building. cated for downtown revitalization "Any business owner wishing to Also under the umbrella of work through the Village Square do facade improvements can the facade program New Denver Project for the Villages of New apply. The funds will cover a third has received $2,500 to enable an amendment of the official com- munity plan to include design guidelines and sketches. Addi- tionally, under Phase II of the lakeside park development, a third of the project costs, up to $6,750, will be made available to New Denver to complete con- struction of Greer Park. The Village of New Denver only recently adopted their offi- cial community plan, however it has been more than 10 years in The Village of New Denver only recently adopted their official community plan ... more than 1o years in the making. the making, while Silverton's has been in place for more than a de- cade. Both villages have made the plan-guidelines by-law, so store- front owners must adhere to them when making facade changes. According to Mayor Gary Wright of New Denver, their con- siderable success having funds al- located can be -attributed to the good working relationship with Martin Thomas, the Village Square administrator that has developed over the past three years. "I think he likes us," said Wright. "Seriously though, he likes the energy here and what we are trying to do coincides with the philosophy of the downtown revi- talization program. Plus we're doing it cheaper than anyone else." MLA Corky Evans says, ''The charm and character of the down- town centre adds to the tourist appeal of a community... initia- tives like this show that B.C. com- munities are prepared to work with the provincial government to ON MOSTMEN'S, build a stronger, more diversified economy." WOMEN'S& CHILDREN'S Bridge SUMMERFASHIONS Continued from page 3. so if there's a concern, then we can work with them to provide options." It's all "a matter of co-ordina- tion," says Farrell. Lawrence Chernoff, Castle- gar city councillor and member of the community liaison committee ""'~OODWYNN is optimistic, "I think the bridge is going well and some of the bene- fits down the road will be that it will remove the heavy truck traffic out of the downtown area - par- ticularly chip trucks and haz.ard- IT'S OURSTYLE TO SAVEYOUMONEY! ous material trucks coming in to town." NELSON TRAIL CHAHKO-MIKA MALL 352-9488 - [tJ WANETAPLAZA 364-5644 Call the Express Toll Free 1-800-665-3288 Page 10 THE KOOTENAYWEEKLY EXPRESS AUGUST 18, 1993