Gazette The Lake Cowichan
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015
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Rock of the Woods: CVRD seeks input on fate of annual music festival PAGE 3
Columbarium: Town project will give residents a place to rest PAGE 2
Minor Hockey: The annual hockey jamboree is back. Full schedule inside. PAGES 11-13
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The new town directory sign on South Shore Road was finished last Friday (Jan. 16). Though the 12 plates are still empty, they will soon be filled with business and civic directories.
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Officer Joe Fernandez explained that the sign can serve the community all year-round. “Downtown beautification was one of the ideas [behind the sign],” Fernandez said. “Signage is an issue a lot of communities are tackling. Visitors want to know where to go, they want to know where to find the arena, the bank, the lake.” The idea of a new sign came up several months ago, as town council was discussing new sign
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Residents may have already noticed a new addition to South Shore Road, just outside of the Field’s Store. The new directory sign was finished last Friday (Jan. 16), though it’s 12 plates still remain empty. Despite the fact that we’re still months away from the annual flood of visitors in the summer, the Town of Lake Cowichan’s Chief Administrative
regulation bylaws, which mostly concerned signs on or in front of commercial buildings. “The sign was initiated by by the advisory planning commission,” Fernandez said. “Council was dealing with signage bylaws, so e it v made sense to take the opportunity to look at civic signage.” The 12 plates on the new sign will be rented out to local UPthe TOTown of Lake businesses, and Cowichan is currently looking into renting them out in five-year
periods. Should a business close Lake Sports Arena, “depending during that five-year period, on the level of interest” from the plate would be taken down, private businesses, according to UP TO without reimbursement. Fernandez. “[The plates] should be up as As the recently lifted boil water soon as we can convince people advisory remains a hot topic in to get names up there,” LakePRICE Cowichan, there has been e IN TOTAL ADJUSTMENTS n their t said. Fernandez “There was a lot Amountdiscussion within town council of available on the 2014 Veloster Turbo Manual of interest in the sign initially, how the town can get the word out but since we’ve put the sign up, quicker in any similar scenarios nobody has phoned and asked me.” in the future. One idea that came A certain number of plates on up was to post advisories to town the sign will be set aside for civic signage. PURCHASE FINANCING buildings, such as the Cowichan —Continued 2 FOR UP TOon 96 page MONTHS
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