Drumheller has been getting some much needed beautification updates over the past few months.
In May, the Town of Drumheller partnered with The Drumheller Institution’s inmate work program to help beautify the Petro Canada Munchie Park in downtown Drumheller at the corner of highway 56 and 3 Ave W.
The crew pulled weeds and planted new flowers within the park to make it look more presentable.
Members of that crew are now working in other areas around townn to beautify them while still maintaining the Park.
“There is a lot of routine maintenance that is going on. Then we had to step it up a bit with Munchie Park. It looks awesome now. We are starting to see plants around town. We have the one entry way done. We are going to be looking at other entries, said Drumheller Mayor Terry Yemen.
The town has been waiting for the Alberta government to approve work to be done along the boulevards on the highways in town. Yemen said the government has finally approved it, after about two years.
“The Alberta Government finally (gave us) approval that we can go ahead and do some more work on the boulevards. It is their boulevards, so ultimately it is their decision, so we had to get their approval and we do have that now so we are going to move that forward,” he told the Mail.
He explained it will move forward and the work will be done in phases because there is not a big budget for this type of work to be done all at once, so it will be done in smaller time frames.
“We are going to continue it and it will look something like the entry way that we have now,” Yemen said.
“We have been getting lots of positive comments from long time residents that they have said the Valley is looking really nice this year, so I am glad to hear,” he said.
“There is a bit of a atta boy out to the town staff because they have really stepped up too,” he finished.
