By Andrew de Souza

Welcome to Prince Albert

Feb 9, 2011 | 9:18 AM

The city is hoping to give visitors and passers by a good first impression by rebuilding highway welcome signs destroyed during last summer’s plough wind.

The signs, which have a welcome message in four languages and demarked the city’s boundaries, were destroyed and the city’s transportation division is hoping council will approve construction of a new, more robust signs.

The suggestion was to have a wooden sign suspended between rough stone pillars similar to signs that mark the city’s parks.

The cost of the signs will come from the insurance on the ones destroyed in the storm.

While the idea was put forward, there was some debate among councillors during Monday’s executive committee meeting, particularly about the design of the sign itself.

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Councillor Lee Atkinson said he didn’t want to agree on a sign that would represent the community without first consulting community members.

“These are things that represent our community and my feeling is (to) engage the community,” he said. “Let people contribute, let them participate, get some interest and then come up with something, create that interest within the community.

“We have viable people and artists in the community, why exclude them?”

Councillor Ted Zurakowski agreed, saying it should be a careful decision since it was something that would last for many years.

Councillor Jayne Remenda suggested it go to the city’s beautification subcommittee to decide on any designs of the actual sign, but she said the genera idea of the sign was acceptable.

In the end, the committee agreed to accept the general construction plans and to let the beautification subcommittee look at possible designs.

adesouza@panow.com