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Upgrades & enhancements taking place in downtown Lethbridge

Lethbridge residents may start to notice some enhancements downtown in the coming weeks.

City crews have started to install parklets, which are seasonal patio spaces, and also replace street furniture, planters, banners and trees.

The objective is to create vibrant, beautiful and accessible public spaces in the downtown while also improving overall functionality.

This project was previously approved as part of the City’s Capital Improvement Program to the tune of just over $1 million.

Planters are scheduled to be removed next week in several downtown locations. No road closures will be required for this work, but parking stalls will be blocked off and fencing will be up in these area to ensure the safety of both worker and the public.

The planter replacements are expected to be installed in June with new trees being added in a later phase of the project.

The entire project is expected to fully completed in the summer or fall of 2021.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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