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Jonathon Naylor Editor A new municipal maintenance shop is due to open in Creighton later this year, capping off one of the town's largest capital expenses in recent years. Town council expects to spend about $600,000 on the metal-frame building, which is being built beside the existing town garage on Bereskin Avenue. Council budgeted $400,000 for the project in 2012, but roughly another $200,000 is to be spent in 2013. Council hopes to have the new 3,600 sq. ft. shop _ bold blue with windows _ completed by the summer. It was one of several capital projects the previous town council approved in its 2012 budget. Others included a $100,000 deposit into a fund for a new fire truck that will be required in the coming years. Another $50,000 was budgeted to upgrade the sewage lift station on 'old' Creighton Avenue, at the northeast end of the street. Council further allotted $26,000 as the final payment for a columbarium and 'memory wall' at the corner of Elander Avenue and Nejedly Street. There was also $20,000 to enhance the Tom Creighton memorial cairn site on Main Street, $15,000 for new playground equipment and another $15,000 to landscape the future site of the columbarium. A further $8,000 went toward two roadside signs welcoming motorists to the community. Absent from the budget was paving after council spent $300,000 on such projects in 2011. Further paving was ruled out in 2012 given the cost of the new municipal shop. All told, council's budget spent $3.3 million on expenses, down by more than $400,000 over 2011. That was because council received a one-time grant for a specific capital project last year.
