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\t\t\t\tWednesday, June 12th, 2013<\/span> | Posted by brad<\/a><\/span> \t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Facelift: Terry Watchorn thinks a lick of paint on the fascia of some businesses in Leongatha would give the CBD a lift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

TERRY Watchorn has an idea that he thinks will help revive the Leongatha shopping strip.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called paint.<\/p>\n

A retired businessman and former enthusiastic member of the Leongatha Chamber of Commerce, Mr Watchorn said if you come into a town and see it all freshly painted it creates a welcoming picture.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to attract people in here. At the moment the place looks tired and in need of a makeover.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is critical of some shops having drab exteriors or out-of-date signs, referring in particular to fascias.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll it takes is a tin of paint, a paint brush, ladder and elbow grease.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll offer to go up and paint it for them. I\u2019m pretty handy! I\u2019m sure landlords wouldn\u2019t mind the updating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Watchorn said banks and big companies have criteria for presentation of the buildings, as do car dealers. So, he cannot see why others can\u2019t do the same thing.<\/p>\n

He said he once visited a timber town on Vancouver Island where the mills had closed and it was becoming a ghost town.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did murals on the walls and it took off. Now, they have tourist buses coming along to see them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not suggesting Leongatha follow suit but he does think a \u201click of paint\u201d would freshen the place up, making everything look brand new.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think it\u2019s something simple, it\u2019s not costly but is effective. It has to help. The first thing people look at is window dressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 | Posted by brad Try a coat of paint Facelift: Terry Watchorn thinks a lick of paint on the fascia of some businesses in Leongatha would give the CBD a lift. TERRY Watchorn has an idea that he thinks will help revive the Leongatha shopping strip. It\u2019s called paint. A retired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16178,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions\/16178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}