The Village Association of Batavia announced that Doug and Deanna Fryman, of 250 Victoria Street, are the Property Improvement Award winners for December 2008.

After living in their home for 10 years, the Frymans were planning to sell the house when the housing market slumped. They then decided to invest their money into the home. They have added new siding, replaced the old wooden windows, installed new gutters and added new storm doors both front and back.

“We had put on a roof last year,” said Deanna Fryman. “The improvements took longer than we expected because we were in the middle of the renovation when the wind storm hit and that delayed everything.”

The renovation took four months to complete.