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City offers to fund half of skate park project BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
After years of debate a skate park proposed to the City of Trail is another step closer to becoming a reality. On Monday night in the regular council meeting, the city committed to funding one half of the estimated $550,000 cost for the proposed skate park. But before construction on this project moves forward the skateboard committee is expected to raise the other half of the money required. “The city will quite often enter into partnerships like that for the construction of either amenity areas or recreational facilities,” explained corporate administrator Michelle McIsaac. “What we do is come up with a 50/50 type cost sharing arrangement and the external group, in this case it’s the skateboard park committee, has their funding in place. “Then, the city steps up and we undertake construction so we wouldn’t get started until the money is in place.” The Columbia Youth Community Development Centre (YCDC) has supported the project by fundraising, raising awareness and supporting youth in their efforts to move forward on this project. “The YCDC makes up only one aspect of a fundraising committee,” said Morgan-River Jones, the coordinator at the Columbia YCDC. “Additional fundraising will be the responsibility of the entire skate park committee.” But there’s no denying the weight of the YCDC’s involvement on a project of this scale, a result that could have been triggered when the YCDC backed a group of youth who petitioned the city when the idea was initially raised in Trail council. “The YCDC is an integral part of the Skateboard Park Committee and they’ve already done some fundraising at various events,” said McIsaac. “They’ve done T-shirt sales in the past, but they’re also seeking funding through external grant opportunities. “So, they made up applications through the CBT Community Initiatives Funding and the Skateboard Park Committee with YCDC, being a part of that, will be looking at other funding sources—essentially grant opportunities.”
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Ken Drake, an employee from Simm’s Excavating and Snow Removal Ltd., began clearing up the parking lot by the old Dairy Queen this week.
Group leads battle against invasive weed BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
There’s good weed and there’s bad weed. And the bad ones are nonnative plants that threaten to proliferate in local waters, causing inestimable damage to the region’s ecosystem, according to the Central Kootenay Invasive Plant Committee (CKIPC). But now there’s good money going after the bad weed as the CKIPC recently received a chunk of change from the province to nip the bad in the bud, including the
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Greater Trail’s public enemy number one: Eurasian water milfoil. Although the committee won’t be using all of their $49,500 to fight the good fight in the region against the non native, invasive aquatic species, they are raising awareness for users of the Columbia River and Champion Lakes to help stop its spread. The committee is continuing with its prevention awareness campaign for recreation users of those bodies of water— as well as Christina Lake and the Kootenay River—
promoting “Clean drain and dry before leaving a water body or entering a new one,” said Crystal Klym, CKIPC program manager. “One of the biggest problems with Eurasian milfoil is that is can be transported throughout lakes and river systems by boats and recreationalists. Little bits can be caught on the motor and then transported from one body to another,” she said. “So if folks can just have a look at the bottom of their boat to make sure it is clean
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of plants, that would help stop its spread.” Eurasian water milfoil can grow from broken off stems which increases the rate in which the plant can spread and grow. The challenge with an invasive species like Eurasian water milfoil in general is that, once it is introduced into a region, it can spread quite rapidly and then displace native plants and animals, impeding recreation by clogging waterways and beaches, and choking boat propellers.
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