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Council considers streaming meetings over the Internet BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
City hall would be transparent in its actions and open for business, Trail Mayor Mike Martin promised constituents during his November 2014 civic campaign. One year into his term, Martin is keeping that assurance by suggesting the city go one step further than airing Trail council after the fact - he’s hoping to stream public meetings, “as it happens” and over the Internet. “There have been a number of comments from citizens with regard to the key decisions made by council,” he told the Trail Times. “But nothing negative in regards to the transparency of council. The comments have been more along the line of the brevity of the regular council meeting broadcast with no direct insight into some of the key decisions made by council.” Trail council generally discusses city business twice a month on Monday afternoons. Agendas are published on the Trail website the preceding Friday, before matters are talked over, sometimes debated, and votes cast during the GOC (Governance and Operations Committee) sessions. Later Monday night, a brief GOC report is read during the taping of Trail council - decisions are broadcast but related discussions are not rehashed. And not everybody is privy to the Trail council meetings that air Thursday evenings - only Shaw TV subscribers can catch the action on Channel 10. “My suggestion to council is to have staff investigate the cost of setting up the committee room to allow for “streaming” of the GOC meetings through the city website,” explained Martin. “And in this way, the activity of council would be available to any citizen of Trail who has Internet access.” The structure of the Trail city council meetings is that most department business, such as public works and rec-
reation, is completed at the GOC meetings ahead of the regular Monday night council. The committee meetings are open to the public but poorly attended - usually only delegations or members of media are present. Key decisions are reported through other avenues, such as an on-line summary of council decisions and reports from media, as well as meeting minutes, made available on the city’s website. “However, the public cannot see the discussion, debate and decision making of council at the GOC meeting unless personally attending the meetings,” Martin reiterated. “Regular council meeting proceedings broadcast through Shaw Cable only provides a limited insight into council activities and is only available to those who have access to the Shaw network.” Streaming requires specific resources, so more investigation is required before council considers it an option. “We should have the cost to install the necessary audio and video equipment in the new year and we will then be in a position to make a decision on whether or not to proceed,” Martin added. “The matter will likely form part of the budget deliberations in January.” While most city business can be dealt with publicly, there certain subject matters which, because of their sensitive private nature or relevance to current or impeding litigation, are exempt from the general rule. Legislation prescribes what items can be discussed in an in-camera meeting. For the most part the “general rule” is content involving land, labour or legal considerations. The legislation was expanded a number of years ago and there are other specific considerations that can go in-camera including the discussion regarding a newly contemplated service and items that will be included in the city’s performance summary that must be included in the annual report.
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Trail recycles Christmas trees BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
The City if Trail is thinking green this holiday season by taking recycling of Christmas trees into its own hands. For the past 23 years the trees wound up at the McKelvey Creek Landfill, where they were mulched and composted, explained Larry Abenante, public works manager. “We have our own chipper so we’re just going to pile them there (at the public works yard) and when we have time, we’ll chip them and then that
material ends up being like bark mulch to be used through Community in Bloom or any other landscaping project we may have,” he explained. Christmas tree pickup is done in partnership with J. L. Crowe Secondary School grads, who pick up tress at designated drop off points or where household refuse is usually collected. The city pays the class $750 for the service. Abenante will be connecting with the grad committee in the new year to flesh out final pickup dates, with an eye set on the third week of January. Residents should watch for signs that point to designated drop spots close to home. Contact the Times:
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Over the course of the next few editions, the Trail Times looks back at highlights from 2015. Today’s issue captures July-September.
July 3 – Kootenay Savings and Credit Union consolidates Trail and Warfield branches. The Warfield branch, which opened in 1956 as the Warfield Credit Union, will continue to offer ATM and night deposit services. 8 – A nighttime video of Trail, produced by 19-year-old Eric Gonzalez, has become an Internet hit. The video, shot during the quiet nighttime hours, features still shots and drone footage overlooking the Columbia River and Teck.
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9 – The federal government handed the Columbia Basin Trust $3.34 million to improve Internet access for rural residents in the Kootenay region. The work, which is expected to be completed by 2017, will improve access for residents living rurally in Ross Spur, Rossland and Genelle among other Kootenay locations. 9 – The regional health community is working together to attract young physicians to the area. The Kootenay Boundary Rural Family Practice Residency Program is aimed to make young physicians feel welcomed in the area and entice them to remain in the region to continue their careers. 13 – The federal govern-
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New play structure, charging stations and welcome signs among Salmo improvements
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t’s hard to believe that a year has passed since the municipal election. As reported in the last village report, much has been accomplished. With grants provided by the Columbia Basin Trust, Regional District of Central Kootenay, Western Financial together with village funds we were able to replace the play structures in KP Park. Thank you to the scores of volunteers that came out to assist in the installation of the new equipment over three cold November days. The ribbon cutting ceremony on November 13th, was attended by representatives from the granting agencies and most importantly, by the children of Salmo Elementary School. This particular structure was chosen by the children from various options. Who better to choose than the children who will use the
equipment! Salmo’s Chamber of Commerce has worked cooperatively with the village on this project and others to improve and maintain our local parks. The village is truly grateful to the chamber, to the granting agencies and to the many volunteers who put in countless hours to bring the project to completion. Our Chief Administrative Officer Diane Kalen-Sukra continues to secure numerous grants which have allowed the village to do much more for residents than our limited tax base allows for. This year, the village has received $160,000 in grants with another $100,000 pending. A recent grant enabled the village to have two Tesla electric vehicle charging stations paid for and installed at the village office and placed on Tesla’s interna-
tional maps. Visitors, we hope, will spend the time it takes to charge their vehicles checking out our local stores, arts and amenities.
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Community Comment Council inherited a large number of human resource based claims when they took office last December. All of these claims have now been settled without the costs of labour arbitrators or the courts. The focus by our civic works group has been low cost, in-house improvements wherever possible.
Utilizing our summer students to improve the image of the village in areas such as our renewed “Salmo Welcomes You” and “KP Park” signs, ensuring graffiti is removed promptly from village buildings, rebuilding the walking trail bridge in Springboard Park, properly maintaining our cemetery are just a few of the projects completed. Fred Paton, public works foreman, and his crew took full advantage of the summer weather to ensure that projects, long neglected, were completed. For the first time in many years the lines on roads in the village were repainted. Sticking with the focus of low cost in-house work, the village was able to complete fencing around the wastewater lagoon for a fraction of the cost of outsourcing. Road paving and sidewalk repair were also completed. Of course there is more
to do but for a first year council, staff, local volunteers and service groups have accomplished a lot. Each of the strategic initiatives council endorsed was addressed. The process of planning and budgeting for the next year is beginning now and will include public consultation and input. On behalf of council, our CAO and staff of the Village of Salmo I wish everyone a happy holiday season and a very good New Year. Stephen White is the Mayor of Salmo. Community Comment is an opportunity for elected officials from our local municipalities to update citizens in the region on the events, plans and progress in their respective communities. Every Friday, the Trail Times will present, on a rotating basis, a submission from councils, school trustees or regional district directors.
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f historical ingratitude were a crime, most of the people writing year-end pieces this month would be in jail. This year was not like 1919, when three percent of the world’s population died of influenza, or 1943, when the Second World War was killing a million people each month, or 1983, when we came very close to World War Three (though the public didn’t realize it at the time). For most people, in most places, 2015 has been a pretty good year. Yes, of course, the war in Syria, and millions of refugees, and the downturn in China dragging the world economy down with it, and terrorism here, there and everywhere. And of course, climate change waiting around the corner to drag us all down. But if you are waiting for a year with nothing to worry about, you’ll be waiting a long time. The war in Syria is four years old and still going strong. In late summer it looked for a time as if the Islamist rebels were going to destroy the Syrian army and take over the whole country, but the Russian intervention restored the stalemate. There is even talk of a ceasefire now, so that everybody else can concentrate on fighting Islamic State. There are other wars in the Middle East too, in Iraq (where Islamic State also holds much territory), in Afghanistan (where the Taliban are winning), and in Yemen (where the conservative Arab states have mistaken a tribal quarrel for an Iranian plot and launched a bombing campaign to thwart it). Libya’s internal wars are getting worse, and there is even talk of renewed Western military intervention there. Oh, and Turkey has relaunched its war against the Kurds. The Middle East is a fullspectrum mess, and the particular brand of Islamist extremism that has taken root there has expanded out of the region to produce terrorist attacks from India to Kenya to France, and even the United States. But the terrorism is not as big as it seems, and neither is the Middle East. The Middle East only contains 10 percent of the world’s people, and the Arab world (where most of the bloodshed happens) is only half of the Middle East. Its
only major export is oil, and its main import is food. What happens there is not as important as what happens in the other 90 percent of the world, which is by and large at peace and doing quite well.
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There are no wars at all in Asia, which is home to half the human race, and no wars in the Americas either. There is one war in Europe, in eastern Ukraine with heavy Russian involvement, but a ceasefire has greatly reduced (but not entirely stopped) the shooting in the past four months. This is not a picture of world where violence is out of control. The violence is approaching catastrophic levels in parts of the Middle East, but the scattered incidents of Islamist terrorism against non-Muslims elsewhere are relatively small and few in number. Nevertheless, they have encouraged the Western media (and several Western leaders) to talk about terrorism as an “existential threat.” That is absurd, but Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican party’s nomination for US president, has proposed that the United States should deal with this “threat” by stopping all Muslims from entering the country. The number of non-Middle Eastern people who actually died in terrorist attacks in 2015, including the two Paris attacks, the Los Angeles attack, and attacks on tourists in Muslim countries (mostly British in Tunisia and Russians in Egypt) was just over 400. The total population of Russia, the United States, Britain and France is about 600 million, so the risk of being killed by an
Islamist terrorist, if you are a citizen of one of those countries, is one in one-and-a-half million. It is not a crisis. It is just a problem, and fairly far down the list of problems these countries face. The refugees coming out of the Middle East, mainly from Syria, are a much bigger issue, but the main burden of caring for them has fallen on neighbouring Muslim countries, principally Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. About one million refugees have reached Europe this year, sparking a political panic in the European Union (population 500 million), but the extraordinary generosity of Germany, which has taken in four-fifths of those refugees, more than compensates for the meaner behaviour of other Western countries. And what are we to make of North America? Canada finally showed Stephen Harper the door after almost ten years and elected his Liberal antithesis, Justin Trudeau, to the vast relief of practically everybody beyond its borders and a majority within them. Yet in the same year the Jurassic candidate, Donald Trump, emerges as the Republican front-runner for next year’s presidential election in the United States. However, there is a strong argument for saying that Trump’s main appeal to potential voters is that he is not boring. This could be a problem for Hillary Clinton, who for all her sterling virtues is deeply, deeply boring. They have been holding a mock election at Western Illinois University one year before the national election ever since 1975. They have chosen the correct party and even the right candidate every time, including people who were still very dark horses at the time like Jimmy Carter (for the 1976 election) and Barack Obama (for the 2008 election). They held their mock election for next year last month – and the Democrats won. But Hillary Clinton didn’t. The next president, according to the mock election, will be Bernie Sanders. At least he isn’t boring. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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The Trail Times continues with its Sports Year in Review following the success of Trail athletes throughout the summer months of July to September. July 3 – Warfield’s Bill Van Beek celebrates his 60th year by qualifying for the Boston Marathon by finishing sixth in his age category at the Eugene, Oregon Marathon. Free agent Barrett Jackman finds a new home in Nashville agreeing to a two-year $4 million deal with the Predators. The Fruitvale native played his entire career with the St. Louis Blues, and was the 17th pick overall in the 1999 NHL Draft. 7 – The Seven Summits Gravity Racing team grabs its first podium finish at the BC Cup Down Hill Provincial championship in Whistler, when Keegan Fry raced to second place in the U17 men’s sports category. 8 – The Trail AAA Jays baseball team donates close to $600 to KidSport on behalf of Jays alumni from the proceeds of equipment sold to the Trail Youth Baseball League. 10 – Greater Trail athletes Thea Culley and Ella Matteucci lead their respective women’s field hockey and baseball teams into action at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. 14 – Fruitvale’s Scott Browell tees it up and wins his first Re/Max Men’s Open beating former champion Steve Johnston in an extra-hole playoff after both golfers finished with identical rounds of even-par 72 on the Champion Lakes Golf Course. 15 – The Trail AA Orioles reel off five wins in six games and go 9-3 on the season to capture a berth in the Washington State American Legion Baseball League’s district playoffs. 16 – The Kootenay South Youth Soccer Association U17 Storm claimed the bronze medal at the boys provincial youth soccer championship beating Vernon United 3-1 in the bronze medal match. It was the team’s second bronze at provincials in three years. 21 – The Trail Major All Stars begin their quest for a playoff spot at the B.C. Little League championships, while the Trail Minor All Stars play to a fifth place finish at the Minor Little League provincials. - BC Special Olympic-Trail organizer Ben Postmus is headed to the 2015 Special Olympic World Games in Los Angeles as a coach for Team Canada’s golf team. 22 – The Team B.C. hockey team that won gold at the 1979 Canada Winter Games is inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame. The team includes local players Steve Unti, Dan McFarland, Barry Zanier, and Bruno Tassone. - The Trail AA Orioles advance to the State Finals of the Washington State American Legion baseball championships with an exciting come-from-behind 7-4 win over Pullman. 28 – Fruitvale’s Ella Matteucci wins a silver medal with the women’s Team Canada baseball team, while Rossland native, Thea Culley, captures bronze with the national Field Hockey team at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. 30 – Trail triathlete Jackson Konkin captures bronze at the U15 Canadian Triathlon championship in Magog, Quebec. August
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4 – Thirteen-year-old baseball phenom Allison Schroder of Fruitvale is selected to play for both the U14 and U16 Team BC baseball teams at the national championships in Saguenay, Quebec and Yorkton, Sask. 5 – Rossland’s Dallas Cain wins his seventh Cyswog’n’Fun Triathlon in Nelson, while fellow Rosslander Seth Bitting claimed second overall. 6 – Ben Postmus and the Team Canada Special Olympic golf team returns from Los Angeles having won four medals including two gold at the 2015 Special Olympic World Games. 7 – GM and head coach Terry Jones of the Beaver Valley Nitehawks buries the hatchet and hires former Trail Smoke Eater coach Bill Birks as assistant coach. 11 – Brad Jones of Vernon finishes at 11-under par to capture the Rossland-Trail Birchbank Open, beating defending champion Dylan Maine of Spokane by eight strokes. 12 – Salmo’s Haley Olinyk helps the Canadian Junior Girls Goalball team to an unprecedented gold medal at the International Blind Sports Federation’s World Junior Goalball championship in Colorado. - Six swimmers as well as every relay team from the Trail Stingrays Swim Team qualifies for the BC provincial swim championship after winning medals at the Regional Swim Meet in Castlegar. 18 – Ella Matteucci and Team BC’s women’s baseball team earn a bronze at the Canadian Baseball championship in Saguenay, Que., while Schroder and the BC U16 Team came in sixth place. 21 – The Trail Times celebrates the 20h anniversary of the Babe Ruth World Series with a three-part story on its evolution, the volunteers that made it possible, and the players. 27 – Rossland golfer Xander Bankes, 10, finishes second in the B.C. Novice Golf championship at Two Eagles Golf Course in West Kelowna. 28 – Jackson Konkin wins the open water swim on Friday, then captures gold the next day in the U16 event at the Pushor Mitchell Apple Triathlon in Kelowna. September 1 – The 55-plus BC Games wrap up in North Vancouver with the West Kootenay athletes taking home 60 medals including 24 gold, 25 silver, and 11 bronze. 3 – Trail native Brandon Gawryletz makes the jump to the NHL as a new official for the 2015-16 season. 9 – Trail triathlete Jackson Konkin winds up a very successful season with a second place finish at the International Triathlon Union race in Edmonton. 15 – The Trail Smoke Eaters open their BCHL season on a positive note with a 5-3 win over the Vernon Vipers, while the KIJHL’s Beaver Valley Nitehawks open the same weekend taking a pair of games from Spokane and Kelowna to start the 2015-16 season. 16 – Rossland native Frances (nee Pettit) Whatthanaya, wife of Muay Thai fighter Boom Whatthanaya, builds a gym in Isaan, Thailand, an impoverished community, after YouTube video of her training young students goes viral. 17 – Former Kootenay Wildcat, Jennie Gallo, signs a deal with EV Bomo Thun to play hockey in the Swiss Women’s ‘A’ Hockey League.
The road to glory From Top: Trail athletes posted incredible results on the national and world stages this summer with Jackson Konkin winning bronze at the Canadian Triathlete championship, and Ella Matteucci and Thea Cullay winning silver and bronze, respectively, at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Ben Postmus rubbed shoulders with Olympic medalist Jamie Sale at the Special Olympic World Games in Los Angeles, while Haley Olinyk won gold with the Junior girls Goalball team at the IBSA World Goalball championship in Colorado, and Bill Van Beek celebrates 60 by qualifying for the Boston Marathon.
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SPORTS experience.” Like Take a Hike, Pride Gym has a storied history of giving young kids a leg up through training in various martial arts. Young fighters learn discipline, respect, and commitment, while developing confidence, a new skill, and fitness, and none have better mentors than Pride Gym’s Kalesniko and Jones. “It’s awesome that we can go there (KCLC) and use the space, there’s lots
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Students from the KootenayColumbia Learning Center (KCLC) received a special Christmas gift from the private sector last week that busted them out of school and into the gym. Thanks to a $1,500 Telus grant, key volunteers, and the support of Trail’s Pride Gym, students from the Take A Hike program at KCLC will receive expert instruction and the opportunity to train at Pride Gym for the next several weeks. “We wanted the kids to get into a community gym, a gym that’s outside of the school because it gives them the opportunity to walk into an environment that can be intimidating, so this gives them the confidence,” said SD 20 school board trustee Gordon Smith. Smith, who is also the regional network manager for Telus, along with Take a Hike’s clinical therapist Chris Gibson were instrumental in kick-starting an MMA program at KCLC about a year ago, thanks to an earlier grant from Telus that helped the program purchase MMA equipment so students could train at the school. Gibson has a background in martial arts and started teaching
MMA to interested KCLC students, and, Smith, who also trains at Pride, began volunteering with the program in January. Soon former MMA fighter, River Jones, a Freedom Quest youth worker, also volunteered to help train the fighters that meet weekly at KCLC to train. While the program is a positive addition to the KCLC curriculum, getting a chance to train at Pride Gym with owner Glen Kalesniko, and, where Jones began a fighting career that saw her rise to the fourth ranked MMA fighter in the world, is exciting for both the students and instructors as well. “They get to come into a real gym environment, work with some real trainers, and other people that have experience it and I think it will enlighten them to keep going with it,” says Kalesniko. “River really helps, and she is trained with working with kids, she has an education in it so that just gives a whole other side of it that I don’t have.” Jones continues to train with the intensity of one who is going after a world title, but her easy demeanor with the students also reveals a passion for teaching and passing on her love of the sport to her students. “I teach here and a group in Castlegar as well,” said Jones. “But these guys are great, they are hard
working, full of energy, and its fun to watch them transform over the course of the program.” As for the students, the workouts are physically challenging but for many who have had difficulty with mainstream education, it instills a good work ethic and one that helps them focus. “It’s wonderful, I love going to school there,” said Devon Hoggan a KCLC student. “Not to mention the fact that we get to do things like this. I get to train during school hours, which is nice because I’d usually go home and shadow box … I was a pretty angry kid, but ever since I started with mixed martial arts, I’ve cooled down a lot.” The Take a Hike program is in its third year at KCLC, and is independently funded, but works in partnership with School District 20, and provides a therapist, Gibson, and an outdoor learning instructor, in addition to equipment and transportation to facilitate the program. “The Take a Hike program, it’s an adventure based so you get to go out and go hiking, camping, canoeing we actually have multiday trips where we camp out in the woods, and get to know everybody really well,” says Hoggan. “At first it’s a little weird but after a couple months it becomes a very tight knit group, it’s a bonding
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Dear Annie: My 5-year-old granddaughter was here for a few days and needed her evening bath. The last time she stayed overnight with me, her mother sent bath products that got in her eyes and burned. So this time, I used my own baby shampoo and some moisturizing body wash. Everything went well, but when my daughter saw that I had used those products, she went ballistic. Later that evening, she sent me a text message saying I had disrespected her authority as a parent. Annie, the baby shampoo didn’t hurt my granddaughter one iota and neither did the body wash. From my daughter’s reaction, you would have thought I threw acid on the child. We had a huge disagreement via text, and my blood pressure spiked so high I thought I was having a stroke. We haven’t corresponded since. My daughter is 45 and one of those Helicopter Momzillas. She watches her daughter like a hawk, never missing a chance to correct
someone who says anything objec- her daughter is older and rejects tionable to her daughter or when Mom’s overprotectiveness. Until another child doesn’t play with her then, however, please stop creating the way she thinks is right. She be- a tug-of-war over who is the more lieves she is the only one who knows sensible parent. She is the child’s how to raise a child. I mother and has her best guess my 50 years of interests at heart, even child rearing experience though she is overbearmean nothing. She acts ing. When she says to this way even toward respect her, she means her husband, as if he is a that you don’t get to untotal idiot, and he won’t dermine her decisions stand up for himself. unless you feel they are When I have my granda danger to the child, daughter at my house, I which they are not. Yes, Marcy Sugar & don’t want my daughter the baby shampoo was Kathy Mitchell around because she can fine, but Mom specifibe so unpleasant, snapcally asked you to use ping and biting at the least little something else and you should have thing. done so. My husband and I have helped You owe her an apology. Really. my daughter’s family from the day Her nitpicking attitude is exhaustthe child was born. I have never ing, we know, and it isn’t particubeen disrespectful toward her. This larly helpful to her daughter, eiis the first time we haven’t been ther. But you absolutely must bite on speaking terms. Will she ever your tongue and allow her to make change? -- Momzilla’s Mother these decisions. You raised your kid, Dear Mother: Probably not until Mom. Now it’s her turn. Let her be.
Dear Annie: This is for “Suffocating in Saskatchewan,” whose co-worker has a terrible body odor. My son used to have body odor, but I noticed it only after he showered. It turned out to be his aftershave. When I got up the courage to speak to him about it, the
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CONTINUED FROM A2 a $1.6 million facility after the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary rejected its share of funding for the facility. 26 – The City of Trail announces it will take over the organization for the annual Silver City Days from the volunteer-run committee. 28 – The dry summer has seen an increase in early bear activity in the region. A bear broke into a Glenmerry shed to get at trash while four bears were destroyed in one day in Rossland. ***** September 11 – Trail council announces a Calgary company has been signed on to build the pedestrian/pipe bridge. Last minute negotiations helped trim the bid from Graham Infrastructure LP after initial tenders were well above the projected costs. 13 – Trail residents were seeking answers after Selkirk Family Medicine announced it would be closing its doors in December affecting almost 1,500 patients. The Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice was working to help the displaced patients. 16 – The Village of Fruitvale
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Breathe through a straw for 60 seconds. That’s what breathing is like with cystic fibrosis. No wonder so many people with CF stop breathing in their early 30’s
ELECTOR REGISTRATION If you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifications: • 18 years of age or older on voting day • Canadian citizen • resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding the day of registration • resident of OR registered owner of real property in the Village of Montrose for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration, and • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law.
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To register, resident electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature). Picture identification is not necessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity. To register, non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and, if there is more than one owner of the property, written consent from the other property owners. Bryan Teasdale Chief Election Officer
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 Trail Times
Home is Where the Heart is Thanks for warming our hearts with your friendship and kind support this year.
Neighbours like you make us especially proud to call this fine community home.
Season’s Greetings
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Two children gifted Christmas by Trail business, police officers BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
A Trail business helped officers go above the call of duty for two local youngsters on Christmas. Craig Lattanville, owner of the Trail Canadian
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A division of
Tire store, opened his doors well after closing hours on Christmas Eve for police to do some shopping for two children. The pair were taken into foster care around 10 p.m. Christmas Eve, following an RCMP dispatch to check on their well being. Realizing the children would have no presents, the two officers tried various stores and checked their own homes to find suitable gifts, but came up empty handed. That’s when the Greater Trail RCMP members contacted Lattanville to ask if he could help. He immediately opened the store for Cst. Elwood and Cst. Flewelling to do some last minute shopping for the children. The officers then delivered armfuls of presents to the foster mother for the gifts to be wrapped and placed under the tree Christmas morning. When the constables returned to Canadian Tire to pay for the shopping spree, Mr. Lattanville would not take any money and said they were happy to help, explained RCMP Sgt. Darren Oelke in a Monday report. “The Trail detachment would like to give a big thank you to these two officers and Craig Lattanville,” said Oelke. “(They) went above and beyond to ensure that Santa came for two small children.”
IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP
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Crews from CDS worked their way up the west side of Trail early this week, casting aside several feet of snow, rock and ice, while forging a walkway up Glover Road.