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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 land-scaping 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 com-mittee 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.

Trail recycles Christmas trees

BY SHERI REGNIERTimes Staff

City hall would be transparent in its actions and open for business, Trail Mayor Mike Martin promised constitu-ents 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 hap-pens” and over the Internet.

“There have been a number of com-ments 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 coun-cil. 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, some-times 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 eve-nings - 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 “stream-ing” 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 coun-cil meetings is that most department business, such as public works and rec-

reation, is completed at the GOC meet-ings 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 sum-mary 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 mak-ing of council at the GOC meeting unless personally attending the meet-ings,” Martin reiterated. “Regular coun-cil 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 resourc-es, so more investigation is required before council considers it an option.

“We should have the cost to install the necessary audio and video equip-ment 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 sensi-tive private nature or relevance to cur-rent or impeding litigation, are exempt from the general rule.

Legislation prescribes what items can be discussed in an in-camera meet-ing. 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 consider-ations that can go in-camera including the discussion regarding a newly con-templated 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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Mason Dobie, 5, took the lead for mom Vicky, and his 15-year old brother Jackson, as the family packed up their Christmas tree and guided it through the back door to the yard for storing until tree pick up.

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Recapping notable events from 2015

July3 – 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.

9 – The federal government handed the Columbia Basin Trust $3.34 million to improve Internet access for rural resi-dents 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 togeth-er to attract young physicians to the area. The Kootenay Boundary Rural Family Practice Residency Program is aimed to make young physi-cians feel welcomed in the area and entice them to remain in the region to continue their careers.

13 – The federal govern-

ment continued to dole out cash in the area. Three an-nouncements were made lo-cally which includes, $750,000 to the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology, to establish a metallurgical incu-bator in Trail; over $1 million for the Trail armoury to up-grade its facility; $2 million be-tween the federal and provin-cial government to Rossland for new water mains.

21 – Crews respond to a small wildfire near Casino and quickly bring it under control. It foreshadowed a busy time ahead for firefighters.

22 – The first poll for the new South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding shows the NDP holding 44 per cent of the support in the federal election followed by the Conservatives at 20 per cent and the Liberals at 9 per cent.

25 – After missing for 11 days, Trail’s Gavin Ballard was discovered by search crews in a wooded area of the Pend d’Oreille. The 23-year-old was reported missing on July 14 and extensive searches scoured areas above Sunningdale be-fore his abandoned car was spotted near the Buckley Campground.

31 – The City of Trail and the Beaver Valley Recreation Committee agree to a one-year deal for a recreation agree-ment. The deal will allow residents from Fruitvale, Montrose and Area A to use Trail facilities at Trail resident rates. BV Rec withdrew from the City of Trail rec-reation in 2013 and launched its own recreation payment system to various de-grees of success. The one-year deal goes into affect Sept. 1.

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foot bridge in down-town Trail took a hit as bidders for the project tendered

prices $4 million to $14 mil-lion above the projected $10 million cost. The bids have forced council to reconsider plans for the project, which voters approved $5 million in borrowing in a 2014 referen-dum.

12 – The Waneta and Peterson international bor-der crossings are slated for upgrades after a rash of Conservative funding an-nouncements were made ahead of the fall federal elec-tion.

13 – Following a recent sur-vey, Area B residents are con-sidering a user-pay format for the Trail recreation facilities.

14 – In the aftermath of the annual Shambhala Music Festival, police report drug sei-

zures and excessive speeding after event but overall it was relatively calm.

14 – The Village of Warfield announced it received $62,500 from the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program to help pay for up-grades to the Centennial Pool.

16 – A wildfire in Rock Creek destroyed homes, prop-erty and forced the closures of Highway 33 and Highway 3 for several days. The after-math left people homeless and Fortis BC crews busy repairing dozens of burnt power poles to restore services.

25 – With the Trail SPCA fa-cility slated to close, Castlegar ponders the option of offer-ing itself as the new home for

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Pierre Cloutier stopped in Trail along his trek across Canada in a wagon train. The Quebecer completed his 4,000-kilometre cross-Canada trip in 290 days and finished in Vernon at the end of August.

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Special guests and dignitaries were on hand for the Waneta Expansion grand opening. The $900 million, 335 MW project is located near Trail, downstream from the Waneta Dam on the Pend d’Oreille River.

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It’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 vil-lage 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 cer-emony on November 13th, was attended by represen-tatives from the granting agencies and most impor-tantly, 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 co-operatively with the village on this project and others to improve and maintain our local parks. The vil-lage 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.

O u r C h i e f Administrative Officer Diane Kalen-Sukra con-tinues to secure numerous grants which have allowed the village to do much more for residents than our limited tax base al-lows for. This year, the vil-lage has received $160,000 in grants with another $100,000 pending. A re-cent grant enabled the vil-lage to have two Tesla elec-tric vehicle charging sta-tions 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 vehi-cles checking out our local stores, arts and amenities.

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 arbitra-tors or the courts.

The focus by our civic works group has been low cost, in-house improve-ments wherever possible.

Utilizing our summer stu-dents to improve the image of the village in areas such as our renewed “Salmo Welcomes You” and “KP Park” signs, ensuring graf-fiti is removed promptly from village buildings, re-building 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 sum-mer 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 fenc-ing 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 volun-teers and service groups have accomplished a lot. Each of the strategic initia-tives council endorsed was addressed. The process of planning and budgeting for the next year is beginning now and will include pub-lic 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 up-date citizens in the region on the events, plans and progress in their respective communities. Every Friday, the Trail Times will pres-ent, on a rotating basis, a submission from councils, school trustees or regional district directors.

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If 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, cli-mate 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 trib-al 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 re-launched its war against the Kurds. The Middle East is a full-spectrum mess, and the particu-lar 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 hap-pens 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.

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 re-duced (but not entirely stopped) the shooting in the past four months.

This is not a picture of world where violence is out of con-trol. 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 “exis-tential threat.”

That is absurd, but Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican party’s nomina-tion for US president, has pro-posed that the United States should deal with this “threat” by stopping all Muslims from en-tering the country. The number of non-Middle Eastern people who actually died in terrorist at-tacks 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 prob-lem, 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 neigh-bouring 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 fi-nally showed Stephen Harper the door after almost ten years and elected his Liberal antith-esis, Justin Trudeau, to the vast relief of practically everybody beyond its borders and a ma-jority within them. Yet in the same year the Jurassic candi-date, Donald Trump, emerges as the Republican front-runner for next year’s presidential election in the United States.

However, there is a strong ar-gument 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 be-fore the national election ever since 1975. They have chosen the correct party and even the right candidate every time, in-cluding people who were still very dark horses at the time like Jimmy Carter (for the 1976 elec-tion) 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 pres-ident, according to the mock election, will be Bernie Sanders. At least he isn’t boring.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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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 hav-ing 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 for-mer 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, beat-ing 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 med-als 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 cham-pionship 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. September1 – 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.

Trail athletes shine on national and world stages

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 sil-ver and bronze, respec-tively, at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Ben Postmus rubbed shoul-ders with Olympic med-alist 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 champi-onship in Colorado, and Bill Van Beek celebrates 60 by qualifying for the Boston Marathon.

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Like Take a Hike, Pride Gym has a storied history of giving young kids a leg up through training in vari-ous 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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The students of the Take a Hike program started their workouts at Pride Gym Dec. 14 and will continue training at Pride well into the New Year.

KCLC students workout with PrideJIM BAILEY

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Students from the Kootenay-Columbia 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 instruc-tion 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 region-al network manager for Telus, along with Take a Hike’s clini-cal 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 equip-ment so students could train at the school.

Gibson has a background in martial arts and started teaching

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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 fight-ing 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 work-outs are physically challenging but for many who have had diffi-culty 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 men-tion 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 start-ed with mixed martial arts, I’ve cooled down a lot.”

The Take a Hike program is in its third year at KCLC, and is in-dependently funded, but works in partnership with School District 20, and provides a therapist, Gibson, and an outdoor learning instructor, in addition to equip-ment and transportation to facili-tate 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 multi-day trips where we camp out in the woods, and get to know ev-erybody 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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Mayor Mike Martin joined students from the Kootenay Columbia Learning Center’s Take a Hike program to prepare for workouts with Glen Kalesniko at Pride Gym thanks to a grant from Telus earlier this month.

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Dear Annie: My 5-year-old grand-daughter 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 disre-spected 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.

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26 – The City of Trail an-nounces it will take over the organization for the annual Silver City Days from the vol-unteer-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.

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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

unveils a free gym for the community’s seniors. In a bid to encourage a healthy lifestyle for its residents, the village purchased gym equipment and located it in the Fruitvale Memorial Centre.

17 – Rossland resident Samantha Troy announces she will be running for the Green Party in the South Okanagan

West Kootenay riding in the Oct. 19 federal election.

19 – On the heels of the ar-rest of two Fruitvale men over possession of Crystal meth, police acknowledge there has been a growing number of calls associated with people taking the drug.

21 – The City of Trail is awarded an $800,000 grant

from the province, through BikeBC, for its pedestrian por-tion of the new bridge to be constructed. It was the largest single grant in the province under the program.

22 – The Guinness Book of World Records confirms that employees from ATCO Wood Products were part of a record-setting tree planting effort in May. Groups across North America combined to plant 202,935 trees in 60 min-utes.

24 – Brody McKellar of Fruitvale is in custody after a one-man crime spree that allegedly saw two vehicles sto-len, computer equipment sto-len, a trailer broken into and a foot chase in Fruitvale.

27 – A seniors group was going door-to-door in a cam-paign to encourage residents to vote for parties that address the growing health care needs in the upcoming federal elec-tion.

27 – The United Steelworkers international president, Loe Gerrard, makes a visit to Trail to stress the im-portance of union members voting in the upcoming fed-eral election.

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the 2014 homicide of Rossland senior Thomas Feeney.


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Participants gathered at the Piazza Colombo Park on Sept. 12 to show their support to the Trail and District United Way by taking the fun run or walk challenge. Participants like River Jones collected pledges before lacing up and climbing 1,500 stairs and running four kilometres through West Trail.

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SEPTEMBER 19


NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTINGPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the Village of Montrose that an election by voting is necessary to elect one Councillor and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:

COUNCILLOR – One (1) to be electedSurname Usual Names Residential Address or Jurisdiction BERRIAULT Don 740 10th Avenue, Montrose, BCBOUTHILLIER Lynda 926 7th Street, Montrose, BCMCDONNELL Dwayne 520 12th Avenue, Montrose, BCWALSH Mike 410 3rd Street, Montrose, BC

VOTING DATES AND LOCATIONS

VOTING will be open to qualifi ed electors of the Village of Montrose on Saturday, January 16, 2016 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at 565 11th Avenue, Montrose, BC (Village Offi ce).ADVANCE VOTING will be available to qualifi ed electors at the Montrose Village Offi ce, 565 11th Avenue, Montrose, BC on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm.ADDITIONAL GENERAL VOTING OPPORTUNITIES will be held at the Montrose Offi ce, 565 11th Avenue, Montrose, BC on Th ursday, January 14, 2016 and Friday, January 15, 2016 between the hours of 8:30 am to noon and 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm.

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 qualifi cations:• 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 disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an

election or otherwise disqualifi ed by law.To register, resident electors must produce 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature). Picture identifi cation is not necessary. Th e identifi cation must prove both residency and identity.To register, non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identifi cation (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 TeasdaleChief Election Offi cer

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The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team was called in to search the Rossland reservoir for evidence that may be linked to the homicide of Rossland resident Thomas Feeney.

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Columbia Gardens Vineyard and Winery centre wine making around family time, according to owners Ben and Tersia De Jager. They were overjoyed that Tersia’s dad Phillip Du Toit planned his trip from South Africa around helping the couple harvesting.

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BY SHERI REGNIERTimes 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

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 dis-patch to check on their well being.

Realizing the children would have no pres-ents, 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 min-ute 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.”


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Two children gifted Christmas by Trail business, police officers

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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.

IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP

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