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Former Miss Trail winners invited home for golden anniversary BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
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On Monday, City of Trail crews cleaned debris from the trash racks in Trail Creek. The city has parked its excavator at the site, which is just upstream from the West Trail Bocce Sport Facility in the Gulch.
Creek flow increases with weekend rain BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The weekend downpour, accompanied by warmer temperatures and snow melt, has the City of Trail keeping a watchful eye for debris build-up at its major creek intake sites. Since Thursday, the city has parked its excavator at Trail Creek, by the bocce pits, and has crews regularly checking the creek channel to monitor the “trash racks” for debris. “Monitoring our intakes this time
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of year, is a part of what we do,” said Larry Abenante, the city’s public works manager. “Right now, there is no real concern, but we keep a close watch.” Abenante said that historically, the water levels will peak at that location from April 19 to 21. “When we have had problems with floods, that is the time it happens,” he explained. He said that on the opposite “sunny” side of the valley between the hospital and high school hairpin turn, is
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With only four days left until deadline, the Knights of Columbus are still asking the public to submit names of those tireless volunteers who abound in our community; to consider for its Trail-Warfield Citizen of the Year Award. “I thought we would get a lot more submissions this year,” said
McQuarrie Creek, which historically has its peak water levels from March 19 to March 21. “Even though that side is done, we will still keep an eye on it because we never know if there will be slough-age with the spring melt, and plug that trash rack.” Abenante said that the city has made significant improvements in all its major intakes since the last flood in 1996. “Back then, we had a mud slide on See INTAKES, Page 3
Brian Volpatti, committee member. Volpatti explained that in an effort to increase the number of submissions the committee left forms in area churches and the Credit Union this year, in addition to the city and village halls. “Last time I checked about a week ago, we only had two so far.” The response to the award
Trail's Silver City Days celebrates a half-century of civic celebration this year and for most of the past 50 years there has been a Miss Trail chosen to lead the festivities. Apart from a brief period in the early part of the 2000's when no one stepped forward to organize the event, there has been a long succession of tiaras and ball gowns, talent shows and tears of joy. So this year when the organizing committee was trying to decide how they could celebrate the 50th anniversary of the pageant they decided to go big and invite all the former Miss Trail winners back. “It's been a lot of work to go back over 50 years of pageant winners and try to track them down,” explained Trail councillor, Eleanor Gattafoni-Robinson. “But so far, as of today, we think we have 25 women coming.” The committee started with a local word of mouth campaign to start gathering information on past winners of the pageant and eventually enlisted the help of the Trail Historical Society to help with the research. “We've been working on this since 2012,” said Gattafoni-Robinson. “It's been a real history lesson for myself. “We did an Internet search and spoke to family members and really tried not to leave anybody out. We looked for anybody who might have connections and were hoping to meet them all.” The positive responses from former Miss Trail winners has them returning to Trail from all over B.C., a few from Alberta, quite a number who are still local, and even an international Miss Trail. See PROGRAM, Page 3
has decreased over the years, and Volpatti said it may be due to the work that has to go into the nomination. He said that the committee requires some history about the entrant on paper, rather than just a verbal nomination. However, one of the biggest hurdles the committee has to deal with, is the humbleness of many of
the nominees. “We have had many people refuse the award because they do not want the publicity,” said Volpatti. “There are so many people in the community who do valuable service, but they do it quietly, and want to keep it that way. The annual honour will be presented on May 8 at 7 p.m. at St Michael’s School.
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