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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Rivers Day seeks new champion in the Home of Champions
SPRING CLEANING
BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
The Skills Centre, a local organization that has spearheaded the BC Rivers Day celebration in Trail, is surrendering the reigns and is hoping there is another group willing to take over the coordination. The event included the annual shoreline cleanup of the Columbia River and wind up celebration afterwards at Gyro Park. “Just given everything we have on our plates right now we can't carry on coordinating this,” said Carol Corbett, manager of Employment Services at the Skills Centre. “We're really busy with a number of different contracts, some are quite demanding on staff time and resources and it doesn't leave us the space and time to continue.” Enlisting the help of community partners the 44th Field Engineers, Teck, and the City of Trail, since 2008 the annual shoreline cleanup has removed over 112,000 pounds of garbage and debris from the banks of the river around Trail. “There's still more clean up to be done,” said Corbett. “There are still old car wrecks and scrap metal along the river and there are still people who seem to think it's ok to dump their garbage over the banks so it has to be an annual thing. “We've had great support from Fortis and Kootenay Savings who have contributed corporate teams to help out, as well as financial assistance from them and other organizations like the Columbia Basin Trust. See LOCAL, Page 3
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Kevin Fiegler (left) and Kyle St. Denis from Speedpro Signs, put a little sparkle in the Silver City on Wednesday by scrubbing off the winter grime from the Trail Memorial Centre marquee.
Volunteer hopes efforts help in quest for MS cure
Annual MS Walk set for Sunday at 11 a.m. in Gyro Park BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
Kristen Yorston’s dream is that one day the money raised by the MS Walk might help change things so that she wouldn’t need to gather her family to raise funds and participate each year. “I hope they find a cure,” said Yorston. “That and find out what causes it to prevent others from going through it.” This will be the second year that the 42-year-old California native, her husband, and children will be holding a fundraising barbecue at Liberty Foods in Fruitvale to gather sponsors and dona-
tions for the annual walk, which will be “The one line I probably heard most held locally at Gyro Park in Trail, Sunday. often that I am starting to understand “My son sells chocolates to raise money now, is the unknown factor,” she said. and my family, in-laws, and “MS can take so many difparents will be coming with ferent paths that you never “I guess I feel I’m know what’s coming next. me on the walk,” she said. “I guess I feel like I’m doing doing something “I run my own commersomething to contribute to cial cleaning business and to contribute to the cause.” when I was first diagnosed I the cause.” Multiple sclerosis is an was told I couldn’t work. unpredictable disease of the “Here I am four years into KRISTEN YORSTON central nervous system that it and I’m still working but can strike at any age but is you just don’t know what’s most often diagnosed between the ages going to happen. If you make plans are of 15 and 40. you going to be able to do them? It’s hard It is the unpredictability of the disease to think about the future.” that Yorston says she often finds the MS is more common in women than most troubling. men and is more prevalent in people of
northern European descent. It is commonly found in colder, wetter climates and considered rare closer to the equator. In a 2008 study, Canada was found to have amongst the highest rates of MS in the world, coming in fifth after the US, Germany, Norway, and Hungary. It can be easy to dismiss at first, sometimes presenting as dizziness, or loss of balance, shaking, easily tiring, or depression, among many others. The symptoms can also come and go making it even more confusing, as patients may not know what to expect next or if the symptoms they have experienced are even related to the disease. See WALK, Page 2
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