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Silver City Days set to go BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
The trucks are rolling in, the tables are set and everything is ready to go for the annual Silver City Days celebration in Trail, according to the organizing committee. Committee president, Ian McLeod, is hoping for a good turnout for the 50-year anniversary of the community celebration. “We always have a good crowd,” he said. “We hope for the 50th it'll be even better.” With the old Eagles building lot available this year McLeod is hoping there might even be additional rides offered at the midway. “We've got some new vendors for the street mall and we'll have a bit more room for the midway this year,” McLeod said. “There will also be a free concert on Sunday for Family Day at Gyro Park with Abracadabra, an ABBA cover band.” Festival goers can expect many of the attractions they have come to appreciate over the years with live music on the main stage on Spokane Street from Wednesday to Saturday, a wide variety of tasty treats and novelties at the Festival Food Mall, and the Junior Smoke Eaters hosting the sidewalk cafe in the Cominco Arena Saturday. For the young, and young at heart, the West Coast Amusements midway and carnival will be situated on the Esplanade and Kiddies Capers is back and will be held Saturday in the space previously occupied by Liquidation World in the old Town Square building. This year the events are aiming to be more family-friendly as there will be no alcohol served at any of the venues and no festival gardens. “With provincial legislation and city bylaws being what they are we'd need so much paid security staff we felt it wasn't worth it,” said McLeod. Silver City Days officially kicks off Wednesday with the opening of the food mall, live music on See EXPANDED, Page 3
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Council pitches Eagles’ lot for library Final decision depends on voters in 2014 municipal election BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
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Silver City Days committee president Ian McLeod was helping set up picnic tables along the food mall on Monday morning. The annual celebration officially kicks off on Wednesday.
A new library proposal might mean the start of a new story. On Monday, Trail city council announced its decision to dedicate the land previously occupied by the Eagles Building for the construction of a new Trail Public Library and Historical Museum in downtown Trail. “I am as I always have been with regards to a new library, cautiously optimistic,” said Barbara Gibson, Trail and District Library Board chair. “My only concern is that the lot is only 7,500 square feet, compared to Fields which was 10,000, so we are going to have to do some talking in this initial stage.” Mayor Bogs said that constructing a new building will offer the public a new and modern facility in a good location. “Buying a piece of property (Fields) and then having to renovate it to today’s standards was too expensive,” he explained. “It just didn’t make any sense, and this new library museum will definitely be a two-story building.” However, council’s decision, made during the strategic planning meeting on Thursday, is not the final say. “The final decision on whether or not the building will be constructed will be made by the Trail citizens.” During the next municipal election, in November 2014, the public will have the opportunity to vote for a loan authorization bylaw to provide the authority required for council to borrow money needed to proceed with the detailed design and construction. See NEW, Page 3
Heroic dog gets her day at the Hall of Fame BY TIMES STAFF Heroes come in all shapes and sizes and at Monday morning's 2013 Purina Animal Hall of Fame ceremony the four-legged variety were honoured including one from Trail. Angie Prime and her dog Vicious were in Toronto for the ceremony on Monday after Vicious came to her rescue when a cougar invaded their Sunningdale home last August. That day, Prime was relaxing in her living room with Vicious, her 12-year-old Border Collie/Labrador cross, and her two puppies. Like she had done in the past,
Prime had her lights turned off so as not to attract insects, and left the sliding door open to the backyard so her pets could go in and out. Suddenly, she sensed another presence in the room. She turned and found herself face-to-face with a cougar. Realizing she had nowhere to go, Prime put her arms up to shield her face and screamed as the cougar pounced on her. "You are not thinking to run at that moment when you see a cat," Prime told the Trail Times shortly after the attack. From across the room, Vicious sprang into action, launching herself at the
cougar. The cat disengaged and headed towards the open door. Vicious followed protectively, chasing the cougar out towards the green belt at the back of the property. Not long after, Vicious came back fortunately unharmed. Conservation officers arrived at the scene and they agreed that Prime was extremely lucky to be alive. "It's a chance in a million that (a cat attack) would ever happen in a home," she said last August. "But if it wasn't for (Vicious) I would have been mauled." See FOURTH, Page 3
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Trail’s Angie Prime and Vicious in Toronto on Monday
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