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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Toxco VP makes NATO presentation
Trail company offers to recycle batteries from Afghanistan and Iraq BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
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Father Jim McHugh, and his faithful companion Haven, reflect on changes to come in the East Trail Parish of OLPH. On Sunday, the church will be recreated as Holy Trinity Parish.
Trail Catholic parishes to unite BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The winds of change are blowing through the Catholic community in Trail. On Sunday, the last two Catholic parishes in Trail, St. Anthony’s Church, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH), will be canonically suppressed to create the Holy Trinity Parish. Canonical suppression refers to the dissolution of a parish. The church is being renamed Holy Trinity (Trinity defines God as three divine persons) to encompass displaced parishioners from St. Francis Xavier Church in downtown Trail, which closed some time ago. “When St. Francis closed, those parishioners went to OLPH or St. Anthony’s,” explained Gary LeRose, chairman of the parish council. “Now the three churches are coming
together as one, hence the idea of Holy Trinity.” The parishes refer to the canonical church community itself, said Father Jim McHugh, of OLPH. “So right now, the two parish jurisdictions extend from Montrose to the cemetery on Rossland hill. “Both parishes split that area as well as Highway 3 to Genelle, and down to the border,” he added. Father McHugh explained that once Holy Trinity is created, that geographical area will be embodied under its one parish. “It’s a great change, and it hasn’t been easy,” Father McHugh opined. “But slow and steady the community has worked, and really tried hard. “I am really proud of them and I get to inherit all the work that has been done before.” This weekend will be a low-key affair,
except for the reading of the letter that suppresses and creates, said Father McHugh. “When the present OLPH church has been fully renovated, then we will have the official dedication of the parish with the bishop.” Although the renovation details are being kept under wraps, he did hint at what to expect. “There will be new flooring, new paint, and new alter furnishings. “Basically a complete transformation of the church interior, including a baptismal font at the entry of the church.” OLPH will celebrate its last mass on June 2, after which all services will transfer to St. Anthony’s until the renovations are complete later this fall. “Nobody will see what happens until the day it (Holy Trinity) reopens,” said LeRose. “We want it to be wow.”
The vice president of Toxco recently returned from a spring trip to Europe but she wasn’t there to smell the flowers in Paris, she was giving a presentation to NATO Command. Kathy Bruce, of Toxco Waste Management Ltd. in Trail, travelled to Brussels, Belgium in April to speak to NATO commanders on what they might be able to do with the millions of used lithium ion batteries left over in Iraq and Afghanistan after more than a decade of military intervention in the region. She’s suggesting they send them to Trail to be recycled. “We did a “Right now it’s presentation for primarily the the Canadian British military Department of Defence and that that is interested led to the NATO in our recycling presentation,” said plant but every Bruce. “Right now it’s primarily the country’s troops British military use the same that is interested in battery.” our recycling plant but every country’s KATHY BRUCE troops use the same battery. They’re standard military issue.” The batteries in question are the BA 5590, a green, plastic covered brick about the same size and dimensions as two pounds of butter, stacked one atop the other. Each soldier on patrol is issued two of these every day, one to power the various pieces of electronic equipment common to the modern military and another for backup. The batteries are single use only and are discarded after each patrol. The battery packs power radio communications, GPS units, chemical agent monitors, night vision scopes, remote battlefield surveillance systems, and host of other gadgets and geegaws that troops carry around with them while on patrol and in combat situations. “We have already done millions of these, typically from the U.S. military from bases in the U.S.,” Bruce said. “They over-bought them for the Iraq war and we’ve been recycling the unused leftovers.” See STRICT, Page 3
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