Trail Daily Times, May 30, 2013

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Pigeon control concerns on hold

Vol. 118, Issue 84

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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO

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Village’s water chlorination underway BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

PHOTO BY ART HARRISON

Ashland Training Centre WORC Program participants, (from the left) Helen McLennan, Jennifer Barnhart, and Jared Kovac are well into their third week of cleaning up the embankment below KBRH for a City of Trail community project.

Partnership provides job skills and clean-up BY ART HARRISON Times Staff

The City of Trail and Ashland Training Centre (ATC) have embarked on a team project to provide needed job skills to some local residents while cleaning up some of the overgrown areas of the city. The city and ATC teams are focusing on two community projects in the area. The initial project has a team cutting dead brush and removing debris, old shrubbery, and accumulated pine needles on the hillside directly below the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital

and above a portion of the East Trail neighbourhood. The second project on the books will see the joint teams carrying on with general brush clearing and cleanup and also include cutting back overgrown vegetation from the city’s 50 covered staircases throughout Trail. After the first two weeks of work progress is already obvious as the team cleans up the forest floor, removing potential fire hazards before the summer heats up. “When I first saw the area that they’d

be working in I thought, ‘good luck,’” said ATC program coordinator, Kathleen Jackson. “But you can already see a pretty big improvement.” The 10-week Job Options BC WORC (Work Opportunities Referrals and Connections) Program, is jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments from the Canada/BC Labour Market agreement. The program provides local unemployed individuals with six weeks of employment training workshops, See PROJECT, Page 2

The glass is almost full for the Village of Montrose as the final stages of its water treatment project began earlier this week, The on-line chlorination process began on “Changes in Tuesday, and for village both taste residents, this change to the tap water will and odour will most likely be noticeobviously able. be more As the tap water reaches “official” noticeable ...” water quality, it may KEVIN CHARTRES taste or smell a little odd, explained Kevin Chartres, chief administrative officer for the village. “Changes in both taste and odour will obviously be more noticeable because the system was previously un-chlorinated.” Chartres said that in addition, while the chlorine works to clean the inside of the pipes, the taste and odour will be more noticeable until a free residual of chlorine is maintained. He said it will take some time to obtain a consistent level of chlorine in the system, and levels could fluctuate from 0.2 to 1.5 parts per million (ppm), but ultimately the regulation requires 0.2 mg of chlorine per litre of water at the end of the lines. “After a few weeks, most consumers will easily adjust to the difference,” he added. For those who continue to notice the chlorine taste, the village suggests that drinking See NORMAL, Page 2

Election’s final voting results complete BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

Drum roll please. The final voting results are in and the winner of the Kootenay West riding is still Katrine Conroy. The final count, which includes absentee ballots that were not considered part of the initial count, was completed this week by the district electoral officer at the election office on McQuarrie Street in East

Trail. In the initial count, which is preliminary and only includes ballots cast under general voting and advance voting, NDP incumbent Conroy received 10,606 votes or 62.99 per cent of the popular vote. Although, no big surprises were expected in the Kootenay West riding, district electoral officer Don Vinish, said absentee ballots could conceivably have

changed the outcome, but this time around, it is status quo. Conroy received an additional 743 votes from absentee ballots, which tallies to 11,349 or 63.04 per cent of the final vote count. Jim Postnikoff, BC Liberal Party candidate, received an additional 239 votes which upped his percentage to 21.33 from 21.28 per cent of support on voting day. Interestingly, Glen Byle,

independent, received an additional 31 votes, to bring his final count to 431. Those votes only increased his percentage of the popular vote from 2.38 to 2.39. Joseph Hughes, independent, received 152 votes cast through absentee ballots, but according to the Elections BC website, this diminished his percentage of the popular vote to 13.28, from 13.3 on election day. See related story on Page 4.

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Don Vinish, district electoral officer for Elections BC, was packing it in on Tuesday after the final vote count for the Kootenay West riding was completed on Monday.

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