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Vol. 118, Issue 112
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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Awards salute city’s top gardens
PRACTICE SAVES LIVES
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Trail’s avid gardeners tipped a glass and cut into cake to celebrate another year of beautifying the city, one garden at a time. The serene backdrop of a cascading fountain and fragrant blossoms in the Colombo Piazza provided an intimate back drop for Trail in Bloom (TiB) to present top honours to this year’s participants in its 2013 annual garden contest, Tuesday night. Connie Smith and partner Arlene Chapman, were surprised to win the first-time entry award and first place for Teck’s best residential garden award. “This is a surprise because a month ago we had a water main break,” said Chapman. Chapman and Smith were hesitant to enter the contest for the first time after their backyard was turned upside down by a back hoe to repair the water and sewer lines. “Annette (Gallatin, TiB chair) came by and said ‘yes, you must enter the contest,’” explained Chapman. “So we replanted everything and here we are.” Chapman has always been a gardener but full time work held her back from delving fully into puttering in the yard. Now retired, she has time to pursue her passion of raising roses, and is very keen on nurturing the fragrant bloom, year-round. “We like to putter, look at the colour and enjoy the scents in our garden,” she said. Smith has a long history of manicuring yards, beginning in childhood, when her daily chores included mowing and pruning the empty lots of See GARDEN, Page 2
Pot petition faces same hurdlesBYasARTHST campaign HARRISON Times Staff
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Members of the South Columbia Search and Rescue team were honing their skills for a shoreline rescue on Tuesday evening. The practice involved members floating through the rapids while rescuers on shore tossed their throw bags in an attempt to pull the victim to shore. For more photos on the training session visit our website at traildailytimes.ca or go to our Facebook page.
The B.C. legislation that saw the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) voted out of existence will now be enacted to focus the people of British Columbia’s attention on a slightly different matter; “Should marijuana be decriminalized in B.C.?” The initiative would have a petition circulated throughout the province to change the Police Act to no longer use provincial police resources to enforce current laws related to, “simple possession and use of cannabis by adults.” Dana Larsen’s pro-cannabis group, Sensible B.C., refers to the proposed changes to provincial policing regulations as the “Sensible Policing Act,” which would re-direct law enforcement resources away from pursuing and punishing marijuana users and direct them towards pursuing serious crimes. See POLITICIANS, Page 3
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