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Work set to start on Trail’s downtown plan BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Fresh paint markings on the surface of Victoria Street outline the site of Trail’s ambitious construction project set to begin Tuesday. The $1.6 million Victoria Street Corridor project will involve extensive infrastructure improvements including new curbs and drainage, so driving through town may present some challenges this summer. “The street will be torn up and there will be traffic pattern changes,” said Robert Cacchioni, acting mayor. He said the impact of construction should be minimal as compared to the extensive 2012 project in Rossland that took eight months to complete and decreased business in its downtown core. “We are hoping to wrap things up and have everything cleaned up by the fall.” Although the city has released a public notice, the project was news to the ears of businesses and residents on Trail’s main street. “I didn’t know there was a project, what project?” asked Gerry Robertson, from Lordco Parts Ltd., on Victoria Street. Robertson said that people come to the store for a specific reason, and she is hoping that a traffic pattern change won’t affect business. However, she did express one concern. “Tearing up this street with only one bridge is going to be fun,” she chuckled. Victoria Street resident Geoff Lawrason was unaware a major construction project was about See CITY, Page 4
Body recovered from Columbia River BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
A body was recovered from the Columbia River Thursday afternoon near the Waneta Dam expansion project, RCMP confirmed. “Shortly before noon people in the area spotted the body and then an individual in a small boat managed to recover and secure it until Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire/Rescue's boat was deployed and made the recovery,” explained Cpl. Dan Moskaluk, media relations for the South East District. “The body was then transported to the local hospital morgue.” Officials did not make positive identification by press time.
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Robert Ivison (left) and Alain Cappelle arrived in Trail on Thursday to begin a tour of the town and judge the city’s landscaping efforts for the international Community in Bloom competition.
The bloomin’ judges are here BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The Silver City was glistening and fragrant with blooms as two international judges for the Community in Bloom (CiB) competition arrived to begin a tour of Trail on Thursday. Robert Ivison, from England, and Alain Cappelle, from Belgium, have been to Canada for five previous CiB competitions, but this was the first time either judge has travelled to Trail, and both were impressed by the city’s natural environment. “It is a beautiful area and we are enjoying the scenery and wildlife, it’s wonderful,” said Ivison. Ivison is a leading consultant for the develop-
ment and management of parks and open spaces in England, and has been judging internationally for years. Cappelle has a degree in landscape and garden architecture and runs a landscaping planning office in the town of Nieuwpoort (Belgium) with a team of six gardeners. “The city is fascinating, especially the scenery and landscape,” he said. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was hosted by Trail’s CiB committee in Gyro Park last night, followed by a walk along the “Avenue of the Clans,” this year’s theme which celebrates Trail’s Scottish heritage, located on the park’s walkway. See JUDGES, Page 4
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