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Design firm chosen to map out City still plans for second future Trail museum/library BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Tucked away at the top of a long flight of stairs in city hall, is a space that houses the story and history of Trail. With limited accessibility to the public and virtually no room for display, the Trail Archives and Museum collections are in dire need of a new location. Council addressed the need for a larger facility to honour the city’s heritage and to expand the Trail library in an announcement Tuesday. The city hired BoniMaddison Architects, a Vancouver design firm, to create a plan for a new museum/ library in downtown Trail, a recommendation made by the Trail Library and Museum Building Steering Committee. “This is very exciting,” said Sarah Benson, director of the Archives and Museum. “It will be wonderful to have broader exposure of our archives in the community.” The museum/library proposal is a project that Barbara Gibson, chair of the Trail Library Board, has championed for years. “We are in dire need of a new library facility,” said Gibson. “We need to engage the public to make this concept a reality.” The goal is to have the $30,000 design complete by December, leaving plenty of time for the museum/library project to go to a referendum at the same time citizens of Trail cast a vote in the municipal election slated for October 2014. The public will have an opportunity to vote on a loan authorization bylaw that will give council the go ahead to borrow money needed to proceed with the construction of the facility.
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“We’ve been through this before,” said Gibson, referring to the 2009 library relocation referendum. “There is still a strong need and we need to show that we want it.” The Trail Archives was established in 1978 at the Pine Street site, to collect, preserve and make available to the public the photographic and documentary history of the Silver City. “We are really proud of our archival collection of over 12,000 photographs,” said Benson. “But we are running out of space.” In addition to historical photographs, Trail Archives and Museum staff and volunteers tend to almost 2,000 artifacts, with a flagship collection of sports memorabilia displayed in the Trail Memorial Centre. Ideally, a new facility will allow the archives to be exhibited together, year round. “We don’t know what it will look like yet,” said Benson. “But having an integrated space under one roof should be a real boost for the community and visitors passing through.”
Trail keeps eye on pedestrian bridge that will house sewer line BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
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Sarah Benson, director of Trail Archives and Museum, looks forward to an adequate space to store the city’s charming history.
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A second crossing over the Columbia River isn’t just a pipe dream. The pipe bridge, meant only for foot traffic, is still on the table and under consideration by the City of Trail. The estimated total cost, including the engineering fees and construction services for the pipe/ pedestrian crossing, is approximately $6.5 million. The planning stage for a new structure rolled ahead in May, after the engineering design was awarded to Buckland and Taylor, a specialized bridge engineering firm based in North Vancouver. “They are currently studying the best location for the bridge,” said David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer (CAO). The actual design of the bridge will begin once the location, either upstream or downstream from the old bridge, has been decided. The engineering firm is considering placing the pipe bridge at Thom Street (Butler Park) in East Trail or downstream from the old bridge at Main Street (near
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the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre). The final engineering bridge concept is expected to be completed in November. “The plan is to be in the position to tender the bridge project later this year or early next,” added Perehudoff. New construction can begin even though an obstacle, the Old Trail Bridge, stands in the way. The question facing the city is how to foot the estimated $5-million bill to tear the old bridge down. “We are still hoping and reminding the government that they owned the bridge for 50 years and so did Trail for 50 years,” said Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs. “It should be a 50-50 cost sharing demolition.” Bogs said that there is no legal mandate to take the bridge down unless there is an incident such as pieces of it falling into the river, or structural movement detected. “At this moment in time it is just there,” he said. “When it will be removed, that is the question.” The issue will be up for discussion at the annual Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) conference in Vancouver next month. “This is a topic we will bring to the UBCM,” confirmed Bogs. SeeREGIONAL, Page 3
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