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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
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GREATER TRAIL
Crime drops in most categories: report BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
In spite of the seemingly everpresent construction sounds coming from the downtown core lately, Greater Trail is actually proving to be a quieter place this year than it was in 2012, at least in terms of crime. Sgt. Rob Hawton, of the Trail and Greater District Detachment of the RCMP made his semi-annual report on crime statistics for the area to Trail City Council Tuesday night and, in most measures, the numbers looked positive. Hawton stated that, although there had not been a direct comparison made with other cities in the province, statistically, Trail isn’t showing some of the same criminal activity that many of the larger centres in B.C. are dealing with. “Anecdotally, by and large, the crime rate in Trail is fairly low compared to other places,” he told council. “Certainly when you look at places like the Okanagan and the Lower Mainland we’re not seeing
anything like the violent crime and gang activity that they deal with.” The report dealt with statistics in 13 different categories covering everything from murder to accidents causing property damage with the only areas showing an increase being crimes involving break and enter, theft of motor vehicles, and sexual assault. “The sex assaults, those are something that are really hard to be able to be proactive about, it’s different people, different times, for different reasons,” Hawton said. “What we’re doing is we’re very diligent at following up any complaint of sexual assault. We investigate it and we certainly pursue those when they occur.” The category of “theft of motor vehicles” showed a jump in numbers in between first half of 2012 and 2013. One was considered a straight vehicle theft and the car was recovered in Calgary, one was classified as “taking a vehicle without See FAMILIAR, Page 3
MP pans throne speech BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Wednesday’s throne speech was vague and non-committal according to the MP for BC Southern Interior. “It was a ‘good news let’s pat ourselves on the back,’ story,” said Alex Atamanenko, by phone from Ottawa. “But when you start analyzing it there is nothing in there to support working people.” The local MP made his rounds in area municipalities before the throne speech and was pleased to read a 10-year promise the Harper government made on infrastructure. “I spent time talking to the mayors in the last couple of weeks, including Trail council,” said Atamanenko. “One of the questions everyone had was, ‘Will there be money for infrastructure projects?’” The MP confirmed that the government said $70 billion will be
invested for infrastructure over the next decade, although he will be monitoring to ensure that those funds trickle down to B.C.’s rural communities. “I am hoping this is new investment money that will be released. “And that it doesn’t just go to subways in Greater Toronto or the Champlain Bridge in Montreal. We need to make sure rural communities can apply for this money.” There were a few glaring issues that stood out that Atamanenko is opposed to. The trade deal with the European Union that will in effect, double the quota for imported cheese. “We don’t know what’s in that deal,” he said. “But we do know importing more cheese will hurt our Canadian farmers. How can that be a good deal when you are taking away business from our farms?” For more on speech see Page 5
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JIM BAILEY PHOTO
Joey Regnier of Career Development Services has his hands full taking down one of the 230 hanging baskets located around Trail. It will take a couple of days to complete the task of removing all the planters. That also means the Christmas decorations will be going up soon.
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