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RDKB delays expansion talks: Trail
BARE BONES FANS
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
More than 150 people lined up around the block at 4 a.m. Monday morning to wait for the Charles Bailey Box Office to open at 10 a.m. to buy tickets to Bryan Adams. By 3:30 p.m. all the 677 tickets were sold at $113 per person. Adams will bring his Bare Bones acoustic tour to Greater Trail Community Centre Feb 24.
Trail burn survivor raises funds BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
A 19-year-old Trail man says he has only grown since a burn accident knocked him off his feet three years ago. Trevor Carmichael has nearly raised his $3,000 goal for the Bum Fund Centre, set to break ground in the Lower Mainland this spring. “I am fundraising for this amazing cause because my experience with being burned would have been a little bit easier to endure in this new centre,” he said. “My siblings could have been there with me, there would be other burn survivors there to connect with, it would have been better in every aspect.” The new centre will include eight fully furnished accessible accommodation suites for patients and fam-
ilies while undergoing treatment at Vancouver General Hospital or BC Children’s Hospital. Carmichael remembers all too well the burn ward in Children’s. Though the space was small, he said he was treated well. On June 28, 2010, him and his friends were starting a bonfire but when the fire wouldn’t ignite, one ofhis buddies grabbed a small can of gas and was pouring it slowly over the pit when it caught on fire, his friend threw it and it landed in Carmichael’s lap. “I was rushed to the Trail hospital, where they worked on me all night,” he said. “The next morning I was flown by air ambulance to Children’s Hospital, where my mom and I stayed for 33 days.”
Carmichael had major skin grafting surgery shortly after and was unable to move for the next two weeks. Slowly through physio he learned to walk again and got home soon, but recovery time shifted when he had to fight off infections. “This whole experience has changed my life in a positive way,” he said. “It was torturous that it happened and I will have lifetime scars but I feel that I am more appreciative of other people’s hardships. “And I take all of life’s offerings in with a different perspective and enjoy every moment to the fullest.” Carmichael now owns his own home, works full time at Porcupine Wood Products and is a . . . See TRAIL, Page 3
Trail staff just met with the province for advice on how to move ahead with the plan to expand city limits. A delayed response from the regional district has Trail’s boundary expansion proposal on hold and the city looking for feedback on how to forge ahead. “Given the fact that the regional district is not responding I have scheduled meetings in Victoria with the Ministry,” David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer (CAO) told council during the governance meeting Nov. 25. “I hope to actually see about advancing
our own proposal ahead of the regional district,” he said, adding, and what the best approach will be to work through mitigation meetings.” When the city publicly released its intent to move forward with the boundary extension in May, Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs stated the entire process could happen within the next 18 months. According to Perehudoff’s Nov. 25 status report, the city has a target date of December 2014 to finalize its partnering agreement with Teck and a projected timeline to begin provision of services to the newly incorporated area in January 2015. See CAO, Page 3
Car crash claims one life, serious injuries to driver BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
A single motor vehicle accident on Saturday night left one man dead and the female driver in hospital with serious injuries. Bernard Harold Doherty, a 52-year old Montrose resident, died following the motor vehicle incident, confirmed regional coroner Larry Marzinzik in a Monday news release. The Trail RCMP responded to the scene near the 1400 block of Highway 3B, south of Fruitvale, just after 9 p.m. that night. See INVESTIGATING, Page 3
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