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DECEMBER 19, 2013
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City of Trail eyes potential timber revenue
REINDEER POWER HELPS FILL FOOD BANK
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Trail may have another resource to tap into after council advanced a proposal for ATCO Wood Products to begin logging city-owned forest in the Violin Lake Watershed by June 2014. Discussions with ATCO were initiated earlier this year to determine if the producer of softwood veneer would have opportunity to expand into the 45-hectare area, which would add $640,000 to the city’s revenue. “The last time we did business with them in 2002 it was very well executed and they lived up to all their commitments,” explained David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer (CAO) during the governance committee meeting Monday. That section of Violin Lake land derived the city almost $750,000 and has since been replanted and a current review indicates the reforested area may be able to be logged again in future years, added Perehudoff. “We don’t see any issues or concerns and ATCO is looking at the city to commit and formalize an agreement so they can establish their plans in term of resources to get in there and start logging the property.” The city has developed a partnership with the wood products company related to ATCO’s ownership of various haul roads that gain access to city property with the company assuming See ADDITIONAL, Page 2
Car thieves target West Trail BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
A recent rash of vehicle break-ins and thefts in Trail have local RCMP warning residents to take notice of things that go bump in the night. The RCMP report that between Saturday night and Monday morning a total of four vehicles were broken into in West Trail and two were stolen, with one already recovered. The vehicles were damaged to varying degrees in the break-ins and several items were stolen including electronics and tools. Sgt. Rob Hawton, of the Trail and Greater District RCMP, said that this is a somewhat unusual event in that the thieves appeared to have some experience in car theft rather than this just being an opportunistic occurrence. See THIEVES, Page 2
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Webster Elementary students don their reindeer antlers to help load up the Salvation Army with all the white gift items they have collected in the school for the local food bank.
Review shows IBD numbers dropping BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
A timely review of trends related to the incidence of certain digestive diseases in Trail was released to council and the Trail Health and Environment committee at the Monday governance meeting. The report came a month after a U.S. law firm indicated it is gearing up to file a suit on behalf of Northport residents diagnosed with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) claiming the cluster of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis diagnoses are related to historic environ-
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“I am grateful this analysis has been done after concerns identified by media activity around Northport.” DR. ANDREW LADNER
mental pollution discharged by Teck into the Columbia River. “About a year and a half ago I heard the media reports about this issue in Northport,” explained Dr. Tom Kosatsky medical director for environmental health
services at the BC Centre for Disease Control, during the meeting. “And I thought why not use administrative data as a quick way to study the occurrence of the disease (in Trail).” According to the report that was presented in chambers by Dr. Kosatsky and Dr. Andrew Larder, senior medical officer for Interior Health (IH), the rate of IBD occurrence was higher in Trail from 2007-2011 than a neighbouring community and the rest of the province, but over the five-year period, those occurrences have decreased.
The report compiled data from administrative health records of 10,551 residents in Trail who had doctor visits, hospitalizations, and medications related to a IBD diagnosis during that period. Those results were then compared to over 14,000 people living in Nelson, 17,523 residents in Williams Lake, more than 700,000 patients in the entire IH region and over 4 million people in the province. “What we did was look at the whole population as a total count and within it the number of people who See FURTHER, Page 3
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