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Couple plans to tie the knot later this month on top of Granite Mountain BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
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It will be a very “Happy Random Day” for Phil Loosley and Ali Meredith later this month when they say “I do” before pointing their boards down Granite Mountain. The Rossland couple admitted they've never celebrated Valentine's D e IR th RLrYinBg Day, when the Times caught up with SeEcAu AtWe!nay R D them in between preparation for o o K mplete survey by their wedding day set for Feb. 22. o C and in 1 of 10 “Rather than on Valentine's Day y Nov. 15 to W da r ROCERY when somebody tells you 'this is the B$o20uGn DS day you should confess your love to GIfaT rCAeRa someone,' we do it any random day,” said Loosley, a 39 year-old originally from Bagshot, UK. Random gestures as simple as a handful of truffles to as big as a concert overnight in Spokane stepped SELKIRK this past summer when Loosley SECURITY SERVICES up presented the most extravagant gift 250-368-3103 yet, a proposal. Meredith, a 34 year-old Bellingen, Award Winning Australia, native was surprised after Best Western Plus a hike up the Seven Summits Trail and a camp overnight on Grey Mountain ended with her boyfriend of nine years getting down on one liquor store knee. “We didn't really have any plans “freeze to get married but then when he the beak asked me I was like, 'yes of course.'” off a But it wasn't a ring in hand, penguin instead Loosley presented his future research.com/VI cold!” wife with a Salomon Sickstick engagement snowboard, perfect daily • 9am - 11pm Complete surveydown for your chance to the ride fromto…the ski hill's 1001 Rossland Ave. Powderfields Traverse run post cerin the Best Western Plus emony. Columbia River Hotel Sporting a white ski suit with a bouquet in hand, Meredith will greet her man at “wedding point”
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Phil Loosley and Ali Meredith are ready to tie the knot this month on Powderfields Traverse at Red Mountain Resort. dressed in the same but black with a boutonniere. The no fuss couple are pleased that some family and friends from Australia can make the occasion
BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
The City of Trail's boundary extension proposal is in the ministry's hands and now the mayors of Fruitvale and Montrose and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) director for the area also had a chance to look over the weighty document and offer their responses.
In a press release, the group expressed some satisfaction with the opportunity to see in black and white what Trail is putting on the table, there still remains a considerable gulf to be crossed before anything close to an agreement is reached. “This is all subject to discussion,” said Fruitvale Mayor Patricia Cecchini
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and understand that their support from England will be watching via webcam. “We'll say 'I do' and exchange the rings and then do a run down
Powderfields with all of our guests,” she said. “Then we'll go to Rafters (the bar at the main lodge) to sign the paperwork and have a beer and nachos.” But she will get into the white dress, after all, for the reception held at the Redroom Lounge at the Prestige Mountain Resort. The couple decided to choose a ceremony and reception location they frequent regularly, but not before considering their original homes or even the French Alps, where they first met. The two snowboarders became friends quickly when their mutual friends were all skiers back in 2004 in Morzine, a French Alpine resort. After quick introductions Christmas Eve, the boarders exchanged phone numbers and hit the slopes the next day. They connected immediately and when the season came to an end and Meredith was due back to work, Loosley decided to follow suit but not before the new couple travelled to Paris, Normandy, Iceland and New York first. Their relationship was spent apart in short stints as they navigated through work in two different countries and meeting for travel in between. That was until they both upped and left their jobs and sold their homes in 2006. “We left Australia homeless and jobless with a backpack and snowboard baggage,” smiled Loosley. The travel bug brought them to South America, for some snowboarding in Chile, before landing them in Rossland, where they had intended to stay for a short while to learn the ropes of running Mountain Shadow Hostel before moving to the French Alps to open their own business. See COUPLE, Page 2
during an interview with the Trail Times on Thursday. “We haven't had any faceto-face discussion on this whole matter and, until we sit down with them and negotiate I can't say whether or not anything is acceptable. I'm not going to negotiate through the Trail Times. They need to come and talk to us.” RDKB Area A director Ali
Grieve noted in the press release that there are still some differences in what they see as potential losses for the citizens of the Beaver Valley. “Our numbers show that we could experience a loss in taxable assessment of 57 per cent,” Grieve said. “This is significant for our small communities. See BOTH, Page 3
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