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WARFIELD
Citizens to voice concerns to council BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
Warfield residents have started their own consultation process when it comes to their village council opting out of a recreation and culture agreement with longtime partner, Trail. Constituents are spreadSELKIRK ing word of delegates poised to SECURITY SERVICES speak at the village's upcoming 250-368-3103 meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m. Betty Ann Marino, a Warfield Award Winning native who moved back to the Best Western Plus village in 1999, was shocked to hear the news. “I want to pay my fair share and I believe in the regional liquor store presence of our communities,” she said. “I value inter-depend“freeze ence, that's what I'm promotthe beak ing, and I want to move more off a toward a regional view and away penguin from this independent view.” cold!” The decision to no longer cost share with the city under daily • 9am - 11pm the Trail Resident Program 1001 Rossland Ave. (TRP) was made during an inin the Best Western Plus camera council meeting last Columbia River Hotel MP_adO3_Layout 1 13-10-04week, 6:20 AM Page could 1 which ultimately
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result in Trail taxpayers covering the loss of Warfield's $74,500 contribution toward recreation and $32,500 annual payment to library services. Marino would like council to revisit this decision and a public meeting held to gather input from village residents, which could then result in an informed decision on behalf of residents, not behind closed doors. Jackie Patridge, Warfield's director to the Trail and District Public Library board, was surprised she wasn't informed personally. Instead, she read about it in the Trail Times. “It saddens me that a political decision made by the council will have such a dramatic effect on the children of Warfield,” she told the Times. “I, along with every resident of Warfield had no advance notice.” Though he admitted he expected some disappointment from residents, Warfield Mayor Bert Crockett said he's heard mixed views on cost sharing for recreation and culture.
He said council looked at several options – including an informal inter-municipal agreement, remaining status quo under the TRP and a reimbursement program. Some of these options included higher taxes for residents or going to referendum during municipal elections in November, he said. It was ultimately decided to wait out the year under a reimbursement program, which would allow the new council to make an informed decision, once the village receives program dollar specifics from Trail. Warfield's reimbursement program is effective immediately and users are asked to bring a receipt to the village hall, with a pay-out expected to take up to two weeks. “We want to get some solid numbers to pass onto the next council and then they can look at those numbers and enter into any type of agreement or whatever they'd like to do at that point,” said Crockett. See TRAIL, Page 3
RCMP ‘making some progress’ on recent robberies BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
It has been over a week since the last robbery in the West Kootenay after a spate of armed robberies in Castlegar and Salmo over the last six months left banks and businesses looking over their shoulders and the RCMP on alert. But the brief respite from the holdups doesn’t mean anyone is ready to relax yet. “We’re still working, following leads and making some progress,” said Corporal Kent Drover, of the RCMP’s General Investigation Section (GIS). “This is going to take some time. “We’ve been getting lots of tips from the public after the screen shots of the suspect went out after the three robberies,” said Drover. “It has helped us eliminate some possible suspects but at this point it hasn’t lead to a positive identification of the person responsible.” The string of robberies began last November when a single male suspect robbed the Paragon Pharmacy in Castlegar at gunpoint, escaping with cash and prescription drugs, it was See POLICE, Page 3
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