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Petition aims to halt river crossing project
Group says it has enough signatures BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Crossing the Columbia River near the south end of town by this time next year is a vision that will probably go up in smoke after a petition opposed to the pedestrian/pipe bridge has garnered enough signatures to grind the project to halt. According to one petitioner, 10 per cent of Trail electors, or 573 residents, have already signed the petition objecting to building a multi-million dollar crossing upstream from the Old Trail Bridge without a public referendum. That number of signatories is enough to put the project on hold, although the issue can be put to Trail voters during the upcoming civic election. “I think we are over our number already and we have lots of petitioners out there,” Norm Gabana told the Trail Times Sunday afternoon. “Ninety per cent of the people we are approaching are signing and today we have people of stature out there petitioning.” Gabana’s group has until 4 p.m. on Friday to present the signatures to the city hall and stop a $5 million loan authorization bylaw meant to fund the construction of a walking platform over a pipe bridge structure that would house a new regional sewer line. GUY BERTRAND PHOTO “The public is entitled to petition the city’s The West Coast Amusements fleet of trucks rolled into Trail on Monday and was greeted by a community still drenched from intent to adopt the bylaw,” said Mayor Dieter the weekend’s 20-millimetre downpour that had city crews out clearing clogged sewer lines on Monday. Bogs in a Monday news release. “However, we are very concerned about the false information that is being provided to the community by these canvassers,” he continued. “We’ve invested a lot of money, time and effort into this project as it BY SHERI REGNIER in the air.” No snow was recorded at the centre’s Times Staff is an essential component of the city’s downtown A mix of sun and clouds with temper- Castlegar location during the month, revitalization plan and a crucial structure for the The wildest ride this first week of atures trending mild and more seasonal but downpours led to almost 64 millicity’s secondary waterline and sewer interceptor.” May could be the unpredictable weather are expected until Thursday evening, metres (mm) of precipitation compared The news of a pipe bridge delay is disappoint- patterns. when another band of rain showers to the usual 57 mm, but did not top 105 ing for Robert Cacchioni, a Trail councillor who After a record high of almost 28 C on could roll into the area along with mm of mixed snow and rain recorded also serves as the city’s regional director and as Friday to a major downpour that brought cooler temperatures of about 12 C. in 1996. a member on the regional district sewer com- a cooler than usual temperature of 11 C Skies are predicted to clear for “April was slightly wetter and slightly mittee. on Sunday, roller coaster conditions are Saturday’s Silver City parade, but a 40 cooler that typical,” he said. After working on the project for three years, expected to continue throughout Silver to 60 per cent chance of rain is forecast The total rainfall was 107 per cent of along with regional sewer partners in Rossland City celebrations this week. for later that day and on Sunday, accord- normal and the average monthly temand Warfield, he said when analyzing all feas“The snow level has come down the ing to Lakeman. perature was 0.3 C cooler than normal, ible options, the pipe bridge was determined to mountain and it was definitely coolWarm and drier conditions should be he added. be the most cost effective way to modernize the er than normal over the weekend,” back in the picture next week, he added. During the initial half of the month, sewer line, loop the city’s water lines and improve said Ron Lakeman, forecaster at the If April showers bring May flowers, weak disturbances skirted the area with Internet transmission on the east side of Trail Southeast Fire Centre. “We are looking the area should be in full blossom pretty gusty winds but very little rain, Lakeman through the use of fibre optic conduit. at unsettled conditions and rain showers soon because the month had more rain noted. See CITY, Page 3 but the coming weekend is still a bit up than usual. See SUMMER, Page 3
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