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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Warfield, Trail hammer out rec deal
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Showing there is no “i” in teamwork, Warfield council and the City of Trail met for a second time and worked out a contract that will once again have villagers accessing the local library and sports facilities without paying double the fees. Both sides came together Tuesday for a meeting at city hall, and negotiated an 18-month Trail Resident Program (TRP) agreement for Warfield to pay the city $90,000 towards the library and recreational services this year, and $45,900 for the first six months in 2015. “Mayor and council are very pleased to have come to an interim agreement on recreation and culture funding,” said Warfield Mayor Bert Crockett in the city’s press release. “This is an example of the two councils working cooperatively to provide services to their citizens.” In the previous five-year agreement which ended Dec. 31 last year, Warfield had been paying $107,000 to Trail: $32,500 for the Trail and District Public Library service and $74,500 for village residents to access the city’s recreational facilities and parks. Following Crockett’s first tête-a-tête with Trail last week, he maintained that the village’s contribution into the regional services was not sustainable and the city’s accounting “formula” that derived the monetary amount needed some adjustment. “Hopefully this will lead to a sub-regional inter-municipal agreement for the citizens of the Greater Trail area,” said Crockett. The reduction of funds sits well with the city, and Trail council is relieved to have reached an agreement, according to Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs. See TRP, Page 3
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Taylor O’Neil (right) and Chiara Durfeld, of Maglio Installations, smooth out the rough edges on some curb repair work along Victoria St., in downtown Trail Wednesday.
E-cigarettes banned from school district grounds BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
While many areas of society are still engaged in the debate on whether or not e-cigarettes are an acceptable alternative to traditional tobacco products, J.L. Crowe Secondary has stepped up and announced that it has banned the electronic instruments from school property, as of Wednesday. E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes or vapourizers, are battery-powered devices that use a heating element to
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E-cigarettes are growing in popularity among teens. turn any one of a variety of liquid solutions into a vapour, which
can be inhaled, similar to smoking cigarettes or cigars. Earlier in the year, Greg Luterbach, superintendent of schools for School District 20, sent out a district-wide memo prohibiting the use of e-cigarettes on all district grounds, buildings, buses, and vehicles. “I guess it’s definitely a concern, adolescents experiment and if a 13-year-old girl or boy is making a bad health choice we feel it’s our responsibility to discourage it,” Dave DeRosa, principal at JL
Crowe, said last week. “Our focus on it is as an educational health and safety concern. I understand there may have been good intent originally, to reduce harm, but there seems to be a proliferation of flavours targeted towards children. It entices them to engage in addictive behavior at an influential age.” The solutions used in the e-cigs can come in a wide variety of flavours and, most controversially, with varying amounts of nicotine, which can be inhaled as
a component of the vapour. They produce no actual smoke and very little noticeable smell but can still give the appearance of an individual in the act of smoking a cigarette. E-cigarettes are available online and in a number of locations around the Greater Trail area. “I knew it was coming,” said Simon Boka, co-owner of Sound West Audio Video Unlimited in Trail. See REPORTS, Page 3
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