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The second step toward a prettier downtown Trail began this week as workers turned over flower beds to make room for sustainable perennials and removed bricks one-by-one from Rossland Avenue medians to make way for a new concrete look. Sierra Landscaping, the project’s prime contractor out of the Okanagan, had equipment and labourers at the Gulch sites prepping the area for new irrigation lines and new growing soil to add to the city’s existing beds. Inlaid brick work was removed from the medians and placed on palettes to accommodate repairs to damaged curbs at the Rossland Avenue intersection. The old bricks will be stored in the city’s public works yard and will be reused for other landscaping purposes or used in city parks, explained Andrea Jolly, Trail’s communications and events coordinator. “A concrete skirt will replace the old bricks around the planting area,” she added. See CITIZENS, Page 4
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Sharon Berger, Annabelle McKimmie and Vera Burkart enjoy their coffee, tea, sandwiches and desserts at Thursday's annual Civic Reception honouring the City of Trail's Pioneers, Oldtimers and Native Sons and Daughters. The reception honours residents aged 65-plus who have lived in Trail for over 40 years, or those born in Trail. Berger was born and raised in Trail and has lived in the city for 66 years. McKimmie has been a resident of the area for 63 years and Burkart moved to Trail in 1968. The afternoon reception started with speeches and greetings from prominent Trail residents, politicians and Miss Trail and her Princess. It finished with a bagpipe performance by Trail Pipe Band member, Gordon Titsworth. For more photos visit trailtimes.ca.
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Grant helps brings seniors and youth together BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
Kids played cribbage and seniors headed back to class as part of the Beaver Valley Age-friendly program and the New Horizons grant. Tuesday afternoon was the final seniors luncheon, providing a chance for seniors to get out and about, until September and organizers took time to recognize the seniors and students who spent quality time together at the monthly luncheons, as well as doing other organized activities throughout the school year. Fruitvale Mayor Patricia Cecchini
“The gist of (the grant) was to involve the seniors with the youth so we teamed up with the elementary school.” PATRICIA CECCHINI
says the activities, funded by the $19,000 government grant, have created a familiarity between young people and the older generations in the area. “The gist of [the grant] was to involve the seniors with the youth,
so we teamed up with the elementary school,” she said “One of the things I found out was the seniors were scared of the youth in terms of safety, and the youth were just as scared of the seniors. “By having the youth talk to the seniors and the seniors go into the school and work with the youth, they are no longer afraid and we are taking away the unknown. One of the things we have been trying to address is socialization and isolation for the seniors. This gives them a venue that they can socialize.” Vickie Fitzpatrick, coordinator of
the seniors program at the Fruitvale Community Hall says the program was special because the two groups learned from each other. “The students got to tell us what they wanted to learn from the seniors,” said Fitzpatrick. “One thing [they did together] was chess and it took off like crazy. All of the kids play chess now. History was also huge. The seniors shared a catalogue from the 1920s. “The kids said, 'nice dresses,' and the seniors told them they were slips and the kids had never seen a slip before. It was priceless.” See PROGRAM, Page 2
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