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Skate park remains on council’s radar
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fleet of projects, and council has some tough decisions down the road. “The planning session is certainly the time when we will look at all the initiatives and how we can best address them going forward with what we have available to us through the operational funding of the city,” he said. At the fundraising committee's monthly meeting last week, chair Scott Daniels, said the group's discussion centred around the lack of funds Trail council has directed toward the area's youth in the last decade. “And what message they will be sending to youth in their first budget,” he continued. “A skate park has been discussed for several generations of children and while more than 125 skate parks have been constructed in B.C., parents and grandparents continue to drive their children to use skateparks in Castlegar, Nelson, Montrose and now, Ymir.” He maintains that Trail's current council can be armed with the 2013 Trail Parks and Recreation See MORE, Page 3
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The Trail skate park project won't fall off the beaten path as council moves into a challenging year of budget decisions, says the Trail mayor. “Council remains committed to considering the skate park within the financial capabilities of the city,” noted Mike Martin. “Based on all the initiatives we have sitting in front of us at this time, we will continue to review (the skate park) in the context of our budget deliberations and during our strategic planning session in March.” With so many pricey ventures on the city's books in the coming months, the future skate park will probably remain far off in the horizon for now. While the Trail Skate Park fundraising committee remains chipper that the city's new council will consider the project as a priority, a new bridge and new library will most likely be the primary objectives in the next few years. Martin said the city is facing a
HISTORICAL PULLOUT ON PAGE 4
Bridge opening draws big crowd time to Saturday, May 25, 1912. The Trail News front page and As the Trail Times continues to ensuing four pages, recounted a celebrate 120 years of reporting regal affair from the day previous. local news, we've donned white That date marked the 13th year gloves and browsed Canadians observed N T T D T through historical Queen Victoria's birthnewspapers, looking day, but more importo highlight some of tantly, May 24 was also the City of Trail's landthe official opening of mark events. the Smelter City's new Within the last Trail bridge. 1895 - 2015 three years of Silver “Trail was in gala City headlines, few attire on Friday,” wrote stories and Letters to the Editor W.K. Esling. “The reason for this have been able to outshine the being the opening of the new community's ongoing passion bridge and the observation of over the fate of the Old Trail Empire Day...The huge and handBridge. some steel structure that spans So this month was a given the mighty waterway and weds – let's take the reader back in See CAMPBELL, Page 3 BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
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Crews from Glacier Valley Tree Care can be seen around Trail this week cleaning up the iconic covered staircases. Leaf blowers are being used to clear the recognizable red metal roofs of stray leaves while chainsaws are cutting into branches to keep the stairs clear and clean.
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