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Regional district won’t back new animal centre BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Regional partners are making no bones about it – they will not be giving $550,000 to the BC SPCA for a new facility in Trail. “It's not that we don't support the SPCA,” says Grace McGregor, regional board chair. “It's that money is tight and sometimes we have to make these decision whether we want to or not.” With the organization slated to close its current shelter on Highway 3B by June 2016, the BC SPCA proposed a series of replacement options to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) board directors earlier this year. Most costly, was a half million-plus joint venture with the regional district. The potential project included building a $1.6 million adoption, education, and limited veterinary service centre on Old Waneta Road acreage the non-profit already owns. Not only was new construction nixed, but so was the suggestion of bringing more vet operations to town. Reviewing the matter fell to a fourmember subcommittee from Rossland, Warfield, Trail and Fruitvale, and its list of recommendations were brought to
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and approved by the board at Thursday's meeting. “The subcommittee did an awful lot of work on this and I commend them,” said MacGregor. “This is a passionate thing because we care about our animals and everyone else's animals, and we want them looked after.” Sitting as a smaller group, or subcommittee, means all documentation, avenues and possibilities are explored before recommendations pass and decisions are made, she noted. “They weighed everything when they looked at this,” MacGregor continued. “And as a board we felt the way it was presented, we made an informed decision.” Discussion took place based on the four recommendations put forward, Trail Mayor Mike Martin said, referring to the June 18 RDKB board meeting. “They were adopted by the board to move forward. Combined with that, although we have no jurisdiction in this, is we intend to send a letter to the BC SPCA strongly discouraging them to not put in place veterinary services in our community as part of this venture.” See GROUP, Page 3
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Board approves sale of Blueberry building Deal not finalized until society agrees to terms BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
The Blueberry Creek Community School sale is one step closer to being finalized. After over a year of in camera negotiations and very few public announcements, at Monday's School District 20 (SD20) board meeting, trustees announced that they were ready to sign their side of the sales contract. The building is being sold to the Blueberry Creek Community School
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Society (BCCSS), but while some details on the sale, like the purchaser, have been made public, some, like sale price, are not being released until later this year. There are still some aspects of the transaction that aren't final. “Although we have agreed to sign the document, we don't know if they will also agree to sign the document,” said Darryl Ganzert, board chair, adding that all will be revealed in the new school year. “It is not really a done deal yet. A motion is going to come up at our very first meeting in September to disclose See PRICE, Page 3
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Trail Parks and Rec teamed up with the RCMP and West Kootenay Brain Injury Association for the annual Bike Rodeo at the Trail Memorial Centre on Saturday. Close to 20 young riders like Eva Manaigre navigated their way through a challenging test course under the watchful eye of Crime Prevention officer Gordon Simms. The event also focuses on the importance of wearing helmets and decreasing the incidence of brain injury in B.C., where between 8,000 and 14,000 brain injuries are suffered every year.
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