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MAY 10, 2012 Vol. 117, Issue 91
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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF
ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALM SALMO
MONTROSE
Mayor urges residents to cut back on water use Forty per cent of available supply soaked up Tuesday night BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
MICHELLE EPP PHOTO
The Miss Trail Ambassador Pageant will be held Friday at the Charles Bailey Theatre. The 2012 Trail Ambassador candidates are (back row, from the left) Kelsa Quakenbush, Miss Trail Firefighters IAFF Local 941; Caitlin Crockett, Miss Hall Printing; Natalie Plett, Miss Trail Kinsmen; Patricia Michelson, Miss Kiwanis Club of Trail; Ashley Horrill, Miss KMG (Kiss My Grass) Services; Addison Oberg, Miss Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11. Front row; Serena Ross, Miss Colombo Lodge; Elizabeth King, Miss Trail Lions; Melissa Tracanelli, Miss Italo Canadese; Kennady Keraiff, Miss Glenmerry Bowl.
Candidates vying for Trail Ambassador title BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
Being beautiful on both the inside and outside are critical factors in the Trail Ambassador program and there’s certainly an abundance of both in this year’s crop of candidates. There are 11 participants from within the Greater Trail area, almost double last year’s total, and the girls are eager to kick off the pageant. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Charles Bailey
Fruitvale finances in fine form
Theatre. Each contestant has spent seven months training, volunteering and researching the area. “Over the years, we have been changing the stereotypical perception of the pageant from that of a typical beauty pageant to the hard work that the candidates put in to become more confident, strong women,” said Michelle Epp, event coordinator. “The motto of the pro-
BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
At first glance it appears the Village of Fruitvale is rolling in riches. With an $8.71 million surplus sitting in the “vaults” — according to a recent audit on their 2011 operations — the village appears to have an enviable position that most major
gram is, ‘This ain’t no beauty pageant.’” The Trail Ambassador program enriches the lives of young women by teaching them valuable life skills like public speaking, stress management and conflict resolution. The ambassadors of the competition are responsible for representing the City of Trail in other communities throughout the province, and Epp insists that the previous
events participants attend only excite them more. The candidates have completed speaking contests, attended a municipal delegate conference and performed at Zumbathon to raise money for the hospital foundation. This year’s pageant candidates will feature talents ranging from a ukuleles, singers, guitar hero, monologues, artwork and much more. To purchase tickets in advance, call 250-368-9669.
B.C. centres would love to have: loads of extra cash. However, the million-dollar number is misleading since it takes into account the asset valuation of all of the village’s capital and infrastructure works, around $8.4 million in total, and does not represent cash in the bank. On Monday night Fruitvale coun-
Beaver Falls could withdraw water services to Montrose if it cannot meet the demands of both communities, cautioned Montrose Mayor Joe Danchuk on Wednesday. Danchuk raised alarm bells after 40 per cent of the holding tank was drained on Tuesday night. “We’re fortunate that Beaver Falls is sharing their water with us,” said Danchuk, “and there isn’t that much to share. “Right now, we’re manually opening a little valve from Beaver Falls first thing in the morning—like, at 7 a.m.—and when the guys go at 3:30 p.m., they close it because they have no way of controlling water through the night. “Plus, their pump has to build up to fill the reservoir.” The two communities are on a Stage 3 Water Restriction until further notice. The alert was issued after a recent break in the local water lines destroyed 10,000m3 of property in Montrose. Stage 3 Water Restrictions prohibits all underground and above ground sprinkling, and Danchuk encourages residents to wash their vehicles in Trail or Fruitvale until further notice. He suggests residents recycle old bath water to water their garden until a timeline for the estimated repairs is issued. The damages to the water lines are being assessed, but the root of the problem remains unknown.
cil heard the state of the union in 2011 from Don Catalano, a chartered accountant with Soligo and Associates, the man charged with auditing the village’s books. And the union is doing fine, Catalano said, with the village in a good position, having no debenture debt at the local level — although there is debt for shared services
See RESIDENTS, Page 3 through the regional district. The village really only has less than $240,000 in surplus, including $72,438 in unappropriated surplus, and $159,462 in reserve funds. But the real story for the year was capital infrastructure replacement, said Fruitvale chief administrative officer Lila Cresswell, with a large
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