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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF
ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALM SALMO
HARMONICUTE CLUB
BREANNE MASSEY PHOTO
The Beaver Valley Harmonica Club performed a collection of songs under Bert Kniss’ instruction on Saturday afternoon at the Beaver Valley May Days’ live entertainment stage in Fruitvale. Kniss has been volunteering to teach a group of local children how to play the harmonica for roughly one year. For more photos of May Days, please see Page 2.
RELAY FOR LIFE
The funds in the sun Annual fundraiser for cancer research raises over $50,000 in 12 hours at a local event BY DANIELLE CLARKE Times Correspondent
Blues skies supported participants’ spirits at this year’s Relay for Life. The 12-hour event on Saturday in Warfield’s Haley Park was jam packed with entertainment, raising awareness and funds to help fight cancer, as 23 teams pulled together for a total of $56,881. It was a “fantastic turnout and awesome weather,” said Suzzane Belanger, Relay’s volunteer event chair. The balmy weather pattern created a positive stir for the opening ceremonies, with Nina Amelio singing O Canada to start the day’s festivities. That was followed by an aerobic warm up as well as a Zumba class, paving the way for a motivating Survivor Victory Lap honouring several cancer survivors. Throughout the day various vocalists and performers took the stage set up in the park and provided an entertaining musical score. For children there were plenty of organized activities, arts and crafts located at the Kid’s Zone. In the afternoon there were hair cutting donations as well as a relaxation station run by Jane Theriaelt.
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The bear-necessities of Trail Your bear friend’s back and there’s going to be trouble unless you keep clean BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
Clean up the barbeque, take down the bird feeders, store garbage securely, bring the dog food inside and put away picnic baskets: it’s bear season. Local conservation officers have already received several calls about bear sightings in Greater Trail this season. “The bears are coming out of the den and since the snow melted pretty fast this year, I’d say they’re all out and about,” said Bear Aware community coordinator Sharon Wieder. Somebody spotted a mom and two cubs in Glenmerry about a month ago and there have been reports of garbage being strewn about in West Trail. “That’s usually a result of bears getting into people’s garbage,” she said.
Although the City of Trail consciously thinking about the has had a longstanding bylaw in garbage that we produce and place to minimize problems with reducing that amount through bears, but it has been criticized recycling and composting,” she for not being widely practiced by said, “and then making sure that some members of the conserva- garbage is securely stored and tion department. dropped off at the The bylaw says “The bears are landfill.” you can’t put your Wieder said there coming out of garbage out before are other products 6 a.m. on the day that attract bears, that the den ... I’d of garbage pick-up, people need to consay they’re all said Wieder. sider more carefully out.” “The idea behind like BBQs. People it is that the bears should run their BBQs SHARON WIEDER are typically around on high after they’re at night time more done to get rid of the than the day so that means, not odours of food. leaving your garbage out over“Bears have an incredible night or putting it out too early sense of smell which is somein the morning,” she said. thing that people really need to According to Wieder, it’s easy keep in mind,” said Wieder. “It’s to prevent problems related to a good idea to turn it on high bears and garbage. and burn off anything left over.” See BEAR, Page 3 “A big part of that is just
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