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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Local stores respond to concerns over tainted beef Safeway removes meat, Ferraro, Liberty not impacted BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
Many Greater Trail residents were wondering where the beef was after a meat recall disrupted the delivery and provision of red meat to the Silver City over the last few days. The recall of meat products from a processing plant in Alberta due to possible E. coli contamination has put the meat sections in three Trail grocery stores on full alert since late last week. However, any beef products in Trail from the XL Foods meat processing plant in Brooks have been pulled, with the list including cuts of steaks and roasts, stewing beef and beef breakfast sausage. The products in question were manufactured at the plant on Aug. 24, 27, 28, 29 and Sept. 5. The owner of McAuley’s No Frills in Waneta Plaza was not able to comment on the incident, deferring instead to the parent company to speak on the matter. David Wilkes, the senior vice-president of the Retail Council of Canada’s grocery division in Toronto, speaking for McAuley’s, noted the Trail store “likely” removed its meat. He also could not say if any meat delivered on the affected days was sold in Trail. “If there was product in Trail that was affected it would have now been removed,” he said. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday it has now recalled more than 1,500 beef products in Canada. Five cases of E. coli in Alberta have been linked to meat that originated at XL Foods, all of which were purchased at a Costco store in Edmonton. The Safeway location in East Trail did have some meat in the store from the dates in question, but store assistant manager Kyle Phillips said it never reached the store’s shelves. Most of the meat comes in fresh in whole slabs to the store and it is cut up in house—except for the organic meat which comes from a different plant. After the meat was pulled, Safeway staff doublechecked the counter and the coolers, and placed a sign in the meat aisle that any customers could bring back the meat if they were concerned. “Obviously we want to keep them safe and if they don’t feel safe then we’ll take it back,” Phillips said.
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Beaver Valley children’s librarian Rhonda Giles began tidying up after Mother Goose, a reading activity for mothers and their newborns.
LIBRARY MONTH IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Region’s libraries reaching out to public BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
October has been dubbed library month, according to the B.C. government. The goal of the designation is to help raise public awareness about the role libraries play in the lives of Canadians and the communities in which they live. The theme of this year’s Library Month is “Libraries Connect.” In response, local libraries are ramping up literacy campaigns with a special treat, a local librarian noted Wednesday. The Beaver Valley Public
Library (BVPL) will be inviting three local authors for readings, including one today. “Margo Talbot authored the book ‘All That Glitters’ and she’ll be here at the local high school,” said children’s librarian Rhonda Giles of the Beaver Valley Public Library, adding that plans for Talbot’s presentation haven’t been finalized. The library will also host Rita Moir, the One Book One Kootenay winner, also today at 7 p.m., with Mike Deas on Oct. 9 at the Fruitvale Elementary School. Libraries transform lives,
enrich communities and define our society, said Annette DeFaveri, executive director of the British Columbia Library Association, much like the Trail and District Public Library (TDPL) does. The TDPL is taking a somewhat different approach to connect with the community. “We want to attract people that are traditionally pulled in by libraries,” TDPL’s library director Belinda Wilkinson said. “Libraries have many important roles and one of the roles that we’re currently working on is to try and be more involved with the com-
munity. “We want to be actively involved with others so that we can offer unique programming that appeals to the community.” She revealed that TDPL is collaborating with the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy on an after-school reading program geared for children between the ages of seven and nine. Wilkinson was optimistic the program could be up and running shortly, and hoped to gauge the community’s interest by offering a pilot-program in mid-October.
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