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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Merry Christmas
Legion serving up annual dinner Volunteers prepare Christmas Day feast BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
The Christmas season is synonymous with joy and warmth but it can also herald in one of the hardest times of the year for some people. The celebrations and family gatherings that take place in abundance for most people can underline the isolation of those who do not have family to celebrate with. But for anyone who could find themselves alone on Dec. 25, the Royal Canadian Trail Legion and the annual community Christmas dinner has a solution: join them. The free dinner held in the Trail Legion Hall comes complete with turkey and all of the trimmings, and around 125 other people to socialize with.
For a lot of the people that have come out to the dinner in the past, they don’t have family in the area, said the dinner’s organizer and creator, Glenda Reilly. “It gives (people) somewhere to go to have a nice Christmas dinner and a little bit of socialization for the day,” she said. “This time of the year can be a tough time of the year for a lot of people, so we just like to put it out there that this is going on. So if you don’t have anybody in the area, come on out and spend a couple of hours and have dinner with us.” The dinner is open to anyone. Families are welcome but the dinner is mostly focused on single people who are by themselves, and elderly people who are on their own, said Reilly. The dinner started years ago when a group of Legion See SPOTS, Page 4
Christmas present comes early for local family BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
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Six-week old Jayden Worsnop posed for a photo with Santa Claus in anticipation of his first Christmas in MP 1_2_J5a_Layout 1 12-06-07 8:04 AM Page 1 thead Kootenays.
A Christmas present came early for the Zanier family. Nearly five months after 16-year-old Kolby had a heart transplant at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton on July 19, she was back at school in Rossland at the beginning of October—at the head of her Grade 11 class at Rossland Secondary School. It was less than 18 months ago that Kolby was the first pediatric patient in Canada to receive a leading-edge heart pump that helped her heart pump blood through her body. And it was 12 years ago when she was diagnosed with Alstrom Syndrome, a rare genetic disease that can affect vision, hearing, kidney and liver function, and can also
cause heart failure. But that ordeal is nearly over for Kolby and her family, said her mother Aileen, and the gift of a new life is one they aren’t looking in the mouth. It’s going to be a great Christmas, she said. “She is the strongest kid I know,” she said. “She took a couple of days off (after surgery) and then went right back to school. She hasn’t stopped since. She’s a really big wow.” Before Kolby left Edmonton in October after her surgery, she and the rest of her family— Aileen, her father Barry, and sisters Taryn, 25, and Kailyn, 19—participated in the onekilometre Hope for Little Hearts Walk/Run, a fundraiser for little children with heart problems. See NEXT, Page 4
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