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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Airport sale provides Bryan Adams delivers for sold out tax break for Area B show at Charles Bailey Theatre BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The news is good for the 656 homeowners living in Electoral Area B, because property taxes will actually decrease this year even though residents will be chipping in a little more for regional services. Area B has almost 1,400 people living in the largely rural area that extends just north of Genelle to the Paulson Bridge, through Sheep Creek, Blackjack and Paterson to the U.S. Border and includes Oasis, Rivervale and Casino. Those residents account for about 5 per cent of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) tax base, and pay for regionally shared services such as fire and police, recreation, transit, and solid waste management. Based on the average assessed property value of $200,000 in Area B, a zone that covers 10 per cent of the district’s land base, a homeowner will pay about $930 compared to $960 last year. Property taxes and issues specific to Area B were discussed
during the region’s annual town hall meeting last week when a cross section of a few dozen people met with RDKB representatives in the Oasis Community Hall. Linda Worley, Area B director, was on hand to answer questions from the community Wednesday evening and John MacLean, RDKB’s chief administrative officer (CAO), presented a background history of regional services and various projects that are up for approval in the 2014 budget. “The budget is really about our priorities,” explained the CAO. “And what services you would like the RDKB to continue to deliver,” he said. “Or what you may not be interested in having anymore.” Two big ticket items checked off the regional district’s duty list, in particular services that fell under the helm of East End Service (participants) from Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Area A and Area B, account for the latter’s three per cent tax drop. See TOWN, Page 3
Vision for Trail on display tonight at memorial centre BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
A year-long study of the Silver City and its abundance of history and culture has culminated in a golden master thesis by architect student Austin Hawkins. Hawkins is showing his final design development of the city in the Trail Memorial Centre (TMC) tonight at 7:30 p.m. outside the library, and invites the community to view his display made from “beautiful materials recycled from the depths of the Trail Memorial Centre.” The display includes delicate collages, drawings, photographs and models that reflect his detailed research into Trail’s human history, landscape, mining, smelting and Italian culture. “Photographing the entire Greater Trail area and researching
the use and transportation patterns of ore and metal, and studying those photographs helped me understand the essence of Trail,” said Hawkins. “My project develops and demonstrates techniques for finding the value in this cityscape and making choices about what to do with it in the future.” The University of British Columbia student is in his third year of architectural studies and decided to make Trail and its struggle to revitalize, the centre of his thesis after visiting the city for a first-time look last January. After months of intense design work and non-stop 12 to 14 hour days, Hawkins presented his redesign plan of the centre to architectural critics in Vancouver earlier this year. See FOCUS, Page 3
BY GUY BERTRAND Times Staff
Bryan Adams called it his “Bare Bones Tour” but the iconic Canadian musician brought a truckload of hits for his sold out show at Trail’s Charles Bailey Theatre on Monday night. From his show opening “Run to You” to his encoreclosing “Straight From the Heart,” the 54-year-old Adams struck every chord of memory in the audience with a string of his classic songs that kept the crowd enthralled. Accompanied at times by pianist Gary Breit, Adams blended the powerful voice and guitar chops that propelled him to super stardom. Breit proved a perfect addition to Adams’ hard-driving style and added his personal ivory touch to such melodic classics as “Heaven” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?” The Grammy-winning musician mixed in his foot stomping favorites like “Cuts Like a Knife” and “Somebody” with his mega-hit collaborations “All for Love” and “I Finally Found Someone.” Although those hits were recorded with the likes of Barbara Streisand, Rod Stewart and Sting, none joined Adams in Trail despite the rocker’s longing looks to stage left for their potential entrance. However, their presence wasn’t required as Adams provided enough star power in the room thanks to his repertoire of worldwide hits. There was also a connection between Adams, the storyteller, and the Home of Champions. He recalled playing in Trail in 1976 and opening for Trooper. It was a chance for him to re-trace his career path, including opening gigs with Foreigner and Journey among others, and enjoying every opportunity along the way of his illustrious 30-plus year
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Bryan Adams took fans on an acoustic journey of his greatest hits during Monday’s show at the Charles Bailey Theatre. career delight. It was only fitting that durIt wasn’t the only moment ing a brief break in Adams’ that brought the crowd to non-stop 110-minute show its feet with “Summer of 69” a member of the audience eliciting the biggest ovation of shouted out “Thank you for the show. coming to Trail,” which was Staying true to the “Bare followed by a rousing ovation Bones” theme, Adams paid from the appreciative audience tribute to Kris Kristofferson who shared the same senti- with the timeless country balment. lad “Help Me Make it Through The moment was indeed the Night,” as an ode to one of touching for any musi- his favorite songwriters. cian and like a true showBut this night belonged man, Adams segued right into to Adams and his “trip down “B.C. Bound,” a takeoff on his memory lane.” For the lucky “Alberta Bound” tune, cap- people in the crowd on ping it off with a hearty “Trail Monday, they got to take the bound,” much to the crowd’s trip with him.
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