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Little League provincials start this weekend BY JIM BAILEY
Times Sports Editor
After months of hard work and organization, Trail Little League is ready to welcome the best in B.C. baseball to Andy Bileski Park this weekend with the 9-10 Provincial championship set to hit the diamond on Saturday. Co-chairs Keith and Clare DeWitt and the rest of the tournament committee will welcome close to 200 players, coaches, umpires, parents,
and supporters to Trail for the week-long provincial tournament. “It’s all coming to a head now,” said Keith on Tuesday. “It’s been pretty hectic this week but it’s coming together, we have lots to do but it’s going to be big.” Trail was granted the host city by B.C. Little League last summer as a result of a very successful B.C. Major Little League championship for the 11-12 Trail All-Star team in 2012.
“That’s why we got it back this year,” said DeWitt. “One of the reasons is because they put on such a good provincials, and the field is top notch and is exactly what Little League (B.C.) wants, and they know that we could do it, so they gave it to us again two years later for the different age group. We have to live up to what they did two years ago and sometimes that’s tough too.” See MINOR, Page 11
Financial statements reveal pay for elected officials BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
If life rolled along smoothly and politics-free in the Greater Trail area, serving as an elected official could bump the monthly income without a lot of work involved. But with long standing disputes over sewer and water, boundaries and the land we choose to recreate on, becoming a rural politician doesn’t always mean a big payday. at the award winning The end of June marked the Columbia River Hotel were bound MP_adO3_Layout 1 13-10-04final 6:20day AM municipalities Page 1 Trail to publicly release financial statements forPage 2013, which includes MP_adO3_Layout 1 13-10-04 6:20 AM 1
remuneration for elected officials and their expenses. Montrose’s five member council serves its community of about 1,000 people at the low end of the pay scale when compared to neighbouring townships. The village’s mayor earned about $6,000 last year, or $500 monthly, and the four Montrose councillors were paid $3,515 or $293 each month. But the job isn’t about the pay for Coun. Mary Gay who said in a smaller area like Montrose, it’s more about serving the constitu-
ents and being active in the community. “It’s something I want to do and not something I do for the money,” she said. “We are such as small area it’s important to keep costs down for our taxpayers and not ask for more.” Half way up the pay scale ladder is Rossland’s Greg Granstrom earning $11,800 as the two-term mayor of about 3,500 people. He’s followed by Fruitvale Mayor Patricia Cecchini, a first term official paid $12,000 to serve a population of 2,000.
Both village and city councillors earn about half that number at $6,000 per year, or $500 each month to perform duties that include administering policies, allocating municipal funds and tax levies during annual budget talks, and adopting bylaws for the protection of the public. Top civic earner in the region, excluding regional district directors, was Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs. He earned $28,000 or just over $2,300 a month to govern the Silver City’s 5,733 residents. See PAY, Page 3
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