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Summer reading class steps out of comfort zone BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
The Trail and District Public Library hosted a guest speaker at its Kid's Summer Reading Club on Tuesday. Karen Reader stopped by the library to help kids step out of their comfort zones with activities and stories. “They (read) a book about a squirrel who is scared to leave his tree, and then he decides to leave in small baby steps,” said Reader, explaining that the story is meant to teach a lesson about venturing out into the unknown, but carefully. “The book is about pushing out of the comfort zone and facing some of your fears. You never know, when you do it in baby steps, what is out there.” To start off the activity portion of the afternoon event, Reader gave everyone a picture card and kids were asked to
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Kids gathered at the Trail and District Public Library for an afternoon activity, part of the library's summer reading club. This week's activity explored getting out of your comfort zone and playing games with co-operation. Kids were challenged to make their way through the “chicken plucker” to get to the other side while working together and following instructions. find the other participant with the matching card, getting kids who may not normally partner up, together. Participants were
asked to learn each other's names and work together to find other cards depicting similar images. This was just the
beginning of the lesson Reader was trying to teach. “They are cooperative games that get you to step out of
your comfort zone,” she said. “Whether it is making eye contact or learning each other's names, we just try to play together.
We just want to play some games and get everyone involved by giving them tools to work together.” The Summer
Reading Program at the library hosts weekly activities and for more information, give the library a call at 364-1731.
Voting for pedestrian bridge opens today SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Today marks the first opportunity for all Trail voters to have an official say in the matter of a second crossing over the Columbia River. Voting booths are open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. in the Trail Memorial Centre for advance voting on the city’s loan authorization bylaw that, if adopted, allows Trail to borrowed almost $5 million to build a 300-metre (1,000-foot) walkway upstream from the Old Trail Bridge. Polling stations are
located in the McIntyre Room today and Aug. 20 for advance voting before general voting day on Aug. 23. Trail residents who are eligible to vote but are not on the provincial voters list can register at the time of voting by producing two pieces of identification, one with a signature and proof of residency and identity, confirmed Chief Elections Officer, Michelle McIsaac. The ballot question is specific and asks Trail electorates, “Are you in favour of the City of Trail enacting
Bylaw No. 2775 authorizing construction and borrowing of $4,916,000 so that the sewer pipe bridge proposed by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary can also include a pedestrian walkway, water main line and fibre optic conduit?” That’s a mouthful. But if the popular vote is ‘Yes” then the city can proceed to borrow sufficient funds to construct a footpath and hitch new utilities on a new pipeline in a joint venture with sewer partners in Regional District of Kootenay Boundary
(RDKB). If the majority of Trail voters say ‘No’, then it’s back to the drawing board and a regression to the state-of-affairs when the walking bridge proposal first began in 2011, according to Trail Coun., RDKB director, and Acting Mayor Robert Cacchioni. “If the referendum fails, then that’s it,” said Cacchioni. “It’s final. We (regional sewer committee) will have to go back to where we were two years ago and explore the options we have already explored and dismissed.”
To date, about $500,000 in engineering costs have been invested into the aerial sewer option. After years of back-andforth between Rossland, Warfield and Trail, the regional sewer partners deemed this choice the most cost effective and environmentally responsible way to pump liquid waste across the Columbia River. If the referendum fails, then an entirely new set of possibilities are in play, explained Cacchioni, adding that means a new agreement between the
three parties and Area B would have to be reached. “This option is the one with the least risk,” he added. “All the other options have tremendous risks both environmentally and financially.” The RDKB considered an aerial crossing option as its main focus moving forward in dealing with replacing the current regional sewer crossing on the Old Trail Bridge, said Bryan Teasdale, the regional district’s manager of infrastructure and sustainability. See TIME, Page 3
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