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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Library teams up with pre-teen centre for programs
INTENSE LABOUR DAY
School dispute has groups offering activities BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The Trail and District Public Library has long been a fundamental building block and ongoing educational haven for children in the community. Beginning today, the date that should have been the first day of public school, the Silver City cornerstone of learning is partnering with the city’s preteen centre to offer a free morning program for children ages 5-12. From 9 a.m. until noon, staff and volunteers at the Trail site will be relocating to a larger space in the Sanctuary building on Bay Avenue for no cost programs that include story time, crafts, games, guest speakers and a healthy midmorning snack. The library board first began to toss around the idea of expanding fall youth programs after the teachers full scale strike began almost three months ago. “We understand there can be great hardship for some parents over the summer,” said Barbara Gibson, chair of the library board and Sanctuary. “The relief seems to come when the kids See CAMP, Page 3
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Sean Bacon of Dynamic Shift Consulting had members of the Trail Smoke Eaters “sugar cookie-ing,” another term for rolling in the sand, at the Gyro Park beach on Monday morning. The drills, which also saw the players jog up to the Warfield Pool for a running-in-water exercise, are preparing the players for the intensity, discipline and commitment needed for the upcoming BCHL season. See story and more photos on Page 11.
Ripe fruit draws bears into neighborhoods BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
It's that time of year again – the time of year where fruit trees are ripe, the colour of the leaves start to change and bears are getting ready to fatten up for winter hibernation. Sharon Weider from WildSafe BC says that with bears in the area looking for as much food as they can, the animals may enter residential and urban areas on their hunt. “They become more determined to find food sources,” she said.
“If people have fruit trees that they can’t pick or they just don’t want the fruit, we can have people come and pick the fruit for them.” SHARON WEIDER
“So often, what happens is if there isn't enough natural food for them, or if they happen to be cruising
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through an urban area and come across things like fruit trees or garbage, then they will absolutely take advantage of the opportunity.” Weider says that there are plenty of ways that residents can make sure bears stay off their property including picking ripened fruit from the yard, composting properly and not storing garbage outdoors. “The biggest thing is to not have anything around that the bears would be interested in eating,” she said. “A lot of people do canning
and food preparation for the winter, and so you often have stuff left over. If you are composting, mix things in so you have a layer of fresh stuff and then a good layer of dead stuff on top to help the microbes break everything down and it won't smell and attract bears.” Weider also suggests feeding pets indoors, cleaning the yard of bird seed, fruits and any garbage. Apple trees and other fruit trees can be hard to pick and WildSafe BC See QUIET, Page 3
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