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Area crews respond to industrial fire
TOUGH NUT TO CRACK
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Fire crews were called to the scene of an industrial fire early Wednesday morning. Retriev Technologies, formerly known as Toxco Waste Management, was the site of what, at first glance, appeared to be a sizeable structure fire. Once the smoke cleared and Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue was able to visually examine the rubble, the fire appeared to have originated from cardboard boxes that were stored under a metal roofed awning. “We received quite a few calls from people who were driving by because flames of an outside storage area were visible from the highway,” explained Terry Martin, regional fire chief. “It looked like a structure was on fire. But once we started knocking down the flames, we realized it was a roof and stacked cardboard boxes that caught on fire, and other storage boxes that were in close proximity. That's where the flames were from.” Steven Robinson, Retriev Technologies operations manager, told the Trail Times “a small fire originated in the post-production storage area,” Although the cause of the fire remains under investigation, Robinson added, “there was no release that would adversely affect either the environment, our neighbours or our employees.” Firefighters from Warfield, Trail and Montrose responded to the early morning call out, and stayed at the site for about three hours. Martin maintains that following previous fire-related incidents at the plant, which is located in Area A of the regional district, Retriev Technologies has worked with the fire department to improve fire safety and safety aspects at the job site. “We followed our operational guidelines and See NO, Page 3
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An Emcon worker takes a torch to the nut holding down the railing on the Victoria Street Bridge in Trail. An entire section of the railing will be replaced over the next few days. The Emcon employee said the nuts have probably been in place since the bridge was built. It was opened to the public on this day, Oct. 2, in 1961.
Early district enrolment numbers down slightly; Grade 9 gone from RSS BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
One year after students in grades 10 to 12 were transferred to J.L Crowe Secondary School from Rossland, Grade 9 students from Rossland Summit School have joined them. Numbers for student enrolment in School District 20 (SD20) were released for the 2014-2015 school year at Monday's school
board meeting in Trail, showing the enrolment numbers were zero for Grade 9 at RSS. Bill Ford, assistant superintendent for SD20, says all of the students who would be going into Grade 9 this year at RSS have been transferred to Crowe, giving the high school 23 more students, but still less than the board predicted last year. “Twenty-three Grade 9s left
and as a result, RSS has no Grade 9s enrolled this year,” he said, adding that the curriculum won't change for the remaining students. “The same curriculum will still be delivered (to Grade 8 students). We staffed the school so they could run a middle school program with electives. Currently, on the books, RSS is a (kindergarten) to Grade 9 school, they just aren't enrolling Grade
9s.” Transferring the Grade 9 students to Crowe was a multi-step process, making sure the students are successful in their new school. “One of the criteria that happens with a transfer request is that we make sure there is room,” said Ford. “With secondary school transfer requests, not only do we make sure there
is room, but we make sure the school can provide a meaningful program for the child. Once that work is taken care of, then the transfer is approved.” Monday's school board meeting also saw a report on the current student enrolment numbers across the entire district. According to SD20 superintendent, Greg Luterbach, because of See NUMBERS, Page 2
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