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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Residents steaming New time and place for after CPR meeting Trail’s indoor market yields few answers Trail Indoor Winter Market to begin Dec. 6 in former Liquidation World site downtown
BY LIZ BEVAN
communities to solve the issue. As residents were leaving, some Tempers flared at Trail's pub- weren't shy about voicing their lic meeting with Canadian Pacific opinions about the way the railway Railway (CPR) on Friday. has handled this situation. The meeting, hosted by Area B “You've destroyed the valley and director Linda Worley and MP Alex my property,” said one resident in a Atamanenko in the Greater Ttrail raised voice while exiting. Community Centre, was a follow-up “I hope you are proud of yourto the Castlegar meeting in October self,” said another. “The real estate where a spokesperson addressed is going to go down, the population issues of noise and safety along the is going to go down and people are tracks. going to be leaving. It is a shame Over half of the room got up to that you won't work with us.” leave when CPR director of govRuss Babcock, a Genelle resident, ernment affairs, Mike LoVecchio, was at the meeting and believes that revealed that CPR CPR needs to be decision-makers more accountable “I was not surprised at won't be changing to the residents the canned responses to anything when it that live along the comes to the train the very valid and serious tracks and even schedule and the concerns of the residents plan ahead for associated noise. schedule changes. of Area B and the “The answer was “If night trains that we are not just are so beneficial to surrounding areas.” going to be movCPR, then maybe LINDA WORLEY ing crews around, they should we want that locoinstall controlled motive in Trail at the start of the crossings where crossings exist in next day, which is very early in the residential neighbourhoods,” he morning,” he said. “Whether the wrote in an email to the Trail Times. locomotive comes through at 1:30 “Then the whistle would be redunor 5 a.m., what’s the difference? It is dant and unnecessary. We’d all be going to come back at night.” back to restful nights, and living in In September, the railway added harmony with CPR.” a new train trip from Castlegar to Worley agreed that there has to Trail, anytime between midnight be a way for residents and CPR to and 3 a.m., sounding its whistle and work together on the problem. disturbing residents along the tracks “I was not surprised at the canned in Castlegar, Genelle, Rivervale, responses to the very valid and seriTadanac and Sunningdale. ous concerns of the residents of Bad road conditions and messy Area B and surrounding areas,” she weather left most of the seats at wrote in an email. the meeting empty, but those in “I did however hope that there attendance were passionate about would be some reconsideration by the cause. CPR and perhaps some effort on One upset resident asked, after their part to listen and hear the an hour and a half of discussion, extremely negative impacts that whether CPR would be open to their rescheduling has created, and working with the communities to make an effort to change them.” come up with a better plan, or At the meeting, Bill Edwards would residents along the tracks and Roger Cox, both residents of just have to live with the late-night Rivervale, walked the tracks and noise. shared images of what they discovThe answer from CPR was clear: ered with the CPR representative. there won't be collaboration with See ELECTED, Page 3 Times Staff
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BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Weekend shopping in downtown Trail could be a little merrier this holiday season. The Trail Indoor Winter Market is a go from noon until 4 p.m. every Saturday until Christmas starting Dec. 6, confirmed Norm Casler, from the Trail and District Chamber of Commerce. Local vendors who make it, bake it, and grow it are ready to fill up the new locale in the former Liquidation World store on Spokane Street now that all the fine details have been ironed out. “We have hired a cleaning company to give it a once over and we expect about 35 vendors, said Casler, the chamber's executive director. “We will be doing some decorating and it should be more attractive for the Christmas season. Maybe it will lead to something in the future.” Sabine Mann couldn't be more delighted with the news about the change of venue and days the market will run. Mann owns Women's Journey to Fitness across the street from the large vacant premises, and she's been advocating for something to happen in that space for a few years. “The building takes such a big part of our block and has been empty for so long,” she said. “It's finally being put to good use. There's so much talent in this town and enough ideas and willingness that when people come together for things like this, something wonderful happens.”
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A cleaning crew from Accura Property Maintenance (Cole Kara, right, and Amanda Craig, left) was on site at the former Liquidation World Monday morning. The building is being prepped for the upcoming Trail Indoor Winter Market, slated for three Saturdays until Christmas, beginning Dec. 6. She predicts that changing the markets to Saturdays will increase weekend foot traffic throughout the city's core because the initiative is much more in line with supporting all downtown businesses. “When it was held on Friday, there were so many working people who couldn't make it,” Mann noted. “I think
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this is going to be a tremendous positive experience for all businesses and will bring everyone to this end of town.” Another Spokane Street business that's kitty-corner to the market's new site also foresees more people walking through its doors once the winter markets launch. See SHOP, Page 3
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