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Trail voters back bridge and library/museum in key 2014 referendums Pivotal infrastructure projects will begin to take shape in 2015
Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Auxiliary president Allana Ferro puts together a blue and a pink basket, for either a boy or a girl newborn baby. Every year the auxiliary gives a basket to the mother of the first baby born at KBRH in the new year.
Gifts await first baby of 2015
TIMES STAFF Allana Ferro and the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) Auxiliary are already planning a gift for the first baby born in 2015. The group doesn’t know if the baby will be a boy or a girl or who will be the lucky mom, but the auxiliary starts thinking about the annual gift basket well before they have any idea who will be receiving it. “We do this every year, so it is always on our schedule,” said Ferro. “But, we start getting serious about it mid-December.” The auxiliary has been working with the local hospital since 1946, and has been doing the gift baskets
every year since. Ferro says it is part of the organization mandate to help patients in KBRH and this annual project perfectly exemplifies that idea. “We are about patient care and comfort and giving assistance in the hospital,” she said, adding that a lot of the time, hospitals can be sad places. “It is great to be able to share (in the happier moments). We had a new father come in (to the gift shop) who had his baby (on Sunday) and he was so excited to pick up all of the little stuffed animals and things.” The auxiliary hopes to provide that same excitement to the family of the first baby of 2015.
Aliens,” an exhibit remembering the struggle of Italian Canadians in internment camps during World War II. That timeline seems unlikely BY LIZ BEVAN though, with all the planning that still needs to Times Staff go into the project. Voters made decisions with their ballots in David Perehudoff, chief administrative officer 2014 and in 2015, those decisions will go from for the city, says he expects construction on the concept to reality. library/museum to finish around summer of In November, voters said yes to funding a 2017. new library/museum, but the proposed utility/ “When considering the time to design and pedestrian bridge had bigger hurdles than a vote the preferred window for construction, we probto jump over. ably would see this project start up either in the Council was ready to approve the bridge plan fall of 2015 or spring 2016,” he said in an email in May, but after vocal opposition and a petition reply to the Trail Times. “Assuming the latter, from over 1,200 Trail voters, the city was forced the facility would probably be open in the sumto hold a referendum on the issue. mer of 2017.” In August, over a quarter of registered voters Just last week, the city announced the purin the city hit the polling booths for the first of chase of a property adjacent to the planned locathe two referendums, voting overwhelmingly tion of the Riverfront Centre and now, the new to support the utility/pedestrian acquisition will have to be worked bridge. into the plan. The project was passed with “I am really looking “At this point, we have our forward to starting 9,000 square feet on the top floor 1,565 votes in the “Yes” column and just 411 voters saying “No,” a (for the library),” said Gibson, construction (of far cry from the number of people adding that she has an idea or pedestrian bridge) who signed the petition against two of what could go in the added in the spring.” the plan. space. “I would love to see a visWith the resident stamp of itor information centre put in MAYOR MIKE MARTIN approval, Mayor Mike Martin says there. The current one isn't the the bridge project is moving forbest for people to get to, but I am ward fast and is expected to break ground in just sure that council will come up with some other a few short months. ideas.” “The engineering work has started,” he said. The Trail Historical Society has been work“We are looking for some (specifics) from the ing with the library and the city to lay the regional district on the pipeline (to go along groundwork for the Riverfront Centre and Jamie the bridge). That work has been started and we Forbes, president of the society, can't wait to see are expecting to have that from them in the the project move on to the next phase. new year. I am really looking forward to starting “I think, once we hit the new year, everything construction in the spring.” will come together,” he said. The bridge, assuming an 18-month construc“We will hit full speed on developing some tion time, would be completely just before the terms of reference for the request for proposal end of 2016. and get moving. This year was all about putting The library/museum, dubbed the Riverfront together a concept for the referendum, but now Centre, is moving forward after the referendum, we are going to be getting into some detailed which asked Trail if they were on board with work.” taking out the loan needed to build the project. The bridge and the library/museum are two The vote passed with 61 per cent of ballots cast projects that Mayor Martin believes, money and voting “Yes” to borrow the money. The ques- effort will boost Trail's reputation with visitors tion was included on the ballots alongside the and outside investors. municipal election. “I am really looking forward to this really The next stage for the centre is to put out a exciting opportunity that will really boost the request for proposal (RFP) and hire an architec- revitalization of downtown Trail,” he said. “It tural firm to design the building. will also send a strong message to potential Barbara Gibson, chair of the Trail and District investors that we are prepared to invest in our Library Board, says ideally, she would like to see own community and I think the pedestrian the project finished by the end of 2015 – just in bridge and especially the Riverfront Centre, are time to showcase “Italian Canadian as Enemy going to do that.”
The Waneta Terrestrial Compensation Program is now accepting applications for 2015.
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