Trail Daily Times, January 13, 2015

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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO

Costs tallied for civic election

FIRST KELOWNA FLIGHT ARRIVES AT TRAIL AIRPORT

BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

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Welcoming in the first regularly scheduled Kelowna-to-Trail flight was a red carpet, blue ribbon affair Monday afternoon. Sam Sammadar, airport director for the Kelowna International Airport (left) looked on as Trail Mayor Mike Martin held the ribbon while Kirstey Tichauer, Pacific Coastal Airline's base supervisor, made the ceremonial cut.

The civic elections from Rossland to Trail and through the Beaver Valley cost local taxpayers about $45,000. However, when the sum is broken down into the five communities, the price per ballot ranges considerably. Size doesn't matter when looking at the final tally from each city or village. Rather, it's more about how many people seized the Nov. 15 opportunity to cast a vote for their favourite politician. While Fruitvale's cost, about $8,500, fell midrange on the list of the five municipalities, the price for each vote is the highest because only about one in four eligible electors showed up. With a 23 per cent voter turnout, or 390 from a pool of 1,722, each ballot cost taxpayers $21.86. Montrose has half the electorate of Fruitvale, and spent $4,260 on the election. Due to a better turnout, about 38 per cent, or 323 votes from 838 eligibles, the village's cost per ballot is considerably less at $13.19. Next up is Warfield. That village hadn't held an election since 2009. So whether it was the chance to vote or the spirited three-way mayoral race – just over 57 per cent of the electorate body paid a visit to the Warfield polling station to have their say. That translates to $8.95 per ballot, with 677 ballots cast from a pool of approximately 1,175. Of all the municipalities Rossland had the highest voter turnout of 59 per cent – and the lowest cost per ballot, $5.74. Election costs for the city tallied at about $9,200 for 1606 residents to cast a vote. Here's where the trend seems to end – because in Trail, the cost per ballot averages out to be the second lowest or $5.90, but the voter turnout was about 50 per cent. Granted that number is up almost 20 per cent since the 2011 election, Trail doesn't fall into the general trend. See VOTING, Page 3

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The design not only features the years of existence of the Trail Times but also highlights the various names the paper has taken on over the course of 12 decades – The Trail Creek News, The Trail News, the Trail Daily Times and the Trail Times. “I thought that would be neat since some people might

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BY TIMES STAFF Faithful readers of the Trail Times may have noticed a new addition to the paper’s masthead. With the newspaper celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, production manager Kevin Macintyre created a logo to commemorate the year-long celebration.

think that the papers weren’t associated through the years,” said Macintyre. “Even though our name has changed it’s always been the same entity. “I love the idea that our history goes back that far.” The logo will appear throughout the year and help highlight upcoming

features on long-time subscribers, employees and events highlighted in the Trail newspapers oveer the course of the last 120 years. Watch for an upcoming insert every month, beginning Wednesday, that will highlight one memorable front page from the Trail Times from each of the last 12 decades.

The Waneta Terrestrial Compensation Program is now accepting applications for 2015. Visit columbiapower.org/WTCP to learn more about this program and to find the application package.

Contact the Times: Phone: FineLine250-368-8551 Technologies 62937 Index 9 Fax:JN250-368-8550 80% 1.5 BWR NU Newsroom: 250-364-1242 Canada Post, Contract number 42068012


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