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Artist paints positive message Crowe student’s creation unveiled on Pink Shirt Day BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
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J.L. Crowe counsellor Loretta Jones and student and artist Rachel Danczak show off the painting asking students to dig a little deeper when getting to know someone. The piece was hung in the school's atrium for all students to see and is part of a larger planned art installation at the school depicting the code of conduct in their own words.
A young artist at J.L. Crowe Secondary School has found a bright and colourful way to leave a lasting positive message for current and future students to see. Rachel Danzak, following in the footsteps of former students, put together a sizeable piece of art that tries to encourage students to look past rumours and hearsay to get to know an individual before making judgements. “The quote we chose was, 'Be curious, not judgemental,'” she said. “It is about not just listening to what other people say about someone, but instead just going up and talking to them and seeing what they are really like.” The piece was unveiled in the J.L. Crowe atrium on Wednesday morning at a schoolwide assembly to coincide with Pink Shirt Day – the national campaign against bullying in schools, at work and on the Internet. Before the art project became a reality, the young artist practised what she preaches and has even made new friends. “I have this one friend that I didn't really know before,” she said. “I had only heard what other people were saying about him, so I just went up and talked to him. I learned that he is really into cars and he is good at it too. See PRACTISING, Page 8
Coroner issues report on Warfield truck accident Rear trailer had no brake application due to kink in air line BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The investigation into a fatal accident in Warfield two years ago officially drew to a close last month following the release of the BC Coroner's final report. The Trail Times obtained a copy of the coroner’s conclusion this week, which identified the factors involved in the crash, which occured early afternoon on May 3, 2013. Truck driver Frederick Wayne Wilkinson, listed as a resident of Cornwall Ont., died of multiple traumatic injuries, after his loaded tractor trailer crashed
at the bottom of the Rossland Hill in Warfield. Coroner Janice Riley noted that an autopsy was not warranted to determine cause of death, but a subsequent toxicology screen detected no substances. While she classified the cause as accidental, Riley states that a damaged brake air line behind the glad hand bulkhead was a significant contributory factor in 52-year old's death. She notes in her January 2015 report that an RCMP forensic traffic re-constructionist determined that the rear trailer had no brake application because the air line was kinked behind the glad hand bulkhead. After that finding, the police reviewed the truck's maintenance records and found that the glad bulkhead was replaced
in January 2013. She concurs with the RCMP's conclusion that damage to the air brake line likely occurred at that time, but may not have been evident until warmer weather possibly kinked the plastic connector. Riley says that the area where the air line was located would not normally be accessed by an operator of the vehicle but would be examined during regular maintenance by a heavy duty mechanic. Wilkinson was an experienced Class 1 driver, but had only been employed for two weeks by Sutco Contracting Ltd., a Salmobased trucking company. The day of the accident, the truck was travelling down the Rossland Hill headed to Korpack Cement Products in Annable to deliver a full load of cement cinder blocks.
Glen Wakefield, Sutco's director of health and safety, told the Trail Times on Tuesday, that the company received the RCMP's traffic investigation information shortly after the accident. “From our end, there were two things we had to look at from this report,” explained Wakefield. “First, we had to track down where the vehicle was last serviced, so we went on that route. The secondary part of it, is that we had to investigate why the driver was not aware that the trailer was not braking.” He said Sutco reviewed the company's training policies to ensure driver training was adequate, up to date, and that all drivers were fully cognizant of their responsibilities. See RUNAWAY, Page 3
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Supporting our community West Kootenay Brain Injury Association Support for Survivors and their Caregivers in the community. Visit their store on every Thursday at Waneta Plaza beside Crockett Books to view the artistic endeavours of their clients
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5 min. east of Trail on Hwy 3B