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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
WARFIELD
LOVIN’ FOR A LITTLE LAMB
Youth forum gathers ideas BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff
The ideas were varied and plentiful, which made Sunday’s Warfield Youth Forum a resounding success. The goal was to bring the village’s youth together to help council create opportunities and programs geared towards young people in the community. Warfield councillor Diane Langman, an organizer of the inaugural event, was impressed with how the forum unfolded. “We feel this was successful,” she said, adding that now, it is time to build on the first forum. “We were capable of hearing not just the opinion of one small section (of the population) but a larger span.” Some of the ideas brought to the table by the teenagers of Warfield included thoughts on outdoor recreation, volunteering and group activities. “While many people believe that our youth are interested in nothing more than electronics and video games, the youth we spoke to were the opposite,” she said. “Their ideas were based around being outdoors and helping their community through volunteerism. They are looking for new things to learn, for example, pottery, art classes and photography, and also a place where they can meet up.” Shayna Carmichael was just one of many young people who took part in the forum. She asked Warfield councillors to look at possibly putting a hot tub at the Warfield Pool. “They could keep the Warfield pool open,” she said. “They could open in the winter.” The 12-year-old was happy to go to the forum and thinks that adults should listen to kids a bit more often. LIZ BEVAN PHOTO “I just thought it was a great idea to have A group of children from the Makerspace Tool Time program at the Trail and District Public Library took a field trip to Rainbow the young people brought into the discussion,” she said. “Maybe something new could happen Recovery Farms on Wednesday morning. Moms and kids got to see goats, pigs, sheep, horses, cows. Above, Darcee O'Hearn or they could have more things to work on and from the library holds up a four-week-old lamb for Eden to pet. some different ideas.” Carmichael’s mother, Leah, encouraged her kids to get involved at the forum and share their thoughts. “I kept telling my kids how amazing it is to have their voices heard by council,” she said. BY SHERI REGNIER The plan includes installing a series plan was submitted to Environment Times Staff “To me, it is just amazing.” of wells, two of which have already Canada three years ago, and since then The Grade 6 student says she would love to Teck Trail Operations is ready to put been constructed, along the west the company has drilled various sites attend the next youth forum, and would even tell action to its groundwater remediation bank between Trail operations and the throughout Trail to assess the groundher friends about it. plan by constructing a $40 million treat- Columbia River. Groundwater collected water table. One idea can be put into practice as soon as ment plant. at the wells will be pumped up to the Over the 100-plus year history of summer starts, explained Langman. The plant announced Tuesday that treatment plant for processing prior to the Trail operations, concentrations of “One simple request, that we have already construction for the new facility is slat- discharge into the Columbia River. ammonia, sulphate and some metals spoken to our recreation coordinator after the ed to begin as part of the company's The new treatment plant is part of seeped into groundwater beneath the forum about, is doing a youth time at the pool,” remeditaion plan that addresses ground- the company's overall groundwater plant, under the Columbia River and she said. water affected by the site's historical remediation project that's been under- into the East Trail aquifer. See NEXT, Page 3 industrial activity. way since 2001. Teck's final remediation See MONITORING, Page 3
Teck moving forward on groundwater remediation
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