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Campaign aims to help the hungry on Tuesdays
THE EYES OF THE JUDGES ARE ON TRAIL
BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
There's one day a week those in need can count on for a helping hand, no judgement and no questions asked. Tuesdays in Trail is a campaign Trish Milne started to spread the word that anyone in need of a hand up will get it that day at St. Andrew's Anglican Church or across the street at the Trail United Church. “First I asked, 'Who is using our food bank and why?'” said Milne, referring to seven months ago, when she became coordinator of the downtown service. “To be frank, having been born and raised here, I am always floored there's so much need in the community,” she explained, mentioning her eyes were first opened to local poverty while working as executive director of the Trail and District United Way. “This has been a real learning process for me, talking to people and businesses. To me it's that education piece about the fact that there is a need for a whole range of reasons, and stigmas are a real barrier in my experience.” A single mother of six, families with sick children, a pensioner struggling between cheques, senior citizens choosing between medicine or food, and chronic illness are just some of the reasons the patron line continues to grow in the basement of both churches. “We did our own survey because we wanted to know who is accessing this, and I didn't know when I started,” she said. See USAGE, Page 3
Local nurse leads Red Cross team in Nepal
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Communities in Bloom judges Lorna McIlroy and Ted Zarundy took a tour through Trail Monday morning to score the city in the program's National Edition in the International Challenge alongside Ahogill, Northern Ireland UK, Estes Park, Colorado, and Alberta's cities of Jasper and Stettler. After viewing the streets of West Trail, the officials strolled the Esplanade to Jubilee Park and viewed the newly planted flower bed in the White Garden. Results will be announced in Kamloops from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 as part of the annual National Symposium on Parks and Grounds.
BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
Patrice Gordon stands on the hillside from her field hospital looking up the Langtang Valley toward Tibet. The stunning view of towering snow-covered peaks and the Trisuli River far below bring the Rossland native peace. But reality sets in when what sounds like thunder striking in the distance is another landslide. It’s monsoon season in Nepal, and the people are still struggling to rebuild their lives after a quake
measuring 7.8 struck April 25, followed by a powerful 7.3 tremor on May 12. The nurse practitioner is a team leader for a Canadian Red Cross Emergency Response Unit in Dunche, Nepal, during a fourweek stint that wraps up at the end of the month. She is one of 16 people delivering primary care to the Nepalese people in this community. The people have started to rebuild, but some are still homeless. Tent cities, constructed of
tarp, pieces of metal and wood, are stepped along a hillside. About four to six people live in a tent while anywhere from 15-100 people share a latrine, and this is not a “nice flush toilet, it’s a pretty rudimentary construction.” As monsoon season picks up, mud washes into drinking water and at times the water manages to sweep through isolated toilet areas, causing contamination. “There can be several days where there is no clean water and of course from a sanitation
and hygiene standpoint, that’s disastrous,” Gordon told the Trail Times via Skype Friday. There is a real lack of basic everyday goods; she said, like buckets to clean said contaminated water and Gordon often dreams about having a “conveyor belt to Canadian Tire.” But even with such devastation, the Nepalese spirit is high, and Gordon pushes through knowing her team is providing the people a fighting chance. See BROAD, Page 2
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