August 14, 2015

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To capture a day in the life in our community took a fair bit of planning, a little intuition with a camera and a lot of co-operation from the subjects in the following pages.

Our goal was to capture moments of the day in and around Trail in hopes that we see a bit of ourselves in some of these photos as people go about their everyday chores, treats and recreation.

With that in mind we dispatched three photographers – editor Guy Bertrand, news reporters Val Rossi and Sheri Regnier – over the course of 16 hours on August 7.

Getting a broad range of photos from one single day was no easy task. We sat down and plotted out our day with one photographer capturing the early risers who are at work, exercising or out and about long before most of us hit the snooze button.

Another photographer tackled the hectic late-morning/early-afternoon shift that featured everything from having lunch to shopping at the market to taking a break from a

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busy day.

However, to truly capture a day in the life of our area, we had Trail Times photographers roaming the spots that are so vital to a great day in the Kootenays.

Be it fishing in a quiet creek or relaxing in a vineyard, Kootenay people know the best way to spend a day is doing something you love.

And if it happens to be outside, that’s even better.

That’s why there are as many photos of people at play as there are people at work.

Because if there’s one thing for sure in our region, a day in the life often includes a bit of work and a bit of play.

Anything less wouldn’t be a complete day.

We hope you enjoy our whirlwind efforts. I know we sure enjoyed bringing it all together.

5:55 a.m.

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Jody Jones, lifeguard at the Trail Aquatic Centre, starts her day by checking the PH and chlorine levels in the pool before the doors open.

Then every two hours after that for the rest of her shift.

6:19 a.m.

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6:04 a.m.

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Dennis Hale of Coca –Cola Refreshments drops off a shipment at Ferraro Foods. Hale works out of Castlegar and starts his shift at 5 a.m.

Rob Brown of Alpine Disposal makes the first of 1,000+ stops in a day in downtown Trail while Cedar Ave. is still empty and quiet.

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6:32 a.m.

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Clarence Daughtery, a baker at City Bakery cooks up over 100 dozen fresh buns on a typical Friday morning.

7:03 a.m.

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Richard White started his Friday by riding his motorcycle from Glade to work at SNC Lavalin

7:11 a.m.

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Helen Desrosiers offers up a cup of java and smile at the A&W drivethru in downtown Trail.

7:29 a.m.

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Ian Metzger of VanKam Freightways starts his day at 6:30 a.m. out of Castlegar. His first stop of the day was at Lordco in Trail.

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7:58 a.m.

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Ken Lee has owned the Handy Store for 23 years. Shannon Calhoun made a quick stop for supplies to start her day.

8:09 a.m.

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Eric Thompson of TyCor Climate Control goes through the shipments to plan his day’s work.

7:43 a.m.

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Pat Lesiuk found a sunny spot by the Home of Champions Monument to enjoy his morning coffee.

8:20 a.m.

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Nelson Sousa of counter sales at Gescan goes through the vast array of inventory in the Columbia Avenue shop.

8:32 a.m.

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Kathryn Foley of the Trail and District Public Library enjoys her walk to work on a sunny Friday morning along the Avenue of the Clans near Gyro Park.

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Don Orenchuk delivers as many as 1,500 copies of the Trail Times and West Kootenay Advertiser on a Thursday. He has a lighter load on Fridays but still delivers to Salmo, Fruitvale and parts of Trail.

9:15 a.m.

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Bob Tayla of Modern Purair works out of Castlegar but covers the entire Kootenays keep furnace ventilation systems nice and clean for residential and commercial buildings.

9:32 a.m.

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Che Rawick of Stucco by Che services the entire Kootenay region out of his Balfour base.

He’s applying the finishing touches to a home in East Trail.

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Yvonne Moore of Trail enjoys taking the bus throughout town to get her daily errands complete.

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10:31 a.m.

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Tina Graham, who works at Trail Speedwash, and Mike Norris, a contractor out of Spruce Grove, Alta., working at Teck, take a coffee break during a busy day at the local laundromat.

10:11 a.m.

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Tammy Lomin of Bay Avenue Music put her daughter’s Zeta Strados fretless base up for sale in the store.

10:49 a.m.

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Gerald Pengelly of Fruitvale enjoys the views and sunshine on the Esplanade near Jubilee Park.

11:11 a.m.

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Joelle Hodgins and her border collie cross Finnegan get a leash adjustment during a walk in downtown Trail.

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Sixteen-year-old Alex Hope has the best view of the Warfield Centennial Pool. The lifeguard spends her workdays ensuring slide safety and getting a tan at the same time.

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Yard sales can be a juggle with a baby in tow and the blazing sun overhead. But Mikayla Leggett, 19, and her one-year-old Kaius Ashby were up for the challenge. The Rossland Avenue resident decorated signs to attract passersby and when a customer stopped in, she had all the baby essentials in reach to keep her little one busy so she could make a sale.

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12:13 p.m.

Tails are wagging at Barks and Recreation in downtown Trail, where owners Sarah Fulcher and Cameron Dixon combine their talents. Fulcher is a certified dog trainer with over 14 years experience working with rescue dogs and pets. Dixon is an animal lover and artist who has a keen eye for photography and the skill to turn a photo of an animal into a painting. His work can be seen hung throughout the downtown pet store.

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Blair and Jen Peel of Confusion Taco have made a name for themselves locally with their complete mobile kitchen and on-the-spot catering. The food truck pumps out favourites like pulled pork tacos and fish tacos from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Trail Wednesdays and Fridays, Fruitvale on Tuesdays and Castlegar on Thursdays.

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12:49 p.m.

1:02 p.m.

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Daniel Haley, owner of Casa di Cioccolato in downtown Trail, may be the friendliest man in the city. If his free bike rides or community bench outside of his shop don’t stop foot traffic, his beautiful flowerpots will. He stopped to pick a flower for oneyear-old Giselle Paakkunainen, who was mostly confused by his gesture.

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Montreal natives Sonny Mathieu-Marcoux, 21, and Rebecca Chauvette, 17, skated through Trail’s bike alley, where business owners have further brightened up the back of their stores with brightly coloured doors. The two were off to Salmo to take in Shambhala Music Festival’s 18th year.

1:18 p.m.

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Art Noel likes to help out Apple Automotive when he can. He couldn’t believe he was finally getting press after several decades of business under Art Cliffe Motors, which is now Brost Autoworx.

Mike Bonacci taps the ice to check the thickness before clearing it for hockey season.

Champion Hockey School is the first to cut into the ice. Instructor Terry Jones puts area hockey players from ages 5-20 through the annual weeklong program, highlighted with scrimmages at the Cominco Arena.

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1:56 p.m.

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Librarian Sam King is at home at the Trail and District Public Library.

The facility is well into its Summer Reading Program, which centers around a build it theme this year. Programmers are incorporating hands-on activities to teach children that reading is fun.

2:12 p.m. valerie rossi photo

Darryl Cross of Wolf’s Den Tattoo has made a name for himself in the industry, especially locally in the Trail area.

2:31 p.m.

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Trail’s Sandro Ballarin pulled over to clean his windshield at Glenmerry Mohawk before making his way to Nelson for his kid’s hockey tryouts.

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2:58 p.m. valerie rossi photo

Lelonie Nimmo of Pacific Coastal holds down the fort at the Trail Regional Airport, as she awaits the last batch of customers for the final flight of the day to Vancouver.

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3:12 p.m.

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Lynne Leaden, a BC Transit regular, perched herself curbside on the cool grass while waiting for the Glenmerry bus on a hot Friday afternoon

3:36 p.m. sheri regnier photo

When most were seeking shelter from the sun, Kevin Brett (left) and Jeff Morris from local company B F Roofing, toughed out the heat and finished a torch on roofing job.

3:42 p.m.

4:19 p.m.

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Electrician Mike Burleigh finishes his last day in Trail with some fishing before he heads to the Trail Airport to catch his flight home to Vancouver. Although he’s fallen in love with the area, Burleigh is happy to head home to his family before his work takes him elsewhere again.

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Rossland sisters Sylvie Bedard, 12, and 11-year-old Lily Holmes stop in for an ice cream cone at Bear Country Kitchen in Rossland. Chocolate is a popular flavour but the kids scream over wet paint, vanilla ice cream swirled with blue bubble gum and marbled with bright red cherry ribbon.

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4:17 p.m.

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Ron Ironmonger from Keystone Appraisals headed to Sunningdale to measure dimensions and jot down assessment notes on a tidy for-sale property.

4:28 p.m. valerie rossi photo

Thirteen-year-old Saige Hartwig is all about supporting the family business. The new store, Revival Boutique, is owned by Zabrina Nelson and operated by her family. The shop brings together revived, renewed and recycled wares in a funky vintage-inspired space on Columbia Avenue.

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Nikki Kruchen of Mountain Nugget Chocolate Company has been making waffle cones all day to keep up with the demand. The shop owned by chocolatier Trish Dyer prides itself on using fresh, locally sourced and organic ingredients. The doors are always swinging with customers who are after truffles and in the summer, ice cream.

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An afternoon of mountain biking is usually rewarded with a cold pint in Rossland. Local Yan Labrecque showed Montreal’s Veronique Theriault the trails before capping off the day with a taste of Rossland Beer Company. Owners Petri Raito and Ryan Arnaud started in Trail, as Trail Brewing, where they mastered their craft before making their dream of walking to work a reality with a Rossland location now with a lounge license.

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Rossland’s Maelle Rioux, 4, and her two-yearold sister Alexa look up to Rossland’s Olaus Jeldness statue on the corner of Washington and Columbia. Jeldness was a Norwegian miner who pioneered the Rossland Winter Carnival in 1897.

5:07 p.m. sheri regnier photo

With temperatures reaching the mid 30s on Day in the Life, Gyro beach had (Left to right) Jesie Thompson, Beau Paul and Erin Taks foregoing dinner in favour of a few more hours of relaxation on the rocks of the Columbia River.

5:28 p.m.

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Gordon Weiland (left) had help securing construction supplies for a weekend job from Maglio Building Centre’s Brian Wright.

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Server Melanie Oberg from Tomatoes & Thyme Café pulls in the restaurant’s daily special menu as part of her closing time duties.

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6:15 p.m.

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Chrissy from Rossland Avenue’s Chrissy’s Bitery preps zucchini strips for Saturday’s deep fried veggie basket.

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A fisherman cast his lure on the shores of the Columbia River at Kiwanis Beaver Creek Park.

7:03 p.m. sheri regnier photo

6:45 p.m.

George Bartzis, owner of Milano Pizza, worked fast to keep up with the toppings for a Friday night of orders to-go at his busy Fruitvale restaurant.

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Jarred Boden raises the bar for all things romantic when he surprised wife Tamara Boden with an intimate picnic date in the vineyards of Columbia Garden Vineyard and Winery. Gourmet fare included an array of cheeses, vegetables and a bottle of the company’s finest Chardonnay.

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7:23 p.m. sheri regnier photo

Besides cashing out and balancing the books at closing, Montrose Service Tempo’s Mary Fussell restocked the beer fridges, readying for hot weekend weather, and off sales of cold brews.

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Trail’s newest transplants, Ray Markiw and Betty Dumont enjoyed a peaceful moment in the City of Trail’s RV Park after closing on a house earlier that day. The couple is originally from northern Alberta, and after living in Keremeos for a short while, decided the Kootenay mountains provide the ultimate retirement setting.

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Carly Haslam worked with a big smile as she began the closing mopping task at Ardene’s retail store in the Waneta Plaza.

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Tim Loughlin (left) and Paul Dasti, half of the four-member local band Kolar, began sound check an hour before hitting the stage at 9 p.m. for a Friday night performance at the Arlington Bar and Grill.

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9:05 p.m.

9:18 p.m.

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Annable superstars Marley (left) and Zen put the calm in a the balmy evening near Trail Creek. The Falabella miniature horses live comfortably in an area behind Trail’s Treasure Chest on Highway 3B.

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Bepi Bertuzzi is no stranger to hard work, having rolled out a level playing field in the Trail Bocce pit for many years.

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9:32 p.m.

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Paula, bartender at the Rex Hotel, kept things cool for patrons at the Gulch Ave. locale at the tail end of a hard day.

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After a game of bocce, club members gathered across the street for more laughs and a game of cards called Tresette. (front and clockwise) Renzo Francescato, Toni DeVuono, Joe Guercio, Mario Favaro, Guido Babuin, Nic Murano, and Dino Santarossa.

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Our Focus on the Future at Teck Trail Operations Improving Community Air Quality: Construction on the Smelter Recycle Building is well under way, as Ken Madson, Clark Builders Superintendent, and Brian Marsh, Teck Lead Projects Superintendent, review drawings. The building will enclose mixing and storage of in-process materials, reducing total fugitive dust emissions from Trail Operations by an estimated 25%. The building is part of our overall Fugitive Dust Reduction program. The program is showing initial success, with community air metal results for the first three months of 2015 the lowest for that time period in eight years.

Family Day Fun: On June 28, 2015, Teck Trail Operations hosted a Family Day. Employees hosted their families onsite to show the process behind making zinc, lead, fertilizer and other metal and chemical products, as well as some family fun with the Vancouver Aquarium Aquavan and Science World on the Road.

At left, Caleb Wright, son of Andrew Wright, Assistant Chief Engineer, takes a turn behind the wheel of the fire truck.

At right, Jonathan and Katherine Mozel, children of Mark Mozel, Superintendent, Projects, practice their hammering skills as they learn about the carpentry trade.

Groundwater Treatment Plant: Site preparation and pipe installation work continues at the Groundwater Treatment Plant construction site. The plant is part of our overall groundwater remediation plan, which addresses groundwater affected by the site’s historical activities.

A series of wells between Teck Trail Operations and the Columbia River will intercept the affected groundwater, which will then be treated at the plant prior to discharge into the river.

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