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Black bear sightings reported in Glenmerry; Wildsafe reminds residents to secure garbage SHERI REGNIER Trail Times
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Blue skies and chirping birds are giving the feeling that spring is on the way in the Greater Trail area. The forecast for Trail shows more sunshine with a high of 9 C by Friday, and weekend rain with temperatures dropping slightly to 7 C. Two-year old Lincoln Zoet and Giselle Paakkunainen, 18 months, took advantage of the early thaw and dug into a play date at Gyro Park.
BC Transit cash infusion could benefit region SHERI REGNIER Trail Times
Nearing $1.2 million, public transit is the second largest annual requisition for taxpayers in the East End Services (EES). Elected officials from Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Area A and Area B, comprise the seven participants, and the EES committee oversees re-
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Better beware because bears are already waking up and raking through garbage cans in Trail neighbourhoods. Activity has been reported in the Glenmerry area, including the sighting of a large black bear, confirms Sharon Wieder from Rossland/Trail Wildsafe BC. “The warm weath“... this time of er definitely woke year people don’t them up in those think about them areas where there isn’t a lot of snow,” being out and she explained. “We about and they had that whole week aren’t as careful when it was pretty with keeping mild, and it’s not unusual for them to do garbage secured – that.” which really is the Black bears typibig problem.” cally maintain fat reserves throughout SHARON WIEDER winter, and Wieder says they generally don’t wake up in an aggressive pursuit of food. Unfortunately for the animals, however, they’ll follow their noses to wherever a whiff of garbage is coming from. “Behaviour-wise, they are not necessarily any different,” she said. “But definitely, this time of year, people don’t think about them being out and about and they aren’t as careful with keeping garbage secure - which really is the big problem.” And, and easy food source spells trouble down the road for both homeowner and bear. “People need to realize if they leave stuff out now, and the bear gets into the habit of it, they are going to around all summer long,” Wieder added. “They’ll just keep coming back, hoping to get more.” Hopefully, early black bear sightings won’t portend another lethal year for the bruins. Nine bears were destroyed in Rossland and 11 in Trail last year, compared to the previous year when none were killed in Rossland and two in Trail.
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