KSCU Outdoor Movie Night is back!
Kootenay Savings Outdoor Movie Night is coming to Haley Park in Warfield on Saturday, Sept. 7, featuring the hit family film – How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World! Admission is by cash or non-perishable food donation to the Trail Salvation Army Food Bank.Let's pack the park and help put food on the plates and in the...
Editorial: It’s back-to-school time. Drive much?
It’s time to reflect on our driving habits, and on the facts cited below – especially for the safety of everyone’s children. According to the Canadian Paediatric Society, motor vehicle incidents are the leading cause of unintentional injury and death in Canada for children from 1 year old to 19 years old. The BC Injury...
Check your accounts, RCMP advise
On August 25, a Warfield resident discovered that someone had made an online application to a bank for debit and credit cards in his name. He contacted the bank and cancelled the accounts, and notified our local RCMP detachment. How did his personal information get into the hands of a fraudster? He believes that his...
Kootenay youth Go Wild! into Height of the Rockies Provincial Park
Kootenay youth headed into the backcountry of Height of the Rockies Provincial Park this summer for a six-day wilderness adventure on Wildsight’s Go Wild! trip. Deep in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, youth ages 14-18 visited some of the most rugged and remote wilderness of the region. Rich in history and wildlife, with...
BC Hydro submits request for one per cent rate cut with BC Utilities Commission
BC Hydro has submitted a request for a rate reduction of around one per cent starting April 2020 in an update to its Fiscal 2020 to Fiscal 2021 Revenue Requirements Application with the BC Utilities Commission. In its Revenue Requirements Application filed in February 2019, BC Hydro requested a net bill increase of 0.7 per ...
River levels to decrease by just under 2.5 feet Saturday: BC Hydro
BC Hydro would like to notify the public that the discharge rates from Arrow Lakes Reservoir will decrease noticeably on Saturday, August 24th: · At 7 a.m., the discharge rate will decrease from approximately 1,682 cubic metres per second (59,000 cubic feet per second) to about 1,557 cubic metres per second (55,000 ...
POLICE BEAT: Trail cops deal with Impaired/Proactive Policing/Weapon
Ed Note: Police also issued a comprehensive list of recent thefts, which can be found at https://trailchampion.com/news/trail-police-caution-against-vigilantism-wake-theft-spike Impaired Driving On August 18, 2019, at 3:22 a.m. the Trail and Greater District Detachment RCMP investigated a 35-year-old male driver for allegedly...
Trail police caution against vigilantism in wake of theft spike
A spike in thefts and a resulting backlash on social media have local police cautioning residents about taking matters into their own hands. In a press release issued Monday, Trail RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich asked the public to remain vigilant, but to leave any punitive action to police. “The Trail and Greater District...
Union Hotel Demolition - Majority of Materials Recycled and Reused
The City of Trail has received the “Construction Waste Disposal and Diversion Report” for the demolition of the Union Hotel and 1144 Cedar Avenue from Dakota Reclamators Ltd., the contractor responsible for the buildings’ demolition and residual materials. The report highlights that Dakota diverted 69 per cent of the demolition...
CBT secures $2-mill project to improve flood resiliency in the Basin
Several Columbia Basin communities will soon have newly acquired, state-of-the-art data that will help them work toward reducing the risks and impacts associated with flooding. This is thanks to a project that is collecting LiDAR and orthophoto imagery of major water bodies near populated areas across the majority of the southern part of the Basin. […]
