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Demolition work at Teck Trail OperationsTeck Trail Operations will be undertaking concrete demolition on the west side of our Tadanac operation beginning the Wednesday, May 4, and continuing through approximately Friday, May 20. The work may create some additional noise, although it will be minimized where possible. The work will take place Monday through Friday from 7 am to 3 pm. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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May 7 at the Charles Bailey theatreDoors open at 530 pm, the show starts at 6pm and

tickets are $5 at the door, the proceeds from which go to the Junior Dragons Den scholarship fund.

Thanks to all our sponsors, volunteers and organizers who help make this years event a huge success.

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Have you recently been diagnosed with Multiple

Sclerosis (MS)? Would you like to talk to others who have?

Join us Thursday, May 12, 2016 in Trail at 6 pm to talk about forming a support group.

Please call Lonnie for location and more information:

1-800-268-7582, ext. 7259or email info.westkootenay@mssociety.ca

CITY OF TRAIL

2015 ANNUAL REPORT

Take notice that in accordance with Sections 98 and 99 of the Community Charter, Trail City Council will receive the City’s 2015 Annual Report at its Regular Meeting of Council to be held on Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall, 1394 Pine Avenue.

The report is available for inspection at City Hall and on the City’s website at www.trail.ca.

David Perehudoff, CPA, CGAChief Administrative Officer

FallPreschool RegistrationRegistration for the 2016/2017

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LOCAL

Introducing the new Salmo libraryOver a quarter of a million dollars

has been poured into library revitalization project

WILL JOHNSONNelson Star

It may not be obvious from the street, but the Salmo Public Library is nearing the end of a $250,000 renovation made possible by fundraising and grants — local taxpayers won’t have to pay a red cent.

“That really shows the commitment this commu-nity has and how they’ve stood behind this project. That’s what kept us going,” said library director Taylor Caron. “We’ve doubled in size, we’re completely ac-cessible now. It’s much brighter, lighter — and this is going with the changes where it’s not just about books anymore.”

What is it about, then?“It’s about creating a beautiful space, a community

hub where we can provide access to the Internet and offer top-quality programming. We’re stepping into the future of what libraries are.”

She said libraries across North America are going through this shift, and she noted Halifax, Nelson, Creston and Kaslo have all invested in upgrades.

“We’re not a thing of the past anymore.”One quirk of the new space, formerly a new and

used clothing store next door, is a bank vault that was too heavy to move anywhere, so they’ve transformed it into a “history vault” in partnership with the Salmo Valley Local History Interest Group. It’s not far from a semi-private youth space, where kids can play on the computer, listen to music and chill.

“Our children’s area is also much bigger, because we’ve got a lot of babies and kids in this community,” said Caron. “We figure hook, line and sinker — if

you can get a young kid in here and provide for them throughout the years, then you’ve got a library user for life.”

The library is hosting a grand opening on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be presentations, food and music.

Speakers will include Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall, former Nelson city councillor Donna Macdonald, Salmo Mayor Stephen White, regional director Hans Cunningham, chief Nelson librarian (and former Salmo librarian) June Stockdale and long-time Salmo library manager Kay Hone.

“Throughout everything this place has been run by volunteers,” said Caron. “They’re the ones working behind the counter, who really give people a sense that this is a community space. That hasn’t changed.”

And she’s thrilled they have more room.“The staff may be the same, but what’s shifted is a

lot of people who didn’t access the library before will be able to now, and they’ll see it’s more welcoming and all-inclusive.”

Will Johnson photos

Salmo Library director Taylor Caron (right) dis-cusses books with chil-dren’s librarian Marianne Hansen during a recent visit from the Star to the newly renovated space. The library now has a history vault, more creation space for children, a semi-private area for youths, new hard-ware installed for free by DHC Communications and over a quarter of a million dollars of upgrades made possible by fundraising and grants.

Cross Country Ski Canada named Black Jack skier Julien Locke to the National Ski Team (NST) on Tuesday.

Locke joins a high-powered group of athletes led by Alex Harvey who won two medals on the World Cup Tour last season.

“I’m very pleased,” said Locke. “Being a member of the senior national team has been a goal since I was seven, so it’s been a long-term thing to get on the team, and it’s pretty satisfy-ing to be on it now.”

The Nelson native wrapped up a stellar season last month, winning bronze in the Men’s Open sprint at the Canadian Ski championship in Whitehorse, finishing just behind NST mem-bers Harvey and Len Valjas. The 22-year-old Locke also won the overall NorAm Buff Sprint Series championship, and was fourth behind Black Jack’s David Palmer, who won the National Championships U23 Men’s aggregate award. Locke’s season included qualifying for the U23 World Cup in Romania, where he was the top-Canadian in 16th spot, and podium fin-ishes in every major sprint race on the NorAm circuit, includ-ing gold at the Canadian Junior and U23 Trials in Thunder Bay, and a bronze medal in Men’s Open sprint at the U.S. Ski Championships.

“I was pretty optimistic,” said Locke. “The season went quite well, but you never know what’s going to happen. So we had to just wait and see.”

Black Jack ski coach David Wood was hopeful for Locke making the national team, but he wasn’t certain until the se-lection committee released the names.

“The season certainly indi-cated that he should be select-ed,” said Wood. “Right now, the main advantage for him is the opportunity for international racing.”

Locke has been racing with the Black Jack Ski team for nine years and has been under the tutelage of former NST coach Wood since 2010. The relation-ship has forged a steady stream

of success culminating in the past year’s triumphs.

“He’s strong enough now so that he’s solid all year long,” said Wood. “In the past, let’s say against the best in the country, he’d have good days, but they weren’t all the time, and this past season every time out he won all the time in Canada except when Alex was there. I

think his level has just increased and increased and now he’s at a level you notice it all the time.”

A major goal for Locke is to set his sights on the World Championship in Lahti, Finland in February, but as part of the NST up-and-coming U25 team, Locke will spend the winter rac-ing World Cups, international development level races, and Haywood NorAms in Canada, but the race schedule has yet to

be hammered out. “Were still deciding what the

primary objective of the season is going to be,” said Locke. “For sure I want to race on the World Cup a bit, and I’ve been told that is going to be an option in the winter. There’s a few different opportunities … but we’re still looking at which ones to target.”

The coming season is a big one for winter athletes, not only is there early sea-son World Cup races and the World Championships, but pre-Olympic qualifying for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.

“Were still kind of planning and looking at how it’s going to work,” said Locke. “But I’m still going to work with my coach Dave and keep working together because I think the things we’ve been doing have been working really well. But I’ll be spending a lot more time in Canmore.”

Locke joins the NST at its home base in Canmore in the upcoming weeks to begin train-ing with the national team.

Rossland’s George Grey was the last Black Jack skier to crack the NST and made his World Cup debut in 2001.

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Hawks and Ice hold hockey campsJIM BAILEY

Trail Times

Kootenay hockey play-ers have ample opportunity to impress as the Nitehawks hosted its spring camp on the weekend, and the J. L. Crowe’s High Performance hockey hosts the Major Midget Ice camp this week-end in Nelson.

Coach and GM Terry Jones put over 50 skaters through a weekend work-out as the Nitehawk coach-es assessed young prospects in a series of scrimmages at the Beaver Valley Arena.

“It was good on so many levels,” said Jones. “What we try to do with our camp is we want to identify pros-pects for the upcoming sea-son which is what we did. But I think more than any-thing we are able to develop relationships with young players and give them the taste of what it’s like to be in a junior camp and be around junior hockey players, and that’s the part I feel best about.”

The Nitehawks will like-ly have a potentially strong returning lineup in the fall, but there are players that will move on to Junior A or college hockey like the Pruss brothers, Michael and Alan; and the gradua-

tion of goalie Brett Clark, defenceman Lyle Frank, and forwards Jace Weegar and Braden Fuller does leave a few holes.

“I think we’re going to have a pretty good core of guys returning,” said Jones. “I don’t know the exact number, but what we’re looking to replace, we’re obviously looking for a goalie, we might be look-ing for as many as three de-fencemen and six forwards. We just don’t know who is going to come back at this point … Those are always the fundamental questions as to how many spots we have, is ‘how many guys move up?’”

The Nitehawks lost in the KIJHL final against Kimberley Dynamiters in five games, but undoubted-ly will compete for another Neil Murdoch title this season. The Hawks host its main camp in August.

For Jones, as General Manager of the Kootenay Major Midget Ice, which is making the transition to the J. L. Crowe High Performance Academy this season, the Hawks camp also provided a glimpse at future Ice players as well.

“There were some play-ers-students that came to get ready for the (Ice) camp

this weekend, and I was re-ally glad they did. It’s funny wearing two hats, but at the same time there are some players I really didn’t know, so it’s good they’re trying out for Major Midget, and we’ll see what kind of people they are, what kind of character they have, and hockey skills they have. So it’s great to get the relation-ship going.”

The Major Midget camp goes in Nelson starting today and will see about 40 skaters take to the ice. According to BC Hockey regulations, of those skat-ers, Jones will have to commit 11 players and one goalie before finaliz-ing the roster during the main camp in August.

The Academy, in con-junction with BC Hockey, is still in the process of selecting a coaching staff, but Jones has a number of solid candidates for both the Ice and Female Midget AAA Wild.

“This weekend is the Major Midget camp which is conducted through BC Hockey, and as well we’re working on developing our concepts with the High Performance Academy here at school so its been a lot of logistical work, a lot of recruiting, a lot of background work in get-ting the program going for boys and girls.”

Potential Wild play-ers can register to attend the Spring Identification Combine in Kelowna June 3-5. The combine will fea-ture on and off-ice testing by the Western Hockey League (WHL), one skills session, two games, and two seminars featuring alumni from Cornell University and the head scout from the University of Calgary. FMAAA head coaches will be in atten-dance, as well as National Collegiate Athletic Association, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, and Alberta College Athletic Conference scouts.

The deadline for regis-tration is May, 19.

Black Jack skier cracks National TeamJIM BAILEY

Trail Times

Submitted Photo

Bob Nishikawa Photo

Following a remarkable season on the snow, Black Jack skier Julien Locke was named to Cross Country Ski Canada’s National Ski Team.

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May 7, 2016, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.Beaver Creek Park, Trail

Free, Fun, Family Event!Get up close and personal to some local snakes, amphibians,reptiles, aquatic bugs, juvenile white sturgeon, butterfl ies andmore! Come and talk to biologists, take in the kids’ activities,

enjoy a guided nature walk, and learn about native plants.

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UNITED WAYTRAIL & DISTRICT

Annual General Meeting

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7pmTrail Memorial Arena McIntyre Room

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SPORTS

Embracing Silver City Days

As you, I am d i s t r a c t e d by the hor-rors ongoing

in Northen Alberta, and I urge anyone who can afford it to donate money to the rescue and rebuilding efforts that will be necessary over the short and long haul.

That said, distraction can be useful to main-taining one’s sanity, what with Trump, Cameron, the fires and all making it hard to keep a positive attitude.

• I am thinking John Deacon will be hearing some of his handiwork in his home town for days, weeks and months ahead. Deacon was the bass player for Queen when they recorded, “We are the Champions.”

The fact he grew up a Leicester lad before joining three Middlesex

guys to form the iconic band will be giving the song added value around the uproar because his little home town team, the Leicester City Foxes - against unreal odds in today’s money mad pro sports realm (especially world soccer, which has no salary caps) - won the British Premier League Football Championship.

I am sure Deacon and his surviving band mates, Brian May and Rodger Taylor (and the fabulous

Freddy Mercury, watch-ing from wherever) will be full of smiles about that turn of events and that their tune will be a non-stop sound track of the celebration for many, many, days.

• I am thinking, too, that given forecasts of nice weather for the weekend the rejuvena-tion efforts of the City of Trail towards Silver City Days may bear fruit. How cool it is that shuttle busses are part of the package.

T h e B o c c e Tournament, with a sold out expanded ros-ter, will provide a boost, and indoor relief for Fair goers if it gets too warm or they get weary, to the overall impact of the re-newed push by the city on behalf of the annual showcase.

The return of the

Sidewalk Cafe, com-plete with Grape Stomp, will also be welcomed. I still recall Lui Passaglia competing, but not win-ning (rare for him - he is good at everything) at the grape thing.

The venue used to be a gathering place for out-of-towners - a place to hook up with local friends as well - and pro-vided another indoor site in which to relax.

AND, do not forget the Family Day gath-ering at Gyro Park on Sunday. A beautiful spot, entertainment all day, and elementary school Parent Advisory Committees pitching in heavily to raise money to ease a long term prob-lem - children trying to become educated while hungry, right here in this river city.

We all should go.

DAVE THOMPSON

Sports ‘n’ Things

Seahawks Lynch calls it quitsASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. - Beast Mode is in retirement mode.

The Seattle Seahawks placed running back Marshawn Lynch on the NFL’s reserve/retired list on Thursday, making official what was implied in February when Lynch indicated he was ready to end his football career.

The star running back was placed on the list Thursday. It was a procedural step, but one that needed to be taken to make Lynch’s intended retirement of-ficial.

Lynch stole attention from the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl in February when he posted a picture on Twitter with a pair of green football cleats hanging from a telephone or electrical wire. His agent confirmed a day later that Lynch intended to retire.

Seattle made a series of moves

this off-season that indicated the running back who led the Seahawks to their first Super Bowl title was ready to step away, including picking three running backs in the NFL draft last week. Lynch would have been an $11.5 million cap hit if he remained on Seattle’s roster for the 2016 sea-son. The Seahawks will save $6.5 million with Lynch’s retirement.

Lynch has spent the off-season promoting his clothing line, trav-elling to Egypt to participant in a football camp and ride camels, and doing relief work in Haiti. Basically doing everything but get ready for the upcoming NFL season.

When Lynch was brought to Seattle early in the 2010 season, he was acquired because the Seahawks desperately needed a running back. What he ended up providing was an attitude and style that became the foundation

for bringing that first Super Bowl title to the franchise.

And for that, Lynch will for-ever hold a special place with the Seahawks. He may have been more of a headache off the field than anyone let on during his time in Seattle, but he’ll ultimately be lauded as the running back that got the Seahawks to a place they had never been.

Lynch will step aside after nine seasons in the league. Six of those came in Seattle, where he played in the post-season five times. He’s second all-time in Seattle history for rushing touchdowns and fourth in yards rushing. He tied for the NFL lead in rushing touchdowns in 2013 and 2014 and is No. 8 all-time in total yards rushing during the post-season. He was an All-Pro, a Pro Bowl selection, and perhaps the most revered Seahawks player in the opinion of their fans.

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