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The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News) The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News) The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News) The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News)

‘Not an easy ride’: Mounties turn the pedals on 10 day Okanagan excursion

The 22nd annual Cops for Kids ride started Sept. 8 in Kelowna

The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News) The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News) The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News) The Cops for Kids annual charity ride started in Kelowna on Friday, Sept. 8 and is going around the southeast of B.C. to raise money for kids dealing with a medical, physical or traumatic crisis. (Jordy Cunningham/Capital News)
Photo: Trail Historical Society

Trail Blazers: Remembering Mr. Potter

Trail Blazers is a weekly feature in partnership with the Trail Museum and Archives

Photo: Trail Historical Society
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church is in good and caring hands as the congregation awaits the recruitment of a new priest. L-R: Locally ordained priest Martha Fish, Warden Marnie Jacobsen, and Carol Wade, licenced lay minister, met with the Trail Times to provide an update on the many activities underway as “Back to Church Sunday” (Sept. 10) nears. Photo: Sheri Regnier

Anglican church welcomes all as Trail parish awaits new priest

Fall and winter programs commence Sunday, Sept. 10

St. Andrew’s Anglican Church is in good and caring hands as the congregation awaits the recruitment of a new priest. L-R: Locally ordained priest Martha Fish, Warden Marnie Jacobsen, and Carol Wade, licenced lay minister, met with the Trail Times to provide an update on the many activities underway as “Back to Church Sunday” (Sept. 10) nears. Photo: Sheri Regnier
Poster and image submitted by the West Kootenay Toy Run.

West Kootenay Toy Run rolls through towns on Sunday

This is the 34th year the toy run has raised money and collected toys for local charities

Poster and image submitted by the West Kootenay Toy Run.
This photo from the Trail Historical Society shows CM&S General Manager S.G Blaylock meeting with members of the Workmen’s Cooperative Committee, the ‘company union’, in 1942. Trail smelter workers had no independent union until 1944.

Trail Blazers: Extraordinary fighters for worker’s rights

Photos: Trail Blazers in a weekly historical feature with the Trail Museum and Archives

This photo from the Trail Historical Society shows CM&S General Manager S.G Blaylock meeting with members of the Workmen’s Cooperative Committee, the ‘company union’, in 1942. Trail smelter workers had no independent union until 1944.
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Caring for a friend or family member? Join Trail support group

Meetings the first and third Thursdays of the month from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., starting Sept. 7

  • Sep 4, 2023
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A Camosun College program is giving automotive technicians the skills the need to work on electric vehicles. (Photo courtesy of Camosun College)

QUIZ: In celebration of workers

Labour Day, on the first Monday of September, is a time to honour the achievements of workers

A Camosun College program is giving automotive technicians the skills the need to work on electric vehicles. (Photo courtesy of Camosun College)
Construction crews were onsite at the 72nd housing project on Saturday as work resumed on the neighbourhoood development. This is part of a deal the city and its partners reached to develop the site and sites on McCallum View and Donaldson Drives earlier in the week after months of delays over legal and financial issues. Photo Karen McKinley

Grand Forks housing developments resume after months of delays

Building, relocation projects going ahead after deal reached between city and partners

Construction crews were onsite at the 72nd housing project on Saturday as work resumed on the neighbourhoood development. This is part of a deal the city and its partners reached to develop the site and sites on McCallum View and Donaldson Drives earlier in the week after months of delays over legal and financial issues. Photo Karen McKinley
Photo: Trail Historical Society

Trail Blazers: Humble beginnings

Trail Blazers is a weekly feature in partnership with the Trail Museum and Archives

Photo: Trail Historical Society
Someone in Castlegar has won $2 million in the BC/49 lottery. Image: Playnow.com

$2 million lottery ticket sold in Castlegar

The winning ticket was for Wednesday night’s BC/49 draw

Someone in Castlegar has won $2 million in the BC/49 lottery. Image: Playnow.com
Photos: Ron Wilson

Shutterbug captures red skies at night near Castlegar

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Photos: Ron Wilson
Photo: Ron Wilson

Flocking together at the Trail shoreline

If you have a recent photo to share email: editor@trailtimes.ca

Photo: Ron Wilson
Skyler Punnett’s new illistration, ‘The Crow That Ate The Wind,’ honours the first responders who fight wildfires. (Skyler Punnett)

Penticton artist honours firefighters nationwide

Proceeds from the work’s sales set to go to the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation

Skyler Punnett’s new illistration, ‘The Crow That Ate The Wind,’ honours the first responders who fight wildfires. (Skyler Punnett)
Willow Enewold is the creator of DAG. Photo: Betsy Kline

New art gallery opens in downtown Castlegar

DAG will feature rotating shows with art available for purchase

Willow Enewold is the creator of DAG. Photo: Betsy Kline
The Subaru Ironman 70.3 Victoria is taking place on May 29 in Greater Victoria with much of the cycling course on the Saanich Peninsula. (Black Press Media file photo)

QUIZ: Preparing for an Ironman

The gruelling event involves swimming, cycling and running

The Subaru Ironman 70.3 Victoria is taking place on May 29 in Greater Victoria with much of the cycling course on the Saanich Peninsula. (Black Press Media file photo)
An orchard worker picks Red Delicious apples from an Okanagan orchard. Many fruits in Canada are now ripening. (Black Press file photo)

QUIZ: Are you ready for the fruit harvest?

Agricultural workers are harvesting various fruit crops

An orchard worker picks Red Delicious apples from an Okanagan orchard. Many fruits in Canada are now ripening. (Black Press file photo)
Photo: Trail Historical Society

Trail Blazers: Industrial Beginnings

Trail Blazers is a weekly feature in partnership with the Trail Museum and Archives

Photo: Trail Historical Society
Kootenay Mountain Biking is holding an E-Bike Educational Summit on Aug. 26-27 in Rossland. Photo: Jim Bailey

Sign up for E-Bike educational summit in Rossland

Kootenay Mountain Biking offers skills and maintenance training for all levels of E-bike riders

Kootenay Mountain Biking is holding an E-Bike Educational Summit on Aug. 26-27 in Rossland. Photo: Jim Bailey
“Thanks to our friends at the CIBC Foundation and their commitment to a world where no one has to fear a cancer diagnosis, we’re proud to announce their $10,000 donation to help purchase a colonoscope … ” L-R: Melissa Archambault, foundation board director accepts this donation from the Trail CIBC team members, Manisha, Anna and Alicia. Photo: Submitted

CIBC Foundation donates $10,000 to cancer care at Trail hospital

A colonoscope is used in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions in the colon, including cancer

“Thanks to our friends at the CIBC Foundation and their commitment to a world where no one has to fear a cancer diagnosis, we’re proud to announce their $10,000 donation to help purchase a colonoscope … ” L-R: Melissa Archambault, foundation board director accepts this donation from the Trail CIBC team members, Manisha, Anna and Alicia. Photo: Submitted
“The hot days of summer tend to slow down the pace of life not just for people but also for the smaller creatures who live around us.”

What you see: Creatures great and small

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“The hot days of summer tend to slow down the pace of life not just for people but also for the smaller creatures who live around us.”