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BUBBLE BOY The fun at Friday’s Easter Eggstravaganza at Rotary Park included music, food, and activities such as face painting, soccer, a bounce house, bubble blowing, and of course, a high-energy egg hunt. For more photos from the Easter Eggstravaganza, turn to page 7. Michael Potestio/Herald

Water already treated: city

The City of Merritt’s Public Works Depart-ment is warning resi-dents not to believe their water needs to be tested.

On April 9, the city received a complaint from a resident say-ing a company called Eaglewater Treatment Systems was coming to test their water on behalf of the City of Merritt, superintendent of public works Darrell Finnigan stated in an email.

The public works department does all test-ing of water on its own and would not contract out water sampling to anyone, he stated.

The email went on to say that the public works department has weekly test sites, and only conducts water tests at a residence if there has been a com-plaint from the hom-eowner.

Finnigan also stated that Merritt’s water is clean and safe. It is monitored around the clock and tested weekly for total coliforms, CL2 levels and a comprehen-sive test is done twice annually for all elements in the water.

At the time the complaint was made, Eaglewater Treatment Systems did not have a

business licence to oper-ate in Merritt.

The company has since acquired one, Finnigan told the Herald.

City bylaw officer Bob Davis told the Herald the company wouldn’t be denied a business licence so long as they didn’t misrep-resent themselves by saying they are affiliated with the city.

A few days after the complaint, Finnigan met with a salesman for the company at the public works yard and was shown a demon-stration of what the company does.

Finnigan said the tests the salesman showed him are all fac-tual tests that show dif-ferent traits of the water.

“I made him do exactly what he’d do for a homeowner, put him through the ringer, and what he shows is exactly what we know. The City of Merritt has hard water,” Finnigan said.

“He never showed anything besides the hardness of the water.”

The salesman told him they are telling residents they can help reduce the hardness of their water, Finnigan said, but they are not stressing health risks of the water.

Finnigan said in the past, he’s confronted other companies in the

same way he confronted this one only to have them dodge him.

“This is the only company that I’ve confronted and they’ve actually got back to me and gave me their presentation,” Finnigan said.

For those living in Merritt, the equip-ment is unnecessary as the water is clean and treated, Finnigan said. However, people living outside the city limits, who draw water from personal water systems, such as ranchers and farmers, may benefit from personal water fil-tration products.

For Merrittonians, the filter equipment can soften the water and take away some of the chlorine taste and smell in it, which is a matter of personal preference, Finnigan said.

Finnigan said he only received one complaint stating the company claimed to be affiliated with the City of Merritt.

“At the end of the day, we’re trying to make people aware that they have to understand what these salesmen are trying to do or sell them. And if they don’t understand, phone us. We can explain exactly what’s in the water and how it could help them or not,” Finnigan said.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS

First local Great Cloth Diaper Change SaturdayMerritt families are preparing

for the city’s first ever Great Cloth Diaper Change taking place at the local legion on April 26.

The event was started by a chil-dren’s store owner in California, and in its four years, has expanded to over 300 sites in 20 countries.

This year, the goal is to break last year’s Guinness World record-

setting 8,031 babies changed at the events.

It’s now put on in partner-ship with the San Diego-based non-profit Real Diaper Asso-ciation, and the local event is brought to Merritt by Kam-loops-based online cloth dia-per retailer Kristie McComb.

McComb said she got into the eco-friendly baby product market in Brockville, Ont. while cloth diapering her own

daughter. McComb has organized past

events in Brockville, but upon relo-cating to Kamloops last summer, found there was already a Great Cloth Diaper Change event in Kamloops and so she decided to establish one in Merritt.

“I was kind of familiar with Merritt and there was nothing, and I know there are people there who use cloth diapers, so we thought we’d reach out and try and build some community there,” McComb said.

McComb said the misconcep-tions about cloth diapering include that it’s smellier and more compli-cated than using disposables.

“They’re much easier to use than anyone imagines until they actually try it,” she said, adding they have environmental benefits as well as cost savings.

The event takes place in the same week as Earth Day.

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From the Herald archives: April 1978

Neighbourhood pub opposition mounting

The Merritt Min-isterial Association is the latest com-munity organization to voice its opposi-tion to two Diamond Vale neighbourhood pub applications currently being considered by Town Council.

On behalf of the Ministerial Associa-tion, Rev. D. Wood-ward appeared at the council meeting April 13 to present the aldermen with a petition signed by 160 residents expressing their opposition to the establishment of any more liquor outlets in Merritt, particularly in Dia-mond Vale.

On April 5 at its regular meeting, the school board was of the opinion that it was not desirable to locate a neigh-bourhood pub in the proximity of its junior second-ary school. Both proposed sites are within a half block of the new school.

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Métis jigging group dancin’ up a stormA new dance group

has sprung up in Mer-ritt.

The Métis jiggers are a group of young girls who are dancing to connect with their Métis roots.

In six months of practices, the four group members have learned jigging steps and five dances.

Instructor Colleen Lucier comes from Kamloops at least once a month to teach the dancers Métis jigging steps. Between lessons, the girls practice on their own.

So far, the girls’ practice seems to be paying off.

While Lucier said it took her about a year to learn one par-ticularly complicated step called “around the world,” 11-year-old Talyn Ferch said it took her one session to learn it.

Ferch said she and some of the other girls jig during recess at Diamond Vale Ele-mentary.

“They’re all natu-rals at it,” Lucier said.

Lucier is aided by local volunteer Cecilia Dumont, who helps the girls fine-tune their steps.

“We wanted to see children and teenagers

try to find a way to get them off the streets and show them how an activity of the Métis can be,” Dumont said.

“They’ve been doing very well,” she added.

Ferch said her favourite dance is the sash dance, which involves she and 11-year-old Macken-zie Wray doing the “around the world” step over a pair of crossed sashes.

“Your sash dance is

influenced by Scottish dancing because our culture was influenced by First Nations and different Europeans,” Lucier told the girls at a practice at Merritt Moms on April 16.

Nine-year-old Jorden Petersen said her favourite dance is the broom dance, in which she passes a broom quickly between her hands underneath her legs.

“Right now, we’re practising perfection,

because we’re trying to make it go faster,” Ferch said at their practice.

Although its current members are all girls between nine and 11, the group is open to boys as well and has no age restrictions.

Lucier said the group she dances with in Kamloops is mostly adults, but in Merritt, youth have taken to it.

“Our work is to help youth and fami-lies feel that sense of belonging, and danc-ing is a great way and it’s been a fun way to listen to our music and meet our elders and

learn some of our cul-ture,” she said.

Further, she said, you don’t have to be Métis to dance with the jiggers.

The troupe will have its first perfor-mance at the Métis community potluck on April 25 starting at 5 p.m. at the cadet hall.

“We’re available to perform at local func-tions and highlight our Métis culture and the local Métis culture. There’s a large Métis community in Merritt that I wasn’t aware of until I got connected to the Métis people here,” Lucier said.


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McComb will also be at Mer-ritt Moms at noon on Wednesday to speak about cloth diapering.

Anyone who wants to partici-pate can still join in right up until the event or participate without

registering. Guinness requires a minimum

of 25 babies changed per site to qualify for the record, but McComb is hopeful the Merritt event will build up to that in com-ing years.

“It does take a while to spread

the word, but there are quite a few people who’ve never used cloth before, so that’s exciting,” she said.

She also said helping break the record isn’t the only goal of the event, which she described as a “big play-date” with a potluck

lunch, family and baby portraits and door prizes.

“It’s an opportunity to get out and meet new parents,” she said.

The event takes place at the legion on Quilchena Avenue between 9:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. this Saturday.

No experience with cloth diapers necessaryFrom Page 2

Talyn Ferch and Mackenzie Wray, both 11, perform the sash dance as their Metis jigging instructor, Colleen Lucier, looks on. Emily Wessel/Herald

Nine-year-old Jorden Petersen prac-tises the broom dance with Lucier, who stood in for dancer Dani Turmel, also nine, who was away sick. Emily Wessel/Herald


Next council meeting: Tuesday, April 22, 2014Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca

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VICTORIA – After rejecting an offer from the school district bar-gaining agency for a long-term contract, the B.C. Teachers’ Federa-tion went to the Labour Relations Board this week to establish essen-tial service levels for strike action.

BCTF members voted 89 per cent in March to endorse a three-stage strike plan that can begin with 72 hours notice. Phase one includes restricting communication with school managers, arriv-

ing no more than an hour before and leaving an hour after school hours, and refusing supervision of students outside class time.

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Typically it is the employers’ association that seeks an essential services order, but this time the BCTF applied.

That’s unusual for a union that has a history of opposing essential service orders at the LRB and the Interna-tional Labour Organi-zation, Cameron said. It is also a sign that the BCTF is preparing for strike action after the Easter break.

Cameron said if stage one strike action begins, the B.C. Pub-lic School Employers’ Association will seek an order that the union pay for its extended

benefits during any withdrawal of service. That would cost about $5 million a month for 41,000 public school teachers.

“In order that there is in fact pressure on both sides, BCPSEA needs to respond to any phase one activities with measures that put corresponding pressure on the union,” Cam-eron wrote in a letter to BCTF president Jim Iker.

Cameron’s initial offer is for a 10-year agreement with pay increases totalling 6.5 per cent over the first six years and additional

wage increases to be negotiated for the final four years.

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Phase two of the BCTF plan is rotat-ing one-day walkouts in districts around the province. Phase three, a full-scale strike, would require a second vote by members to authorize.

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The Canada Rev-enue Agency says the social insurance num-bers of 900 taxpayers were stolen last week by someone using the Heartbleed encryption vulnerability before the taxation agency shut down public access to its online services.

It happened over a six-hour period by someone exploiting the vulnerability in many supposedly secure websites that used an open-source encryp-tion system.

The CRA said it will send registered letters to affected tax-payers and will not be emailing them because it doesn’t want fraud-sters to use phishing schemes to further exploit the privacy breach.

“I want to express regret to Canadians for this service inter-ruption,” CRA com-missioner Andrew Treusch said. “I share the concern and dis-may of those individu-als whose privacy has been impacted by this malicious act.”

Other personal data and possibly business-es’ information may also have been lost.

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painstaking process of analyzing other fragments of data, some that may relate to businesses, that were also removed,” Treusch said.

Taxpayers whose data was compromised will get bolstered CRA account protection and free access to credit protection services.

Canada’s Privacy Commissioner is also investigating.

Online services, including the E-file

and Netfile online income tax portals, were patched and re-launched Sunday after what the CRA called a vigorous test to ensure they are safe and secure.

The CRA cut off access to those services April 8 as word spread that the Heartbleed bug had given hackers access to passwords, credit card numbers and other information at many websites.

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income tax filing was delayed by last week’s CRA interruption have been given until May 5 – beyond the usual April 30 fil-ing deadline – to file returns without being penalized.

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A new poll released by employment website Workopolis finds a new trend with Canadian work-ers is toward less commit-ment to their jobs.

Just over half (51 per cent) reported they’d been in the same job for less than two years, while 30 per cent had been in one job for more than four years.

Compare that to the 1990-1999 results, where 16 per cent reported hav-ing the same job for less than two years and 60 per cent had been in the same job more than four years.

The survey also found that nearly half (48 per cent) of respondents reported having three or more separate career paths.

The polls were con-ducted with samples of between 1,000 and 5,000 Workopolis users, but no margin of error accom-panied the results as they weren’t truly random samples of Canadians.

This new trend also can’t be assigned to a specific generation either because the responders’ ages weren’t recorded.

However, this pattern of “job hopping” sounds like quite a few people I know, who work at a job for a year or less and move on to something else.

Most of these people I know cite being “bored” as their reason for moving on.

Many moons ago, in my long-lost youth, I went through some of those jobs because I didn’t like the work, the environment or because something better came along. And that’s

fair enough — why should someone stick it out at a place they don’t fit in when there are so many work-places out there?

Commitment to a job is something of a catch-22 in an age when bosses cover the whole spectrum from the old-school, work hard, suck-it-up, stick-it-out men-tality to wanting to foster their employees’ quest to find the elusive “perfect job.”

The problem with working toward the “per-fect job” is that there will always be aspects of a job we don’t like. This is not intended to be depressing, but instead to be realistic. It’s simply not realistic to expect everything to align with exactly what you want at all times. Even when you’re your own boss, you face challenges and encounter surprises —

sometimes unpleasant. You never know what

your potential employer could think when looking over your résumé, and that goes for everyone: those with spotty work histories of a thousand short-lived jobs and those with a thou-sand years in one position at one company.

Maybe the employer thinks the worker with var-ious jobs is adaptable and seeks new experiences, and can bring a fresh perspec-tive to the workplace.

Or maybe that the per-son is unreliable, unwilling to deal with conflict and flaky.

Maybe the employer thinks the person with a long-term job is a complete stick in the mud and is just a cog in a machine that doesn’t want new chal-lenges.

In my line of work, it’s

almost expected of new reporters to cut their teeth in a few communities. Much of the early move-ment in media is lateral, from one media outlet to another in the same posi-tion, but with this kind of “job hopping,” you get so much exposure to new ideas, new people, new experiences, and new environments that you are forced to develop a variety of skills quickly and under pressure.

Still, that’s not to say you can’t advance and increase your skill set at a job you have had for four years or more. It all comes down to who you work for, where you work and where you’re at in your career. Goals can change as new experiences enter, and there’s really no telling how we can benefit from being open to those experiences.

HERALD OPINION

Trudeau fi ghts good fi ght against Harpertocracy

I’m starting to like this new gen-eration of Trudeau politician.

When he announced he wanted to be leader of the federal Liberal party, I was aghast.

What exactly had Justin Trudeau done to warrant that kind of a reward — other than be born with the right surname?

When the Liberals then elected him on the first ballot, I wondered if mass confusion had overtaken the delegates at the conference

They chose him by a strong mar-gin — 24,668 votes. Second place went to Joyce Murray, with 3,139 votes.

Immediately, Conservative spin doctor Fred DeLorey issued a press release congratulating the former teacher, but noting Trudeau “may have a famous name but, in a time of global economic uncertainty, he doesn’t have the judgment or experi-ence to be prime minister.”

Trudeau may not have the expe-rience but, more and more, he’s showing he has the judgment for the job — if you believe we need a prime minister who seems acces-sible, does not mind actually get-ting involved with people and loves speaking his mind.

This week’s announcement was, quite simply, brilliant as Trudeau stepped in front of the press gal-lery reporters in Ottawa — a group with whom Prime Minister Stephen Harper chooses to not deal — and promised to repeal the truly horrific and potentially undemocratic Fair Elections Act if he becomes prime minister.

Just as he did when he dis-owned Liberal senators, Trudeau has summed up what NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has been hammer-ing away at for weeks, but he did it with the kind of panache his old man had for the game of politics.

Is job-hopping good or bad on the résumé?

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AN EGGSTRAVAGANT EASTER HUNT

The sun may not have been out, but that didn’t stop a large crowd of Merrittonians from gathering at Rotary

Park on Good Friday for the city’s Easter Eggstravaganza. The event featured an egg hunt and other activities such

as soccer and face painting. There was also plenty of music and food. The Easter Bunny even hopped by for a visit and to hand out candy amongst the many smiling

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The ILM right-of-way continues to be a construction zone with restricted access. Restricted access is required for worker and public safety to avoid risks associated with such things as guy lines, partially constructed foundations, construction materials, or other potential hazards that may be hidden or partially hidden by the snow.

Please avoid using the right-of-way for your activities. If you are in the area, use extra care when traveling around the right-of-way.

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Earth Day has been an international event since 1990 and is cel-ebrated in 192 countries worldwide. In Canada, it has been recognized since 1980. We do our best to celebrate the earth in Merritt. There is opportunity to participate with recy-cling, farmers markets, Footprints Harvest and more availability in the grocery store to buy sus-tainable food every time I go shopping. Earth Day makes me take a breath and helps me check in with my own personal commitment to the planet.

I continue to have great opportunities to learn about the earth. Our primary life work is ranching and we take pride in how we raise our beef. I’m also an owner of the Good Earth Company and make compost, which helps supply organic matter needed to grow sustainably. It is often said that if you grow food, every day is Earth Day. To live a life con-nected to the seasons and to be able to make our living by what the earth provides gives me a profound appreciation for Mother Nature.

One of my big-gest inspirations to eat locally came from the concept of the ecological footprint. At that time, I had three teenage boys living at home who played hockey and worked on our ranch and had huge appetites. I tracked everything we consumed in a week and then did the math. The results were astounding. I finished my assignment literally in tears, but I knew that I needed to do something positive and proactive, so I expanded my garden.

To find out more about your global foot-print, go to footprintnet-work.org or for a basic test, go to myfootprint.org.

There were grum-blings about the amount of time I spent in the garden and my boys

were reluctant garden-ers. After calculating our footprint, our family was more on board and the appreciation for food definitely increased. The conversations about the earth continue to be a passion for us all, and I am so proud of our grown kids and how they have adopted being Earth-minded into how they conduct their lives. They now teach me things around sustain-able food choices.

Food is what I choose to focus on for Earth Day. I love food, I love growing food, I love getting dirt under my fingernails and watching things grow. I love exper-imenting with plants and finding out how to grow more things. I love the fact that I can start gardening in my awe-some space downstairs, where the light and heat soak into my bones, even when the wind is howl-ing and the snow is melt-ing outside.

The average tomato plant produces 20 pounds of fruit and is easy to grow. They taste amazing, especially on toasted sourdough

topped with some sprouts started in jars on my kitchen counter and homemade mayo from local eggs.

We do what we can, wherever we are. I believe we all love the earth in our way and give what and to whom we can. So, with Earth Day upon us, I am writ-ing out my love letter

to the planet and plant-ing more seeds … and I think it’s time to get another load of compost and see if I can extend my raspberry patch. Cel-ebrate well, in whatever way you see fit and give thanks for this amazing planet that we call home.

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Eagle Motorplex’s drag racing season in jeopardyBy Ian WebsterTHE HERALD

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Unless something very constructive happens in the next couple of weeks, there is not going to be much of a drag racing season this year at the Eagle Motorplex facility, located just outside of Ashcroft. And that has a contingent of close to a dozen local racers from the Nicola Valley more than a little disappointed.

“I’m devastated,” said long-time racer Rae Caswell from Lower Nicola. “I’ve been com-peting there since 1987. It’s been my home away from home. I love it over there.”

“It doesn’t end racing for us, but it certainly puts a spin on things,” said Jen Eaton. All four members of the Eaton family had been plan-ning to participate at the Eagleplex this coming season with Jen, daugh-ter Danielle, 17, and son Wyatt, 15, actually behind the wheel, and husband Mike acting as crew chief and as a volunteer member of the track’s technical crew.

The Ashcroft Indian

Band — owners of the Eagleplex — announced earlier this month that they were officially cancelling the majority of their regular racing schedule for 2014. The reasons given had to do with ongoing financial concerns and recent staff-ing issues.

In a press release, the AIB stated: “The track has been running at a loss for the past several seasons, and last year the loss was over $70,000.

“The AIB has had to make some tough decisions. The band and track manage-ment had meetings to discuss the viability of continuing with rac-ing. Unfortunately, an agreement could not be reached, and the cur-rent racetrack manager (Joe Sye) has decided to resign.

“With the resignation of the race director, some staff unfortunately also decided not to return to the Eagle for this season. With the race season so close, replacing valued members of the staff is an overwhelming and difficult task.”

Local racer Al

Mackay-Smith sum-marized the situation as follows: “There’s been an unfortunate falling out between the management team at the Eagleplex and the Ashcroft Indian Band, and as a consequence the Indian Band has chosen to cancel the large part of the racing season.”

Mackay-Smith added that the timing of the announcement — just weeks prior to the open-ing of the season on the

April 26 weekend — couldn’t have been worse.

“The fallout around the province has been pretty significant,” he said. “I know of one gentleman over in Kelowna who has spent tens of thousands of dol-lars getting a car ready just to come and race at Ashcroft.”

“The timing was poor, that’s for sure,” said Caswell. “I was all ready to go. I was even putting tools in my trailer.”

Merritt’s drag racing community has been left scrambling to find alternatives. There are tracks in Mission, Prince George and at Thunder Mountain (located east of Kelowna near Big White Mountain).

“I’ll probably go to Mission, and my son Matt will probably come with me,” said Mackay-Smith. “I’ve never been to Prince George. With the cost of fuel, the extra distance people are going

to have to travel is going to make things quite pro-hibitive.”

Thunder Mountain isn’t an option for the Mackay-Smiths as it’s an eighth-mile drag strip as opposed to Ashcroft’s quarter-mile track. The same holds true for Eaton, who said the Thunder facility presents traction issues for faster vehicles.

“Danielle could race, but the rest of us would just be watching,” said Eaton.

As for the junior member of the Eaton-racing quartet, his racing season is essentially toast.

“Wyatt could have raced under-age in the team event at Ashcroft this year,” said his mom. “Unfortunately, he’s not eligible to race anywhere else until he’s 16.”

The Eatons, Caswell and a few others are con-templating one road trip up to Prince George, but have ruled out Mission.

“They’re an NHRA-sanctioned track, and the majority of us are IHRA certified,” explained Caswell in reference to the rival racing associa-tions. “My licence is no

good, my chassis certi-fication is no good. I’d have to redo things to their specs, and I can’t afford to do that.”

“It’s like changing provinces with your vehi-cle,” said Eaton. “And when you have more than one vehicle like us, it becomes very costly.”

Ryan and Carrie Ware were planning to take this year off from racing any way, but the husband-and-wife team was still saddened by the news of the Eagleplex’s difficulties.

“It’s a nice track, with a great bunch of racers and a real fam-ily atmosphere,” said Ryan. “Everyone’s real friendly.”

“I’m going to miss that family environ-ment,” said Mackay-Smith, whose daughter, Amelia, also raced at the track whenever she could. “Places like Mission won’t be as inti-mate.”

The only racing weekend still firmly set on the Eagleplex’s calendar is the Langley Loafers’ Old Time Drags, scheduled for June 6 to 8.

The cancellation of the 2014 drag racing season at the Eagle Motoplex outside Ashcroft has forced local racers like Rae Caswell (above) from Lower Nicola to make alternative arrangements and travel farther afield in order to compete this year. Ian Webster/Herald

60MKC winter session sees double the participantsBy Ian WebsterTHE HERALD

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The success of the 60 Minutes Kids’ Club locally continues to grow in leaps and bounds.

Over 280 students, representing all five area elementary schools, took part in the winter session, which ran from Jan. 15 to Mar.15.

“That’s more than double our first session,” said 60MKC spokesper-son Josée Warren, who co-ordinates the youth-oriented, active-living initiative on behalf of the Interior branch of PacificSports in co-oper-ation with the City of Merritt’s Leisure Services Department.

The 60 Minutes Kids’ Club aims to empower children and their fami-lies with the knowledge

and skills to live a healthy and active lifestyle. The program engages kids through an online, inter-active medium with goal setting, accountability and fun incentives.

Diamond Vale School came out as the big win-ners in the 60MKC win-ter session with over 80 participants from Grades K to 7. As a school, they finished sixth out of 66 schools in the province of B.C., and 11th out of 177 schools nation-wide.

“There was definitely more competition across the country this time around,” said Warren, noting that Diamond Vale’s participation numbers this past session would have topped the province back in the fall.

“There’s more kids getting involved, and we hope to see the increase

continue with each new challenge,” said Warren.

The “most active” winter-session 60MKC participants at each local elementary school were invited to a wrap-up party on Thursday of last week.

“We met at the Civic Centre and played some games,” said Warren, “then headed to the Aquatic Centre for an hour of swimming and free time.”

The 60MKC’s spring challenge officially kicked off Apr. 15 and runs through until June 1.

SUPER ACTIVE! Top students from (clockwise from top left) Bench, Central, Diamond Vale, Collettville and Nicola Canford Schools show off their 60MKC certificates following the completion of the winter session. Photos submitted.


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