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A group of about 20 people gathered at the site of the second Bass Coast Music Festival in Merritt on Thursday for a tour before the four-day event kicked off on Friday. The tour group stopped to have a look at the main stage, which, in keeping with the festival’s “mutiny” theme, featured a pirate ship sinking into the stage at the old Merritt Mountain Music Festival grounds.

Another side of a ship adjacent to the main stage can be seen sticking out of the ground, and white streamers are draped across the dance area.

The design for the main stage had been in the works since September, starting out as a 3D model of a pirate battle on a computer, Bass Coast communications manager Paul Brooks told the Herald. Crews spent the last couple of weeks on-site to construct the elaborate stage, he said. Brooks said about 3,000 tickets were sold to the event and the festival was capped at 4,000.

For more from Bass Coast, check out the Thursday, Aug. 7 edition of the Merritt Herald.

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The Nature Conservancy of Canada has raised the $3.4 mil-lion it needs for a conservation project that will protect 1,300 acres of grasslands in the Nicola Valley.

Through this project, habitat for migratory birds, rare grass-land plants and mammals such as moose and mule deer will be protected.

The protected land is a por-

tion of the Napier Lake Ranch, north of Merritt off of Highway 5A.

The funding will go toward purchasing the land and funds for the long-term care, management and monitoring of the land, Les-ley Neilson, Nature Conservancy of Canada communications man-ager for the B.C. region, said.

Monitoring the land involves studying it over time to see if the species inhabiting it still live in that habitat, if their populations have increased and if there are

other forces changing it, Neilson said.

She said the Napier Lake Ranch grasslands are at risk of development pressures such as fragmentation of the grassland habitat through subdivision.

“That was the main concern here with Agnes Jackson, the land owner [of the Napier Lake Ranch], and why she came to us to work on this project,” Neilson said.

She said this conservation ini-tiative is a preventative one.

Neilson also said the Nature Conservancy of Canada focuses on areas with the highest conser-vation need.

“We work based off of sci-entific land planning that we’ve done that pinpoints the areas where there’s species at risk and there’s threats to the land that those species need for survival,” Neilson said.

Neilson said native grasslands in B.C. are highly threatened ecosystems, and represent one per cent of the province’s land base.

“Those are also the easiest kind of lands to develop. They’re flat, they’re open, you don’t have to take the trees out,” Neilson said. “We as humans have been attracted to them for all sorts of reasons. They’re beautiful, they grow food well, they’re in valleys, accessible. So there’s all sorts of reasons why there’s human devel-opment pressures in those little bits of grasslands that we do have, and we’ve lost a lot of them.”

Napier Lake Ranch to be protected landBy Michael Potestio

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The winning bid for the new truck bay at the fire hall came in slightly under its bud-geted $450,000.

Council unanimous-ly approved awarding a contract for $428,000 plus GST to Sawchuk Developments Co. at its regular meeting last Tuesday night.

Once GST is fac-tored in, the bid will come in at $449,400.

However, the city will be able to recoup the cost of the GST, financial services man-ager Ken Ostraat told council.

The lowest of the five bids was only for the roof at $41,000, so it was disqualified.

Sawchuk’s bid was the lowest of the four that applied to the entire project, and the only one to come in within the budget.

Ombudsperson office quiet on

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The City of Merritt was the subject of one complaint to the prov-

ince’s ombudsperson between April 1 and June 30.

However, that file required no further investigation, accord-ing to a report from

the ombudsperson office on files it closed, which given to city council at its regular meeting last Tuesday.

There were no investigations initiated

by the ombudsperson, and no requests for information or assis-tance.

B.C.’s Office of the Ombudsperson is an independent investiga-

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CUISINE ART The second annual Merritt Art Walk wrapped up with food, music and prizes outside the Olde Courthouse Art Gallery on Thursday night. Even the refreshments were designed with an artistic flair as youth at risk from Ask Wellness designed this delicious display, chamber of commerce manager Etelka Gillespie told the Herald. Michael Potestio/Herald

With less than three weeks until it kicks off, the Sturgis Canada motorcycle and music festival has announced a change to its lineup.

California-based band Jefferson Starship will headline the festival on Friday, Aug. 22 instead of Katey Segal and the Forest Rangers, which had to pull out for “unfore-seen circumstances,” a press release from Sturgis Canada states.

Jefferson Starship was formed by members from the wreckage of early ’70s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, which produced hits such as Somebody to Love and White Rabbit.

The band was active from the early ’70s until the mid-’80s, when some members continued on as just Starship.

Starship is famous for its anthemic earworm We Built This City.

The original members regrouped in the early ’90s and Jef-ferson Starship has been touring since.

Expect to hear hits from each incarnation of the band at Sturgis Canada, which runs from Aug. 21 to 24 at the festival grounds.

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Merritt RCMP are still uncertain as to the motive a group of five young men had in enter-ing a Collettville home.

But they do know their appear-ance is believed to have had some-thing to do with a large quantity of marijuana at the residence.

Shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday, the quiet stillness of a hot summer after-noon was shat-tered by a woman’s scream and gun-shots fired in or near a residence on Walnut Avenue in Collettville.

Police were notified there had been an attempted home invasion, and a male living at the residence had disarmed the invaders and shot at them.

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The City of Merritt has come in under budget for the first phase of improve-ments it’s making to Central Park.

The project includes relocating the sand volley-ball court closer to Rotary Park; constructing a regu-lation-size, 200-by-85 foot lacrosse box with lights, bas-

ketball hoops and a multi-purpose playing surface that can be flooded and used as an ice rink; and replac-ing the current washroom trailer with a new 1,100-square-foot washroom and concession building.

Phase 1 was budgeted for $728,000, with the awarded contract to ICE Devel-opments Ltd. pegged at $511,700 — over $200,000 less than what was bud-

geted.It was the lowest of five

bids for the project, with the next-lowest bid considerably higher.

“It just seems very strange that our lowest bid is at $511,000, and our next lowest bid is $694,000,” Coun. Dave Baker said, noting the $183,000 differ-ence.

“I just find that very interesting that a company

can do it for that much and still get the same quality,” Baker said.

Leisure services manager Larry Plotnikoff said all bidders knew of the budget-ed $728,000 as it was public knowledge.

He said when the bud-geted number is known, it’s common to get inflated prices.

“We did check out the references for this company

and it did come out stellar,” Plotnikoff said.

The washroom and con-cession building will have a wood finish and the conces-sion side of the building will have a grill and deep fryer. The washrooms will be able to accommodate people with disabilities, which the current washroom does not.

The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

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Central Park gets go-ahead at council

Neilson said pro-tecting biodiversity is another aspect to the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s work.

She said 30 per cent of B.C.’s spe-cies at risk use grass-lands for some or the entirety of their life cycle, citing migra-tory birds such as the long-billed curlew as an example.

The land being protected is home to species at risk, and by protecting that habitat those species are given a greater chance to grow their popula-tions, Neilson said.

Neilson said “spe-cies at risk” is the general term for all species that are at risk to some degree of extinction, and noted they are defined by classification levels.

Conserving the Napier Lake Ranch will protect a large area of grassland from development, while also allowing for some cattle grazing, a Nature Conservancy of Canada press release stated.

“Grasslands hold more endangered

species than any other climatic zone,” rancher and Napier Lake Ranch owner Agnes Jackson said in the press release. “Keeping large tracts

of land in tact is really the only way to protect them. Cows, grouse and burrowing owls all live together. We should encourage diversity, not mon-

oculture.”Once protected,

the Napier Lake Ranch land will be available for low-im-pact public use such as nature walks, bird-

watching and cross country skiing, the press release stated.

Neilson said sig-nage stating the land is a protected area will also be put in

place.The Napier Lake

Ranch conservation initiative is the nation-al non-profit land trust’s 100th project in B.C.

Land home to delicate ecosystemFrom Page 1

A long-billed curlew stands on a pile of rocks on the Napier Lake Ranch. Long-billed curlews breed on open grasslands, but will also use ploughed and planted fields during migration, brood-rearing, and even nesting seasons. They prefer habitats with very short grass for nesting, and are quite tolerant of heavy grazing pressure, often preferring grasslands that have been grazed or burned, or even those covered with invasive cheatgrass. The long-billed curlew is on the Ministry of Environment’s blue list of vulnerable species, primarily because of its reliance on dry grassland habitat. These grasslands have been affected by grazing for over 130 years and in many areas are threatened by urban and agricultural encroachment. Submitted


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The City of Mer-ritt’s spray park, located at Rotary Park, will be unavailable from Aug. 19 to 22 in order to complete the spray pad resurfacing project.

The resurfac-ing project will entail base preparation and applying a rubber product over the entire surface. The rubber product is made from 100 per cent recycled B.C. tire rubber. This will result in a much more resilient, softer and slip-proof surface. This is a 2014 capital budget project.

Only the spray park will be inaccessible during this time. The rest of Rotary Park will still be available

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VICTORIA — The government of British Columbia is exclud-ing federally-licensed medical marijuana production from the

list of agricultural uses that qualify for farm classification for assess-ment and property tax purposes.

The decision will ensure local govern-ments do not lose potential property tax revenues from the Health Canada licensed production facilities.

Medical marijuana is a federally regulated narcotic produced by licensed operators in British Columbia. There are currently

five federally-licensed facilities in British Columbia.

B.C.’s position takes into consideration the nature of the highly-regulated and secure facilities, and is consis-tent with the approach being taken in neigh-bouring Alberta.

The government of British Columbia will also continue to view medical marijuana production as an allow-able farm use within the Agricultural Land Reserve that should

not be prohibited by local government bylaws.

This is consistent with the Agricultural Land Commission’s interpretation of the Agricultural Land Commission Act.

Federal regulations for medical marijuana came into effect April 1, 2014. The exclusion from farm classification for property tax pur-poses will take effect for property assess-ments in the 2015 taxation year.

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It’s outdated now, but an old English rhyme had it that, at their weddings, brides should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, a six-pence in your shoe.

The only part of that rhyme that still has resonance for newly married couples today is blue – as in the post-nuptial state when the newlyweds realize they outrageously overspent for their wedding and now, to coin another phrase, it’s time to pay the piper … and the DJ … and the caterer … and on and on.

Statistics Canada reports that there are over 145,000 weddings in Canada each year1 with 48 per cent of them taking place in the months of June, July and August1.

How many of them leave the new couples feeling the wedding bill blues? We don’t know, but if you’re heading

toward marriage, here are some good tips to help throw a debt-free wedding.

A special wedding is one you can afford

That gourmet five-course meal for 300 guests sounds great, but a wedding is a single day – so look at it in the context of your long-term financial life. Plan a terrific wedding but within a reasonable budget.

Practice zero-tolerance for plastic

Don’t use plastic to pay for your wedding. For example, if you use your credit card for $25,000 at 14 per cent interest in wed-ding expenses and only make the minimum payment each month, you’ll make your final payment on your 100th anniversary. Put your credit cards away and pay for your wedding with money you’ve saved.

Practice prudence

Be strong and stick to your wedding budget – and use the opportunity to set other financial goals. Here’s a simple budget template to get you going:

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For a debt-free wed-ding and a successful financial life together, talk to your professional advisor.

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Court put limits on Mr. Big stingsThe mother of a Merritt

man sent to jail for the murder of a teenage girl believes her son was falsely convicted and would be free if new limits on a controversial RCMP sting technique would have been in place 14 years ago.

Patrick Fischer was con-victed after a second trial in the death of 16-year-old Darci Drefko, who was strangled and dumped in the bush.

Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that confessions made by a New-foundland man who confessed in an RCMP sting — known as a Mr. Big scenario — to the murder of his twin daughters

was not admissible because it was made under implied threat of violence and that police used too much coercion on a socially isolated man with lim-ited intelligence.

The ruling is expected to reduce the number of con-victions and rewrite the way RCMP conduct the Mr. Big operations, particularly its overtones of violence.

“I think it’s good for people coming up,” said Linda Fis-cher, a Dawson Creek mother who has never stopped believ-ing her son was wrongfully convicted and jailed.

Following the first trial that ended up with a hung jury, Fischer was convicted of first-degree murder, which automatically carries a 25-year

sentence before the possibility of parole.

After Drefko’s body was found in 1999 by a group of horseback riders in the mountains near Merritt, police targeted Fischer in a Mr. Big sting scenario. Like many Mr. Big operations, an undercover Mountie first approached Fis-cher on the street in the Fraser Valley, where he had moved, and asked him to help find a woman, showing him a picture.

The two became friends and the fictitious gang mem-ber offered Fischer a number of phoney, criminal-like tasks. He was on welfare at the time and was later completely off benefits.

“He had nothing but what they were giving him,” Linda

said.Eventually, Fischer was

brought before Mr. Big, who told him the heat was on for Drefko’s death — something Fischer could make disappear if he confessed to the crime and gave all its details. Like all Mr. Big scenarios, Fischer was constantly told the gang lived by a creed of truth and that bad things happened to those who lied.

He was also promised a $20,000 job transporting drugs in the future.

Fischer, who drank beer provided to him, confessed to strangling Drefko.

“Unfortunately, he’s good at telling stories,” Linda said.

See ‘Mother’ Page 7

By Cam FortemsKAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

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Is the Nicola Valley getting its moment in the spotlight?

It certainly seems that way, with national media outlets mentioning Merritt in their coverage of Bass Coast’s now-famous ban on feathered headdresses.

I have even seen the information posted and reposted on my Facebook

feed by people who live all the way out in the prairies.

By and large, the social media response to the ban appears to be positive.

Many people share the “about time” sentiment, as rhetoric around misap-propriating feathered war bonnets for fashion spreads and at music festivals has been heating up since the rise of the ubiquitous “hip-ster headdress” at Coachel-la three or four years ago.

There are some crit-ics of the ban who say those who are offended by festival-goers wearing headdresses are just being too sensitive or that the Bass Coast organizers are turning their electronic music and arts fest into a police state.

Personally, I think that’s

hardly the case. Those war bonnets were historically preserved for warriors and people of stature — read: they’re earned and respect-ed — and the Bass Coast team deserves every shred of good press it’s getting for taking a stand against this culture as a costume fad.

To some, an all-out ban may be a gutsy move, but I think they’re making it very clear: their festival takes place on traditional aboriginal territory, and they want to honour that appropriately — not by misusing a symbol with so much cultural significance.

Merritt also cropped up on two Internet lists in recent weeks.

In the first, the Nicola Valley appeared on Huff-

ington Post’s top nine plac-es in B.C. any enthusiastic road warrior should see this summer.

The Huffington Post blurb calls a pinpointed area of the Nicola Valley off the 5A between Mer-ritt and Kamloops the “Empire of grass.” Indeed, these grasslands proved a profitable empire when the gold rush dried up and ranching began to boom at the turn of the century.

Other road trips on the list include the Othello Tunnels at Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park and Shannon Falls Provin-cial Park near Squamish.

The other Internet site that featured Mer-ritt — whether it knew it or not — was visual art and design web magazine

boredpanda.com.Its list of the world’s 25

most creative sculptures and statues from around the world listed none other than Chong Fah Cheong’s The First Generation in Singapore.

The statue features five boys stripping off and jumping into the Singapore River that runs through the Southeast Asian city-state.

It’s part of a network of 20 sculptures commis-sioned by the Singapore Tourism Board to capture what life was like for those who lived along the river in a simpler time, and the joy and prosperity it could carry along to them in its waters.

HERALD OPINION

Opening books good for band members

For the first time, the salaries of chiefs and council members of First Nations bands across the country are open to the public.

For the first time, the details of each First Nations band’s finan-cial situation have been posted on a government website, alongside those salaries and expenses.

This exposure has come about via the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, passed into law by the federal Conservative gov-ernment.

It is a worthwhile effort if the goal to allow the public to see how and where money is spent — par-ticularly when public money is involved.

Most crucially, band members themselves should have unfettered access to how their elected officials are managing their money.

At the Tk’emlups Indian Band, figures released do not seem to reflect an extravagant use of money.

The band receives about $5 million per year from Ottawa and realizes an equal amount from rent and leases on its land.

The band pays its chief, Shane Gottfriedson, $92,000 a year (sal-ary and pension and benefits included), while each councillor makes $80,000 or more per year.

Yes, the band has an on- and off-reserve population of only 1,000, but council is responsible for a far broader range of issues than is its municipal counterpart, where councillors are deemed part-time positions.

How and where the money is spent is the business of each First Nations band and the new Trans-parency Act should serve to guide band members, elected and non-elected, as they plan for the future.

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You may better know Chong Fah Cheong as Pius Chong, who calls the Nicola Valley home.

The list doesn’t actual-ly mention Merritt or the Nicola Valley at all, but hey, we know he’s here.

And Chong is rather a renowned sculptor, and a humble one at that when I interviewed him for the Herald last October.

Of course, Chong also created the teepee struc-tures that hold the “Wel-come to Merritt” signs, so his work is used locally for signs meant to evoke posi-tivity here in Merritt.

The First Generation was in good company on the sculpture list, which

included Taipei, Taiwan’s hippo sculptures protrud-ing from the sidewalk in the city’s zoo.

These statues do more than interest passersby in a photo opp. In fact, they do more than enhance what are typically already impressive settings in impressive cities.

These sculptures are a monument to the past, and represent a snapshot of a moment in time that captures the zeitgeist of the day where they’re located.

The Shoes on the Danube Bank in Buda-pest, Hungary is a strik-ing memorial to those executed on the river’s edge during the Second World War.

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Merritt-based sculptor featured on viral list

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The KSM project still requires federal approval, expected by October. Fronk said the federal review has agreed with the province that the mine would not pose a significant environ-mental risk.

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The Mitchell deposit is the largest of four ore bodies permitted for mine development northwest of Stewart B.C. near the Alaska border. Seabridge Gold Inc.

“The only evidence they had was that confession — 90 per cent of it was probably false ... I don’t care who you are, you’re going to think your life is in danger. He didn’t think he’d get out of there alive unless he told them what they wanted to hear.”

Fischer later led an undercover Mountie to a location near where Drefko’s body was found by the rid-ers.

News reports at the time could not describe the Mr. Big operation, which was covered by a publication ban. Those bans on Mr. Big sting details were later over-

ruled by the Supreme Court of Canada.

In 2005, the B.C. Court of Appeal rejected Fischer’s claim the jury’s verdict wasn’t based on facts.

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“The site he pointed out was a near perfect match of the location where the body was discovered, which is par-ticularly damning because Fischer told the officers he placed the body in that loca-tion in the dark,” the appeal court ruling stated.

Fischer is now 37 years old and is not eligible for

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tion for the Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted is pre-paring an argument to the federal minister of justice, permitted under the Crimi-nal Code.

“He will eventually go to a 696 hearing (section 696 of the Criminal Code allowing appeal to the minister) — the last kick at the can,” Linda said. “He’s handling things well. He’s very patient.”

Fischer is being held in Mountain Institution in Agassiz, a medium-security prison.

Linda said he is head of the music club there and spends some of his time making jewelry boxes.

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These are some of the questions included in the B.C. government’s consultation on changes to Agricultural Land Reserve regulations, released last week. Oth-ers deal with controver-sial proposals to allow specified non-farm uses, secondary residences and subdivisions without permission from the Agricultural Land Com-mission.

Developed after con-sultation with the B.C. Agriculture Council, local governments and the commission, the 11 questions offer more detail on changes the government is consider-ing under legislation passed despite protests this spring.

The legislation divid-ed the ALR into two zones, to permit more flexibility in the Interior, Kootenay and North regions (Zone 2) where both agriculture revenue and development pres-sure are lower.

One question asks whether farmland in all of Zone 2 should be able to be subdivided down to a minimum of a quar-ter section (65 hectares) without application to the ALC, as is now allowed in the Peace River and Northern Rockies Regional Dis-tricts in northeast B.C.

Another proposal is to allow subdivision without ALC approval where farmland is divid-ed by a major waterway or highway, subject to a minimum size.

The province is also considering relaxing lease rules, which cur-rently permit leasing of an entire farm property without ALC approval. The consultation asks if a portion of property should be allowed for

lease to permit “inter-generational transfer,” where farmers retire on

a portion of their land so their children can con-tinue to farm the rest.

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BCHL a hockey factory of future NCAA players and NHL starsBy Ian WebsterTHE [email protected]

Over the last five seasons in the British Columbia Hockey League, an average of 98 players a year have earned scholarships to NCAA Division 1 schools in the United States.

Last year alone, 108 British Columbia-born players suited up for Division 1 institutions of higher learning, making B.C. the greatest source of college hockey talent in the country.

A few of the B.C. players who highlighted the NCAA landscape last season were Prince George’s Michael Garteig and Vernon twins Connor and Kellen Jones (all at Quinnepiac University), Kimberley’s Scott Jacklin (Robert Morris University), and Langley’s Colton Beck at the University of Alaska.

“I think the BCHL’s record speaks for itself,” the league’s executive director Trevor Alto said. “Every year, B.C.-born and trained hockey play-ers choose the BCHL

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come from B.C. and the BCHL. It’s something we expect will continue for years to come.”

Looking further up the ladder of hockey success, in the 2013-14 NHL season, 30 per cent of the league’s players came from the NCAA ranks. Many are B.C.-born and graduates of the BCHL.

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MADE IN B.C. Shawn Horcoff played for the BCHL’s Chilliwack Chiefs prior to attending Michigan State University on a four-year hock-ey scholarship. The Trail native was drafted 99th overall in the 1998 NHL draft. He played for the Oilers for 11 seasons before being traded to the Dallas Stars last year. He has played for Canada in three World Championships.

Merritt youngsters continue to

XploreSportZ campers were busy last week discovering new sports and recreational activities. (Far left) Kennedy Kracji, 9, takes aim with her bow and arrow during an archery session at N’Kwala Park on Monday. (Left) Seven-year-old Emily Van Roosbroeck releases the ball while doing lawn bowling on Thursday morning. A total of 20 campers, ages 7 - 12, took part in the final XploreSportZ camp of the summer. In addition to archery and lawn bowl-ing, the participants also did gymnastics, disc golf, Ultimate Frisbee, diving, swimming, tennis and yoga. Watch for my XploreSportZ camps in the coming months.

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Things heating up at Nicola Valley Memorial Arena

HEATING UP Copper Valley Mechanical’s Cory Wilson worked on the installation of the new heating system in the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena last week. Ian Webster/Herald

By Ian WebsterTHE [email protected]

For the last couple of weeks, the local Nicola Valley Memorial Arena has been a ‘hotbed’ of activity as a new heating system is being installed in time for the upcoming hockey season.

The $50,000 project, which is expected to come in under budget and be completed on

time, will see a replace-ment of the old system with the newest technol-ogy in infrared radiant heating.

“With the new sys-tem, we’re expecting that we’ll be eligible for gas tax funding,” City of Merritt leisure services manager Larry Plotnikoff said. “It could mean a zero-cost proj-ect when all is said and done.”

The design and engineering of the new system was done by Energy Wise Distributors Ltd. out of Vancouver, while the actual installa-tion is being handled by Merritt-based Copper Valley Mechanical.

“It should be a big improvement,” Copper Valley owner Graham Whitecross said.

The new system will be more efficient, pro-

duce more heat (100,000 to 125,000 BTU per unit, up from 80,000) and provide much more even heat distribution, Whitecross said.

Aesthetically, the heating units have been raised higher above the seating to eliminate blind spots, specifically for broadcasters, and further enhance the distribution of heat.

The new system will

also extend down to the end of the arena where a beer garden is run dur-ing Merritt Centennials hockey games.

Finally, three sections or zones of the arena will have a coin-operated system in place so that patrons can initiate on-demand heat while they watch winter-time sporting activities such as minor hockey, rec hockey and public skating.


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