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RED RISING Juno Award-winning Ottawa-based electronica group A Tribe Called Red is joined by a hoop dancer on the main stage of the Bass Coast music and arts festival, which took place in Merritt for the second year in a row over the long weekend. Michael Potestio/Herald

Free spirits reign at Bass Coast festivalThe beat never stopped at the

Bass Coast electronic music and arts festival that wrapped up its second straight year in Merritt on Monday.

Festivalgoers danced and mingled throughout the days and nights in outfits ranging from the mundane to the insane.

One woman wore a colourful skirt made of a medley of feathers with a large, purple beak on her nose and round, black sunglasses to complete the ensemble as she

danced the night away on Saturday.When perusing the festival

grounds for a couple of days, it’s clear people were there to be free from the rigours of everyday life and explore their social liberties.

Around the festival grounds, people sway back and forth in hammocks, smoke from hookahs, dance to the beat of music in any direction their bodies take them, contort into various yoga poses, hoola hoop with zeal and expand their minds through seminars with titles such as Healing with Essential Oils or The Business of Doing What You Love.

Though it attracts a predomi-nantly a younger-looking crowd, Bass Coast isn’t a festival reserved for any single generation. There were still a few salt and pepper coloured heads in the crowd mixed in with the 20-somethings.

Espirito Santo Mauricio, 50, hails from the Vancouver area and has been to four out of the six Bass Coast festivals, but this was her first one in Merritt.

Mauricio said she wasn’t an avid festivalgoer in her youth. Married at age 18, she didn’t start attending music festivals until she was in her late 30s.

Twenty-two-year-old festival attendee Marie (who did not wish to give her last name) came from Edmonton to experience her first Bass Coast, which was also one of the first music festivals she’d ever been to.

“I like it. It’s chill and it’s fun. Everybody’s really nice,” she told the Herald.

Others at Bass Coast were sea-soned festivalgoers.

River Easton, from Calgary, helped with lighting and media at his second Bass Coast. Easton has attended 11 music festivals so far this year and became an avid

festivalgoer when he decided he wanted a change in his life.

“I used to work a nine to five and then at one point I was like, ‘You know what, I want to go to some music festivals,’ and I went and I just ditched my life and I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to make this my life.’ Now I go travel around, going to music festivals, working for the festivals,” Easton said.

He said Bass Coast has been the most exciting of the events he’s been to so far.

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LNIB reaches out to Ottawa on pipeline proposal

The chief of the Lower Nicola Indian Band is reaching out to Ottawa to discuss his band’s concerns about the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipe-line.

The twinning project would include approxi-mately 987 kilometres of new pipeline and reactivation of 193 kilo-metres of existing pipe-line between Hinton, Alta. and Burnaby.

On its way to the Lower Mainland, the pipeline runs right through the Nicola Valley and traditional LNIB land.

The current pipeline has been in place for over 60 years.

The age of the pipeline represents one of the concerns LNIB Chief Aaron Sam has about the proposed twinning project.

“It’s our concern that it does go through our traditional territory, and it goes through the

Nicola Valley where more than First Nations reside. We have a con-cern that if there’s an expansion, of course that it’s safe, but we also have concerns about the pipeline that already goes through that it’s going to last for another 50 or 60 years.”

Sam penned an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on July 30 with the intent of starting a conversation with Ottawa about their concerns.

“At the end of the day, we have concerns that we want to be addressed and we want our voice to be heard,” Sam said. “It’s important for us to communicate with the government or Kinder Morgan as early as we can so we can express what our concerns are. Hopefully some of those can be seriously looked at.”

Those concerns include the potential to harm salmon habitat in the event of an oil spill and inadequate regula-tion of resource extrac-

tion from Alberta’s oil sands, the letter states.

Sam said the band administration heard these concerns from its membership through a survey.

“We do know there’s concern, specifically relating to the environ-ment,” he said.

So far, LNIB has mainly had contact with Kinder Morgan in consultations, and little contact with the federal government, Sam said.

Sam’s letter states he’d like to see Ottawa take initiative on consul-tation with First Nations and other groups affect-ed by bitumen transpor-tation from oil sands.

“It’s important that we talk with the propo-nent, Kinder Morgan, but if you want certain issues addressed, you have to talk to the gov-ernment because it’s not the companies that pass legislation,” he said.

The Trans Moun-tain expansion project proposal is currently before the National Energy Board (NEB), which will hold hearings

with groups affected by it between Aug. 25 and October 2015.

The NEB is expected to release its recommen-dation report on the project to the minister of natural resources in January 2016.

Sam said the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling uphold-ing aboriginal title to traditional Tsilhqot’in lands could shape the way hearings with the NEB and consultations with the federal govern-ment go in the future.

“I definitely don’t think things are going to be the same as they have been,” he said.

But for now, the band administration will wait and see what the federal government responds with.

“We wrote the let-ter because we want to seriously engage with government. Once we receive a response and the federal government expresses a willingness or non-willingness, then we’ll have to decide what our next step would be,” Sam said.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“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.”

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Nova Han of the Bubble Gutter urban clowning dance company based in California attended and performed at her first Bass Coast over the B.C. Day long weekend. With a smile and a little laugh, she said Bass Coast is “typically Canadian.”

“The wacky Canadians — which we love — these Canadians are just so free-spirited. They wear what they want to wear that’s fun and makes them feel alive and liberated and it’s just really great to be around,” she said.

When asked if this wasn’t the case in Cali-fornia, Han replied with another laugh that in California, everyone is focused on looking cool.

Han herself was wear-ing a trucker hat tipped slightly to the side and a bright orange chain neck-lace.

About 3,000 people gathered at this year’s event, which was housed

closer together for a more intimate feel and closer proximity to shops, food vendors and music stages.

“I feel like Bass Coast is an opportunity for a lot of people to let loose,” Easton said. “A lot of people that come here don’t go to a lot of festivals. This gets to be their one, big festival of the year, and I feel like that gives people the opportunity to just let go and get into it.”

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Next council meeting: Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca

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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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Information bulletin from Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Devel-opment and Ministry of Agriculture

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 feder-ally-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.

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This is consistent with the Agricultural Land Commission’s interpretation of the Agricultural Land Com-mission 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 assessments in the 2015 taxation year.

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Three days of tra-ditional music kick off on Aug. 15 in Princ-eton’s town square.

The annual Princ-eton Traditional Music Festival is a series of free concerts in downtown Princeton, approximately 90 kilometres south of Merritt.

The music kicks off on the Friday at 6:15 p.m. and concerts continue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The volunteer-run event features Van-couver-based Balkan Roma band Okestar Šlivovica, which plays traditional Serbian-in-fluenced Balkan Roma brass music popular at traditional weddings and celebrations.

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Funds from province aimed at basic servicesMerritt has been

given close to $400,000 from the provincial government’s Strategic Community Invest-ment Fund for basic services.

The grant is part of a total of $1.5 million in unconditional fund-ing being given out to communities in the Fraser-Nicola provin-cial riding.

Merritt received the largest slice of the pie in the riding — $393,955, to be exact.

Princeton received $289,527 while Lillooet was given $273,135

and Ashcroft received $268,439. Clinton received $196,932 and Squamish-Lillooet received $132,358.

Merritt received $314,723 from the small community fund, which is an uncondi-tional grant to munici-palities with popula-tions under 20,000 to help them provide basic services.

An additional $79,232 came from traffic fine revenue to make up the $393,955 total Merritt received. The Traffic Revenue Sharing Program returns 100 per cent of net revenues from traffic violations to

municipalities that are directly responsible for paying for polic-ing.

City of Merritt financial services manager Ken Ostraat said the city receives this funding annually, and without it, the city would probably have to collect addi-tional taxes.

“It’s definitely a help for us, helps keep our taxes down,” Ostraat said.

He said the small community fund fund-ing will go to general revenue and the traffic fine revenue will go toward policing costs.

In total, $74 million

is being given over to communities around B.C. to help them meet their local needs such as more policing, increased community safety initiatives, infra-structure and service delivery priorities, a B.C. government cau-cus communications press release stated.

Local governments are free to use the funding how they see

fit. “This is a significant

source of revenue for local governments,” Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart said in that press release. “They can direct the money toward their own priorities and it takes pressure off the local tax base.”

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Over a million hect-ares have been burned in wildfires in B.C. and the Northwest Territories so far this year.

As wildfires creep toward cities and towns, often, a yellowish or greyish haze is visible in the sky.

Earlier this week, smoke from three small wildfires in the Enterprise Creek and Texas Creek areas was vis-ible in Lillooet and nearby communities.

But the smoke from wildfires can — and does — reach much, much fur-ther than the site of the fire itself.

Thanks to some unique clouds formed by intense forest fires, meteorologists have tracked the smoke from wildfires currently raging in Northern Canada all the way to Portugal.

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds act as a kind of funnel for smoke and ash, carrying them up to 15 kilometres into the atmo-sphere.

Once the smoke reaches the stratosphere — the second layer of the earth’s atmosphere about 15 kilo-metres above the ground — it levels off a bit and can easily travel extremely long distances.

The smoke and these distinct, cauliflower-shaped clouds from northern

wildfires can be seen from space.

And where the smoke goes, the negative effects of it go too.

Think of the smoke from a wildfire like that from a volcanic eruption, except on a smaller scale.

In B.C. alone, the Wild-fire Management Branch has responded to nearly 1,000 blazes so far, 233 of which were within the Kamloops Fire Centre.

With hot and dry weath-er expected to continue, the branch expects more fires to pop up and add to the workload B.C. wildland firefighters face already.

The province has called in help in the form of fire-fighters, incident manage-ment workers and support staff from across Canada and even Australia who will be deployed around the province as they’re

needed or anticipated to be needed.

Of the 12 fires of note currently in B.C., most are believed to have been caused by lightning.

While some of the negative effects of fires on ecosystems are obvious — such a the destruction of wildlife habitat — there are some positive, less obvious effects as well.

Wildfires can be part of a natural cycle that re-invigorates the nutrients in soil, promoting plant growth by disturbing it and getting rid of dead plant matter at ground level.

Fire clears a forest’s canopy, which also pro-motes growth at lower levels as sunlight is able to penetrate.

But that soil recovery can take a long time, depending on the severity of the fire. For instance,

lightning strikes can create “hot spots” beneath the ground, which kills what’s starting to root and grow underground. Hot spots can also spring into more fires unexpectedly.

If even naturally-oc-curring wildfires can have devastating consequences, clearly, people need to be cautious where it’s possible that human activity could spark a fire.

For now, the campfire ban is still in effect every-where in the Kamloops Fire Centre except the Clearwater Fire Zone.

Fire danger ratings around the Kamloops Fire Centre are considered high and even extreme in some areas — such as Merritt.

When you think of the potential economic and environmental costs of a campfire gone uncon-trolled, why play with fire?

HERALD OPINION editorial

Summertime and drinking is easy

VICTORIA – The B.C. govern-ment’s move to ease liquor restric-tions is undergoing its hot summer test, and music festivals are only part of it.

Premier Christy Clark’s govern-ment loves its populist gestures, and as with increasing rural highway speed limits, the negative effects have yet to be quantified.

Free-range drinking, or removing fences from festival beer gardens, is one of the moves that will be under-going a post-mortem as communities clean up after their big summer par-ties.

One of the biggest, the Squamish Valley Music Festival with headline acts Arcade Fire, Bruno Mars and Eminem, is still to come, Aug. 8 to 10. Country fans gathered over the long weekend for Sunfest in the Cow-ichan Valley, with the Rockin’ River Musicfest in Mission coming up next.

(Another big bash next weekend is Shambhala, the popular electronic music event on a farm near Nelson, but alcohol is officially banned there and their big issue is controlling the effects of “ecstasy” and other rave drugs.)

Early reviews of free-range fes-tivals have been positive. Victoria’s Rock the Shores event went smoothly without a fenced-in area for alcohol sales. Festival organizers did create a fenced “dry” area, but I’m told hardly anyone used it.

Penticton has had its share of experience with summer bashes gone bad. For B.C. Day it inherited the Boonstock Music and Arts festival, sent packing from a small community in Alberta after complaints of rowdy crowds and crime, so Penticton offi-cials were understandably cautious.

If you play with fire, you might get burned

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Boonstock organizers were refused a provincial liquor licence after struggling to arrange security and emergency services. The festival licence process is likely getting renewed attention these days.

After attending the recent Calgary Folk Festival, where the beer garden was securely fenced and the capacity monitored, I’m won-dering what is really achieved by these mea-sures. Litter and empties were contained, but since under-aged festival visitors are allowed into the serving area, it’s not clear to me whether the fence was ever worth the effort.

It’s unlikely that there will be riots at farm markets as a result of allowing sales of locally made beer, wine and spirits, or from relaxing rules for operation of winery tasting rooms. But there are more reforms to come.

New regulations are on the way for the Agricultural Land Reserve. As it stands, farms are allowed to have a winery or cidery, but not a brewery or distillery. Expect that to be changed as B.C. and other provinces strive to develop their craft beer and spirits industry, trying to emulate the tourism benefits that

have come from an expanding wine industry.One area where the B.C. government

has screwed up is its minimum pricing rules, introduced along with the overdue move to allow “happy hour” discounts in pubs.

The minimum price of 25 cents an ounce for beer, 60 cents an ounce for wine and $3 an ounce for hard liquor was an effort to bal-ance business-friendly policy with legitimate public health concern about over-consump-tion.

But the minimum beer price prompted protests from a few watering holes that had been selling pints or jugs of beer for slightly less. Some media made a big deal of this, and the government over-reacted to this tempest in a beer stein with an ill-thought-out cut in the minimum price to 20 cents an ounce – for beer in jugs only.

The pub industry was not impressed with this bit of knee-jerk populism. Encouraging beer jug sales makes it difficult to see if some-one at a table of revelers is being over-served, drinking most of the jug himself.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

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Dear Editor,

The following is an open letter to Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart.

Dear Ms. Tegart, I am addressing this open

letter to you to display my sheer and utter disbelief of the fiscal irresponsibility and moral corruption that your party is demonstrating. The proposition of paying par-ents $40 per child under 13 for every day of school that is missed due to the contin-ued teacher labour dispute is absolutely devoid of reason and logic. Your government has a surplus of money saved from the days which public schools were out of session — $12 million a day accord-ing to Finance Minister Mike de Jong — and rather than use that money to reach a settlement and improve upon the public education system, you choose to further antago-

nize the situation by squan-dering these savings.

Your party’s refusal to listen to Supreme Court rulings, financial hypocrisy in the face of negotiating (see deputy minister raises in 2013, attack ads against BCTF, etc.) and belief that an investment in public edu-cation will not yield a return makes me question your party’s legitimacy to govern our province.

Your “investment” in child-care costs fails to rec-ognize that your government is investing $0 in these chil-dren’s education. Suggesting that this money can be used to “explore other educational opportunities” is an absolute distraction from the fact that you will not provide that same funding to the system itself and a blatant statement of your objective to privatize the education system.

As the employer of the public education sector, you

are stuck in a 20th century paradigm.

Businesses with profit-sharing programs see higher productivity from their work-ers, just as those who offer unlimited vacation time see no abuses of that privilege.

By continuously antago-nizing your employees (teachers), you are not only demonstrating poor man-agement skills, but you are undermining the return B.C. will see from its current gen-eration of students.

Is it possible that you have considered the economic ramifications of prolonging the teacher strike, particular-ly in your electoral district?

As a former business part-ner, you must be aware that public education employees contribute vast amounts of capital to local businesses in a rural community. I can-not believe that you or your party are acting in your con-stituents’ best interest given

the delicate balance of small town economies.

This seems counterin-tuitive to your position on the Cabinet Committee on Secure Tomorrow, as poor investment in public educa-tion will yield dismal returns in the future.

I challenge you to com-pare the data on standard of living, health, and earning power between countries that have invested heavily in public education and those which have privatized it.

Our two neighbours to the south are fantastic case studies.

When Christy Clark vis-ited Merritt, she claimed that you are “one of the most passionate voices for rural communities.”

The fact that you are per-petuating these communities’ dependence on an extremely fragile and volatile resource-based economy suggests otherwise. If you are famil-

iar with the history of our region then surely you know of the consequences to the end of the B.C. gold rush.

Communities that were based solely on a finite resource disappeared, vio-lent crime increased and unskilled workers migrated elsewhere.

This situation is no dif-ferent from today, though I would argue we are in an even more precarious spot as we compete with over-seas markets and are at the mercy of fluctuating resource prices.

Rather than strip from public education, champion its reform so that we can not only produce the skilled trades workers we need, but also the doctors, engineers and other academic profes-sionals that we are currently recruiting from abroad.

JP Lancaster Merritt

Dear Editor,

On behalf of the Nicola Lodge #53 AF & AM (Masons) and Merritt Chapter #14 of the Order of the Eastern Star, we would like to express our deep appreciation for the quick action and efforts of our fire department here in Merritt in putting out the devastating fire of June 30.

The Masons and East-ern Star have been meet-ing in the Nicola Valley for over 100 years and these young men and women and their superior officers helped us to save over 100 years of Masonic and Eastern Star history that was housed in our building and that would have been lost forever but for their actions.

Many of us take what we have, by way of people in the community, for granted and until some-thing like this happens, we don’t truly appreciate the many hours that they have put in for training so that they can respond in such a timely and professional manner.

Everyone in Merritt should take their hats off and give thanks that we have such an active fire department looking after us. Thank you.

Len Marsh, Worshipful MasterNicola Lodge #53 AF & AM

Amber BjorkmanWorthy MatronMerritt Chapter #14, OES

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Merritt’s second annual Art Walk wrapped up July 31 with live music, cre-atively-sculpted fruit and the announcement of the month-long event’s winners at the Olde Courthouse Art Gallery.

Twenty local busi-nesses housed works by 21 Nicola Valley artists over the month of July in an effort to develop partnerships between local business-es and their customers, visitors to the city, and local artists.

Local painter Cas-sandra Dolen scored the top spot in the people’s choice of art-ist category, followed by Fran McMurchy and Andrew Ruigrok who tied for second, and Silvia Rosenfelder-Schechtel in third.

The top people’s choice award for busi-nesses in the event went to Home Hard-ware, followed by Bail-lie House and Bram-bles in a tie for second, and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in third.

Sheila Marshall won the grand prize draw for a wooden vase created by Ruigrok.

The event was a joint effort by the Nicola Valley Com-munity Arts Council and the Merritt and District Chamber of Commerce.

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There’s no need to be suspicious if a van with a camera mounted to the front rolls down your street and snaps a photo of your house between Aug. 8 and 10.

It’s the vehicle that BC Assessment has contracted to photo-graph 2,178 homes in Merritt to update its database.

The Crown corpora-tion assesses the value of properties in com-munities across B.C. every year.

This update is part of a regional update to the Thompson-Cariboo photo database, which will also include new pictures of homes in Williams Lake, Ash-croft, Cache Creek and Lytton, among others.

The pictures are used by BC Assess-ment in its day-to-day operations and will not include information identifying the people who live at the address, a list of frequently asked questions on BC Assessment’s website states.

All photos will be taken from the street and identifiers such as signs for businesses, people on the property and views of the inte-rior of the residence will not be included in the photo or will be scrubbed out.

The agency’s assess-ments and its photos are made public.

For more informa-tion on the photo update or to see the full list of FAQs, visit bcassessment.ca.

The van will be marked with BC Assess-ment signs on its sides.

Rocket jump cancelled

The record-setting rocket jump scheduled for Sturgis Canada has been cancelled.

California-based daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes was slated to launch his homemade steel rocket a record-setting 2,000 feet at the Merritt festival site on Aug. 23.

However, a post on Hughes’ Facebook page on July 30 states the Sturgis Canada jump has been cancelled due to a lack of sponsorship and Hughes’ exhaus-tion.

The news comes about a month after Hughes’ steam-powered rocket crash-landed in Arizona.

Hughes and his crew were preparing for a pay-per-view jump on June 28 when the rocket took off from its launch site unexpectedly.

Hughes was not in the rocket at the time.

He is the current world record holder for the longest jump in a manned rocket — 1,374 feet over the Grand Canyon.

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Negotiators for the BC Teachers’ Federa-tion and school districts are meeting Friday for the first time since schools were shuttered by a strike in late June, and Education Minister Peter Fassbender expects new proposals from both sides.

Fassbender said Tues-day it’s the first meeting of full bargaining teams in more than a month, and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Asso-ciation has some “new concepts” to bring to the discussion.

“We’ve already dem-onstrated our willingness to move on some key elements,” he said. “We need to see the same from the BCTF. They’ve indicated they’re willing to do that.”

He wouldn’t com-ment on the new pro-posals, except to reiter-ate that the BCTF’s position on benefits and other compensation is not in the “affordabil-ity zone” established by other public sector union agreements.

If the strike shuts schools again in Sep-tember, the govern-ment plans to use the savings to compensate parents $40 a day for each child under 13 in public school, to assist with daycare or tutoring costs. Fassbender said there would be no con-ditions attached to the payout.

“My hope is that there isn’t a nickel avail-able as of September, because schools are operating, teachers are back in the classroom, students are there and there is no further dis-ruption,” he said.

The B.C. School Trustees’ Association has urged the government to direct its $12 million a day in payroll savings from the strike to a fund to address class size and special needs support.

Trustees have also called on the union to moderate its benefit

demands, which include parental leave, dental benefits, massage thera-py and increased prepa-ration time for elemen-

tary school teachers.BCPSEA has offered

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support, and specified class size limits in the teacher contract to address key issues in a series of court disputes.

New proposals coming in teacher talks

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Education Minister Peter Fassbender. Black Press files

John Graham final-ly found the town he’d settle down in when he came to Merritt over 30 years ago.

“I’ve lived all kinds of places, but I’ve never lived anywhere nearly as long as I’ve been here,” Graham said with a laugh.

“This is my home now,” he said.

Graham, 67, was born in Brandon, Man., but Merritt is the place he’s made a name for himself, working as a local land surveyor for many years.

Now, Graham has decided to retire.

He said there were several reasons he chose to call it quits from the land surveying game, but the main reason was because of the chang-es in land surveying technology.

Graham said given the required upgrades to equipment used in his line of work, the expense and task of learning the new tech-nology wouldn’t have been worth commit-ting to at his age.

Graham said he chose to pursue a career in land survey-ing because he wanted a job that combined mathematics with

being outdoors and active.

“I’ve always been keen on math, and keen on being outside and being physical,” Graham said.

He had worked as a school teacher for five years before he found himself work-ing in a gas plant in Fort Nelson, which is when he had the idea to become a land surveyor. He then went to school for two years and graduated from BCIT with his certificate in surveying technology, he said.

After schooling came the job hunt and Graham, prefer-ring smaller towns, applied for a job opening he found in Merritt, and began working for his pre-decessor, Garry How-arth.

At 35, Graham moved to the Nicola Valley where he would lay roots with his wife

Sheryl and their three children.

“I think it’s just the people you meet and the friends you make,” Graham said in regards to settling in Merritt.

In 1992, he took over his predecessor’s business and began Graham & Associ-ates B.C. and Canada land Surveyors.

However, his “asso-ciates” were the peo-ple who worked for him who weren’t land surveyors, Graham said with a laugh.

“Just sounded bet-ter,” he said.

Now it would appear as though history is repeating itself as Underhill Geometrics ltd. has taken over Graham’s business.

“He was a dedicat-ed, professional land surveyor,” Underhill Geometrics senior partner Ivan royan said of Graham.

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Local land surveyor John Graham has called it a career after decades serving the Nicola Valley. Michael Potestio/Herald


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For readers of this column not familiar with hunting, Limited Entry Hunting (LEH) is a government lottery that hunters can enter to apply for hunting permits to locations where regular hunting is closed. This per-tains mostly to areas that need a selected approach to wildlife management and could not sustain a general open hunting season.

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So what if you didn’t get an LEH permit this year? You’re still lucky. Hunters have many options to choose from here in B.C. and for that we should be thankful.

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MLS # House # STREET PRICEBare Land 122063 3030 HILTON DRIVE $77,500120479 1638 LINDLEY CRK RD $79,000121605 2730 EAGLE CRESCENT $89,000122077 2701 PEREGRINE WAY $99,000115358 2299 BURGESS AVE $134,900123581 6681 MONCK PARK RD $139,000123240 LOT 1 SUNSHINE VALLEY ROAD $139,900104461 2793 SUNSHINE VALLEY RD $149,000116421 LOT 1 MERR SPEN BRG HWY $150,000123310 LOT 3 EIGHT MILE ROAD $155,000120647 8595 HIGHWAY 5A $175,000122172 LOT 3 MIDDAY VALLEY ROAD $195,000122317 6357 MONCK PARK RD $199,000120655 6427 MONCK PARK RD $199,900118598 1101 HIGHWAY 8 $249,000123404 DL840 WOODWARD ROAD $435,000120105 2819 ABERDEEN RD LN $2,000,000Commercial 120800 2075 COUTLEE AVENUE $45,000120799 2087 COUTLEE AVENUE $45,000123515 1949+1951 COUTLEE AVENUE $75,000119261 2175 NICOLA AVENUE $251,000120483 1952-26 NICOLA AVENUE $325,000122016 1898 BLAIR STREET $439,000122729 2076 COUTLEE AVENUE $455,000115359 2208 COYLE ROAD $499,000119521 1988 NICOLA AVENUE $570,000123681 1601 WILSON STREET $675,000120109 1988 NICOLA AVENUE $LEASELogan Lake 121148 347 POPLAR DRIVE $44,000120942 #205-279 ALDER DRIVE $69,700121972 #307-400 OPAL DRIVE $115,000121683 #3 AGATE DR $125,000123152 27 SAPHIRE COURT $139,900123598 433 OPAL DRIVE $140,000123820 2 JASPER DRIVE $164,900122279 244 JASPER DRIVE $179,900123286 23 GARNET AVE $214,500120762 403 OPAL DRIVE $219,000123631 227 BIRCH CRESCENT $234,900123149 371 BASALT DRIVE $249,000123669 155 ASPEN CRESCENT $249,000120416 144 BIRCH CRESCENT $249,900123056 13+15 JASPER DRIVE $255,500121368 136 PONDEROSA WAY $259,000123302 301 CHARTRAND AVE $265,000123969 326 CINNABAR COURT $280,000122058 11 GARNET AVE $298,000120473 4884 PINERIDGE DRIVE $360,000123282 332 LINDEN ROAD $384,500


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Finance Minister Mike de Jong asked for B.C. residents to take all possible precautions and

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Forest fire spending is already approaching totals for the last two years. Highs in the past decade are $382 million in 2009 and $371 mil-lion in 2003, when fires

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“The possibility of the fire season consum-ing a quarter billion tax dollars is real,” de Jong said. “Whilst there is no issue about spending the money, it has to come from somewhere, so that’s a cost item that’s looking like it will be considerably more than what had been hoped for.”

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All about carpal tunnel syndrome

There are many occupations in today’s society that involve repeated pinching movements of the fin-gers and flexing of the wrist. It has been well documented that these repeated movements can cause a painful irritation of the hand and forearm.

When you are flexing your wrist, almost all the muscles involved in this move-ment are controlled by one main nerve. It is called the median nerve and originates from the spinal cord in your neck.

Commonly, prob-lems arise as this nerve passes under the ligament that offers support to your wrist (the transverse carpal ligament). The space through which this nerve passes is very small. Therefore, if your occupation requires you to be continually flexing your wrist, such as cashiers or mechan-ics, the nerve can become “inflamed” or “entrapped” under-neath this ligament.

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People who have this problem will often complain that their hand feels swollen, that it hurts while sleep-ing, or that the sensa-tion in their hand has decreased. To them, it feels like they are wearing a glove.

This problem is known as carpal tun-nel syndrome and is treatable. For those who have the syn-drome, there are non-surgical or preventative approaches that should be attempted by some-one like a chiropractor. If these approaches are not successful, a surgical referral may be required.

If you are expe-riencing any of the symptoms that have just been described, consult your chiroprac-tor.

Most of my clients who suffer from stress and anxiety under-stand that reducing the amount of time they spend worrying would help them immensely.

As they remind me often, knowing what to do and actually doing it are two different things. They will say something like, “Yes Gwen, I know I worry too much, but how do I change that?”

I love it when they

ask me that because it is a challenging question to answer, but it also means that they have tried. That is the first step — being willing to try.

The next step is to begin to learn to tame or control the mind so that you can stop think-ing.

Even if we are plagued with worry thoughts, if we can stop thinking, at least we get a little rest from those thoughts. Worry thoughts are like paths through the field or the woods: the more they are travelled, the more likely they are to be travelled in the future.

If you have things that you absolutely must worry about, then set aside 30 minutes per day just for worry-

ing. A lot of energy can be expended worrying about ‘what-ifs’ that never materialize.

Another helpful strategy is to have a plan for what you would do if the worst case scenario material-ized.

If you have a plan in place for what you will do if you get laid off, your relationship ends, your child gets in trouble or the bills over-

whelm, then you have eliminated the most common part of worry: What will I do if ...?

You can still hope the bad thing does not happen, but at least you can sleep at night once you know that you will still survive, you will implement your plan, and life will go on.

Gwen Randall-Young is an author and award-winning psychotherapist.

(NC) – With summer in full swing, B.C. doctors of optom-etry are warning parents to pay more attention to protecting their children’s eyes from harm-ful UV rays.

Children receive three times the annual dose of UV expo-sure compared to adults, says Sherman Tung, a B.C. optome-trist. While sunburns are visible and can be easily dealt with, internal eye damage can go undetected and put your child’s vision at serious risk.

“If children are not fully protected, this can pose serious risks for their future vision,” says Tung. “Lack of protection can lead to a number of eye condi-tions and diseases down the road, many of which don’t pres-ent symptoms. These include cataracts, macular degeneration and cornea sunburn as well as tissue growths on the surface that can block vision.”

Optometrists recommend the following tips to protect your children’s vision this sum-mer:

• Sunglasses should be the close-fitting, wrap-around style frame that protects both the

skin around the eye and the eye itself. Ensure the glasses block 100 per cent of both UVA and UVB rays.

• Hats should be wide-brimmed to ensure your child’s entire eye is being protected.

• Be conscious of the daily UV index and the many sources of UV radiation, including direct sunlight and reflections from water, sand and pavement.

• Teach your children to never look directly into or stare at the sun.

• Keep children out of direct sunlight between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., when the sun’s rays are strongest.

• Keep children younger than six months out of direct sunlight. Use a canopy or umbrella as a sun-shield when outdoors.

And, even after you incor-porate all of these tips into your children’s summer routine, remember that many eye con-ditions are symptom-free, says Tung. To keep your children’s eyes healthy, optometrists rec-ommend regular comprehensive eye exams beginning at six months of age, again at three years, before entering school, and annually thereafter.

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Detox wins mixed slo-pitch championshipBy Ian Webster

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The local Merritt mixed slo-pitch league wrapped up its season on the weekend with its annual champion-ship tournament at Central Park. A total of 14 teams took part in the two-day compe-tition.

When the dust had settled on a hot, sunny Sunday afternoon, it was the Detox team that emerged on top, taking the ‘A’ division title with a hard-fought 16-14 victory over Scared Hitless in the final game.

Detox was a team on a mission in the championship contest. They got the sticks going early, scoring 11

runs in the first three innings, and then used solid defence and great pitching from Aaron Hourie to hold off a tough opponent that wasn’t going down without a fight.

“We played well — smart ball,” said Detox spokesperson Brandon Colwell.

Favorites going into the weekend tourna-ment — the result of a perfect 16-0 regular season — Detox had to bounce back from three consecutive loss-es in round robin play on Saturday to win it all when it counted the next day.

“It’s funny,” Colwell said. “This team has a history of either playing well on Saturday and collaps-

ing Sunday, or doing it the other way around. It’s happened several times in the 10 years I’ve been with the team.”

Detox got the good times rolling Sunday morning in one of two semi-final games. They defeated KAOS, last year’s champi-ons, 14-11 to punch their ticket into the championship game. Meanwhile Scared Hitless was taking down the Rebels in the ‘A’ division’s other semi-final game.

In the ‘B’ divi-sion final, it was Be Riddled over City Furniture 19-13, while the ‘C’ title went to Stone Cold, who were 16-12 winners over Not Even.

SLO-PITCH CHAMPS The victorious Detox team: (back row, left to right) Corey Prevost, Travis Bobroske, Tristan Couture, Brendan Colter, Dustin Paquette, Aaron Hourie, Brandon Colwell, Rick McLeod, Nick Hogue, Spencer Vaughan, (front row) Angie Cavaliere, Jayden Colwell (on the shoulders), Hailey Nelson, Charlotte Nelson, Lizzie Shuter, Chelsea Vaughan, Alexus Colwell, Jessica Colwell. Missing is Nyana Fiddick. Ian Webster/Herald

Egan and Kempf team up to take MGCC mixed open golf tournamentMERRITT GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB

MIXED OPENGOLF TOURNAMENT

July 27, 2014

Low Net

1. Dana Egan/Mike Kempf 64.00 Merritt

2. Debi/Gord Munt 64.92 West Kelowna

3. Heather/John Nymeyer 65.84 Kamloops

4. Shelley/Al Eng 66.18 Merritt

5. Shelley/Ron Sanders 66.20 Merritt

6. Joan Fraser/Tom Preston 66.54 Merritt

7. Connie/Rick Welch 66.60 Victoria

8. Kathryn/Rick Olsen 66.82 Merritt

9. Jean/Dick Kimber 67.00

10. Lori Clarke/Andy Fletcher 67.02 Merritt

Low Gross

1. Debbie/Glen Kross 69.00 Kelowna

2. Sally-Mae/Bill Houghton 79.00 West Kelowna

TEAMWORK (Above) Mike Kempf and Dana Egan were at the top of their game on the weekend, winning the Merritt Golf & Country Club’s mixed open tournament on Sunday. They topped a field of 32 teams, over half of which were from out-of-town.(Right) Defending champions Glen and Debbie Kross from Kelowna were unable to take the low net crown this time around, but did team up to record the best overall low gross score of 69. The Kross family was once again well represented at the Merritt event as two of their sons also took part in the one-day, 18-hole tournament.

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Sometimes it pays to do things at the last minute.

Merritt’s Dana Egan hadn’t even realized the Merritt Golf and Country Club’s annual mixed tournament was coming up this past weekend until she was out golfing with Brian and Audrey Niehaus on the Sunday prior to the event.

“They asked me if I was going in it, and I said, ‘Oh, I didn’t even know it was this week-end’,” said Egan.

“I went home that night and asked Mike (Kempf) if he was off that day. He said he was, so we entered.”

On Sunday, Egan and Kempf went out and topped a solid field of 32 teams to win the low net event with a combined score of 64.00.

Egan said that she had a good day off the tee and on the fairway, while Kempf was strong with the putter.

The twosome had a good laugh as they

recounted the start of their day.

“On our first hole, we both hit our drives out-of-bounds on the left. Fortunately, things got better after that,” Egan said.

The final results were close. Second place went to Gord and Debi Munt from West Kelowna who were less than a point back at 64.92. In fact, only three full points separated the top 10 teams in the 18-hole competition.

Despite making up less than half of the field, Merritt pairings did extremely well on their home course. No fewer than six local teams finished in the top 10.

Last year’s low net champions, Glen and Debbie Kross from Kelowna, were back to try and defend their title, but had to settle for a score of 66.96. The cou-ple did record the best low gross score of the day, however, shooting a three-under-par 69.

Second low gross went to Bill and Sally-Mae Houghton from West Kelowna with a 79.



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It’s been quite a month of July for a pair of 16-year-old Nicola Valley softball players.

As members of the Clearwater Crushers baseball team, Merritt’s David Colter and Dalton Jury won gold medals at this year’s U16 Provincial championships, and then bronze medals as the Zone 2 representatives at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo.

Colter and Jury were forced to register with the North Thompson Softball Association as Merritt was unable to field a team in their age division.

The provincial title for the Crushers came on the first weekend in July in Clearwater. With Colter and Jury in the lineup, the hometown side upset the heavily-

favoured Richmond Mariners 5-4 in the championship game.

In round robin play, the Crushers went 2-3 in their five games against the Mariners and teams from Prince George and Sooke. In one of two semi-finals, Clearwater downed Prince George 11-6.

The gold medal show-down saw Clearwater build a 5-0 lead by the end of the fourth inning, only to have Richmond roar back with three runs of their own in the fifth, and add one more in the seventh. That’s as close as the Mariners would get, however, thanks to a remarkable game-ending play by Jury. Crushers’ team manager Marie Dee described the final action:

“With the Mariners’ tying run on first and the potential game-winning run at the plate, their

batter hit a high fly ball to centre field — straight at Dalton. He initially caught it, but then it bounced out of his glove. It looked like he was slip-ping and about to fall on his back, but the ball was going with him. As he landed, he hoisted the ball in the air — it was a caught ball. The bat-ter was out, and we won gold! Our whole team rushed out and mobbed

Dalton. What a play!”Later in the month, at

the B.C. Summer Games on Vancouver Island, the under-manned Crushers were in tough against all-star squads from the seven other zones in the province. They lost four of their five round robin games, but managed to squeeze into the medal round thanks to the best plus-minus rating of the three teams tied with 1-4

records.In the battle for the

bronze, the Thompson-Okanagan squad upset their Cariboo–North East opponents 6-5. They had lost 10-6 to the same team in preliminary play. Fraser River-Delta defeated Fraser Valley 7-6 in the gold-medal

game. In other Summer

Games action involving Nicola Valley athletes, Merritt’s Marcelo Bose and Dakota Grismer-Voght helped the Zone 2 boys’ box lacrosse team finish fourth in Nanaimo.

The Thompson-Okanagan side opened

the Games with a 12-0 win over the Kootenays. They lost their next two outings — against Vancouver Island 7-2, and against Fraser Valley 12-0.

In the bronze-medal game, Thompson-Okanagan were edged 9-7 by Vancouver Island.


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The Merritt Centen-nials continue to use the off-season to put more pieces of the puzzle together in their build-up to the 2014-15 BCHL season.

On July 17, it was announced that the hockey team has signed its second goalie of the summer — and a good one, too.

Twenty-year-old vet-eran netminder Jonah Imoo has been acquired from the Powell River Kings for future consid-erations.

A native of Surrey, Imoo has played a total of 82 BCHL regular-season games over three seasons with the Kings, amassing 41 wins, a save-percentage (SV%) of .892 and a goals-against-average (GAA) of 2.82.

In 2012-13, Imoo was the starting goaltender for Team Canada West at the World Junior A Challenge in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

In four WJAC games, he recorded a 2.24 GAA and sparkling .918 SV%, and helped his team win the silver medal. He was chosen the tournament’s all-star goalie.

“To add a goaltender with the type of experi-ence Jonah has was too good an opportunity to pass up,” Cents head coach and GM Luke Pierce said in a press release by the club. “He has proven both in the BCHL and in the World Junior A Challenge that he is capable of playing in high pressure situa-tions.”

Pierce went on to add, “We have a solid track record of goaltend-ing in the past few years and are confident that Jonah can come in and help our team continue that tradition. He will be looked upon to add leadership to our room and embrace his role as a positive representative of this community.”

Imoo, for his part, is looking forward to com-ing to Merritt.

“I’m really excited and keen to get my final year of Junior A hockey going. I’ve heard it’s a great group of guys on the team,” he said. “Playing against Merritt, I know they always have a really hard-working team and are well-coached. They play pretty similar to Powell River.”

Asked to character-

ize his game, Imoo said, “Throughout my career, I’ve always been quite athletic, but in the last three to four years, I think that I’ve found the balance between athleti-

cism and technique. If you only rely on ath-leticism, you’ll only go so far.”

Imoo has quite the goaltending pedigree. He is the son of former

WHL netminder Dusty Imoo, who went on to play overseas in Japan for 10 seasons and repre-sent that country at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano,

and at four World Championships.

While Jonah Imoo was born in Surrey, he spent most of his early childhood in Japan and began his hockey career in that country.

“I was probably on the ice when I was two years old — always hanging around the rink and in my dad’s dressing room,” he said.

“Because my dad was a goalie, I pretty much always wanted to play goal, too. It was tough over there. We were the only team in my age group, and we were pretty awful.”

Jonah’s first year of hockey in Canada was at the atom level.

“I was lucky enough to make the A-1 team, and things just sort of took off from there. I stayed with the same organization (Semiahmoo) right through to midget.”

Imoo played part of one season for the Richmond Sockeyes of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League before being picked up by Powell River in 2012 and playing the next two seasons with the Kings.

Imoo has definite goals and aspirations

heading into his final BCHL campaign.

“Being consistent is my main goal,” he said. “It’s always at the top of the list. I haven’t com-mitted to a school yet for next year, so obviously that’s an important goal, too. I just want to do whatever I can to help my team, and hopefully take us as far as pos-sible.”

Imoo’s signing comes two weeks after the Cents announced that they had committed to 18-year-old rookie goal-tender Anthony Pupplo from Long Island, New York.

The two summer acquisitions necessitated that the Centennials move 19-year-old goalie Jared Schammerhorn who joined the team at the trade deadline last season. The Kelowna native has been traded to the Vernon Vipers for future considerations.

“We had to do it quick, and [Vernon] was interested,” Cents assis-tant coach Joe Martin said. “It wasn’t the ideal situation for Merritt — moving him within the division – but we wanted to get it done for Jared’s sake. He has a future, too.”

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Cents ink another goalie — a former WJAC all-star

CENTS’ NEWEST NETMINDER The Merritt Centennials have acquired former Powell River Kings goalie Jonah Imoo for future considerations. In 2012, Imoo played for Team Canada West (above) at the World Junior A Challenge in Nova Scotia. He led the team to a silver medal and was chosen as the tournament’s all-star netminder. Photo courtesy of Hockey Canada

Merritt ballplayers win gold and bronze at Provincials and B.C. Summer Games

WINNING COMBINATION (Above) Merritt’s David Colter (left) and Dalton Jury were gold medallists at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo. (Right) Their Zone 2 (Thompson-Okanagan) team. Photos submitted and courtesy of Softball BC

GIANT YARD SALEFall Fair building Lindley

Creek Road. Satudays 9 to 3. Sundays 10 to 2. August 9 & 10. Over 80 tables of treasures and more. Donations grate-fully accepted only during yard sales hours above or Sunday 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Info at 250-378-2303 or 250-378-6773

MUSIC IN SPIRIT SQUAREFriday and Saturday 11:30

a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Bring your lunch and listen to the music. August 8 & 9 Fowl Mouth McPhee (Countr y/Folk)

COMMUNITY GARDENSCheck out the Community

Garden and experience a relaxing outdoor yoga adven-ture among the plants. Every Thursday 5:15 - 5:45 pm. A new instructor every week. The gardens are located behind the hospital.

NICOLA VALLEY FARMERS MARKETNicola Valley Farmers

Market 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. every Saturday rain or shine, in the parking lot beside the Baillie House. Come down and enjoy fresh home grown veggies, flowers, baking, arts and crafts made and grown here in our Nicola Valley. A great place to socialize

and enjoy the day. Vendors call Market Manager: Lang Mackenzie 250-939-8605 or Sue 250-378-2031

RISING FROM THE ASHESF ire relief fundraisers

for Earth Walker Spiritual Shop. You can either donate money to the bank account set up at CIBC or drop off your bottle donations to the bottle depot.

SPENCES BRIDGE FARMER MARKET

Spences Bridge Farmers and Flea Market - Sundays

10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Spences Bridge Community Hall on Hwy #8, May to October.Desert Daze Festival is

August 8 and 9. See the website for tickets / volun-teering or vendor requests www.desertdaze.ca.

MERRITT DANCE SOCIETYOngoing pre-registration.

For more information con-tact Selena at 250-378-7266

BAILLIE HOUSE INFORMATION BOOTHBaillie House is making

a cookbook, and we need your help! Send in a recipe with a story why it’s spe-cial and we’ll print it in our cookbook. Thank you for your help.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDThe Navy League is in need

of officer’s and volunteers to help out with our growing Cadet Corps.

Our children are age 9 to 13 and we meet every Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you have past experience or are inter-ested in becoming a part of our Corps please contact us. Ellen 250-280-6944, Debra 250-280-4086 or email at [email protected]

KNITwITSLove to knit or crochet? Or

are you a novice interest-ed in learning more about knitting or crocheting in a friendly and welcoming setting? Come on down to Brambles Bakery Thursday evenings. Bring your yarn and needles and join in the fun.

COURTHOUSE ARTGALLERYThe Valley Visual Arts (VVA)

will be holding a weekly cre-ative art session, in the art-ists room at the Art Gallery, every Thursday between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Everyone welcome to stop in and see

their work.

MARVELLOUS MUTTSMar vel lous Mutts &

Rehoming Merritt Branch, are always looking for fos-ter families. If you would like to help by fostering a fur-kid, until they find a fur-ever home, please contact Margie at [email protected].

NV REMOTE CONTROL FLYERWe are starting a new club

in town for flying model aircraft. We fly at various locations around town. New members welcome. For more info, call Jack 250-378-4371.

MERRITT SENIOR CENTREWeekly schedule is as fol-

lows: Monday: Crib & Whist 7 p.m. Tuesday: Bingo 1 p.m., Duplicate Bridge 7 p.m. Wednesday: Carpet Bowling 1:30 p.m., Court Whist 7 p.m. Thursday: Floor

Curling 1 p.m. (third week - shut-in lucheon) Friday: Rummoli & Games 7 p.m.All seniors welcome.

TRINITY UNITED CHURCH1899 Quilchena Ave.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Sundays - for children ages 4 to 8 years. Children learn of God’s love through stor-ies, music, crafts and fun. More information: Gail 250-378-9706

Phone 250-378-4241 with any events that you may be hosting or email: [email protected]

Archery PracticeTuesday 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Gun RangeContact BJ Moore for more info250-280-0304BrowniesMondays 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Central School - 250-315-7410CMHA - Merritt ClubhouseFireside Center - 2026 Granite Ave.Wed/Fri 9 am - 2:30 pmShirley 250-378-5660Central School PacFirst Tuesday 7 p.m. Lunchroom - 250-378-4892Community ChoirMondays 7 p.m. - Fall to SpringCollettville Elementary - 250-378-9899Court Whist - Fun GameWednesdays 7 p.m.at the Seniors Centre 250-378-2776Crossroads Youth Min. Tuesdays 7 - 9 p.m. Crossroads Community Church - 250-378-2911Drop-In SoccerTuesdays & Thursdays: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.Girls & Boys 16+ welcome 250-378-2530Drop-In VolleyballMondays 7 - 9 p.m. CMS. 250-378-6212.Girl GuidesWednesdays 5:30 -7:00 p.m. Central School - 250-936-8298Ladies’ Curling LeagueWednesdays 6 & 8 p.m.Call 250-378- 8175 or 250-378-4917Living With Loss Support GroupNo meeting in June, July, & August. Support still available. Call Marilyn

at 250-378-3513Merritt Curling ClubFor League Information 250-378-4423Merritt Duplicate Bridge ClubTuesdays 7 p.m. Seniors’ Centre 250-378-5550 Merritt Elks Lodge ClubsSecond & Fourth Wednesday 8 p.m. Elks Hall 250-378-9788 Merritt Lawn BowlingSun., Tues., & Thurs. at 7 p.m.2050 Merritt Ave. 250-378-2095Merritt Moms PrenatalPost Natal Support group. Monday - Friday - 8:30 a.m. 250-378-2252Merritt Mountain Biking Assoc. Wednesdays 6 p.m. - rideE: [email protected]: #merrittbikingNavy League Cadets of CanadaWednesdays 6 - 9 p.m. Cadet Hall - Ages 9-13 welcome 250-280-6944Merritt Snowmobile ClubSecond Tuesday 7 p.m.Civic Centre 250-315-1082 Merritt’s Women in BusinessSecond Wednesday 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Merritt Desert Inn 250-315-5851 Nicola Naturalist SocietyThird Thursday - 7:00 p.m.NVIT. www.nicolanaturalists.caN.V. 4-H ClubSecond Tuesday - 6:30 p.m.Central School - 250-378-5028Nicola Valley Better BreathersThird Wednesdays 1 p.m.Trinity United - 250-378-6266 N.V. Community Band Tuesdays 7 p.m - MSS Music

Room 250-378-5031 or 250-378-9894NVCACMeets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm at The Art Gallery. 250-378-6515 www.nvartscouncil.comN.V. Dirt Riders AssociationLast Wednesday 7 p.m. Garden Sushi - Scott: 250-378-3502 N.V. Fall Fair Third Monday 7 p.m.2145 Quilchena Ave. 250-378-5925 N.V. Fish & Game (except July and Aug.)Third Wednesday 7 p.m.2236 Jackson Ave. 250-378-4572 or 250-378-4904 N.V. Heritage Society Last Wednesday - Baillie House250-378-0349N.V. Quilters GuildFirst & Third Thursdays Civic Centre 7 p.m. 250-378-4172N.V. Search & RescueSecond Monday 7 p.m. at the airport - 250-378-6769 N.V. Thrift StoreFirst Tuesday - NVGH basement 250-378-9100N.V. Women’s Institute Second Wednesday - 1:30 p.m. For locations, 250-378-2536 PathfindersMondays 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Central School - 250-936-8298Patricia Rebekah LodgeSecond & Fourth Mondays at 7 p.m. Lawn Bowling Club Rocky Mnt. Rangers CadetsTuesdays 6 p.m. 250-378-1302 or 250-572-3775Royal Canadian Legion #96

Executive Mtg. Second Thursday 6 p.m. - Regular Mtg. Fourth Thursday 7 p.m. 1940 Quilchena - 250-378-5631Royal PurpleFirst & Third Mondays 1:00 p.m. - Downstairs @ Elks Hall 250-378-6788Rotary Club of MerrittEvery Thursday - NoonBrambles Bakery Cafe. 250-378-5535Sagebrush Spinners and Weav-ers GuildTamarack Gardens every other Thursday at 11:00 AM Bev at 250-378-2787. Rotary Club of Merritt - SunriseEvery Tuesday - 7 a.m. Brambles Bakery Seniors’ Mixed CurlingMondays & Tuesdays 1 - 3 p.m. 250-378-5539Soup BowlTuesdays 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Anglican Church HallSparks Mondays 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Central School - 250-315-7410Teen Centre / FiresideThursday & Friday 3:30-7:30 p.m. 250-378-5660Valley Scrapbooking250-936-8298Valley Visual Artists General club informationFran McMurchy - 250-378-4230Vintage Car Club - MerrittSecond Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.Anglican Church HallAl 378-7402 Jack 378-2662 Ska-Lu-La WorkshopAl - 250-378-7402 Ted - 250-378-4195

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THE CHURCHES OFMERRITT WELCOME YOU

Crossroads Community Church

Merritt Baptist Church 2499 Coutlee Ave. (Corner of Coutlee and Orme)

Merritt Lutheran Fellowship

Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Mass Time: Sundays 9:00 a.m.

Seventh Day Adventist Church

St. Michael’s Anglican Church

Trinity United Church

7 Day Weather Forecast for Merritt, BC - Thursday, March 14 - Wednesday, March 20, 2013

• STAIN GLASS• SUN CATCHERS• NIGHT LIGHTS• PICTURE FRAMES

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Monday - Saturday Ph: 250-378-0813

Stain Glass by Almerina RizzardoThurs. Mar. 14

Cloudy w/ShowersHigh: 9CLow: 6C

Fri. Mar. 15

Cloudy PeriodsHigh: 10CLow: 4C

Sat. Mar. 16

Variable CloudsHigh: 8CLow: 4C

Sun. Mar. 17

Wet SnowHigh: 6CLow: 2C

Mon. Mar. 18

Variable CloudsHigh: 6CLow: 0C

Tue. Mar. 19

SnowRain ShowersHigh: 7CLow: -1C

Wed. Mar. 20

Light SnowHigh: 7CLow: 0C

7 Day Weather Forecast for Merritt, BC - Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 - Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014

Thurs. Aug. 7

Cloudy PeriodsHigh: 28˚CLow: 14˚C

Fri. Aug. 8

Isolated ShowersHigh: 27˚CLow: 13˚C

Sat. Aug. 9

SunnyHigh: 28˚CLow: 11˚C

Sun. Aug. 10

SunnyHigh: 32˚CLow: 13˚C

Mon. Aug. 11

Isolated ShowersHigh: 32˚CLow: 15˚C

Tue. Aug. 12

Mainly Sunny

High: 29˚CLow: 16˚C

Wed. Aug. 13

Cloudy PeriodsHigh: 28˚CLow: 17˚C

help us reach our goal

Would you like to see a movie theatre in Merritt, then the Merritt Community Cinema Soceity can use your help!

If you would like to help donate to this wonderful cause please make cheque payable to Merritt Community Cinema Society and mail it to:

1952 Eastwood Ave., Merritt, BC V1K 1K3

For more information

call Rich Hodson250-378-6794

phase 2has started.

goal to reach $155,000 for

design & architect fees


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MERRITT & DISTRICT HOSPICESOCIETY

Mourners need brave souls who dare to hold them, touch them and to stay rather than leave

when the tears begin to flow.

Bill Jones

William John (Bill) Jones passed away suddenly on the Coquihalla Highway, between Merritt and Kelowna on Friday afternoon, July 25, 2014 at the age of 75 years.

Born in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan on February 14, 1939. Bill lived a full and active life, gaining great respect in the Province for his work ethic in the Construction Industry. Bill started running big equipment at the age of 15, he was a member of the Operating Engineer Local 115 since 1963, having worked on Mica Dam, Revelstoke Dam, Coquihalla, Fort Nelson, and everywhere between. He was a great operator, as well a good Foreman, believed in being fair with the men, who all where friends.

In his younger years Bill was an avid water skier, Downhill snow skier, curler, and faithful with his boys on the waters of Mara Lake and Shuswap Lake. Driving and mileage was a passion, trips to Arizona, Alaska, Florida, the Coastal area of our large Province could be done with no warning or hesitation.

He leaves his two sons, Keith (Vivienne) and Kyle, grandchildren, Kayleen (21), Rayanne(15) and Janelle (10) and a host of friends.

Cremation with a family graveside service will be held in the family plot at Solsqua Cemetery, Sicamous, BC.

On line email condolences may be sent to Bill’s obituary at www.bowersfuneralservice.com

Arrangements are in the care of Bowers Funeral Home and Crematorium, Salmon Arm.

Wm. Claude BooneBorn Mar. 28, 1936 Claude went to be with Jesus on Aug.

4, 2014. His birthplace was Edmonton Alberta. During his time at the University of Alberta he received his military training since he was a student of engineering.

After marrying Norma Holmes they moved to Merritt, B.C. joining his father and together they established the company of CW Boone & Son. Many years later when his father retired other partners came into the business and the name was changed to Copper Valley Mechanical Contractors. After over 33 years in the trades and in business he transitioned to the local school district and was responsible for mechanical upkeep of all the schools in district #58.Two children were born to him: Quentin and Naomi. His life was wrapped up in serving God through Crossroads Community Church and raising the children. Family were his top priority after his commitments to God through the local church. He was a great planner and worked on organizing and seeing to conclusion every building improvement including the building of two churches until a short time ago when his health would not permit him to any longer. He was a heritage builder.

He was a board member of CCC for over 40 years, taught Sunday school, hosted and taught home groups for the strengthening of people.

Claude enjoyed camping, especially shing, water skiing, and having the family gatherings especially outdoors. He was an avid reader.

His community involvements were: board member of the Credit Union, Executive of the Figure Skating Club and many others involving the general education of his children and many of their friends and associates.

When we were privileged to have grandchildren his devotion to them was the same. He loved them and was so proud of their progress and achievements. He helped them in achieving their goals by a positive `yes you can do it`, word of encouragement and prayed always for the whole family.

Left to mourn his loss are: wife Norma and her sisters May and Bea and brother Earl, sister Clara Norgaard, nieces and nephews, children Quentin (Debra), Naomi (Bob), grandchildren: Charis (Dave), Carter (Sam), Aaron (Melissa), Brittaney (Kris). Great grandchildren are: Issac, Dallas, and Zephaniah. The child that is to be born to Aaron and Melissa in Oct will be the fourth great grandchild.

Psalm 139:16 ``All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.``

A service will be held at Crossroads Church on Friday August 8th at 2:00 pm.

I am proud to announce the graduation of Elyse Norgaard, with a Master's of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Victoria, June 2014, with special recognition as the recipient of both the MBA Specialization Excellence Award (Entrepreneurship), and MBA Outstanding Final

Project Award (thesis).

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MENTORING COORDINATORWe are seeking a dynamic Mentoring Coordinator, who will promote and facilitate our youth mentoring programs in Merritt. This is a part-time position with a starting wage of $17.50 hourly and a typical work week of 20 hours.

The successful candidate will ideally have a post-secondary diploma or degree in the Human Services eld, and have a proven track record with coordinating social services or youth programs.

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Ian Gerbrandt, Executive DirectorBig Brothers Big Sisters of Kamloops & Region821 Seymour StreetKamloops BC V2C 2H6.Email: [email protected]: 250-374-4930

Help Wanted

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If you are interested please drop your resume off in person to Theresa at 2090 Granite Ave., Merritt, BC. Our e-mail: [email protected] phone calls please.

Interior Savings is the largest credit union based in the interior of B.C. We deliver exceptional financial services and products to over 82,000 members in 14 communities through 21 branches, two Commercial Lending Centres and associated companies. We are seeking solution-focused people to help us deliver our vision – to be the best in the communities we serve. As a valued team member, you will experience a diverse, exciting and rewarding workplace and a great place to build a career.

Full Time Account Manager - Merritt As an Account Manager with Interior Savings you are a key contributor to the financial success of our company. You actively grow the business and lead initiatives such as campaigns; seminars and networking with external centers of influence. Through a comprehensive advisory experience, you increase members’ financial confidence by helping them achieve their financial goals. You provide the appropriate advisory service and make the necessary referrals to ensure the members’ needs are met. You are responsible for creating and executing business plans that grow your book of business. You are results oriented and are responsible for meeting and/or exceeding the specific individual portfolio growth targets while contributing to the success of Interior Savings as a whole. You are entrepreneurial in spirit and implement retention strategies with value added activities. You proactively network with a diverse range of members focusing on developing and acquiring those with a high investment complexity as influenced by market locations. Closing Date: August 17, 2014 Education/Experience

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Must possess a Mutual Funds License. Mentoring skills – ability to act as a strong mentor and role model.

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The Coldwater Indian Band has an up and coming exciting and challenging opportunity for a full time Finance Coordinator position. This individual reports to the Coldwater Indian Band Administrator. The Finance Coordinator is responsible for assisting in the overall management and reporting of the nancial affairs of the Coldwater Indian Band, managing the day-to-day accounting affairs, and assisting in the development and administration of accounting policies and procedures.

Specic Duties and ResponsibilitiesFollows Band Policies, standards and procedures • and as directed by Band AdministratorMaintains Condentiality on all matters to the • affairs of the Coldwater Indian BandHuman Resource Management• Financial Management• Financial Accounting System• Audit• Reporting• General Administration•

Education/QualicationsPrefer Post Secondary Degree in relevant • eld such as Business Administration, Financial Administration, or equivalent combination of education and experience working for a First Nations organization or working towards an accounting designationOr six to eight (6-8)years related experience with • two (2) years at a management or supervisory levelExperience in all related areas of Accounting • (A/P, A/R, payroll, nancial management, budgeting, nancial reporting)Prefer experience with First Nations Organizations• Extensive working knowledge of fund accounting• Drivers License and own transportation• Bondable•

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Aspen Planers is seeking a full-time Receptionist /Accounts Payable Clerk. We are looking for a self-motivated individual who works well in a team environment. They must have good customer service skills, be proficient in Excel and Microsoft Word.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:Use of a GPS (or iPad) to collect data through • tracking mode, and pictures. Reading maps is essential as well as taking detailed eld notes according to BC Archaeology RISC standards.Assessment of impacts on environment, including • Cultural and Archaeological values.Participate in wildlife and plant species studies, • knowledge of local fauna and plants, Species at Risk.

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ROOFING

at HACK Electric

Safe, Secure, Easy Access, 8’ to 40’ Shipping Containers

SUITABLE FOR:

• Cars • Boats • ATV’s • Snowmobiles,

• Household Goods

• Monthly & Yearly Rates

• Business or

personal fi les & More.....

2865C Pooley Ave., Merritt, B.C. 378-5580

SELF STORAGE UNITS

Full-time Watchman on site

Starting @ $45./month

with HST

STORAGE

DENTIST

Call 250-378-4888 to book your appointment.2731 Forksdale Avenue, V1K 1R9

www.dentistryatmerritt.ca

NEW PATIENTS & WALK-INS WELCOMEATTTTIIIIIIEEEEEENNNNNTTTTTTSSSSSSS &&&&&& WWWWWWAAAAAALLLLLKKKKK IIIIIINNNNNSSSSSS WWWWWFREE CONSULTATIONS

HOURSTuesday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Friday and Saturday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

2 FULL TIME DENTISTS & ORTHODONTIST ON SITE

Dr. Sunil Malhotra Dr. Jaspal Sarao

Kitchen/Bathroom• Tiling• Window/Siding • Installation

Patio/Deck• Moving Local & • Long Distance

250-315-8257DAT Construction

CONSTRUCTION


250-378-6622Location: 2865C Pooley Ave (Hack Electric) www.thewinepressmerritt.com

Quality products, friendly service!

FOR THE ULTIMATE WINE EXPERIENCE, VISIT THE WINE PRESS

Member of the RJS Craft Wine Making Academy

WINE MAKING

Nicola Plumbing & HeatingFully Quali ed Tradesmen in..

Plumbing, Heating, Bonded Gas Fitters.Service Work & Furnace Service.

Custom Sheet MetalAtlas RV Parts & Repairs

PHONE: 250-378-4943 2064 Coutlee Ave., Merritt, BC

PLUMBING & HEATING

Learn to Play Piano

Brenda’s Piano Studio

Phone 250.315.0340 for details

All Ages WelcomePIANO TEACHER

IVAN’S SIDINGSALES & SERVICE

• Vinyl & Hardie Board Siding• Aluminum Soffit, Fascia & EAVESTROUGHS

“When others have come and gone, Ivan’s Siding is still

going strong”

SERVING THENICOLA VALLEYFOR 40 YEARS!

CALL: (250) 378-2786

SIDING

www.tbmcleaningandrestoration.comTF: 1-877-612-0909

CARPET CLEANING

250-378-9410CLEANING SERVICES

MORTGAGE BROKER

YOUR LOCAL MORTGAGE BROKER

Use the equity in your home to

consolidate debt, top up RRSPs,

or tackle renovations

thethemortgagemortgage

Call Harry Howard (250) 490-6731

JIM POTTER

MERRITT TREE SERVICE• Fully insured, certi ed faller• WSBC covered• Dangerous tree assessment

E SERVVVVVVVVVVIIIIICCE

CALL JIM at 250-378-4212Solutions for your tree problems!

Schedule your FREE Estimate

TREE SERVICE

inc.

CALL 250-315-5074

Let us help you get ready for SPRING!

REASONABLE RATES, while using customers

time effi ciently

• Irrigation Activation• Spring Yard Clean-Up• Aerating • Thatching• Seeding • Fertilization• Turf Installation• Retaining Walls• Parking Lot Sweeping

CONTRACTING

Office Hours:Monday - Friday8 AM - 4:30 PM

SERVING ALL CITIZENS OF MERRITT AND SURROUNDING AREAS

CALL TODAY 250-378-5877

SERVING ALL CITIZENS OF MERRITT AND

New patients always welcome!

1999 Voght Street (next to the Credit Union)PO Box 3090, Merritt, BC V1K 1B8

Call Today to Book Your Appointment.Ph: 250-378-5877

STOYOMA DENTAL CLINICDENTIST

TRI-PEAKS AUTO REPAIR

Kevin MarkicLicensed Technician

2865A Pooley Ave Phone: 250-378-2272

Merritt, BC V1K 1C2 Fax: 250-378-2273

[email protected]

Cassie MarkicOffice Manager

AUTOMOTIVE


123 456 789

MAIN LOCATION& CLEARANCE

CENTRE

Hours:Monday to Friday

9 am - 6:00 pmSaturday: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Sundays: Closed

2025 Coutlee Ave., Merritt Phone: 250-378-2332

!!!

CAVENDISHPOCKET COIL HI-LOFT PILLOW-TOP

ROMEWORLD CLASS HI-LOFTPILLOWTOP

Ultra Luxury Posturepedic Euro Top

Finally a mattress that was built, layer-by-layer, with the highest levels of support and comfort in mind. GelTouch Layer provide pressure relief and additional sup-port for a cool, comfortable sleep.KING SIZE ALSO AVAILABLE ON SALE

Everflex edge support744 high loft vinyl contour pocket coilsThick layers of ever-plush high density soy based foam

TruTemp Gel for temperature regulation. This mattress is for those who are ser-ious about the quality of their sleep and take ultimate to the extreme.

unbelievable mattress with the DSS coil support system. Other features in-clude breath-ability and airflow with Gel

-ance and contouring with Smart Latex.KING SIZE ALSO AVAILABLE ON SALE

MATTRESSBLOWOUTBLOWOUTBLOWOUT

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