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Nicola Valley’s News Voice Since 1905 MERRITT HERALD merrittherald.com bcclassified.com THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS Railyard Mall (1700 Garcia St.) HOURS: 8am ‘til 9pm, 7 days a week 3 PM - 8 PM Everyday MEAL DEALS $ 15 99 ONLY +GST YOU’LL RECEIVE 1/2 BBQ Chicken Full Rack Sweet Mesquite Pork Ribs Your choice of Family Size Salad FREE 250-378-4166 [email protected] For all your landscaping needs call the professionals at Normal Normal DRY DRY DRY DRY DRY DRY Extremely Extremely Very Very Drought Level Drought Level LEVEL THREE DROUGHT TRIGGERS ADDITIONAL WATER RESTRICTIONS The City of Merritt is immediately implementing expanded watering restric- tions. Coun. Ginny Prowal made a motion at Tuesday’s council meeting to eliminate one day of watering for even and odd numbered houses, which was unanimous- ly approved. From now until September 30, water- ing will not be permitted on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Time restrictions remain unchanged, as does the prohibition of watering on Sunday. Watering for even addresses is only permitted on Mondays and Fridays from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and in the evening from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. Odd addresses are allowed to water on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and in the evening from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. These restrictions include the use of soaker hoses. Automatic sprinklers are permitted to be used between midnight and 4 a.m. on watering days. Previously, even numbered addresses were allowed to water on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while odd addresses could water Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The City of Merritt will also be doing its part by not watering its parks and cem- etery on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The expanded water restrictions were brought into effect as a response to a Level 3 drought warning currently in place in many parts of the Southern Interior. The city will incur a $50 fine for any- one found violating the restrictions. Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD The new restrictions, which will last until September 30, will not allow watering on Wednesdays and Thursdays. David Dyck/Herald SLOAN COMES 18th / Page 17 Merritt’s own Roger Sloan hits it big at John Deere Classic Merritt’s i i i i t b b b b b b b b b b b b b i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a t J FIRST OF HER KIND Meet Merritt’s first ever nurse practitioner / Page 3 Health care has been a hot topic in Merritt as of late. Both the Interior Health Authority (IHA) and the official opposition BC New Democrat Party are recognizing a change in doctor recruitment and retention. “Its an area where the game has been changing a lot for some time now,” IHA executive medical director for the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap region Dr. Malcolm Ogborn said. On July 2, Ogborn and other representa- tives from the health authority, spoke with city council to answer any health concerns they had. One of those was doctor recruitment. Ogborne said one of the challenges in this regard is that physicians themselves have changed. Going back 40 years, he said his colleagues might work in up to three communities dur- ing their career. “They would go somewhere that would set themselves up,” Ogborn said. “What we see now is a lot of physicians graduating [and] the one to three jobs that my contemporaries would do in a career, [now] they would do in five years.” The changing face of health care Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD With a shortage of doctors around the province, questions around how to attract doctors — particularly to rural locations — is becoming increasingly important See ‘Adapting’ Page 5
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LEVEL THREE DROUGHT TRIGGERS ADDITIONAL WATER RESTRICTIONS
The City of Merritt is immediately implementing expanded watering restric-tions.
Coun. Ginny Prowal made a motion at Tuesday’s council meeting to eliminate one day of watering for even and odd numbered houses, which was unanimous-ly approved.
From now until September 30, water-ing will not be permitted on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Time restrictions remain unchanged,
as does the prohibition of watering on Sunday.
Watering for even addresses is only permitted on Mondays and Fridays from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and in the evening from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.
Odd addresses are allowed to water on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and in the evening from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.
These restrictions include the use of soaker hoses.
Automatic sprinklers are permitted to be used between midnight and 4 a.m. on watering days.
Previously, even numbered addresses were allowed to water on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while odd addresses could water Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The City of Merritt will also be doing its part by not watering its parks and cem-etery on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The expanded water restrictions were brought into effect as a response to a Level 3 drought warning currently in place in many parts of the Southern Interior.
The city will incur a $50 fine for any-one found violating the restrictions.
Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
The new restrictions, which will last until September 30, will not allow watering on Wednesdays and Thursdays. David Dyck/Herald
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FIRST OF HER KINDMeet Merritt’s fi rst ever nurse practitioner
/ Page 3
Health care has been a hot topic in Merritt as of late.
Both the Interior Health Authority (IHA) and the official opposition BC New Democrat Party are recognizing a change in doctor recruitment and retention.
“Its an area where the game has been changing a lot for some time now,” IHA executive medical director for the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap region Dr. Malcolm Ogborn said.
On July 2, Ogborn and other representa-tives from the health authority, spoke with city council to answer any health concerns they had. One of those was doctor recruitment.
Ogborne said one of the challenges in this regard is that physicians themselves have changed.
Going back 40 years, he said his colleagues might work in up to three communities dur-ing their career.
“They would go somewhere that would set themselves up,” Ogborn said.
“What we see now is a lot of physicians graduating [and] the one to three jobs that my contemporaries would do in a career, [now] they would do in five years.”
The changing face of health care
Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
With a shortage of doctors around the province, questions around how to attract doctors — particularly to rural locations — is becoming increasingly important
See ‘Adapting’ Page 5
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DRIVE BY A vintage Chevrolet, Ford muscle car and old-time motor bike make the rounds for the Vintage Car Club’s appreciation day on Saturday (July 11). About 13 classic vehicles paraded through the downtown core before parking at Lions Park for a picnic. Michael Potestio/Herald
Province considering stronger penalties for human-caused fi res
The B.C. government will consider getting creative with imposing penalties for human-caused wildfires, Steve Thomson, minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations announced Tuesday, July 14.
The review will be conducted by Thomson’s Parliamentary secretary and Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Mike Morris.
Some ideas he will explore are banning those who break fire bans from provincial parks, and larg-er fines or the possible impounding the vehicles of those who flick lit cigarette butts out their windows.
“Natural wildfires are difficult enough to deal with, and we must be clear that human caused wildfires will not be tolerated,” said Morris. “As a former law enforcement officer I’ve got some expe-rience in this regard, and I look forward to taking on this review.”
Since April, 375 fires covering 44,000 hectares were cause by humans — that’s a third of this year’s nearly 1,100 wildfires.
“Every human caused wildfire is preventable and unnecessarily ties up our crews and resources that could be otherwise deployed on naturally occurring wildfires,” said Thomson.
“While we can’t determine how many are specif-ically human caused fires caused fires caused by the careless use of cigarettes, we know it’s significant.”
Any potential changes are not expected to be implemented in time for this fire season.
As of Tuesday, the province has spent over $116 million combating wildfires for the 2015 season.
This season has seen double the number of fires the centre had dealt with at the same time last year.
“We’re heading into what is typically the driest time of the year,” said Thomson. “The government is appealing to everyone to be careful out there and use common sense.”
David DyckTHE MERRITT HERALD
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Drivers can expect delays along Houston Street this week as the City of Merritt
is having the section of the road between Nicola Avenue and Priest Avenue repaved.The project is taking place between July 13 and 18, and alternating lanes
of traffic will be allowed through.Public works depart-ment superintendent Darrell
Finnigan said the reason the work is being done is because the ashphalt is beginning to rut. Before that impacts the base of the road beneath, the city is replacing it.
A thunderstorm that tracked through the
Kamloops Fire Centre Friday resulted in
18 new lightning-caused wildfires across the
region.By the time weekend was up, 12 more wild-
fires sparked totalling 30 new fires burning in
the Kamloops Fire Centre (KFC), and all but
two of them were lightning caused.There are currently 50 active fires in the
KFC.The BC Wildfire Service anticipates more
fires will be discovered from recent thunder-
storms, and is asking for the public to report
any wildfires by calling *5555 on your cellular
phone or toll-free at 1-800-663-5555.Thunderstorms with varying amounts of
rain are in the forecast for the next few days,
but a return to warm and dry conditions is
expected. Most of the 30 new fires were under a hect-
are in size.The largest one sparked in the Merritt Fire
Zone about 20 kilometres south of Princeton
off the Smith Creek Forest Service Road and
is still active.The fire grew to 24 hectares in size and
13 firefighters responded to it. Airtankers
attempted to action the fire but were unable
to as a result of poor weather. It remains the
same size as of the Herald’s press deadline on
Monday.The other lightning-caused fires include a
7.2 hectare fire near Hat Creek Ranch, north
of Cache Creek a five hectare wildfire burning
near Chuwanten Mountain, east of Manning
Park, which are now in mop up stages.The Kamloops Fire Centre has responded
to 221 wildfires burning a total of 3,614 hect-
ares since April 1. Of these incidents, 84 were
human caused, making up about 40 per cent
of the wildfires seen this year.The fire danger rating is still “moderate to
high” across most of the fire centre.
Weekend storm sparks new wildfi res
Delays on Houston due to repaving this week
Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
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POWER POLE COLLISION LEADS TO GRASS FIRE, POWER OUTAGE
Vehicle found unoccupied at the scene, and the RCMP is investigating. Michael Potestio reports.Submitted photo
See ‘Second fire found’ Page 5
Firefighters had to stand by and watch a
grass fire burn for more than an hour Saturday
morning as they waited for BC Hydro to de-
energize downed power lines.At about 5 a.m. that morning, firefighters
from both the Merritt Fire Rescue Department
(MFRD) and Ministry of Forests responded to
a call of a grass fire about 5 kilometres south of
Merritt off of Coldwater Road.MFRD Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson told
the Herald that a pickup truck left the road and
sheered off an electrical pole, causing a fire in
the surrounding grasses.
Vehicle found unoccupied at the scene, and the RCMP is investigating.
A thunderstorm that tracked through the Kamloops Fire Centre Friday resulted in 18 new lightning-caused wildfires across the region.
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MERRITT’S FIRSTNURSENURSEPRACTITIONERPRACTITIONER
She’s part of a new trend in the province, and one-of-a-kind here in Merritt.
Julia Walker has set up shop as Merritt’s first nurse practitio-ner and has just started seeing patients.
As a nurse practitioner, Walker is qualified to do most of what a family doctor does.
She maintains her own prac-tice and patients, makes diagno-ses, orders lab tests, refers patients to specialists, admits them to hos-pital and prescribes medication.
A family doctor still has a broader scope of practice, but a nurse practitioner also works with doctors, Walker said.
“If somebody comes in and I have a question about something that I’m not familiar with, then I can call one of the doctors in town and we can manage the patient together or that doctor could assume responsibility of the patient,” Walker said.
Nurse practitioners are reg-istered nurses with additional education at the masters degree level who provide primary care, chronic disease care, disease pre-vention and health promotion.
“The role of the nurse prac-titioner was implemented here [in Merritt] to basically try to see patients that don’t already have a family physician,” Walker said.
Although working out of the Conayt Friendship Society build-ing in downtown Merritt, Walker is an Interior Health Authority (IHA) employee, and is available to all Merrittonians.
Nurse practitioners are a means to improve health services by mitigating the shortage of pri-mary health care providers, espe-cially in rural places, Walker said.
She said her focus is on provid-ing care to low income and mar-ginalized individuals.
Walker also plans to bring health services to people who live outside of Merritt on reserves.
Having Walker in place should take some of the stress off the Nicola Valley Hospital’s emergen-cy room, as Walker can address essentially all health concerns that are not emergencies.
Walker handles patients with issues such as cold and flu-like symptoms, urinary tract infec-tions, and chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma
and depression — to name a few.She also provides education
on pre-natal care, and can assist people with weight loss or quitting smoking.
On a given day, Walker will see about 15 patients.
Even if Walker can’t treat the health issue, she has the abil-ity and resources to help people access the appropriate sources.
Originally from Prince George, Walker completed her school-ing to become a registered nurse at the University of Northern BC (UNBC) in 2007 and began working in Victoria and Prince George.
She then decided to go back to school and complete a masters of nursing in the nurse practitioner program at UNBC, graduating this year.
Walker said she decided to go back to school and become a nurse practitioner to better serve people.
Nurse practitioners require six years of school to earn their degrees.
No nurse practitioner has ever served this community, but this type of work is also relatively new
in B.C.Nurse practitioners were only
licensed starting in 2005, and at the moment B.C. has 341 nurse practitioners that have been regis-tered by the College of Registered Nurses of B.C. There are 40 working across the IHA.
The B.C. government announced nearly $15 million in funding for 135 new nurse practi-tioner jobs back in 2012 over the next three years, but so far only 121 of those positions have been filled through that funding.
Walker was one of the nurse practitioners hired thanks to this funding.
Walker, who currently lives in West Kelowna, works in Merritt Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
She invites residents to visit her with any questions or concerns, even if they don’t have a specific medical issue.
“My goal is to be more involved in the community, so that people feel comfortable coming to me and talking to me about things or asking for things,” Walker said.
She can be contacted at 250-378-5107.
Michael Potestio/Herald
One of 341 nurse practitioners across the province, and only 40 in IHA, Julia Walker is set up and taking patients here in Merritt.Story by Michael Potestio.
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Next council meeting: Tuesday, July 28, 2015Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca
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2014 ANNUAL REPORTCity Council will be considering its 2014 Annual Report at its next meeting on July 28, 2015. A copy of the 2014 Annual Report is available on the City’s website www.merritt.ca where it can be viewed. Any questions regarding the Annual Report may be directed to the City’s Financial Services Manager at (250) 378-8612.
Mosquito Control Program Progress Report - July 2015
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Please find the fol-lowing mid-season mosquito control pro-gram progress report and summary of oper-ations completed since program operations began 16 April 2015.
Overall local weather conditions for late spring and early
summer 2015 could be summarized as “warmer and drier” than average.
Total precipita-tion for the three months of April to June is 90.2mm, is slightly above the normal 75.6mm for this period, although over 55 per cent of all precipitation received during this period was recorded as +50mm of rainfall that fell from May 23 to 24.
Temperatures dur-ing May and June 2015 however, have been far above aver-age with record or
near record setting daily high temperature observed on several days during June.
The monthly daily mean temperature for May was 2.3 degrees Celcius above average, and for June it was 4.4 degrees above average.
The biggest change this season, as com-pared to past years, was the minimal amounts of winter snowfall and snowpack accumulations record-ed in local mountains.
With the absence of snowmelt runoff no aerial applications were required this sea-
son, for the first time in some 20 seasons.
Sampling and treatment or larval mosquito populations has been ongoing, and proceeding on a week-ly basis since mid-April program start-up. A total of 19.16 kg of VectoBac 200G has been applied to some 5.554 ha of habitat located at the Merritt Golf and Country Club, the old sew-age lagoons off Pine Street, and at a num-ber of smaller ranch houses and roadside ditches.
A total of 22 larval
samples have been col-lected to date for taxo-nomic identification and light trap sam-pling for adult mosqui-tos has been underway since mid-June.
Nine light trap samples have been col-lected as of June 30, 2015.
All samples have been forwarded for taxonomic identifica-tion and preliminary results may be avail-able for the next prog-ress report.
Program person-nel have not received, or been forwarded by city reception staff,
any service requests or reports of mosquito annoyance from area residents.
Larval sampling and collection by DGRA personnel will continue throughout the season.
Treatments will be completed as required, and where necessary to control develop-ing larval mosquito populations. Adult mosquito population sampling will also con-tinue.
Mosquito control program progress report July
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Ogborn said it would take more than one doctor to replace an existing one cur-rently working in town. They are used to work-ing under the old model with long hours, the new one’s aren’t.
They also want clear parameters around the type of shifts they work.
Last week, leader of the BC NDP John Horgan and NDP spokesperson Judy Darcy were in Merritt, speaking to staff at the Nicola Valley Hospital as part of a health care tour in the province.
Darcy said that what she’s hearing is that young doctors are inter-ested in delivering fam-ily medicine, but don’t want to set up their own private practices.
Horgan and Darcy called for more team-based care in B.C.’s small and rural com-munities, where other health care workers such as nurse practitio-ners can help shoulder the load with doctors.
“One of the things I hear from young doc-tors, and doctors just graduating from medi-cal school, is that the old model of family practice — you open an office, you hang out a shingle, you’re in private practice, fee-for-service — is not attrac-tive,” Darcy said.
“They want to work in teams. they want to work with nurse prac-titioners, they want to work with public health nurses, with dietitians,” she said.
Horgan said young doctors don’t want to have the burden of an entire community on their backs.
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
BC Nurse Practitioner Association (BCNPA) president Kathleen Fyvie told the Herald via email that her organization regularly hears from physicians wanting to bring a nurse practitioner into their clinic. She’s work-
ing with the provincial government to discuss how to make this more plausible for both physi-cians and nurse practi-tioners.
Darcy and Horgan acknowledged the government has some teams in place, including an interdis-ciplinary squad on the North Shore at the King Street medical clinic in neighbouring Kamloops. But Darcy said the practice needs to go mainstream.
“It’s the excep-tion rather than the rule,” she said. “And in Ontario, for example, they have gone in the direction of nurse practitioners for many years. They have many more times as many per capita as we do here in British Columbia.”
Fyvie said B.C. has only had nurse practi-tioners for the past 10 years, educating about 45 per year.
B.C. has just 341 nurse practitioners at the moment.
As of 2011, there were 2,486 nurse practi-tioners across Canada.
Ontario had the most, with 1,482, trailed by 263 in Alberta.
B.C. came in third, with 129.
MILLENIAL DOCTORS
When it comes to millennial doctors, Ogborn said its difficult to get them to accept being on call all the time.
“They come with a very different set of expectations from previous generations and that has very much hit medicine hard,” Ogborn said.
“It hits very hard on recruiting, particularly small rural communi-ties because in many instances the practice structures in those com-munities, and Merritt’s a good example of this, are actually based on the old model,” he said.
“You have one or two doctors in their own practice, invested a lot of capital in that practice ... and then you
have graduates coming in who basically want to know when they get their first cheque.”
Health Minister Terry Lake has said a team-based approach works, but said it’s not an across-the-board solution.
“Ontario has done a lot of work in these family health centres and, what they’ve done in Ontario is, they’ve actually put a bit of a hold on it because what they were seeing is the costs were rising substantially while the number of patients being seen was going down,” he said.
B.C. prefers to use the team model for mental-health and sub-stance-abuse treatment, as well as for care for lower-income patients, Lake said.
“Those integrated teams do a great job of serving vulnerable pop-ulations,” Lake said.
“For the rest of the population, certainly there are situations where team-based care works extremely well and it’s something we’re doing more and more, but we have to make sure it’s sustainable.”
Physicians work for themselves and not a particular health authority, meaning the government health organization has no control over their work-ing conditions, Ogborn said.
“You need to have a strong and robust com-munity to attract health care professionals,” Horgan said.
When it comes to doctors being inde-pendent practitioners, Horgan pointed out doctors can’t necessarily go wherever they want.
“There’s a supply and demand question here as well and all the doctors can’t go to Surrey just because all the people are there because at some point you’re not going to be able to find a place to practice.”
Horgan noted the provincial government’s failure to provide a fam-ily doctor to every per-
son in B.C. who wanted one by 2015.
Two years ago, the B.C. Liberal govern-ment announced it would spend millions to expand A GP For Me, a program match-ing patients with doc-tors, provincewide — a promise that’s supposed to be met by the end of this year.
He said there are still 250,000 British Columbians without a family doctor.
HERE AT HOME
Horgan said that one issue he heard from people at the Merritt hospital is the emer-gency room is being accessed for the wrong reasons, becoming the “de facto drop-in clinic” in town.
He said people are capitalizing on shorter wait times there as opposed to making an appointment at a clinic.
“The public is responding to the deficiencies in funding by making their own health care decisions on how they’re going to access the system,” Horgan said.
“Every British Columbian needs to have access to a family practitioner, whether that’s a general practi-tioner or a nurse practi-tioner,” Darcy said.
Recently, the prov-ince released a request for proposal for concep-tual plans to expand the Nicola Valley Hospital’s emergency room.
As opposition leader, Horgan says he intends to ensure the govern-ment follows through on the project.
“You want to be optimistic whenever a government, regardless of its political stripe, makes a financial com-mitment to improve ser-vices in a community,” Horgan said.
The concern, how-ever, is the concep-tual plans will sit on the shelf once completed.
“Until you see the capital dollars allocated in the annual budget ... you can’t have any realistic expectation that
those dollars are going to flow,” he said.
Horgan said he thinks improving the hospital should help attract more health care practitioners.
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The long spell of hot and dry weather mani-fested itself in the highest number of wildfires in British Columbia’s recent-ly recorded history.
So far the provincial government has spent in
excess of 100 million dol-lars to fight these wildfires which at present total 115 (these are only the fires larger than 10 hectares) and to date have destroyed 279,265 hectares of land.
Over 80 per cent of wildfires are believed to be human caused.
Given the education and public warnings about the cause of wildfires it stuns me how ignorant people still are.
Humans are not the only ones that suffer from wildfires and the effect it has on industry and the health of people living in
the path of the smoke. Those clouds can linger
like thick fog for days and weeks over towns, cities and villages.
Wildfires cause untold damage to wildlife, too.
A few days ago I came across a haunting image on the internet, taken by a wildfire fighter.
The image showed a small herd of female elk standing out in the open; behind them you could see a wall of tall flames devouring the forest.
All the elk looked back toward the fire where in all likelihood their off-
spring became victims of the flames.
This time of year it is not unusual to see elk, deer, bears and moose in company of young and will stay with them at all times.
However, when danger becomes a matter of life and death, mothers will switch to self-preservation mode and abandon the young since they are not yet strong enough to keep up with them.
Wild birds such as eagles, ospreys, and the endangered great horned owl fare no better; they
abandon their nests and leave their young behind.
A wildfire kills thou-sands of animals and robs them of their habitat, food sources and shelter.
Besides the devastation of wildfires the hot weath-er, combined with the low snowpack we had last win-ter has caused many lakes and river systems to be at an all-time low.
When the water lev-els drop below a certain depth the temperatures rise and oxygen depletes.
This in turn kills off fish.
HERALD OPINION
Don’t jump to conclusions on Watson
The Canadian media landscape hasn’t been this interesting in years.
For the first time, there is a critical eye cast on the entire enterprise, and what that has revealed has been both ugly and necessary.
Then there’s the curious case of Paul Watson, the Toronto Star jour-nalist who resigned with some fanfare last week.
He claims that the paper refused to publish a story of significant pub-lic interest, related to the federal gov-ernment’s exploration of the Franklin Expedition.
“My reporting is an attempt to give voice to federal civil servants and others involved in the grueling, High Arctic search for British Royal Navy explorer Sir John Frankin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror,” he wrote in a public blog post. “Several are experts in their fields.”
Bully for him, of course, but while everyone is getting out the pity party supplies and tsk tsking the federal government and the Toronto Star, I suggest we take the streamers down and wait until all of the facts are in before rushing to damnation.
The Star, it should be noted, denies Watson’s allegations com-pletely.
In the press, Watson keeps being referred to as a “Pulitzer-winning journalist” or, more ostentatiously and incorrectly, “Canada’s only Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.”
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The low water level is currently so severe in some areas that the authorities have issued a total fishing ban on some rivers and streams in an effort to maintain the survival of the remaining fish.
We all have to do our part to prevent wildfires and conserve as much water as possible.
The best ways we can help is by strictly observing fire bans and
never discarding cigarette butts into nature at any time — nor any garbage for that matter.
Be vigilant at all times of smoke columns and report them immediately.
The sooner a fire can be attended to the better the chances are that it will not burn out of control.
Conserve water as much as you can and strictly observe local water use restrictions.
What is not harped on so much is that his Pulitzer was actually for doing photojournalism.
That is journalism, to be sure, but that label doesn’t lend itself to this case quite as strongly when it’s put that way.
He’s a member of the media tribe, and so of course the media
will naturally rally around him. By that same token, though, news
outlets should know better than to run with conjecture to the extent that they have.
I get that if what he is saying is true, he needs to get behind this and come out swinging as best he can.
But I resent a PR stunt from any angle, even if it’s coming from a journalist.
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Don’t make things worse through negligence
Dear Premier Clark:
You have important work to do at the July 15 to 17 meeting of the Council of the Federation in St. John’s.
Canadians are counting on you and all premiers to conclude an agreement on a Canadian Energy Strategy that can grow the economy, add jobs, increase our competitiveness in the world, and make our air and water cleaner.
We beseech you that the Canadian Energy Strategy commits to ensuring prov-inces and territories devel-op credible climate pro-tection plans that include carbon pricing.
One of the largest mar-ket failures in the history of humanity is the exclu-sion of the damages caused by the consumption of fos-sil fuels — the social cost of carbon.
Until this market distor-tion is corrected, human-ity is on track for a global
increase of 6C, which experts agree will seriously compromise civilization.
It is time Canada inter-nalized the costs of carbon pollution.
The B.C. carbon tax is a great example of a well-de-signed environmental tax.
In fact, it’s been praised by the OECD, the World Bank, and the Economist for being a leading example of its kind and a textbook case of how environmental taxes should work.
There’s only one prob-lem. The B.C. carbon tax
has been frozen at $30/tonne because subnational government cannot enact border tax adjustments to protect their manufacturing and agricultural industries.
Recognizing that global carbon pricing is inevitable and a desire for Canada to reclaim our environmental leadership on the inter-national stage like we did for acid rain and ozone depletion, we urge the pre-miers to consider these five core principles of effective carbon pricing when deter-mining a carbon pricing
policy that must ultimately be synchronized across Canada, North America and the world:
1) A steady, resolute and rising carbon price.
2) Internalizing costs incrementally, steadily and with no leakage.
3) Simple, transparent, effective
at reducing emissions.
4) Building economic value at the human scale.
5) Easy to implement: country by country, harmo-nizing across borders.
B.C. is to be congratu-lated for having a 2020 goal of reducing GHG emissions to 33 per cent below 2007 levels.
We are proud of the success achieved by B.C.’s carbon tax since 2008.
It is now time to build on this foundation.
We encourage all premiers to advance a Canadian Energy Strategy that delivers climate protection with a robust carbon pricing policy and charts a path forward toward a climate-friendly economy for Canadians today and into the future.
Sincerely,
Citizens’ Climate LobbyMichael Jessen, NelsonLaura Sacks, CastlegarAnni Holtby and Mike Geisler, BonningtonAllan Early, Crescent ValleyJanet Mcintyre, RosslandJim Berrill, Slocan Park Dona and Paul Grace-Campbell, KasloSusan Eyre, YahkMaxwell Sykes, ChilliwackJan Slakov, Salt Spring IslandPeter Bateman, Victoria
An open letter to Premier Christy Clark regarding the Canadian Energy Strategy
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competitiveness in the world, and make our air and water cleaner.
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Longtime elementary school teacher James Clark almost became an electrician.
“Initially, that was my interest, said Clark. “I always liked fixing things and tinkering with electron-ics,” Clark said.
His chalk wielding days might have never come to fruition if he hadn’t attended one career changing concert.
Clark, 57, retired at the end of this school year wrapping up a 34-year teaching career spent focused on music and drama.
Clark was born in Prince George as the third child in a family of six.
He was influenced to pursue teaching by his mother, who was a teacher herself.
“She was a great teacher, and I think that inspired me,” Clark said.
After graduating high school in Prince George in 1975, Clark spent a year in Edmonton attending bible school and after that found himself working in Penticton at one of the now defunct Woodward’s depart-ment stores.
He was going to get a degree to become an electrician before the fate-ful event.
“I went to my sister’s year-end band concert, and I thought, ‘You know, that’s what I really want to do,’” Clark said.
He said he wanted to be a music conductor, but had never considered music as a career choice until he saw that concert.
“That’s when it struck me that I could actually do music for a career,” he said.
Clark’s next step was to attend Okanagan College in Vernon. He was there for a year before trans-
ferring to Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he earned his teaching degree with majors in music and theatre.
Bellingham was also where Clark met his wife Diane. Like him, she was also obtaining a teaching degree, but the two didn’t meet through school. They ended up meeting at a Christian fellowship group.
They were married shortly after he graduated.
Together they had four children — three boys and a girl. Their two eldest sons were born in Abbotsford while their youngest son and daugh-ter were born in Merritt.
Clark began his teaching career with a seven-year stint working in School District 34 in Abbotsford.
He taught music at nine schools, twice a week, with a schedule that only gave him about 10 minutes of travel time.
“I was really flying from school to school. It was crazy,” Clark said.
That hectic schedule eventually took its toll on Clark, who in 1988 took a job with School District 58.
In Merritt he taught music and drama at the former junior high school and travelled around town to Merritt’s elementary schools where he taught band.
Clark closes curtain on a three-decade teaching career
James Clark retired at the end of this last school year at age 57. Submitted photo
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Canada looking for $3 billion worth of retalia-tory tariffs for COOL
With the World Trade Organization (WTO) sid-ing with Canada on a trade dispute with the States, ranchers here in B.C. are optimistic the U.S. Senate will repeal legislation that discriminates against country of origin labelling (COOL).
The Senate ruling is step two in the legislative process to repeal the restrictions, which have been in place since 2008. COOL requires the segre-gation of imported cattle from domestic cattle, resulting in fewer American producers accepting Canadian cattle.
The third and final step will be presidential assent.
Meanwhile, the federal government here at home is moving towards implementing retaliatory trade restrictions against $3 billion worth of U.S. goods. That number has yet to be approved by the WTO, and although the U.S. is objecting to the amount, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) spokesperson said the government is confi-dent that those numbers are an accurate assessment of damages, and sanctions will be approved.
WTO authorization to retaliate is expected to come down in the fall, though if the Senate repeals COOL, it’s possible that Canada will likewise back down.
“My suspicion is that if they fix the problem we’ll kind of say, ‘Okay, it’s done,’” said Kevin Boon, general manager of the British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association (BCCA).
“I’m optimistic that they’ll see the light, there’s enough of them starting to understand what these repercussions mean and that we’re serious about it,” he said.
A lot of the Canadian restrictions would be on
beef and pork, but some target goods from states that voted to keep COOL, and might not fully understand how important this issue is for ranchers.
This doesn’t just affect Canadian ranchers, either. The restrictive labelling laws were against Mexico as well, and that country is also looking into imposing tariffs.
The most puzzling aspect for Boon is how much it has also negatively impacted U.S. beef processors.
Since 2008, the U.S. has lost a great deal of it’s capacity for processing as a result of importing less Canadian beef, and plants, especially ones located near the border, have closed. Boon said the indus-try backlash against COOL in the States has been strong as well.
“It’s affecting us both equally but in different ways,” said Boon. “I guess this is the part that I find the hardest to understand — why the U.S. has pushed it so much — is that it’s really probably hurt their industry there as much or more as it has us. You’ve gotta sit back and scratch your head when government does that and ask: who are they really representing?”
The result is a changed industry, especially as COOL came down in the wake of the BSE — commonly known as mad cow disease — scare. BSE created a situation where beef processing in Canada was directed to U.S. plants, which ramped up activity. Then the COOL legislation came down. “It’s almost like throwing a bucket of water on the flame, and you move in the opposite direc-tion,” said Boon.
“It’s those unintended consequences of those actions that don’t just affect the prices that we receive here in Canada or Mexico, it’s those things that affect the long term aspect of how we do busi-ness and our ability to do business,” he said. “It really puts pressure on food production, not just for us but for North America.”
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MLS # House # STREET PRICEBare Land 127723 6357 MONCK PARK ROAD $189,000126788 2556 ABERDEEN ROAD $198,000129746 2980 PANORAMA DRIVE $250,000127952 120 GOLDEN QUILL TRAIL $264,000129555 11615 KAMLOOPS MERRITT HWY $275,000127274 1926-52 NICOLA AVENUE $325,000127935 2208 COYLE ROAD $450,000128274 3901 PETIT CREEK ROAD $475,000128532 DL3520 MILL CREEK ROAD $499,000Commercial 125287 1949+1951 COUTLEE AVENUE $75,000122580 2152 NICOLA AVENUE $80,000124886 2008 QUILCHENA AVENUE $80,000128860 1938 QUILCHENA AVENUE $150,000125491 2175 NICOLA AVENUE $220,000124749 2551 PRIEST AVE $329,900129726 417 MERRITT SP BR HWY $375,000128538 1898 BLAIR STREET $419,000122729 2076 COUTLEE AVENUE $455,000127420 1601 WILSON ST $589,900119521 1988 NICOLA AVENUE $590,000126768 2302 CLAPPERTON AVE $624,000126112 311 MERRITT-SP.BRG HWY $700,000Logan Lake 125291 347 POPLAR DRIVE $37,900128340 316-279 ALDER DRIVE $49,900127405 306-279 ALDER DRIVE $65,900129209 217-308 CHARTRAND AVE $89,000129026 67-111 CHARTRAND AVE(Business) $89,900125939 29 TOPAZ CRESC $114,900125072 307-400 OPAL DRIVE $115,000128450 21 TOPAZ CRESC $124,900125603 3 AGATE DRIVE $125,000126728 98 JASPER DRIVE $133,000127481 38 BERYL DRIVE $179,990128983 244 JASPER DRIVE $184,000125033 8 AMBER CRESCENT $199,900125620 31 BRECCIA DRIVE $199,900127593 415 OPAL DRIVE $204,900124218 403 OPAL DRIVE $217,000127547 412 JASPER PLACE $219,000129549 250 DOGWOOD CRESC $220,000123631 227 BIRCH CRESCENT $224,900128445 21 GALENA AVE $225,900127245 203 BASALT PLACE $234,900128502 13-15 JASPER DRIVE $249,500128310 329 BASALT PLACE $279,900126843 131 LEA RIG CRESC $288,000127415 308 BASALT PLACE $297,500
2052 PARKER DR $319,900 MLS# 127978
1751 GRANITE AVE$249,000 MLS# 128323
102-2295 BLAIR ST$108,500 MLS# 126733
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#2394 $135,000
EXTRA LARGE LOT
Older 2 bedroom home in nice neighbourhood, close to the downtown. An extra large 13,780 sq.ft. lot with subdivision potential. Lane access, huge backyard with single garage.
#2352 $44,900
OVERLOOKS RIVER
Clean 3 bedrm mobile with covered deck & parking stall. New HW tank & new motor in furnace. Home is move in ready, comes with appliances. Pad rent $346 per month.
#2368 $209,900
DETACHED SHOP
3 bedroom family home close to schools & amenities. Home has large living room and kitchen, sliding glass doors to covered deck and fully fin. Bsmt. 24x24 detached shop.
#2292 $339,000
BROOKMERE
Great recreational area all year round. Lovely 2 bedroom home with attached double garage with guest room & 3 pce bath. Maple kitchen cabinets, S/S appl, island sink. RV parking.
#2389 $229,900
CACHE CREEK
Great 4 bedrm home with some upgrades of furnace, HW tank & roof. Has detached garage/shop with power plus a carport. Private backyard backs onto Bonaparte River.
#2285 $168,500
PRIVATE BACKYARD
Cozy 2 bedroom home with newer kitchen & bathrm renovations, upgraded furnace, 2 skylights and a backyard an avid gardener would appreciate. Has 2 outbuildings and patio.
#2448 $254,900
NICELY RENOVATED
2 bedroom rancher in desirable Bench area, close to school. Features include new kitchen & flooring throughout, new bathrooms, paint & furnace. Nice size master bedrm with ensuite and walk through closet.
#2435 $309,900
NICE FLOOR PLAN
Newer 4 bedroom home with 2 bedrm suite in bsmt. Very nice floor plan, big master bedrm with ensuite, kitchen has Cherry colour cabinets. Fenced backyard and very nicely landscaped.
#2459 $229,000
CUSTOM UPGRADES
Custom designed 3 bedrm, 2.5 bath townhouse with many extras of upgraded custom cabinetry throughout, 2 skylights, larger HE windows, bath tub in ensuite, upgraded fixtures & more.
#2384 $519,900
TRIPLE GARAGE
Quality built home with views & approx. 4000 sq.ft. on 3 levels. Large chef’s kitchen with new counters & backsplash, large family rm, 4 bedrms, 4 baths, fabulous master suite & much more.
#2234 $209,900
IN LOWER NICOLA
3 bedroom home on 0.35 acres with creek. Home has large living room, galley kitchen, 2 bedrms up, 1 down in renovated bsmt with new carpets, paint & HW tank. 24x28 detached shop.
#2481 $117,000
INVESTORS
Great for investors or first time buyers. Home has 3 bedrooms up, 1.5 baths, newer windows & siding and a partly finished basement. Close to schools. 100 amp service. Carport in back.
#2370 $159,900
DUPLEX
Side by side duplex within walking distance to amenities. Each side has 100 amp, 2 bedrms 1 bathm kitchen and living room plus a fenced backyard. Total duplex in 864 sq.ft. Adjacent duplex also for sale.
#2480 $349,900
NEW 2 STOREY HOME
New home featuring open concept kitchen with granite counters, spacious living room, 4 bedrms, 2.5 baths & double garage. New Home Warranty 2/5/10. GST applies.
#2433 $209,000
ACROSS FROM PARK
This 2 bedrm character home has 1 bedrm up, 1 down, open kitchen concept, and large rec.rm. Yard is fenced with 1 car detached garage/shop and room for RV’s. Close to walking trail.
#2214 $299,900
EXCELLENT LOCATION
Home has 2 full floors plus bsmt, 2 car garage and legal 2 bedrm daylight rental suite on main with rear entrance. Bright kitchen with island, living rm with gas F/P. Nice covered deck in back.
#2376 $205,900
SUN VALLEY COURT
Wonderful 2 bedroom + den townhome with 2.5 baths, gas F/P in living room, open concept on main with bedrooms upstairs. Includes appliances & 2015 strata fees have been paid. Double garage.
#2512 $234,900
LARGE LOT
Great family home on large fenced lot with rooms for RV’s. Home has 5 bedrms, 2 baths & fully finished bsmt. Includes 14x30 detached garage/shop and huge sundeck in back.
#2408 $103,900
AT SANDPIPER COMPLEX
2 bedroom strata townhouse, close to all amenities. Top floor unit with nice views and comes with appliances. Great for first time buyer or retiree wanting no yard work.
#2421 $399,000
DESIREABLE LOCATION
Well constructed home in upscale neighbourhood. Enjoy the great views from this 4 bedrm, 3 bath home with cozy breakfast nook in kitchen, gas F/P in living rm & family rm with patio door to deck. Fenced backyard.
#2345 $154,900
NICE HALF DUPLEX
Well maintained home in good family area & close to school. Bright living room, spacious kitchen, huge family room, 3 bedrooms up, 2 baths, newer vinyl windows & fenced backyard with patio.
#2505 $419,900
IMMACULATE HOME
Quality built & immaculate family home in quiet area on 0.26 acre lot. Home has been well maintained, high quality laminate throughout most of main floor. Main living has 4 bedrms, 5 pce ensuite & 2 other full baths. Has 2 bedrm suite with long term tenant.
#2467 $154,900
FIRST TIME BUYERS
Spacious half duplex with full bsmt & is close to school. Top level has 3 bedrm, main has living rm, kitchen, main bath & dining room. Bsmt has laundry, family rm, storage & full bath. Fenced yard.
#2444 $279,900
BENCH VIEW HOME
This Bench home has 3 bedrms on the main plus 1 in basement. Has new roof, paint & flooring. Open kitchen with all appliances. Great view from the sundeck. Big rec.room in basement.
#2489 $315,000
DETACHED SHOP
4 bedrm home with open kitchen, dining & living room plus a fully finished bsmt. Huge 15,000 sq.ft. lot fenced with inground pool and detached heated shop. Quiet area.
#2430 $214,900
GREAT STARTER HOME
Traditional style 5 bedroom, 2 bath character home located close to schools & easy access to downtown. Home has HW flooring, central A/C, large fenced lot with deck & RV parking.
#2390 $349,000
QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD
3000+ sq.ft. family home in good area, close to all amenities & easy walk to downtown. Spiral staircase, 3 bedrms up, 1 down plus 2 bedrm suite on main level. New flooring & paint on upper level.
#2381 $154,900
INVESTMENT
Side by side duplex close to shopping. Each side has 100 amp service, 2 bedrms, bathroom, kitchen & living room. Fenced backyard. Adjacent duplex also available.
#2417 $116,900
GREAT STARTER HOME
Very clean home with 3 bedrooms up, 1.5 baths, newer tile, newer flooring in living room and partially finished basement. Fenced backyard, carport off back lane. Electrical upgraded. Close to school.
#2494 $264,900
BACKS ONTO GOLF COURSE
Incredible property in great neighbourhood, backs onto golf course. Home has 2200 sq.ft. in total, 3 bedrms, 2 baths, new HW tank and HE furnace installed in 2014, wood burning insert in the basement.
#2455 $539,000
PRESTIGIOUS HOME
Custom home with triple garage & panoramic views. 3 bedrms 3 baths with the highest quality finishings inside & out. Maple wood cabinetry, HW floors, 5 pce ensuite, HW on demand plus suite in bsmt.
#2510 $129,900
AFFORDABLY PRICED
Great starter home with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, and in good area, close to school. Has an attached 17x23 garage/shop. Home needs some TLC of paint and flooring. Perfect for handyman.
#2506 $279,900
QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD
Family home with 3 bedrms up, 1 down, open concept design with vaulted ceilings, large kitchen, sunken living room, gas F/P and large ensuite. Within walking distance to elementary school.
#2473 $214,900
DESIRABLE BENCH AREA
Charming, bright south facing home with 3 bedrooms plus den (or 4th). Home requires some updating. Has 2 baths and fully finished basement. Has 22x20 garage/shop.
#2479 $319,900
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
New rancher with approx. 1512 sq.ft., open concept kitchen with granite counters, spacious living room, 2 baths, den and 2 bedrooms. Double garage. New Home Warranty and GST applies.
#2468 $146,900
FIRST TIME BUYERS
Half duplex in family oriented neighbourhood and close to school. Has 3 bedrms up, large kitchen, updated bathrm with newer flooring & tub surround. Large fenced yard with storage/work area.
#2493 $389,900
DETACHED SHOP
Great family home in great area with views from top floor deck. Home has 3 bedrms on the main, open oak kitchen, 1.5 baths, central A/C & partially finished basement. 30x30 detached shop.
#2463 $214,900
NICE END UNIT
Tastefully decorated townhouse, end unit with a bigger yard & less traffic. 3 bedrms up plus office, 3 pce ensuite, bright open concept on main with laundry & powder rm. Great patio & large fenced yard.
#2438 $329,900
SWIMMING POOL
5 bedrm rancher upgraded with HW floors, newer kitchen counters & paint. Open design kitchen & huge living rm with rock F/P. Private backyard with inground pool, hot tub & sundeck.
#2348 $94,900
GOOD STARTER HOME
Located in quiet location, across from elementary school. This 3 bedroom home is on a concrete foundation, electrical is up to code, has had some updates. Nice flat lot, has carport and 11x12 storage shed.
#2278 $295,000
CUSTOM RANCHER
1800 sq.ft. rancher only 6 yrs old with 3 bedrms plus bonus room above garage. Open design kitchen, HW floors, crown moldings, 9 ft ceilings and 2 full baths. Fenced backyard with storage shed.
#2497 $299,000
UPDATED HOME
Well maintained corner lot with 5 bedroom home in great neighbourhood. Home has been updated & is tastefully decorated, nicely finished country kitchen, 2 baths, and a fully finished basement with family room. Large new deck in private backyard with 20x28 shop. Lots of parking.
#2483 $329,900
OVER 2900 SQ.FT.
Large family home with 3 bedrms up, open design kitchen with skylights, 2 gas F/P’s, 3 pce ensuite and approved suite on ground level. Nicely landscaped yard. Double garage.
#2319 $299,900
NEW HOME
In new subdivision, this 2 bedroom home features an open floor plan, country kitchen, master with W/I closet, 4 pce ensuite & 13x10 deck. Single garage. Includes appliance package.
#2456 $274,900
IN LOWER NICOLA
Clean & spacious 3 bedrm, 4 level split home on large fenced corner lot with double garage & RV prkg. Home has large living rm with F/P, bright kitchen, 2.5 baths, sundeck off master & an unfinished bsmt.
#2392 $265,000
REVENUE PROPERTY
Side by side fourplex on 1/3 of an acre in prime location in Lower Nicola. Has been renovated inside & out including the roof & septic system. 20 yr roof installed in 2003. Don’t miss this!
#2466 $151,500
CHARMING HOME
Charming little 2 bedrm home with fresh paint, roof, updated windows & kitchen. Patio off the sundeck, located in quiet neighbourhood, centrally located & lane access. Has insulated shop.
#2383 $72,900
NICE ADDITION
2 bedrm mobile with addition in one of the nicest parks. One bedrm on each end with an open concept kitchen eating area & living room in center. Addition has enclosed porch & family room.
#2514 $298,000
CLOSE TO SCHOOL
6 bedroom home nicely renovated, 3 bedrms up and 3 bedrms down in a ground level inlaw suite. Large fenced yard with a 34x20 detached garage/shop. RV parking and garden area. Newer floors, kitchen & bathroom paint. Great place to raise a family.
#2491 $267,500
TOWNHOME
Totally updated 3 bedrm home with walking distance to downtown. New paint, most flooring, kitchen counters, cabinets & bathrooms. Has 3 bedrms 2.5 baths & bright sunroom. Double garage.
#2462 $199,900
MOVE IN READY
3 bedroom townhouse with recent upgrades of paint & flooring. Was one of the first showhomes. Nice floor plan, vaulted ceilings, gas F/P, 2.5 baths, laundry upstairs. Big backyard.
#2397 $449,900
ALLISON LAKE
Beautifully maintained 2 level lakeview home on 0.57 acre lot only 2 min. walk to lake. 2 bedrms up, 2 down, custom kitchen, vaulted 14 ft ceilings, large wrap around decks with gorgeous views.
#2482 $243,900
LOGAN LAKE
Immaculate 4 bedrm family home in quiet cul de sac. Large master bedrm with ensuite, spacious kitchen, has F/P in living room & family room. Nicely landscaped backyard with large deck.
#2419 $319,900
SPENCES BRIDGE
Quality built log home on 1.03 acres with fruit trees & mature shrubs. Home features 3 bedrms, 2 baths, vaulted ceilings, huge living rm, large country kitchen, huge sundeck & fully fin. bsmt.
#2371 $159,900
DUPLEX
Side by side duplex within walking distance to shopping. Each side has 100 amp service, 2 bedrms, 1 bathrm, kitchen, living room and fenced backyard. Adjacent duplex also for sale.
#2309 $319,000
DESIRABLE LOCATION
Large family home with 3 bedrms up plus a 2 bedrm inlaw suite at ground level. New paint & flooring on main, oak kitchen, HW radiant heat& 3 baths. Fenced backyard with garden area.
#2183 $435,000
LARGE FAMILY HOME
Spacious 5 bedroom home with huge master bedrm with jet tub in ensuite, open kitchen & family room, Cherry stained cabinets in kitchen, 2 huge sundeck in private backyard plus covered sitting area.
#2151 $210,000
ADULT ORIENTED STRATA
One of the nicest gated communities in Merritt with views of the Nicola River. Has 3 bedrms, 2 baths, open design living, gas F/P, galley kitchen with nook, laundry on main, hobby & rec.rm down.
#2426 $514,900
DETACHED GARAGE
Quality built Cape Cod home with 3 bedrms, 2.5 baths, country kitchen, family rm & work area in bsmt. Fenced yard with double garage plus 3228 detached shop, covered deck & a gazebo.
#2424 $429,900
PRIME LOCATION
This executive Bench home has 4 bedrms on main, 1 down, custom fir cabinets with granite counters, S/S appliances, 4 baths & rec.rm & family rm. Nice inground pool and patio for BBQ’s.
#2334 $53,000
WALK TO SHOPPING
2 bedroom mobile in Eldorado Mobile Home Park. New plumbing with heat tape, 1 bath, comes with all appliances. Quick possession. Close to golf course. Pad rent $346 per month.
#2372 $254,900
FANTASTIC VIEWS
3 bedroom rancher with fantastic views of the valley. 5 yrs old, open concept plan, vaulted ceilings in kitchen, 3 baths. 2 car garage with exposed appgregate concrete driveway.
#2299 $229,000
RURAL SETTING
Enjoy the private setting in Lower Nicola on 0.33 acre lot with several fruit trees and is close to school. This home is perect for a starter home or retired couple. Great views off the deck.
#2349 $249,900
LOCATION, LOCATION
Clean, spacious home with 3 bedrms up, 2 down, newer floors & kitchen cabinets. In desirable area close to shopping & amenities. Newer vinyl windows, detached garage, fenced backyard.
#2340 $155,000
APARTMENT
Newer 2 bedroom apartment in “The Summit” comes with stainless steel appliances, 1.5 baths and laundry room. No more shoveling snow! Great place to live, close to transit.
#2499 $43,500
WELL MAINTAINED
2 bedroom home in good Park. Has a wood burning fireplace and an open kitchen, newer windows, fenced yard, nicely kept and storage shed in back with garden area & fruit trees.
#2409 $289,000
CLOSE TO SCHOOLS
4 bedrm family home with HW floors, open concept, gourmet kitchen comes with appliances and a fully finished basement. Recent asphalt shingles, some windows & exterior doors. Nicely landscaped.
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#2515 $149,900
AFFORDABLE PRICED
2 bedroom, one level home across from the old Collett Ranch. Great views, has had some upgrades such as plumbing, electrical some flooring in kitchen & roof in 2007. Large fenced backyard with room for RV’s.
#2504 $389,900
EXTRA LARGE LOT
Possible 5 bedrm, 2.5 bath home on 1 ½ lots, close to shopping, hospital & school. Great yard, lots of parking. Double garage with 10 ft doors & a work area. Has A/C, U/G and drip irrigation, stainless steel appliances, B/I vac & storage shed.
#2465 $146,900
HALF DUPLEX
Nice half duplex with fenced yard, is close to school and on quiet cul de sac. Home has large kitchen and living room, 3 bedrms up with main bath plus a half bath on the main. New roof in 2015.
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#2394 $135,000
EXTRA LARGE LOT
Older 2 bedroom home in nice neighbourhood, close to the downtown. An extra large 13,780 sq.ft. lot with subdivision potential. Lane access, huge backyard with single garage.
#2352 $44,900
OVERLOOKS RIVER
Clean 3 bedrm mobile with covered deck & parking stall. New HW tank & new motor in furnace. Home is move in ready, comes with appliances. Pad rent $346 per month.
#2368 $209,900
DETACHED SHOP
3 bedroom family home close to schools & amenities. Home has large living room and kitchen, sliding glass doors to covered deck and fully fin. Bsmt. 24x24 detached shop.
#2292 $339,000
BROOKMERE
Great recreational area all year round. Lovely 2 bedroom home with attached double garage with guest room & 3 pce bath. Maple kitchen cabinets, S/S appl, island sink. RV parking.
#2389 $229,900
CACHE CREEK
Great 4 bedrm home with some upgrades of furnace, HW tank & roof. Has detached garage/shop with power plus a carport. Private backyard backs onto Bonaparte River.
#2285 $168,500
PRIVATE BACKYARD
Cozy 2 bedroom home with newer kitchen & bathrm renovations, upgraded furnace, 2 skylights and a backyard an avid gardener would appreciate. Has 2 outbuildings and patio.
#2448 $254,900
NICELY RENOVATED
2 bedroom rancher in desirable Bench area, close to school. Features include new kitchen & flooring throughout, new bathrooms, paint & furnace. Nice size master bedrm with ensuite and walk through closet.
#2435 $309,900
NICE FLOOR PLAN
Newer 4 bedroom home with 2 bedrm suite in bsmt. Very nice floor plan, big master bedrm with ensuite, kitchen has Cherry colour cabinets. Fenced backyard and very nicely landscaped.
#2459 $229,000
CUSTOM UPGRADES
Custom designed 3 bedrm, 2.5 bath townhouse with many extras of upgraded custom cabinetry throughout, 2 skylights, larger HE windows, bath tub in ensuite, upgraded fixtures & more.
#2384 $519,900
TRIPLE GARAGE
Quality built home with views & approx. 4000 sq.ft. on 3 levels. Large chef’s kitchen with new counters & backsplash, large family rm, 4 bedrms, 4 baths, fabulous master suite & much more.
#2234 $209,900
IN LOWER NICOLA
3 bedroom home on 0.35 acres with creek. Home has large living room, galley kitchen, 2 bedrms up, 1 down in renovated bsmt with new carpets, paint & HW tank. 24x28 detached shop.
#2481 $117,000
INVESTORS
Great for investors or first time buyers. Home has 3 bedrooms up, 1.5 baths, newer windows & siding and a partly finished basement. Close to schools. 100 amp service. Carport in back.
#2370 $159,900
DUPLEX
Side by side duplex within walking distance to amenities. Each side has 100 amp, 2 bedrms 1 bathm kitchen and living room plus a fenced backyard. Total duplex in 864 sq.ft. Adjacent duplex also for sale.
#2480 $349,900
NEW 2 STOREY HOME
New home featuring open concept kitchen with granite counters, spacious living room, 4 bedrms, 2.5 baths & double garage. New Home Warranty 2/5/10. GST applies.
#2433 $209,000
ACROSS FROM PARK
This 2 bedrm character home has 1 bedrm up, 1 down, open kitchen concept, and large rec.rm. Yard is fenced with 1 car detached garage/shop and room for RV’s. Close to walking trail.
#2214 $299,900
EXCELLENT LOCATION
Home has 2 full floors plus bsmt, 2 car garage and legal 2 bedrm daylight rental suite on main with rear entrance. Bright kitchen with island, living rm with gas F/P. Nice covered deck in back.
#2376 $205,900
SUN VALLEY COURT
Wonderful 2 bedroom + den townhome with 2.5 baths, gas F/P in living room, open concept on main with bedrooms upstairs. Includes appliances & 2015 strata fees have been paid. Double garage.
#2512 $234,900
LARGE LOT
Great family home on large fenced lot with rooms for RV’s. Home has 5 bedrms, 2 baths & fully finished bsmt. Includes 14x30 detached garage/shop and huge sundeck in back.
#2408 $103,900
AT SANDPIPER COMPLEX
2 bedroom strata townhouse, close to all amenities. Top floor unit with nice views and comes with appliances. Great for first time buyer or retiree wanting no yard work.
#2421 $399,000
DESIREABLE LOCATION
Well constructed home in upscale neighbourhood. Enjoy the great views from this 4 bedrm, 3 bath home with cozy breakfast nook in kitchen, gas F/P in living rm & family rm with patio door to deck. Fenced backyard.
#2345 $154,900
NICE HALF DUPLEX
Well maintained home in good family area & close to school. Bright living room, spacious kitchen, huge family room, 3 bedrooms up, 2 baths, newer vinyl windows & fenced backyard with patio.
#2505 $419,900
IMMACULATE HOME
Quality built & immaculate family home in quiet area on 0.26 acre lot. Home has been well maintained, high quality laminate throughout most of main floor. Main living has 4 bedrms, 5 pce ensuite & 2 other full baths. Has 2 bedrm suite with long term tenant.
#2467 $154,900
FIRST TIME BUYERS
Spacious half duplex with full bsmt & is close to school. Top level has 3 bedrm, main has living rm, kitchen, main bath & dining room. Bsmt has laundry, family rm, storage & full bath. Fenced yard.
#2444 $279,900
BENCH VIEW HOME
This Bench home has 3 bedrms on the main plus 1 in basement. Has new roof, paint & flooring. Open kitchen with all appliances. Great view from the sundeck. Big rec.room in basement.
#2489 $315,000
DETACHED SHOP
4 bedrm home with open kitchen, dining & living room plus a fully finished bsmt. Huge 15,000 sq.ft. lot fenced with inground pool and detached heated shop. Quiet area.
#2430 $214,900
GREAT STARTER HOME
Traditional style 5 bedroom, 2 bath character home located close to schools & easy access to downtown. Home has HW flooring, central A/C, large fenced lot with deck & RV parking.
#2390 $349,000
QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD
3000+ sq.ft. family home in good area, close to all amenities & easy walk to downtown. Spiral staircase, 3 bedrms up, 1 down plus 2 bedrm suite on main level. New flooring & paint on upper level.
#2381 $154,900
INVESTMENT
Side by side duplex close to shopping. Each side has 100 amp service, 2 bedrms, bathroom, kitchen & living room. Fenced backyard. Adjacent duplex also available.
#2417 $116,900
GREAT STARTER HOME
Very clean home with 3 bedrooms up, 1.5 baths, newer tile, newer flooring in living room and partially finished basement. Fenced backyard, carport off back lane. Electrical upgraded. Close to school.
#2494 $264,900
BACKS ONTO GOLF COURSE
Incredible property in great neighbourhood, backs onto golf course. Home has 2200 sq.ft. in total, 3 bedrms, 2 baths, new HW tank and HE furnace installed in 2014, wood burning insert in the basement.
#2455 $539,000
PRESTIGIOUS HOME
Custom home with triple garage & panoramic views. 3 bedrms 3 baths with the highest quality finishings inside & out. Maple wood cabinetry, HW floors, 5 pce ensuite, HW on demand plus suite in bsmt.
#2510 $129,900
AFFORDABLY PRICED
Great starter home with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, and in good area, close to school. Has an attached 17x23 garage/shop. Home needs some TLC of paint and flooring. Perfect for handyman.
#2506 $279,900
QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD
Family home with 3 bedrms up, 1 down, open concept design with vaulted ceilings, large kitchen, sunken living room, gas F/P and large ensuite. Within walking distance to elementary school.
#2473 $214,900
DESIRABLE BENCH AREA
Charming, bright south facing home with 3 bedrooms plus den (or 4th). Home requires some updating. Has 2 baths and fully finished basement. Has 22x20 garage/shop.
#2479 $319,900
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
New rancher with approx. 1512 sq.ft., open concept kitchen with granite counters, spacious living room, 2 baths, den and 2 bedrooms. Double garage. New Home Warranty and GST applies.
#2468 $146,900
FIRST TIME BUYERS
Half duplex in family oriented neighbourhood and close to school. Has 3 bedrms up, large kitchen, updated bathrm with newer flooring & tub surround. Large fenced yard with storage/work area.
#2493 $389,900
DETACHED SHOP
Great family home in great area with views from top floor deck. Home has 3 bedrms on the main, open oak kitchen, 1.5 baths, central A/C & partially finished basement. 30x30 detached shop.
#2463 $214,900
NICE END UNIT
Tastefully decorated townhouse, end unit with a bigger yard & less traffic. 3 bedrms up plus office, 3 pce ensuite, bright open concept on main with laundry & powder rm. Great patio & large fenced yard.
#2438 $329,900
SWIMMING POOL
5 bedrm rancher upgraded with HW floors, newer kitchen counters & paint. Open design kitchen & huge living rm with rock F/P. Private backyard with inground pool, hot tub & sundeck.
#2348 $94,900
GOOD STARTER HOME
Located in quiet location, across from elementary school. This 3 bedroom home is on a concrete foundation, electrical is up to code, has had some updates. Nice flat lot, has carport and 11x12 storage shed.
#2278 $295,000
CUSTOM RANCHER
1800 sq.ft. rancher only 6 yrs old with 3 bedrms plus bonus room above garage. Open design kitchen, HW floors, crown moldings, 9 ft ceilings and 2 full baths. Fenced backyard with storage shed.
#2497 $299,000
UPDATED HOME
Well maintained corner lot with 5 bedroom home in great neighbourhood. Home has been updated & is tastefully decorated, nicely finished country kitchen, 2 baths, and a fully finished basement with family room. Large new deck in private backyard with 20x28 shop. Lots of parking.
#2483 $329,900
OVER 2900 SQ.FT.
Large family home with 3 bedrms up, open design kitchen with skylights, 2 gas F/P’s, 3 pce ensuite and approved suite on ground level. Nicely landscaped yard. Double garage.
#2319 $299,900
NEW HOME
In new subdivision, this 2 bedroom home features an open floor plan, country kitchen, master with W/I closet, 4 pce ensuite & 13x10 deck. Single garage. Includes appliance package.
#2456 $274,900
IN LOWER NICOLA
Clean & spacious 3 bedrm, 4 level split home on large fenced corner lot with double garage & RV prkg. Home has large living rm with F/P, bright kitchen, 2.5 baths, sundeck off master & an unfinished bsmt.
#2392 $265,000
REVENUE PROPERTY
Side by side fourplex on 1/3 of an acre in prime location in Lower Nicola. Has been renovated inside & out including the roof & septic system. 20 yr roof installed in 2003. Don’t miss this!
#2466 $151,500
CHARMING HOME
Charming little 2 bedrm home with fresh paint, roof, updated windows & kitchen. Patio off the sundeck, located in quiet neighbourhood, centrally located & lane access. Has insulated shop.
#2383 $72,900
NICE ADDITION
2 bedrm mobile with addition in one of the nicest parks. One bedrm on each end with an open concept kitchen eating area & living room in center. Addition has enclosed porch & family room.
#2514 $298,000
CLOSE TO SCHOOL
6 bedroom home nicely renovated, 3 bedrms up and 3 bedrms down in a ground level inlaw suite. Large fenced yard with a 34x20 detached garage/shop. RV parking and garden area. Newer floors, kitchen & bathroom paint. Great place to raise a family.
#2491 $267,500
TOWNHOME
Totally updated 3 bedrm home with walking distance to downtown. New paint, most flooring, kitchen counters, cabinets & bathrooms. Has 3 bedrms 2.5 baths & bright sunroom. Double garage.
#2462 $199,900
MOVE IN READY
3 bedroom townhouse with recent upgrades of paint & flooring. Was one of the first showhomes. Nice floor plan, vaulted ceilings, gas F/P, 2.5 baths, laundry upstairs. Big backyard.
#2397 $449,900
ALLISON LAKE
Beautifully maintained 2 level lakeview home on 0.57 acre lot only 2 min. walk to lake. 2 bedrms up, 2 down, custom kitchen, vaulted 14 ft ceilings, large wrap around decks with gorgeous views.
#2482 $243,900
LOGAN LAKE
Immaculate 4 bedrm family home in quiet cul de sac. Large master bedrm with ensuite, spacious kitchen, has F/P in living room & family room. Nicely landscaped backyard with large deck.
#2419 $319,900
SPENCES BRIDGE
Quality built log home on 1.03 acres with fruit trees & mature shrubs. Home features 3 bedrms, 2 baths, vaulted ceilings, huge living rm, large country kitchen, huge sundeck & fully fin. bsmt.
#2371 $159,900
DUPLEX
Side by side duplex within walking distance to shopping. Each side has 100 amp service, 2 bedrms, 1 bathrm, kitchen, living room and fenced backyard. Adjacent duplex also for sale.
#2309 $319,000
DESIRABLE LOCATION
Large family home with 3 bedrms up plus a 2 bedrm inlaw suite at ground level. New paint & flooring on main, oak kitchen, HW radiant heat& 3 baths. Fenced backyard with garden area.
#2183 $435,000
LARGE FAMILY HOME
Spacious 5 bedroom home with huge master bedrm with jet tub in ensuite, open kitchen & family room, Cherry stained cabinets in kitchen, 2 huge sundeck in private backyard plus covered sitting area.
#2151 $210,000
ADULT ORIENTED STRATA
One of the nicest gated communities in Merritt with views of the Nicola River. Has 3 bedrms, 2 baths, open design living, gas F/P, galley kitchen with nook, laundry on main, hobby & rec.rm down.
#2426 $514,900
DETACHED GARAGE
Quality built Cape Cod home with 3 bedrms, 2.5 baths, country kitchen, family rm & work area in bsmt. Fenced yard with double garage plus 3228 detached shop, covered deck & a gazebo.
#2424 $429,900
PRIME LOCATION
This executive Bench home has 4 bedrms on main, 1 down, custom fir cabinets with granite counters, S/S appliances, 4 baths & rec.rm & family rm. Nice inground pool and patio for BBQ’s.
#2334 $53,000
WALK TO SHOPPING
2 bedroom mobile in Eldorado Mobile Home Park. New plumbing with heat tape, 1 bath, comes with all appliances. Quick possession. Close to golf course. Pad rent $346 per month.
#2372 $254,900
FANTASTIC VIEWS
3 bedroom rancher with fantastic views of the valley. 5 yrs old, open concept plan, vaulted ceilings in kitchen, 3 baths. 2 car garage with exposed appgregate concrete driveway.
#2299 $229,000
RURAL SETTING
Enjoy the private setting in Lower Nicola on 0.33 acre lot with several fruit trees and is close to school. This home is perect for a starter home or retired couple. Great views off the deck.
#2349 $249,900
LOCATION, LOCATION
Clean, spacious home with 3 bedrms up, 2 down, newer floors & kitchen cabinets. In desirable area close to shopping & amenities. Newer vinyl windows, detached garage, fenced backyard.
#2340 $155,000
APARTMENT
Newer 2 bedroom apartment in “The Summit” comes with stainless steel appliances, 1.5 baths and laundry room. No more shoveling snow! Great place to live, close to transit.
#2499 $43,500
WELL MAINTAINED
2 bedroom home in good Park. Has a wood burning fireplace and an open kitchen, newer windows, fenced yard, nicely kept and storage shed in back with garden area & fruit trees.
#2409 $289,000
CLOSE TO SCHOOLS
4 bedrm family home with HW floors, open concept, gourmet kitchen comes with appliances and a fully finished basement. Recent asphalt shingles, some windows & exterior doors. Nicely landscaped.
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#2515 $149,900
AFFORDABLE PRICED
2 bedroom, one level home across from the old Collett Ranch. Great views, has had some upgrades such as plumbing, electrical some flooring in kitchen & roof in 2007. Large fenced backyard with room for RV’s.
#2504 $389,900
EXTRA LARGE LOT
Possible 5 bedrm, 2.5 bath home on 1 ½ lots, close to shopping, hospital & school. Great yard, lots of parking. Double garage with 10 ft doors & a work area. Has A/C, U/G and drip irrigation, stainless steel appliances, B/I vac & storage shed.
#2465 $146,900
HALF DUPLEX
Nice half duplex with fenced yard, is close to school and on quiet cul de sac. Home has large kitchen and living room, 3 bedrms up with main bath plus a half bath on the main. New roof in 2015.
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#2306 $334,900
Great family home on 1 acre just minutes from town. Home boasts 3 bedrms up, 1 down, updated kitchen, parquet flooring, rec.rm down with bar. 2 car detached garage + 1 car attached garage & separate storage.
179 ACRES
#2495 $1,241,000
Located only 2 km from city this historical south facing parcel sits on bench above Highway 8 with panoramic views. 31 acres in bay, has marketable time, a rock quarry and 3 bedrm home.
ON 1.93 ACRES
#2440 $399,900
This 4 bedrm country home has a well kept yard & is nicely landscaped with fish pond. Home has new roof, HW tank, central A/C, new pex plumbing, new drywall & flooring in bsmt. Includes storage shed & workshop.
9.8 ACRES
#2321 $525,000
Great property for horses with riding. This 5 bedrm level entry rancher has a walkout bsmt, 3 baths, updated flooring, plumbing & HW tank, vaulted ceilings, large country kitchen & large deck.
LAKEVIEW HOME
#2432 $974,900
Indulge your with 3800 sq.ft. of high end living on 1.3 acres with panoramic views of Nicola Lake. Superb workmanship & detail include granite counters, open wooden beams, 3 bedrms, 4 baths, large deck.
WATERfRONT HOME
#2498 $998,000
Magnificent 5 bedrm home on Nicola Lake with unique open designed family area with large bedrms & family room with an extra summer kitchen. 3 floors, 2 large covered decks. Has detached triple garage & an underground boat house bunker.
WATERfRONT HOME
#2507 $795,000
Well kept 3 bedroom, 2 bath home at Harmon Estates on Nicola Lake. Nicely landscaped yard with fruit trees & vegetable garden. The kitchen, living room and master bedrm overlook the lake.
ON 1.74 ACRES
#2190 $364,900
Great opportunity on this 1.74 acres with city services, fenced and can be rezoned to suit your needs. Has 1 bedrm home plus a 900 sq.ft. outbuilding in park-like setting with large water feature. This property has subdivision potential. Call for more details.
COMMERCIAL
#2450 $339,000
Great building of 1680 sq.ft. on corner lot in high traffic area. Previously used as showroom for car dealership & is fenced. Zoned C-2 with many options for your business. 2 separate titles.
26 ACRES
#2501 $114,999
Great views property with gentle rolling hills, a mix of fir & pine trees and has a good producing well. Build your dream home here and enjoy the privacy & unobstructed views.
LOCATION, LOCATION
#2449 $325,000
3 separate title lots with 1200 sq.ft. building with 2 bays and fenced yard. Was a former gas station. Good highway exposure. Call for more details.
INDUSTRIAL BUILDING
#2400 $890,000
8500 sq.ft. pre-cast tilt up building on corner lot with excellent exposure and easy access to truck route. Situated on 0.8 acres, lots of paved parking, has loading dock to retail area.
OPPORTUNITY
#2305 $179,000
Immaculate 2000 sq.ft. commercial building in downtown core. New roof in 2013, renovated interior including new paint throughout. Parking in back with lane access. Great for investor or entrepreneur.
ON 4.64 ACRES
#2335 $395,000
Beautiful 4 bedrm, 3 bath log home with open design, new Mill Creek cabinets, new flooring & furnace heat pump. Has numerous outbldgs, barn, storage shed, garage & more.
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IN KANE VALLEY
#2454 $539,900
Private 10 acres that backs onto Crown land and access to snowmobile, ski, quad or bike ride. 3 bedrm, 3 bath home with fully fin. bsmt with large rec. rm. Has 32x32 heat shop. Easy access off Coquihalla Hwy. and close to fishing lakes.
3 BAY GARAGE
#2451 $445,000
Great opportunity for automotive repair shop. C-2 zoned. Lot has 3164 sq.ft. building with 3 bays and parts room that comes with assorted tools & hoist. Total of 3 lots is 17,625 sq.ft. Call for more details.
22 ACRES
#2342 $599,900
Approx. 22 acres mins. From downtown Merritt. Nicely renovated 4 bedrm, 3 bath home with new flooring, bathrms & paint. Has horse barn, 100x44 metal Quonset and new drilled well.
20 ACRES
#2301 $2,000,000
Two 10 acre parcels in the City limits. One parcel has a two year lease. Zoned M-1. Other parcel has “future development” zoning. Call for more details.
117 ACRES
#2387 $2,500,000
Property has substantial aggregate deposit, excellent for long term gravel pit operation. 37 acres of light industrial and 80 acres of residential zoning. Estimate of 29 million ton deposit.
CHARACTER BUILDING
#2436 $198,000
In high traffic area, zoned C2 that allows for many business opportunities. Has living quarters in back with recent renos. . Good visibility located next to 7-11 Store.
INDUSTRIAL LOT
#2356 $64,900
Light industrial bare lot, flat site, zoned M1 for your business opportunity. Easy access to truck route and just moments from the downtown core. Call for more details.
RIVERfRONT LOT
#2500 $150,000
Exquisite 0.83 acres in upscale neighbourhood, river frontage with enchanting views. This unique parcel offers both privacy & accessibility. All services to lot line, ready to build.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING
#2019 $595,000
Great location on a corner lot on main street coming into Merritt. This 7300 sq.ft. building is zoned C-4 with a site specific zoning for prof. offices, doctors, lawyers etc. Lots of parking.
OPPORTUNITY
#2137 $325,000
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0.91 acres fronting the Nicola River in the city limits. Within walking distance to downtown. City services not yet to lot line but with vicinity and be arranged for hook up.
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Private acreage, treed with great access to Spius creek. Several good building sites, has a drilled well and hydro to lot line. Located in Sunshine Valley off Cleasby Road.
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#2359 $89,900
Flat commercial lot zoned C-3 on one of the busiest streets in Merritt. Prime location to start your business or relocate it to a better location. Services to property line.
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Recently renovated home with open concept & vaulted ceilings with exposed beams. Oak kitchen cabinets, 3 bedrms up, 1 on main. Enjoy the gazebo & sunsets with views of the mountains.
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After six years Clark was again faced with a turning point in his career, as travelling from school to school once again became hectic.
He could either leave Merritt to pursue teach-ing music elsewhere, or he could take a job as a general teacher.
He chose the latter, becoming a Grade 2
and 3 teacher at Merritt Bench Elementary for the next 21 years and even got to teach music!
Clark estimated he’s taught 2,000 students, some of whom he sees around town, and will stop to say hello.
“I really like that connection,” Clark said.
Clark took the earli-est opportunity to retire with a full pension and said he wanted to do
so when he still had the energy for the job.
“It really is a very, very demanding job and I’m just getting to the point where I’m getting tired,” he said. “I can’t keep up the pace any-more.”
Clark also wanted to be able to focus on initiatives in music while he still had some gas left in the tank.
But Clark’s teaching
days will not be entirely over, however, as he plans to focus on being a grandfather.
His own children were all married within a 20-month span and are having children over a span of four months.
Three of the Clark’s four children live in Whitehorse, where James and Diane are currently for the birth of their second grandchild.
They were just there this past March for the birth of their first.
In August James and Diane will be in Victoria for the birth of their third grandchild.
Clark said the births coming in such a close proximity was a fasci-nating experience.
Clark also plans to spend time promoting music and the arts in Merritt.
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Clark looks back on three decades of teaching
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We talked about world problems last week. They have not gone away. We had the earthquakes in Tibet, and other smaller ones in random areas. They seem to be coming more often. Then, we have the problems with home-grown terrorism. This is a real concern in the United States.
The last commission Jesus gave to the disciples was to share the gospel with the whole world. Not part of it. Not some of it. Not most of it. The whole world.
Daniel said at the time of the end that knowledge would be increased. In Revelation, John saw an angel y in the midst of Heaven, giving the everlasting gospel to the entire world.
No matter where you are in the world, people have radios. The adventist church has a powerful radio in Guam and from there, the good news of Jesus and His love is broadcast to the whole world. The gospel can be heard even in areas where it is strictly forbidden because there are no borders for air waves.
I donate to this radio cause. In their news letter I read about a girl in her later
teens, living where the gospel is forbidden, who started to listen secretly and accepted Jesus as her Friend and Saviour. But who could she tell? She could not express and share her love for Jesus with anyone for fear of being killed.
She kept it all to herself. One day she slipped while talking with her father only to nd out that he was in the same situation. He too was hiding his faith. He had accepted Jesus but was afraid to tell anyone. What joy they felt. Now the family was told and all had a chance to learn about Jesus.
How often do these things happen? We do not know?
Jesus wants all to hear and accept Him. Through Him we can have a better life. We can have hope if we accept Him.
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In my practice, patients often ask me if it would be ben-eficial to wear a back “support” or “belt” whenever they are doing any physical work.
My personal opin-ion is that there are many different types of back supports or belts available and some are definitely better than others.
However, the prob-lem is that none of
the manufacturers, to my knowledge, have truly done any good research and testing to see if a back support actually helps prevent a low back injury in the first place.
In the U.S., back injuries account for nearly 20 per cent of all injuries and ill-nesses in the workplace and cost the nation an estimated 20 to 50 bil-lion dollars per year.
I assume the stats for Canada are just as significant.
Many of the big corporate and industry people who have thou-sands of employees believe that the most effective way to pre-vent a back injury is to teach people how to lift and work safely, as well as making sure the ergonomics of their work area are good.
Regardless of
whether or not the research says that back supports work, there has still been a dra-matic increase in the use of them.
I feel that it is important that people and employers under-stand that a back sup-port belt is not a “cure all” solution to pre-venting a back injury.
As a chiropractor, I know that it is even more important to
learn how to lift prop-erly, to have strong core muscles, and to visit your chiroprac-tor regularly in order to maintain proper mobility of the spine.
To answer the question of “do back support belts help pre-vent a back injury?” I would say that the answer is “it is pos-sible.”
However, there sim-ply isn’t enough good research out there to give a definitive “yes.”
I would rather see a person doing a regular core strengthening and stretching program to prevent back injuries than wearing a back support belt.
Do back support belts help?
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Are you upset or angry with someone in your life?
Did the situation which caused you to feel that way happen just recently, or some time ago?
What does it feel like, in your body, when you think about this?
Often we feel a tightening or heaviness in our heart or our gut.
No matter what
someone has done to us, no matter how right we might be to feel upset, we are the ones who carry the emo-tional weight as long as we remain upset.
The turmoil within takes a toll on us, while the one who caused it may have put it out of his or her mind.
We do not have to stay hurt.
Here are the options.
If we have a gener-ally good relationship with the person, and they did not intend to hurt us, we can simply decide to let it go.
If the relation-ship has ‘issues’, and our hurt comes from ongoing insensitivity to our feelings, we can attempt to see if there
can be a way to resolve the problem.
If the relationship is worth it, professional help may be a good investment.
If the problem is with someone we do not need or want to associate with, we can just let it go, along with the person.
The relationship is clearly not a healthy one if we find our-
selves always harboring resentment.
The bottom line here is that, one way or another, we must find a way to let go of hurt and anger: that feeling it creates in our bodies is the signal that it does unhealthy things to us.
Gwen Randall-Young is an author and award-winning Psychotherapist.
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I feel that it is important that people and employers
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The Merritt Centen-nials hockey club announced on July 10 that it has hired Matt Samson from Squamish as the team’s new assis-tant coach. Samson assumes the position for-mally held by Joe Martin, who has moved up to the role of head coach and GM with the Cents following the departure of Luke Pierce to the WHL’s Kootenay Ice.
Samson, 35, is the former head coach and GM of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League’s North Vancouver Wolfpack. This past year, the Wolfpack went 32-9-1-2 in the regular season and 12-3 in the playoffs to win the PIJHL champi-
onship for the first time.“Over the last few
years, I’ve worked with Matt on up-and-coming players for our team,” Martin said. “Matt has always worked well with us, and we look forward to bringing him here and getting started on the upcoming season.”
For his part, Samson said that he is excited to be joining a great organization like the Centennials and getting the opportunity to coach in the BCHL.
“Over the past few years in North Vancouver, I have had a great relationship with Luke and Joe. This gave me a strong interest in keeping track of the [Centennials] and the team’s progress under their guidance. After
having a couple of really good conversations with Joe and travelling up to Merritt, I knew that this was an organization I wanted to be part of. I am extremely grateful for this opportunity.”
Samson was born in Winnipeg, but moved to North Vancouver at the age of seven. He played all his minor hockey in North Van before spending two years in the PIJHL with the Richmond Sockeyes and the Delta Ice Hawks.
His success in junior hockey led to an NCAA Div. 3 scholarship, first to Concordia College in Minnesota and then to Buffalo State University in New York. Samson graduated from Buffalo State in 2005 with a degree in communica-
tions.After returning to
North Vancouver and coaching a couple of seasons in minor hockey and with the WHA, Samson partnered with his dad to apply for a PIJHL franchise in Squamish.
The Wolfpack lasted three seasons in Squamish before mak-ing the move to North Vancouver.
“Squamish is a good hockey market, but it was tough the way the league was set up to recruit play-ers,” Samson said. “It would probably fit better in the KIJHL, where the players are used to travel-ing and billeting. The PIJHL is more of a com-muter league.”
The first years of the Wolfpack did pro-duce former Centennial Brandon Pfeil, who enjoyed two excellent seasons with Merritt before earning an Ivy League scholarship to Brown University.
“That was when I first met Luke,” Samson said. “We kept in touch because of Brandon, and then I started attending his camps in Abbotsford. It was definitely great to establish a relationship
with Luke and later with Joe.”
During his time with the Wolfpack, Samson has had the pleasure of coaching a number of notable players, includ-ing Malcolm Gould, the older brother of current Centennial Gavin Gould.
“Malcolm played with us the second year in Squamish,” Samson said. “We also recruited Gavin, but he made the jump straight to Merritt as a 17-year-old which was too bad for us.”
Samson also coached the sons of a couple of former Vancouver Canucks — Ty and Jared Babych along with Taylor Tanti.
“Ty was just a 16-year-old. He won rookie-of-the-year. After, he went on to play
three seasons with the Chilliwack Chiefs of the BCHL.”
Asked about his coaching philosophy, Samson said, “I feel that I am a good communica-tor with my players, and that I can push the right buttons in order to get the most out of them. I like to see my teams work hard every night, with every player on the same page working towards a common goal.
“I’m looking forward to the next challenge at the BCHL level. My family is excited about the move. We know how much the community supports the team and is behind them.”
Samson is married. He and his wife, Erin, have a one-year-old daughter, Sydney.
Merritt professional golfer Roger Sloan enjoyed his best week-end so far in his rookie season on the PGA Tour.
Sloan, 28, finished in a six-way tie for 18th place at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois. The top-20 finish on the world’s number one golf circuit earned Sloan just over $59,000 in prize money.
Playing on the TPC Deer Run course in Silvis, Sloan shot rounds of 70-68-67-67 for a 72-hole total of 12-under-par 272, his best score this season, and just eight strokes back of the winner, Jordan Spieth.
“It was nice to get off the little train we’ve been riding (he had missed the cut in his five previous PGA Tour outings) and get back in the mix,” Sloan said on the phone Monday from Auburn, Alabama, where he is prepar-ing for this weekend’s $3.5 million Barbasol Championship.
“It was a great golf
tournament, a fantastic event,” Sloan went on to say. “It was nice to go out in the first round and play well, and then keep the ball rolling.
“There’s such a fine line between everything going in and nothing going in. I’ve been strug-gling a bit all year with my putting, and this past week, I started making some key putts, some good birdie putts.”
Sloan said the John Deere Classic has a bit of special significance for him.
“After I won in Nova Scotia last season (on the web.Com Tour) and knew that I would be going on the PGA Tour this year, the John Deere Classic was the very next week. As I watched it on TV, it kind of sunk in — I’m going to be at that event next year.”
His first season on the PGA Tour has been all about learning, Sloan said.
“I’m chalking this whole first year up to experience. You learn every week, and try to apply what you learn to the next week. That’s how you improve. Once
you start to feel comfort-able, that’s when the confidence starts to sky-rocket.”
As for the John Deere being his best pay day since joining the PGA Tour, Sloan said, “Money has never been the objective. It’s simply to get better, to improve each and every day and be there on Sunday playing against the world’s best. That’s quite a thrill, and you can’t put a price on it.”
Sloan also shared
some insight into last weekend’s winner, Spieth, who is setting the professional golf world on fire this year.
“You couldn’t ask for a nicer guy,” Sloan said. “He handles himself very well. He’s so grounded and very humble — sort of everything you could ask for in an athlete. He’s actually an inspiration for me. He just gets the job done, on and off the golf course.
“I shared a golf cart
with him at the Byron Nelson event in Dallas, and it was remarkable. I felt like the little kid, even though he’s seven years younger than me. That’s the kind of presence and stature he has.”
After the Barbasol Championship this weekend, Sloan will make his way to Oakville, Ont. to pre-pare for the Canadian Open at the storied Glen Abbey Golf Course from July 23 to 26.
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Merritt’s Glenda Rodgers (left) and Diana Parsons each scored a deuce on Sunday en route to finishing first low gross (171) in flight one of the Pud Griffin Ladies Two-Ball Golf Tournament at the 108 Mile Resort in the Cariboo. “It was a tough course, with lots of sidehill lies,” Lorenz said. “You really had to put a lot of thought into your shots. Many of the greens required a real read.” Heavy rain on Saturday night of the two-day event did little to affect play the next day. “The course absorbed everything,” Lorenz said. Sunday, Lorenz and Rodgers played their round with the eventual low gross champions (166), Lisa Kerley and Crystal Wells from Williams Lake. The overall low net title (119) went to local 108 Mile golfers Lori Henderson and Deb Garrow. Two other Merritt golfers, De De Connolly and Liz Claman, also attended the 108 Mile event. All four were able to stay right at the resort, thanks to hosts Andy and Char Wahnscaff who used to run the Merritt Golf & Country Club. “It was an amazing weekend, and a great experience to play that course,” Lorenz said. Photo submitted
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Merritt Centennials land a new assistant coach
Sloan 18th at PGA’s John Deere ClassicIan WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD
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TERMS OF EN’DEERE’MENT Merritt’s Roger Sloan shot a 12-under-par 272 to finish 18th overall at the PGA’s John Deere Classic in Illinois on the weekend. Photo courtesy of Roger Sloan website
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SPORTS
Parsons enjoying life in the fast lane
MERRITT STOCK CAR ASSOCIATION
RACE RESULTS - Saturday, July 11
Fastest Times Bomber 4-cyl. #32 Tim Fowler 19.814 sec. 6/8-cyl. #09 Bill Fader 19.707 Street #55 Angela Klassen 20.592 Hobby #75 Jake Mills 17.242
Dash Bomber 4-cyl. A #X Dean Bridge B #18 Murray Jones 6/8-cyl. #08 Alex Ruttan Street #55 Angela Klassen Hobby A #42 Jack Goddyn B #57 Tom Parsons C #99 Amy Parsons
Heat Bomber 4-cyl. #18 Murray Jones 6/8-cyl. #09 Bill Fader Street #55 Angela Klassen Hobby A #43 Dennis Smith B #52 Clayton Scott
Main Bomber 4-cyl. #X Dean Bridge 6/8-cyl. #09 Bill Fader Street #55 Angela Klassen Hobby #99 Amy Parsons
At the tender age of 21, Merritt stock car driver Amy Parsons is mak-ing quite a name for herself on the local racing scene.
Competing in the ultra-com-petitive Hobby class at the Merritt Speedway on the weekend, Parsons cruised to two victories over a field loaded with driving experience and dirt-track savvy.
Parsons kicked off her night-of-racing-to-remember by narrowly winning the five-lap Hobby C dash over Clayton Scott from Kamloops.
The two-car tussle came right down to the wire, with Scott leading most of the race and Parsons hang-ing off his bumper to the outside. On the final corner, Parsons used her high line to slingshot past Scott for the victory.
Later the same night, in the 30-lap Hobby main event that fea-tured an 11-car field, Parsons sur-vived some heavy-metal crunching in the early going to claim her first main event title since moving up to the Hobby division last season.
Only six cars finished the full 30 laps, as fender-benders and various mechanical problems sent Scott, Amy’s dad Tom, Brad Mackay, Jack Goddyn and Grant Powers to the
sidelines.The younger Parsons took over
the lead from Scott in the ninth lap and basically stayed out of harms way for the duration of the race. Dennis Smith from Kamloops finished second and Forest Grove’s Damian Lindberg third.
Other two-time winners on Saturday night at the Merritt Speedway were Murray Jones (B dash and heat) and Dean Bridge (A dash and main) in the four-cylinder class, and the ‘Silver Fox’, Bill Fader, in the 10-lap heat and main of the six and eight-cylinder division.
After five races dates completed on the 11-date schedule at the Merritt Speedway, local driver Tim Fowler continues to maintain a nar-row lead in the four-cylinder class with 387 points, followed closely by Jason Schapansky from Kamloops with 346.
In the six and eight-cylinder divi-sion, it’s going to be hard for anyone to catch the ‘Silver Fox’ as Fader has almost a 200-point lead over another local in second place, Alex Ruttan.
It’s a horse race in the Hobby class, however, with no fewer than four drivers within 40 points of one another.
Despite only racing the double-header back in May, Victoria’s Brent
Morris continues to top the Hobby field with 283 points, followed by new Merrittonian Jake Mills in sec-ond (258), Prince George’s Grant Powers third (256) and Lindberg in fourth with 247 points.
The Street class continues to suffer from a lack of drivers and cars this season, with only Merritt’s Angela Klassen regularly racing.
Next up on the race calendar at the Merritt Speedway is the second annual Albert Kosolofski Memorial Race Day on August 1, followed by Family Day on August 2.
The theme for Family Day on the Sunday is western, with everyone encouraged to dress up in their cow-boy and cowgirl finest.
PHOTO FINISH Merritt’s Amy Parsons (99) takes the chequered flag ahead of Clayton Scott from Kamloops in the five-lap Hobby class C dash on Saturday night. Later, Parsons (left) would take the feature 30-lap Hobby main event. Ian Webster/Herald
Ian WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD
Locals excel at Nicola Valley Riding Club Horse Show
JUMP TIME Local rider Megan Dunsmore takes her horse, Legs, over a cross-rail jump at the Nicola Valley Riding Club Horse Show on Sunday. The twosome went on to win the Junior Overall title at the one-day event. Photo courtesy of Ken Tiessen
Over 35 riders from as far away as Penticton and Bridge Lake took part in the Nicola Valley Riding Club Horse Show at the rodeo grounds on Sunday.
Local competitors, many of them first-timers, did extremely well, winning exactly half of the 38 English and Western classes, and taking five of 10 high-point and overall titles.
Look for more great photos from the horse show in next Tuesday’s Merritt Herald.
Ian WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD
NICOLA VALLEY RIDING CLUB HORSE SHOW - JULY 12LOCAL RESULTS
Class Winners High Point Winners
Halter Junior - Niah Prowal (Catori) Lead LineWestern Pleasure Junior - Nathan van Rensburg (Indy) Halen Pinel (Coco)Western Horsemanship Junior - Nathan van Rensburg (Indy)Western Horsemanship Walk/Jog - Olivia Schmid (Matty)Western Command Junior - Lexus Thomas (Arizona) Western JuniorTrail/Handy Horse Junior - Megan Dunsmore (Legs) Nathan van Rensburg (Indy)Trail/Handy Horse Lead Line - Halen Pinel (Coco)English Pleasure Junior - Megan Dunsmore (Legs)English Pleasure Lead Line - Halen Pinel (Coco) English JuniorEnglish Basic Seat Equitation Junior - Megan Dunsmore (Legs) Lexus Thomas (Arizona)English Basic Seat Equitation Walk/Trot - Hope Thomas (Maverick)English Basic Seat Equitation Lead Line - Halen Pinel (Coco)Road Hack Junior - Niah Prowal (Catori) Walk/Trot OverallHunter Under Saddle Senior - Hope Thomas (Diesel) Olivia Schmid (Matty)Hunter Under Saddle Junior - Lexus Thomas (Arizona)English Command Junior - Megan Dunsmore (Legs)Rails on the Ground Hunter Open - Michele Pinel (Beauty) Junior OverallCross Rails Walk/Trot - Olivia Schmid (Matty) Megan Dunsmore (Legs)Cross Rails Junior - Niah Prowal (Catori)
Michele Pinel and lead line high point winners Halen Pinel and Coco. Photo courtesy of Darlene Gellrich
Free Music in the Park - the Doug JaMes BanD Thursday, July 16, 2015
6:30-9p.m. at Rotary Park.
Contact the Merritt Civic
Centre for more informa-
tion: 250-315-1050
suMMer girls grouPBig Brothers Big Sisters
and Merritt Youth & Family
Resources Society are
offering a free fun, active
and informative summer
girls group for ages 9-11.
The group will meet on
Tuesdays and Thursdays
between 3:00 and 4:30
from July 21st to August
13th. To register for Go
Girls! contact Brittney
Parks, 250-280-2327 or
Lenora Fletcher, 250-378-
4878.
liVing With loss suPPort grouPLiving with the Loss Support
Group Wednesday 7 p.m.
- 8:45 p.m. #12-2025
Granite Ave, Merritt. Call
250-280-4040.
21st annual nicola Valley cruisers shoW n shine Sunday, July 26 at Central
Park, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Donations to Food Bank
accepted. Bring your family
and enjoy a look back in
time. Vintage cars to mod-
ern.
loWer nicola Flea Market at sMith Pioneer Park! Love a good bargain?
Want to earn a little cash?
Come enjoy a fun day at
the park with the people,
the food, the large var-
iety of fabulous vendors,
the entertainment and the
FUN! SUMMER DATES:
July 12 & 26, August 9 &
23, September 13 & 20,
October 4. HOURS - 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Message Lower
Nicola Flea Market or call
Diane at 250-378-3481.
accePting registration
1st Merritt Beavers, Cubs
and Scouts now accepting
early registration for fall
2015. For more information,
please contact Karen Pare at
(250)378-2706
conayt BingoJoin Conayt Friendship
Society every Thursday for
bingo. Doors open at 4:30
p.m. and bingo starts at
6 p.m. Everyone welcome
to come and play bingo!
2164 Quilchena Ave.
conayt elDers DroP in centreTuesday & Thursday
Mornings, 8:30 a.m. –
Noon, 2164 Quilchena
Avenue. All Elders welcome
– just come out and visit!
For info, contact Deloris at
250-378-5107.
DroP oFF tiMes oF Donations to Fair BuilDing If you have items to
donate, drop off dates at
the Fair Building as below
or any afternoon on Yard
Sale Dates. Please do not
leave items at the gate. This
year we will respectfully
decline donations of mat-
tresses, VCR’s, TV’s, expired
car seats, and exercise
equipment. Any yard sale
days donations welcome
until Aug 1. Saturdays 3
- 5 p.m. May 9 & 30. June
13 & 27. July 4 & 25.
Wednesdays 3 - 5 p.m.
May 13 & 27. June 10 &
24. July 8. Contact Martha
250-378-2303 for yard
sale information.
Fall Fair yarD salesSaturdays 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Sundays 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Dates 2015: May 23, 24.
June 27, 28. July 11, 12.
Aug 1, 2. Aug 15, 16.
1st annual golF For guateMalaSaturday, july 18, 2 p.m.
to 8 p.m. at merritt golf and
country club. featuring golf,
dinner silent, and silent
auction. benefiting the
Nicola Valley Evangelical
Free Church Missions trip
to Guatemala. Contact
Terrell Balan at balan@
smartstepyouth.org or call
250-525-0141 for more.
nicola Valley cruisers car cluB Are you interested in cars,
cruising and joining in activ-
ities related to cars? Nicola
Valley Cruisers Car Club would
welcome you as a member.
Meetings are monthly on
the 1st Wednesday of the
month at the Ramada at
7:00 p.m. For more info call
Russ or Charlotte at 250-
378-2290.
elks BingoEvery Wednesday at 1 p.m.
Doors open at 12 p.m.
knitWitsLove to knit or crochet?
Come on down to Brambles
Bakery Thursday evenings
bring your yarn and needles
and join in the fun. (1st
Thursday of the month)
rockin’ riVer Music FestiValThursday, July 30, 2015
to Sunday, August 2. At
Merritt Music Festival Site.
For more information visit:
rockinriverfest.com
looking For VolunteersWe are looking for
Convenors and helpers for the Fall Fair. If you are interested please call Kathy 250-378-5925 or Marianne 250-378-9929 or any Convenor in the fair Catalogue. We are look-ing for helpers of all ages. Many jobs available please call for schedule of events and work days.
Phone 250-378-4241 with any events that you may be hosting or email: [email protected]
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Have an event we should know about? Tell us by calling 250-378-4241 or emailing [email protected] Approved mini-storage
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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
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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, July 16, 2015 - Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Thurs. July 16
A few showers
High: 22˚CLow: 11˚C
Fri. July 17
Chance of a shower
High: 24˚CLow: 30˚C
Sat. July 18
Sunny
High: 30˚CLow: 14˚C
Sun. July 19
Sunny
High: 31˚CLow: 17˚C
Mon. July 20
Chance of a shower
High: 29˚CLow: 18˚C
Tue. July 21
Mix of sun and clouds
High: 26˚CLow: 15˚C
Wed. July 22
Chance of a shower
High: 23˚CLow: 12˚C
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It is with heavy hearts that the family of Sadie Elizabeth Atkinson announce that she has entered into rest peacefully on July 7, 2015, at Gillis House in Merritt, B.C. Sadie moved to Merritt from Galiano Island where she had lived all her life. She lived 5 years with her daughter Millie Kirk and son-in-law Doug Kirk. After that she resided for 7 1/2 years in Gillis House in Merritt. She was 93 when she passed into Gods hands to be with her husband Harry and son and daughter, Alfred and Karen.
She is survived by her daughter Millie Kirk, in that family unit. Also survived by many grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren. lots of nephews and nieces, son-in-laws and daughter in-law.
She was predeceased by her husband, Harry Atkinson, son Alfred Atkinson, and daughter Karen Gaynor. and her siblings; Ronnie, Alvin, Jean and Shirley.
Sadie was born without hearing, due to her mother having German measles at three months of pregnancy. She went to Jerico School for the Deaf, where she learned, how to speak and sign language. Her writing and grammar were excellent for a person whom has never heard sound. She spoke well for a person that could not hear sound at all.
At 21 she married Harry Atkinson and raised three children on Galiano Island where she lived until she moved to Merritt to be with her daughter.
A celebration of life will be held next July on Galiano Island, where her ashes will be put to rest in Active Pass, where her husband Harry’s ashes were spread. As he was a sherman whom shed those waters. Finally back home where her heart always was.
Rest in peace my wonderful Mom. Always beside us... love you
Sadie Elizabeth ATKINSON
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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Elea-nore Jean Pichurski on July 8, 2015 at the age of 76, due to a Hypoxic brain injury.
Eleanore passed away peacefully in the loving arms of her husband, Brownie, daughters Bren-da and Ramona, grand-
son Desmond and his girlfriend Abigail and Bonnie Padley at Royal Inland Hospital.
Eleanore lived most of her life in Merritt. Eleanore worked at Indian Health and then worked at the South Central Health Unit until her retirement at the age of 55.
Eleanore was predeceased by her mother and father Al-ice and Johnny Bann and her sister Shirley Young.
Eleanore is survived by her husband Brownie, daughters Brenda (Ken Franklin), Ramona (Kelly Lough) and son Darrell (Jennifer), granddaughter Megan Franklin, grandsons Alex Franklin, Desmond Lough, Nick and Jackson Pichurski and her beloved dog Madison.
Our sincere gratitude of thanks to the incredible medical team of paramedics, Dr. Woychuk and nurses at the Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre and Dr. Prasad and his medical team at Royal Inland Hospital, for their efforts, com-passion and support.
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Eleanore Jean Pichurski
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TRADE JOURNEYMANHEAVY DUTY MECHANIC
MerrittEmcon Services Inc. is seeking applications, from quali ed individuals who are interested in lling the above noted Auxiliary position. The position is that of a Trade Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic, preferably with experience repairing and maintaining highway maintenance equipment. This position requires a skilled and experienced mechanic; one who is safety-conscious, production oriented and self-motivated. Some shift work and eld work is required, duties and responsibilities are in accordance with established TJ Mechanic classi cation specs, and the successful applicant will be required to supply their own trade related hand tools. Applicants must have the following quali cations and experience as a minimum.
Trade Journeyman Certi cation in Heavy Duty • Mechanics (BC TQ Certi cate).BC Driver’s License, minimum Class 3 with air • endorsement.Preferrably Grade 12 education.• CVIP Certi cation an asset.• Knowledge and experience in Preventative • Maintenance Programs.Good knowledge of trade related worksite • safety.Proven work experience on industry related • heavy duty equipment such as gravel trucks, plow trucks, winter maintenance attachments, loaders, graders, sweepers, mowers, backhoes, etc.Prefer individual who has up-to-date technical • knowledge via trade related courses and/or training updates since achieving their TQ certi cation.
Wage as per CLAC Collective Agreement
Quali ed individuals are invited to submit their resume outlining quali cations, experience and references to:
Emcon Services Inc.,#105 – 1121 McFarlane Way, Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B9
E-mail: [email protected]
The selected candidate will be responsible for identifying family’s problems, assisting family’s to figure out a solution and develop a holistic approach to achieve a positive outcome. To support activities offered by the Conayt Friendship Society’s Family Preservation program. S/he provides leadership, advocacy, direct services, and facilitates activities to promote and optimize the healthy development of families living in the Merritt area.
Reporting to the Programs Manager the Family Preservation Coordinator ensures the program remains, efficient, effective and accountable to the Society, its funding partners and stakeholders.
Qualifications and Requirements:
Degree in Social Work is mandatory; please provide copy of grades and degree with resume;Familiar with Ministry of Children & Families Development Case Management practices;Proficient computer skills in MS office, Internet, and email;Counselling, facilitation, teaching and group leadership skills;Successful applicant must pass a Criminal Record Check for working with children & vulnerable adultsSuccessful applicant must have a valid BC Driver’s License with drivers abstractAs per Section 16 of the Federal Charter of Human Rights Act, preference will be given to applicants of Aboriginal Ancestry
Closing Date: Friday July 31st, 2015 at 05:00pm
Please submit a cover letter and resume to:
Attention: Executive Director
Conayt Friendship Society
2164 Quilchena Ave.
PO Box 1989 Merritt, BC V1K 1B8
Phone: (250) 378-5107
Fax: (250) 378-6676
E-mail: [email protected]
*All resumes will be carefully reviewed, however, only those applicants invited to an interview will be contacted.
Conayt Friendship SocietyEmployment Opportunity
FAMILY PRESERVATION COORDINATOR
(30hrs per week)
Our hearts are saddened by your passing. You have been the greatest husband, father, grandfather, and uncle to so many. You will be missed, but will always be in our hearts and minds. When we all stop and think about you, someone will say, remember when we did this with you.
When a young man, Joseph joined the U.S. Marine Corp and served in the Paci c. Once discharged, he met and married his loving wife, Helen. Married almost 65 years, they have worked, traveled, and played together, side by side.
One of his greatest joys in life was trapshooting. Since 1950, between the ATA and PITA, he had amassed over 350,000 registered targets. He enjoyed hunting on horseback with his Dad, Joseph Sr., until he was 96. In recent years he rode with his oldest son, John, and good friend Dr. Duncan Ross. The time he spent in Muncho Lake B.C., on the Alaska Highway as a Lodge owner, was a great time for him. He had a great way with people. He loved to tease the ladies with his gift of the gab.
Joe's passing left behind a loving wife Helen, his children Joey (Denny), Jean (Dave), John (Karen), and Jim (Laura). 10 grandchildren - Mandy, Shauna, Corey, Joseph, Shane, Loren, Jessica, Juliana, Branden, Skyla, as well as 10 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
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JOSEPH HENDERSON RICHTERJULY 9, 1929 - JULY 9, 2015
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EMCON SERVICES INC., a Road & Bridge Maintenance and General Contractor with of ces throughout British Columbia, invites applications for a Payroll Clerk position in our Merritt of ce. This position requires an individual who has previous payroll experience, can handle multiple priorities and deadlines in a busy and complex of ce environment, as well as, possesses excellent verbal and written skills, be well organized, have solid computer experience and knowledge. Experience with Microsoft Of ce (Excel, Word, Access, Explorer Contract Manager) would be an asset.
This position requires above average attention to detail, accuracy and con dentiality. General of ce clerical duties will also be required ( ling, typing, data processing, telephone reception and client/customer referrals, etc.)
This is a full time position. The hours of work will be Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The annual salary for this position is $35,360.00.
Quali ed applicants are invited to submit resumes outlining experience and references on or before July 16th, 2015.
Please mail, fax or e-mail resumes to:HR ManagerEmcon Services Inc.#105-1121 McFarlane WayMerritt, B.C. V1K 1B9Fax: 250-378-4106E-mail: [email protected]
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daughter
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1 bdrm Suite in Lower Nicola. $600 plus hydro.
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By virtue of the Warehouseman's Lien Act,
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costs of unpaid storage.John Sinclair - Unit #34
Amount owing $346.25
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