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The Lower Nicola Community Hall was packed with costumed party-goers on Saturday for its annual Halloween dance. The dance was one of two that night, while the Civic Centre hosted its family-friendly haunted house and monster mash on Friday. For more photos of the Halloween fun, see page 8.

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Chief, council offi cially take offi ceThe new chief and coun-

cil for the Lower Nicola Indian Band officially kicked off its three-year term with an oath of office and swear-ing in ceremony on Oct. 23.

The seven councillors and chief vowed to act in the best interest of their com-munity, not abuse drugs and alcohol, and to follow LNIB law in their oath in front of about 200 band members who attended the ceremony

at the band school. “It is a promise that each

of them makes to us and to all of you to do certain things,” electoral officer Raymond Phillips told the crowd.

Phillips read out each paragraph of the oath, which the chief and council repeated back.

“We will not allow our business or personal affairs to influence our decision-making and we will always consider the best interest of the community when mak-

ing a decision,” the council swore.

LNIB elder Doreen Sterling commended council members for offering their time and energy to work for the community.

“When we are looking at the chief and council, we’re looking at people who we’re expecting to not only listen to what the people are say-ing but to hear with the core of your being. Listen from the inside out to what the people are saying, to what they’re asking,” Sterling

said. “Those decisions that you make are not only for the people who you see here today, which includes children. Those decisions impact the children of the children that are here: our future.”

She also gave them some advice in starting their three-year term.

“Be honest about what it is that you know and be honest about what you don’t know,” she said later in her speech.

The members signed two

original documents with elder witnesses and guest witnesses Merritt Mayor Susan Roline, RCMP Staff Sgt. Sheila White, and aboriginal principal for school district 58 Shelley Oppenheim-Lacerte, who each gave a short speech.

“I know we’ve got many things that we can accom-plish together that will ben-efit our entire valley,” Roline said.

The members of the 2010-13 council were also recognized by Chief Aaron

Sam and presented with gifts.

“I think it’s important that we acknowledge our former leaders and the hard work they’ve done for this community,” Sam said.

Students at the LNIB school opened the ceremony with a drum song and the swearing-in closed with a chief and council honour song performed by a drum group led by Len Bearshirt.

The ceremony was immediately followed by a community dinner.

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Two groups of youths from the Merritt area got to learn about and sample bowling and curling last Friday.

PacificSport Interior BC, in conjunc-tion with the City of Merritt, held one of its XploreSportZ camps for Merritt youth aged seven to 12.

PacificSport Interior BC also held one of the camps with Scw’exmx Community Health Services for youth from the aborigi-nal communities of Coldwater, Shackan and Nooaitch.

PacificSport Interior BC sport development co-ordinator Josee Warren told the Herald the purpose of the XporeSportZ camps is to introduce kids to a wide variety of sports in the hopes they find one they like and join a local organization per-taining to that sport.

Coaches were on hand to give lessons to the youth.

The group with Scw’exmx Community Health Services con-sisted of 15 youths ages eight to 14. The group consisting of Merritt youth had 14 partici-

pants. Each camp got to

experience and learn about the sports of curling and bowling. They also swam at the Nicola Valley Aquatic

Centre and learned lifesaving skills.

XploreSportZ camp leader Lori Hewson told the Herald many of the children at the camps had never tried

curling or bowling before, and some don’t know how to swim.

“We take a day to try and fit in as many sports as we can and then the kids get about

an hour and a half with a coach that’s going to teach them the basics of each of the sports and hope-fully they like some-thing in one of the day

camps,” Hewson said.“Kids are supposed

to be active 60 minutes a day, so that’s what we’re trying to pro-mote,” Hewson said.

Camp member Justice Aspinall told the Herald she enjoyed curling.

“It’s cool, a little hard though,” she said.

Curling Club mem-

ber and coach for the day Bob Taylor told the Herald his group of curlers were fast learn-ers and did a good job of balancing on the ice.

XploreSportZ holds camps during school inservice days, a two-day-camp Christmas break and a week-long camp during spring break, Warren said.

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A tentative deal that will see school support workers receive a 3.5 per cent raise has been reached between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (the union representing edu-cation support staff) and

the B.C. Public Schools Employers Association.The two groups announced they’ve reached an agreement under the 2012 Co-operative Gains Mandate last week.The provincial frame-work for the deal was reached on Wednesday for

the 27,000 kindergarten to

Grade 12 CUPE education support staff, who have been without a contract for

a year.The two-year agree-ment provides a one per

cent increase dating from July 1, 2012; a two per cent increase on Feb. 1, 2014 and the 0.5 per cent

on May 1, 2014.The new agreement is retroactive and will expire just over nine months from now.

Local CUPE president Wade Thompson said the deal still needs to be ratified by the union mem-

bers, and he hopes to set up a date to ratify the deal within the week.

Thompson said the union has a good relation-ship with School District 58 and doesn’t believe ratifying the deal will be a

problem.“We’re cautiously opti-

mistic and the reality of the situation is we’re here for the kids, we work with the kids, we’re about the kids,” Thompson said, not-ing the general consensus is not to have a strike.Each school district board will need to meet with their local CUPE chapter and formulate an

agreement dealing with all of their local issues to create a final agreement which each side will need

to ratify. The school district will

need to find the funding to incorporate the new raise and have its school trustees approve the plan before sending it to the Ministry

of Education for approval.The deadline to ratify the agreement is Dec. 20.School District 58 superintendent Bob Peacock said every district

needs to come up with a savings plan to show where in their budgets the money for the raise will come from.

“That’s the process that we’re now in, to take a look at our budget and see

where we can get ongoing

savings,” Peacock said, not-ing the savings will need to be ongoing to incorporate the raise for each year.Peacock said he has some ideas on how the school district will accom-

modate the raise in their budget, but preferred not to mention those ideas until they are discussed with the trustees.“I would say at the most, in two weeks, we’d

like to be moving forward with it,” Peacock said.He said he’s happy the

organizations have a deal in place.

“Any time you can get labour peace without dis-rupting the school system

is outstanding,” Peacock said.

The agreement was reached without any con-cessions on the part of CUPE members.The Co-operative Gains Mandate states employers (in this case school districts) need to find savings within their budgets or within the collective agreements to fund modest compensation

increases for workers if warranted. The provincial government is not going to be funding wage increases within the public sector, according to a Ministry of

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the annual Crime Stoppers fundraiser. The 1950s and ’60s-themed event featured gourmet hamburgers, a milkshake bar,

vintage cars, a silent auction, oodles of poodle skirts, and decorations to match. Emily Wessel/Herald

Check in from UBCM

Merritt Mayor Susan Roline,

Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart

and city councillors Mike Goetz,

Dave Baker, Harry Kroeker

and Kurt Christopherson are in

Vancouver this week at the Union

of B.C. Municipalities conference.

The conference got started on

Monday and the group from city

hall met with a few ministers to dis-

cuss various projects.

Coun. Mike Goetz said they met

with Minister of Forests, Lands and

Natural Resource Operations Steve

Thomson on Monday to discuss the

city’s desire to purchase 100 acres

of land behind the bench area that

the city has been looking into for

about a year.

Goetz said the city would like to

bring in more technological-related

industries into town. Not want-

ing to locate those industries in an

industrial area, the city is looking to

purchase the land behind the bench

area for future development.

“Our request is a fairly simple

one, we’re just looking to purchase

some land,” Goetz said. “We’re not

asking for a gift or anything like

that.”The cost of the land is based on

market value, Merritt Mayor Susan

Roline said.

Once the province gives them

the approval to purchase, the city

would need to get three appraisals

of land and the average cost would

determine the value, she said.

Roline said they also talked

about the Gateway 286 project with

Thomson, mentioning the city’s

already invested over $2 million in

infrastructure to service the area

and are eager to see the project

move forward as that investment is

deteriorating.

Roline also attended the fourth

meeting of the BC Mayors Caucus,

which brought together 124 mayors

from around the province.

“Our largest attendance yet,”

Roline said.

By Michael Potestio

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UBCM to vote on city-driven resolutions today

Representatives from Merritt

are sponsoring a couple of

resolutions at the Union of B.C.

Municipalities conference in

Vancouver this week, which could

help eliminate a hurdle in the

Gateway 286 project.

“We’re looking up at the

[Gateway] 286 project, and there’s

land up there that we want to use

that is still governed by the ALR

[Agricultural Land Reserve],”

Coun. Mike Goetz said.

It is also more com-

monly referred to as the ALC

(Agricultural Land Commission)

and its goal is to ensure agricul-

tural land is maintained for agri-

cultural purposes, he said.

The resolution would call on

the provincial government to

establish a process to recognize

that drawbacks to local govern-

ments outweigh the potential

benefits of retaining certain lands

deemed unsuitable to reserve for

agriculture.

The resolution involves the

Agricultural Land Commission

Act and Agricultural Land

Reserve Regulations and aims to

change the regulations pertaining

to these lands.

Another Merritt-sponsored

resolution pertaining to ALC lands

would simplify the process and

time it takes to gain approval and

remove those lands from the ALC.

Goetz said their resolution

would make the acquisition of

agricultural lands for non-agricul-

tural purposes easier.

Both Merritt-sponsored resolu-

tions will be voted on today.

He said the land involved in

the Gateway 286 project is non-

farmable.“There really is no agricultural

concern up there because nothing

grows up there except tumble-

weed,” Goetz said, adding in all

his years in Merritt he’s never seen

anything but weeds growing there.

Goetz said due to the large

number of resolutions, multiple

resolutions will often be rolled

into one “block” and voted on

together.Given the non-contentious

nature of their resolution, Goetz

said he can’t see it failing to pass.

“And it’s not just Gateway 286.

What we’re trying to do is we’re

trying to make that process more

available and easier for everybody

in the province and that’s why we

brought it forward,” Goetz said.

Merritt Mayor Susan Roline

said this resolution will also help

future growth with other lands

that fit this description.

Goetz and Roline said they’ve

received a lot of support on the

resolution from other communities

that have run into these types of

situations.“It’s not hard to figure out that

this kind of thing holds communi-

ties back for years,” Goetz said.

A simpler application process

would cut down on the time it

takes to go through a process to

get the land off the ALC, which

can take years, Goetz said.

Though this resolution won’t

solve all the problems associ-

ated with Gateway 286, it will

knock down at least one hurdle in

Merritt.“You get a process where you

say ‘OK, this is unusable land,

we’ll just automatically take it out

of ALR and it becomes Crown

land, which is much easier to

move into a project than ALR

land,’” Goetz said.

By Michael Potestio

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From the Herald archives: October 1975

Detox center to

be established in Merritt

Funding for a detoxification center in Merritt has been approved by the Treasury Board of the B.C. government.

This center is one of many which are being estab-lished across the province by the Drug and Alcohol Commission. The proposed six-bed center will be man-aged by a local board made up of citizens from the area includ-ing representatives from the RCMP and the Department of Human Resources. The center is expect-ed to begin opera-tions in November.

Backup medical services will be pro-vided by the Nicola Valley Hospital and a staff of four detoxi-fication workers as well as an adminis-trator will be trained by the Drug and Alcohol Commission.

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A number of Merritt busi-nesses were given a leg up this past year though loans from Community Futures.

The non-profit group held its annual general meeting on Wednesday and stated 87 jobs in Merritt were either created or maintained as a result of the eight loans it dis-bursed this past year.

The stats cover between April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 during which time Community Futures distrib-uted $283,650 to eight busi-nesses.

At the meeting, Com-munity Futures chair Jean Perog said the organiza-tion’s current net assets are $1,897,785, of which about $1.6 million is required to be

used for lending purposes. Perog said one of their

loans enabled applicant Pau-line Warren to start the Mer-ritt Return-It Depot, which reopened last October.

“It’s a worthy example of how Community Futures works for the betterment of the business sector and the residents,” Perog said.

Warren told the Herald Community Futures was basi-cally the only option for her and her husband’s business because they were considered a high-risk loan.

She said she was consid-ered high risk because she was buying the Encorp con-tract to open the recycling depot.

“Banks don’t look at that as collateral. You’re not buy-ing something that they can see like a building or a house

or anything like that,” War-ren said.

She said she received a loan of $300,000 between Community Futures Nicola Valley, the Community Futures that serves her for-mer town of Houston, B.C., and the Business Develop-ment Bank of Canada (BDC).

Warren said she received $75,000 from both branches of Community Futures and $150,000 from the BDC.

Warren said Community Futures not only helped with the loan but provided knowl-edge and guidance to help her get the business started.

“[They are] very, very good people to work with,” Warren said.

Perog said it’s been a “back-to-basics year” since the local Community Futures

lost the Work BC contract to Community Futures Thomp-son Country.

“We’ve been able to con-centrate on back-to-basics and getting more involved in more community develop-ment projects,” Perog said.

In its past fiscal year, Community Futures had a loss of $35,403 in operating funds. In investment funds, it had a loss of $207,814. In economic development, it had a profit of $80,864 and a loss of $12,486 in employ-ment services, Perog said.

Manuel Olguin, loan offi-cer for Community Futures, told the Herald of the eight loans they disbursed, four were “micro-loans” – which range between $500 to $10,000. Footprints Harvest, Planet Hair, a local saw and blade sharpening company

and a local workshop all received micro-loans from Community Futures this past fiscal year.

The Merritt Recycling Depot, two heavy-duty con-struction companies and a community event were fund-ed larger loans ranging from $10,000 to $150,000.

Due to their privacy agreements, Community Futures was unable to dis-close some of the specific details concerning the loans and jobs mentioned at the AGM.

Community Futures is funded its operating and lending dollars from the federal government program Western Diversification. The non-profit group’s function is to provide support, such as loans, to small businesses in its local areas.

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CFDC aims to boost business in the valley

Event to connect homeless with servicesThe ASK Wellness

Society is seeking vol-unteers for its home-lessness connect event on Thursday.

The event replaces the homelessness count that the society has organized for the past three years.

“This year, we don’t really want to neces-sarily focus on how many people rather than supporting the

people,” ASK Wellness outreach worker Stacy Wormell said. “We were so focused on the count that we didn’t really get to support them properly. This

year, it’s more about connecting with the people, making sure they’re aware of our services, that they’re warm, if they want to be housed, if they need

warm food, if they need warm clothing.”

Wormell said vol-unteers will talk to the city’s homeless people and can invite them in for a hot lunch at the Fireside Centre on Granite Avenue. She said as winter approaches, the num-ber of homeless people might be decreasing, but the need for ser-vices is constant.

“We do have a rather large transient population moving

throughout the com-munity and it’s all pret-ty seasonal. Right now, our transient popula-tion is a little bit lower because the weather is a little bit cooler,” she said.

Wormell said con-necting with people who are seeking ser-vices can also identify areas where more ser-vice is needed in the community.

“You’re not just a stat to us. You’re important to us. We

want to make sure you’re being taken care of, and more impor-tantly, we want to make sure you feel like you’ve been taken care of,” Wormell said.

The annual cold weather shelter opens Friday for the season and remains open until the end of March.

Anyone interested in volunteering can call Wormell at 315-0098 or visit the ASK Well-ness Society at 2151 Granite Ave.


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TAKING OATH The 2013-16 Lower Nicola Indian Band chief and council read their oath of office at the LNIB school during their swearing-in ceremony last Wednesday. Emily Wessel/Herald

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MP weighs in on throne speechThe Oct. 16 speech

from the throne marked the opening of a new session of Parliament.

Okanagan-Coquihal-la MP Dan Albas said the speech outlined the general commitments the Conservative govern-ment is making to Cana-dians, which he looks forward to seeing trans-lated into legislation.

Albas said he thinks environmental commit-ments mentioned in the speech, such as stepping up liability standards for pipelines and tanker safety, and fiscal com-mitments, most notably the pledge to balance the budget by 2015, will receive local support.

He said having pol-luters pay for their own environmental damage rather than have tax-payers foot the bill for

cleanup is one of the measures receiving sup-port.

As a member of the justice committee, Albas said one area the gov-ernment is working on that wasn’t as prominent as consumer protections in the speech was a com-mitment to protecting victims of crime.

Albas said he’s heard from people in Merritt and in the area advo-cating for stronger sen-

tences for people with repeated convictions of driving under the influ-ence, especially if they cause death or bodily harm.

“What’s interesting for me to see is how those commitments will translate into law,” Albas

said. “What will be in that victims’ bill of rights is what will be important for these people. For me, as the member of Parlia-ment, I’ll be looking for-ward to doing this in this session in Parliament.”


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Several of the speech’s talking points highlighted consumer choice and protection, including a promise to unbundle cable chan-nels, reduce roaming charges, and to legalize bringing beer and spir-its between provinces.

“Definitely, I’ve been hearing from con-sumers [that] having more choice in cable, seeing some reduced roaming fees, and reducing some hidden charges will be treated as good news by a lot of people,” Albas said. “Those are areas I know the government intends to go forward with.”

Albas said breaking down inter-provincial barriers around booze and beer increases choice for consumers and could positively impact some of his rid-ing’s small businesses.

“In Okanagan-Coquihalla, we have a reasonably vibrant craft brewing industry. Craft breweries have grown about 50 per cent in the last five years, so a further amendment to the importation of intoxicating liquors will certainly be positive and welcome in British Columbia,” he said.

Vancouver Island North MP John Dun-can called the recent amendment to the Importation of Intoxi-cating Liquors Act that allows people to bring wine between provinces “very successful.”

“We’re expand-ing that to include beer and spirits and I think it just makes sense that we have free trade within our own country with something as basic as a product that we manufacture in virtually every prov-ince,” Duncan said.

“Our inter-provincial trade barriers are not to be underestimated. They’re quite harmful, especially to our wine and spirits industries.”

The Conservative government’s much-publicized focus on international trade also got its time in the speech, with Gover-nor General David Johnston mentioning Canada was close to finalizing a free trade deal with the European Union. Two days after the throne speech, that agreement-in-principle was finalized.

“Specifically, for British Columbia, some of the measures we’re talking about are promoting our natu-ral resources abroad, whether it’s stuff from the farm gate or fish or forest products,” Duncan said. “This will have a very positive impact on Canadians in the medium and long term.”

Albas said the political agreement on the key elements of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) marks a huge opportu-nity for British Colum-bian manufacturers and especially cattle ranchers for the beef trade.

The agreement removes approximately 99 per cent of tariffs on trades between Canada and the 28 countries of the European Union.

“That, effectively, will open up for our cattle ranchers a whole new market to be able to sell B.C. beef. I think that’s a tremendous market. It’s the largest open trading block in the world for 500 mil-lion consumers. That, I think, is going to be very healthy and very welcomed by local resi-dents,” Albas said.

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The other day, I was interested in translating a post I saw on Facebook to English to see what it said.

So, under the post “Nho moi nguoi wa ah!” I hit the trusty and handy translate button, and this came up: “Grapes moi nguoi wa ah!”

That was helpful. I have to admit,

though, I wasn’t exactly disappointed when the translation from Vietnamese to English made no sense whatsoever. The two language systems have

different nuances that a typical keyboard can’t convey and thus a typical Internet robot can’t translate.

I had lots of fun trying to work around the limitations of online translators when I was actually in Vietnam in 2012.

My friends and I were there for our friend’s wedding, and we were in a small town (by Vietnamese standards) where our hotelier didn’t speak a word of English.

Anyway, on the day of the wedding, as part of Viet-namese custom, the men in our group left the hotel before the women so they could take part in a ceremonial proces-sion down the street to the bride’s house to offer her parents various gifts, including elaborate fruit baskets

that weighed 30-plus pounds.

After the boys were gone, the women assembled in the lobby at 7 a.m. to wait for the van driver to pick us up, all dolled up for the ceremony that would begin at 8 a.m.

However, eight o’clock came and went, and we were still in the lobby.

Our hotelier and her 15-year-old daughter, who also didn’t speak a word of English, could see we were getting increas-ingly agitated.

So, we got to work, trying to mime our concern that we were going to miss the wedding and that our driver had forgotten to come back and pick us up.

That failed spec-tacularly.

By about 8:30 a.m., panic set in

that we were going to miss our good friend’s nuptials and the entire reason we went over-seas to begin with.

We got on the hotel lobby computer and picked an online translator to type back and forth with the hotelier’s daughter. After many miscom-munications — some hilarious and many frustrating — we narrowed down our concerns to a few key words so the transla-tor, if it so chose, could convey the essence of our mes-sage.

Many, many missed messages later, we eventually figured out, with the girl’s help, the guys were already at the bride’s house and that the driver was definitely not coming back for us.

In pairs, we

hopped on the back of her motorbike and she personally drove us to the house. The drive was awkward in a dress, to say the least, especially when we were crossing a very rough dirt field.

At about 9 a.m., we were reunited with the rest of our travel group. We missed the procession and the ceremony, but the rest of the day went a little more smoothly.

It wasn’t long until my friends were jok-ing about the time we almost missed our friend’s wedding. We could make the four connecting flights in foreign airports and do the 40 hours of travel time, but we couldn’t get to the house — just a 20 minute walk from the hotel — on time.

As we all hurried about our morning,

somewhere, something got missed.

It was nobody’s fault, it was just an unfortunate series of miscommunications. It can happen anywhere to anyone, and there is no point in trying to assign blame, dwell-ing on what could’ve been done differently, or taking a miscom-munication personally. In this case, it was a set of circumstances that culminated in a mix-up, and it’s a fact of life. And guess what? We missed the vows, but there’s a lot worse that can hap-pen. We still got to spend the rest of the day with our friends to celebrate their wed-ding, and they are still happily married.

The world kept turning, we all kept breathing, and life went on.

HERALD OPINION

Even bubble wrap can’t prevent the Thwack! of childhood

His name was Steve and he lived exactly two blocks from me.

On that fateful day, Steve was on the tire swing, commanding the rest of us Grade 4 kids to swing him harder and higher and faster and thwack!

That’s when Steve, gripping the chains and leaning back as far as possible to maximize speed, was introduced to the wooden pole holding up his mode of transport.

Thwack! was the sound of Steve’s skull speeding into the wooden pole.

The sickening Thwack! was fol-lowed by the almost gushy sound of Steve’s body crumpling down, across the rubber tire as it swung deliriously and onto the trampled earth.

He was out cold for a while and we nine-year-olds had no idea what to do.

We stared and looked at each other and stared some more.

There was some blood among his matted dirty-blond hair.

Finally, Steve arose awkwardly, looking groggy as hell as he started telling his mom that, yes, he will mow the lawn as soon as he finishes breakfast.

He stood, walked in circles and reiterated his pledge to mow the lawn.

That was our introduction to concussions.

In the face of miscommunication and mistakes, life boldly goes on

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Steve was tended to by teachers, taken to the hospi-tal and was back in class a few days later, seemingly no worse for wear.

In the meantime, the tire swing didn’t sit idly by.

It remained among the more popular playground attractions, carrying many a child exhorting his class-mates to swing him harder and higher and faster.

There may have even been a few more Thwacks! as well, though what is cer-tain is an accidental concus-sion from horseplay did not compel the powers-that-be to ban the swinging-tire ride.

I like to think it was a 1970s line of thinking that

accepted that kids and con-cussions and sprains and broken bones and skinned knees were matches made in nature.

Not so in Nashua, Conn., or Port Washington, N.Y., or Zeeland, Mich., or Toronto or any of the myriad other cities and towns across the globe that have seen school officials slowly but surely ban sport after sport and game after game, all in the name of protecting kids from themselves.

It seems as though a week cannot pass by without more news of this school or that school banning this activity or that sport.

It seems that if a kid is looked at the wrong way during an activity, that activity will become the lat-

est dodo bird of kids’ sports.Administrators at Weber

Middle School in Port Washington, a town in Long Island in New York, have banned tag, baseballs, footballs, soccer balls and lacrosse balls (presumably,

the kids can play baseball, football, soccer and lacrosse if they employ the Marcel Marceau method of compe-tition).

If that wasn’t ridiculous enough, cartwheels have also been banned as a recess activity — unless those cart-wheels are supervised.

Up in Nashua, N.H., the principal at Charlotte Avenue elementary has banned tag because the venerable game can involve aggressive pushing.

Not surprisingly, more than one parent has com-plained about these bans.

It’s been said our kids live in a bubble-wrap world, one in which they are sent outside wearing armour fit for a knight, one in which they mark “play-dates” in

their calendar, rather than run down the street and knock on a buddy’s door.

It’s all well and good to wish for your child to glide through those early years with nary a scratch — but it’s wishful thinking.

Childhood equals all sorts of pain and to break a bone or bust a nose and take a puck to the teeth are rites of passages that can never be erased — even if the next school bans walk-ing due to a chance of trip-ping.

Let’s recycle that bubble wrap and let our kids breathe — yes, even if there is a chance they get the hic-cups.

Christopher Foulds is editor of Kamloops This Week.

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Dear Editor,

I have a hard time understanding why anyone in their right mind would even consider allowing Peter’s Bros. to build an asphalt plant in our city. Our city is polluted enough already with sawdust and wood chips all over our roads and sidewalks and dust that blows around and gets into our houses. Don’t we care about our kids, who are breathing this pollution on a daily basis? I wonder how many people in this city have developed asth-ma as the result of this air pollution, and now we want to compound the problem by allowing an asphalt plant to be built. Why would our mayor and council consider allowing this to happen? Is it because it will create three or four jobs? Is it because the city will collect more property taxes? Why doesn’t Peter’s Bros. expand their existing plant? Let them stay where they are.

Our citizens better be aware that once this plant is built, we are stuck with it. We will be stuck with the stench and filth from this plant for the next 50 years. Maybe by then, Merritt will be a ghost town.

I don’t think that our mayor and council are practicing due diligence. Take a trip to Kelowna and/or Penticton and stand downwind of these plants for two or three hours when they are run-ning full bore. Knock on some doors of homes near these plants and ask the residents what they think of living close to these plants. Wouldn’t that be the smart thing to do before allowing this to go ahead?

I think I have a pretty good understanding of why this company doesn’t want to stay out at Mamit Lake Road. It’s all about the almighty dol-lar. If they are doing a job in this city, they have to pay a driver to drive out to their Mamit Lake plant and then back to Merritt. They also have to pay fuel costs for those 20 or so minutes.

Terry FoxMerritt

Dear Editor, In response to the Doug Beech letter that was

printed in the Merritt Herald on Oct. 24. If the information supplied by Mr. Beech is cor-

rect, it appears that most citizens of Merritt are being screwed. Once again, city council placed an increase of the tax base (so they can increase their power and spending limits) ahead of the health and well-being of the citizens of Merritt.

Doug Beech suggests the city cannot prevent the asphalt plant from moving onto industrial area M2 property but he also states that council only changed that property to M2 a “few” months ago. That means council also has the power to correct their mistake and revoke that zoning change. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to rezone any property upwind of Merritt to parkland?

I find it unconscionable that the Merritt Air Quality Committee (at their meeting on Feb. 6, 2013) was discussing the health problems caused by having an asphalt plant in the industrial area and then, months later, city council rezoned the property M2 to facilitate the asphalt plant.

Merritt already has the worst air quality of any community in B.C. but city council chose to cal-lously disregard the health hazards posed by having an asphalt plant upwind of Merritt. Perhaps most of

council live in areas unaffected by the industrial park pollution.

Has anyone noticed that the first people to be affected by any asphalt plant pollution will be the children at Merritt Central Elementary? Those young children, being directly downwind and closest to the proposed plant location, would be the most susceptible to any contaminants. Are the few tax dollars the city would realize worth the risk to their health and the health and well-being of the rest of the Merritt population?

If city council really wanted to improve Merritt for all of its citizens, it would be doing everything in its power to create an industrial area downwind of the city (i.e. next to the airport) where air polluting operations would not threaten the health of Merritt’s citizens.

For more information, enter “BC Provincial Air Quality Merritt” into Google to read the full PDF report on Merritt’s pollution problem. You can also enter “February 6 2013 Minutes Air Quality Com-mittee City of Merritt” into Google to see why this committee is so ineffectual.

Ron LemireMerritt

Dear Editor,

I would like to make a sug-gestion.

We have had several weeks of some Merritt residents having concerns about the possibility of an asphalt coming to the city. Many of the Herald’s readers do not know what is going on or what information is true. I think this is an opportune time for the Herald to take the lead and do a “fact-finding news article” on this

topic. Such an article can research

impact on air and water quality and the effects noise, made by such a plant, may have on the community.

Many want to know the facts of such a plant coming to Merritt and maybe also, other people’s opinions, from areas that already have such businesses.

If this is not possible, I would

suggest that Peter’s Bros. hosts an open discussion or that the City of Merritt has an open forum for those with questions. The rumours that are floating around town have to be stopped and this may be the best way to end them.

Let’s deal with facts, not fic-tion.

Doug BeechMerritt

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School District 58 has

exceeded its enrolment

projections for the current

school year.

At the first school board

meeting of the year on Sept.

18, superintendent Bob

Peacock said the district

has 1,142 students at the

elementary level — 43 stu-

dents above its projection of

1,099.At the high school level,

SD58 projected 809 stu-

dents, which it surpassed by

eight students.

Enrolment in distance

education programs, for

students who take courses by

correspondence or outside

of a traditional classroom

setting, sits at 100 students

— well above the projected

65. However, in the alternate

program, the district’s enrol-

ment fell from a projected 82

students this year to 62.

“We tend to pick up more

students from now until the

end of September, mainly

because those students take a

while to get back to school,”

Peacock told the school

board.Peacock told the Herald

Merritt Secondary School

has about 635 of Merritt’s

1,584 students. In Princeton,

the district met its projection

of 437 students, Peacock

said. Peacock said the higher

number of enrolled students

won’t translate into more

money for the school district

because any extra funding

for more students would take

away from the district’s fund-

ing protection.

He added it’s always good

to have more students in the

system.

Learning improvement

fundsThe school board also

heard the process for distrib-

uting the district’s $311,007

in learning improvement

funds, which is annual fund-

ing from the Ministry of

Education.

School principals submit

spending proposals to the

superintendent who drafts a

spending plan, consults with

local unions, and then pres-

ents the plan to the school

board. Peacock said $39,936 is

expected to go to certified

educational assistants (CEAs)

and the remaining $271,071

will be allocated to schools.

Peacock said tentatively

$162,560 will be added for

extra teaching staff, $19,500

will be added to fund teach-

er release time and $73,620

will be used for extra class-

room support such as CEAs

for kindergarten and Grade

1 classes.

The remaining funds will

be retained for next semes-

ter, Peacock said.

“In the second semester,

we’ll look at the configura-

tions that have taken place to

see where support is needed

for the remaining dollars,”

Peacock told the Herald.

By Michael Potestio

THE HERALD

School district enrolment above projections

ACADEMIC ACCOLADES

Awards recipients, presenters and

spectators applaud during the Nicola Valley

Institute of Technology year-end awards for

2012-13 on Saturday. About $45,000 in

scholarships, community-sponsored awards

and in-house NVIT awards were given

to NVIT students at the Merritt campus.

Donors were also presented with blankets

during the ceremony. Awards for students

at both NVIT campuses — in Merritt and in

Burnaby — totalled $60,000.

Michael Potestio/Herald

HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY

Top left: Kids of all ages donned costumes to join in the Halloween Spooktacular and monster mash at the Civic Centre on Friday evening. Top right: Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre employee Roxanne Mikita tends to her “cauldron” at the pool’s hot tub during the Halloween Howl on Friday afternoon. Right: The haunted house at the Civic Centre brought plenty of laughs to attendees of all ages.Below: Party-goers donned all kinds of costumes at the Lower Nicola Community Hall Halloween dance on Saturday night, including the event’s colourful DJ (far left). Left: Even Vancouver band the Boom Booms dressed up for their show on Saturday at the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Young Nicola Valley cow-boys and cowgirls did extraor-dinarily well at the year-end B.C. Little Britches awards banquet, held at the O’Keefe Ranch outside Vernon on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Leading the parade to the podium was 10-year-old Tryton Bose, winner of the junior boys all-around title.

In just his second full sea-son of competition in Little Britches rodeo, Bose placed first overall in both the stake race and steer riding events and finished second in the

dummy roping and goat tail tying to take the all-around crown with 325.5 points.

This was Bose’s final year in the junior boys competition. He will move up to the senior ranks next spring.

Nine-year-old local cowboy Wyatt Smith looks set to take over Bose’s mantle next year in the junior boys division as the up-and-comer from Quilchena had three top-10 finishes this season. He placed second in steer riding, fifth in dummy roping and seventh in the stake race.

In the junior girls age group, Douglas Lake’s Ayla Goss served notice that she will be

a force-to-be-reckoned-with in the years to come. In her first full year of competition, the petite seven-year-old placed fifth in pole bending, sixth in barrel racing and eighth in dummy roping.

Also putting in an impres-sive showing this year in Little Britches rodeo was Goss’s big brother, Armoni McRae. The multi-sport athlete displayed tremendous consistency in racking up five top-10 fin-ishes — good enough for the runner-up position in the all-around competition.

McRae took top honours in the senior boys stake race, placed second in calf tying,

third in breakaway roping and steer riding, and fifth in chute dogging. His 310.5 points-total was just two points behind all-around champion Tristan Blackman from Barriere.

Jared Rose, 11, from Quilchena picked up a pair of top-10 finishes in the senior boys division, placing sixth in breakaway roping and ninth in the stake race.

Little Britches rodeo is for youngsters 15 years and under. Competitions are held throughout the B.C. Interior. It is a family-oriented sport that stresses responsibility and respect through friendly com-petition and sportsmanship.

READY TO RIP Eleven-year-old cowboy Armoni McRae steadies his horse in preparation for the breakaway roping event at the Merritt Little Britches rodeo in June. McRae achieved top-10 results in all five of his events this season. His 310.5 points-total put him in second place in the senior boys all-around competition, just two points behind Barriere’s Tristan Blackman. McRae is spending the off-season playing rep hockey for the Ramada Inn peewees. Ian Webster/Herald

RODEO STAR

(Left) Ten-year-old Tryton Bose competes in the stake race at the Nicola Valley Little Bitches rodeo in Merritt in June.

(Right) Bose prepares to toss his loop in the dummy roping event in June.

After seven weekends of competition around the province, Bose emerged as the junior boys all-around champion in Little Britches rodeo with a total of 325.5 points.

Ian Webster/Herald

COWGIRL SUPREME Don’t let her age fool you. Douglas Lake’s Ayla Goss, 7, is already taking the junior girls ranks in Little Britches rodeo by storm. She had three top-10 finishes in the year-end results: fifth in pole bending, sixth in barrel racing and eighth in dummy roping. Ian Webster/Herald

B.C. LITTLE BRITCHES2013 FINAL RESULTS

Local Top 10 FinishersJunior Boys Stake Race 1. Tryton Bose 7. Wyatt Smith Dummy Roping 2. Tryton Bose 5. Wyatt Smith Goat Tail Tying 2. Tryton Bose Steer Riding 1. Tryton Bose 2. Wyatt Smith All-Around 1. Tryton Bose

Junior Girls Barrel Racing 6. Ayla Goss Pole bending 5. Ayla Goss Dummy Roping 8. Ayla Goss

Senior Boys

Stake Race 1. Armoni McRae 9. Jared Rose Calf Tying 2. Armoni McRae Breakaway Roping 3. Armoni McRae 6. Jared Rose Chute Dogging 5. Armoni McRae Steer Riding 3. Armoni McRae All-Around 2. Armoni McRae


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Main duties would be to make sure our newspaper arrives at every doorstep in the Merritt, Lower Nicola and Logan Lake areas.

Responsibilities• Communicating with carriers and

customers. • Handle all phone inquires and

complaints in a professional and ef cient manner.

Quali cations• Must have strong organizational and

communication skills • Be able to work well under pressure.• Some of ce/computer experience is

also required.• Must also have own form of

transportation.

If you are interested please drop your resume off in person to 2090 Granite Ave., Merritt, BC. No phone calls please.

The Merritt Herald is looking for an Advertising Creative Consultant to work along side our award winning design team.

Hours of work: full time hours

Responsibilities:• Ad design using InDesign & Photoshop• Real Estate listings• Uploading information to the internet• Mockup of paper editions• Reception• Additonal duties as required

This individual must be able to endure pressure/deadline situations and yet keep a healthy sense of humour with their fellow employees.

The Merritt Herald publishes and distributes to over 8300 homes twice a week. If you feel you have what it takes to be a star among our stars we look forward to hearing from you.

To apply, please forward your resume with a cover letter to:Theresa Arnold, PublisherMerritt Herald2090 Granite Ave., P.O. Box 9 Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8e-mail: [email protected]

Ad DesignerMerritt Herald

MERRITT HERALD

SHIPPING/INVENTORY CLERK

This position requires a self-motivated, analytical, team player who is able to multi-task in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.Excellent communication skills coupled with strong organizational, problem-solving and computer skills are crucial to the success of this position.

If this describes you, please forward your resume in confi dence to:

Aspen Planers Ltd. P.O. Box 160, Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8

or by fax (250) 378-5319Attn: Mona Brigden or

email: [email protected] quoting Shipping/Inventory Clerk in subject box,

no later than Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013.

No phone calls please. We thank all applicants who express interest,however only those selected for

interview will be contacted.

ICS - Merritt is seeking a part-time Consultant to work with children and youth with special needs and

their families. The successful candidate will have a Master’s degree in a related eld, experience implementing behavioural assessments and creating behavioural intervention plans and extensive experience working with children and youth with special needs. A background in play or art therapy is an asset.

Email resumes to: [email protected]

Ph: 250-554-3134

BEHAVIOURAL CONSULTANT

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LUMBER REMANUFACTURING PLANTProduction Workers: $14-20/hr.

Drivers with Class 1 Steady employment

with overtime available. Please submit resume in person to

1195 Houston Street, Merritt B.C. 250-378-6161

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Employment

Business Opportunities

JOBS IN Alberta. Large Beef Processor in High River, Al-berta looking for experienced butchers. $17.00 - $18.70 hour. Call Laszlo: (403)652 8404 or send an email: [email protected]

WESTCAN - Interested In Be-ing Our Next Ice Road Truck-er? Haul liquid, dry bulk or freight to the diamond mines on the winter road (ice road) from mid-January to mid-April. Not Interested in driving on the ice? Drive resupply from southern locations in Alberta to Yellowknife, NT. Apply on-line at: www.westcanbulk.ca or Phone: 1.888.WBT.HIRE (1.888.928.4473) for further details.

Career Opportunities

BUSY Law Firm in Penticton seeks full time conveyancing assistant. Email resume in confi dence to:[email protected]

Employment

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

DRIVERS WANTEDAZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 w/ Airbrake

• Guaranteed 40hr. WorkWeek & Overtime

• Paid Travel & Lodging• Meal Allowance

• 4 Weeks Vacation• Excellent Benefi ts Package

Must be able to have extended stays away from home. Up to 6 months. Must have valid AZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 with airbrake license and have previous commercial driving experience.Apply at:www.sperryrail.com/

careers and then choosethe FastTRACK Application.

Help WantedAn Alberta Oilfi eld Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing re-quired. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.

Part time receptionist for Fri-day afternoon and Saturdays Drop off resume at Nicola Val-ley Chiropractic. 2076 Granite Ave.

WANTED PROCESSING con-tractor for interior operation to start immediately. Call 1-604-819-3393.

Professional/Management

PROCESS Manager - rotation-al position in Kazakhstan. Re-sponsible for the departments personnel, systems manage-ment, safety, customer satis-faction and cost control within the department’s areas of re-sponsibility. This is an admin-istrative position but requires a frequent presence on the op-erations fl oor. Competitive pay ($400 per day and up), medi-cal, dental & tax credits. Send resume or contact [email protected]

SERVICE Manager - rotational position in Kazakhstan. Re-sponsible for service depart-ment personnel, fl eet manage-ment, safety, customer satisfaction and cost control within the service department’s areas of responsibility. This is an administrative position but requires a frequent presence in the service area. Competi-tive pay ($400 per day and up), medical, dental & tax credits. Send resume or con-tact [email protected]

Trades, TechnicalEXPERIENCED CONSTRUC-TION Labourers & carpenters needed for concrete forming in Kamloops. Good wages. Send resume to: [email protected] or fax to 604-864-2796.

JOURNEYMAN AUTOMO-TIVE Service Technician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrys-ler Ltd. offers competitive wages from $32/hour, nego-tiable depending on experi-ence. Bright, modern shop. Full-time permanent with benefi ts. Friendly town just 2 hours from major urban cen-tres. More info at: hannach-rylser.ca. Fax 403-854-2845; or send an email to: [email protected].

Employment

Trades, TechnicalPLUMBERS / GAS FITTERS: M and K Plumbing and Heat-ing is the largest Mechanical Contracting and Service fi rm in the East Kootenay region. We are currently in need of CON-STRUCTION PLUMBERS AND GAS FITTERS - BOTH JOURNEYMEN AND AP-PRENTICES - to provide ex-pertise and technical skill to our industrial construction cus-tomers in the ELK VALLEY. We expect this project to con-tinue through the winter with 10 on 4 off shifts of 10 hour days. The position will pay hourly, plus overtime, plus Liv-ing Out Allowance. WEBSITE: w w w . m k p l u m b i n g . c a EMAIL:[email protected]

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paper in the event to failure to publish an advertisement shall be limited to the amount paid by the

advertiser for the portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only, and that there shall be no liability in any

event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement.

The publisher shall not beliable for slight changes or

typographical errors that do not lessen the value of an

advertisement. bcclassi eds.com

cannot be responsible for errorsafter the rst day of publication of

any advertisement. Notice of errors after the rst day of

publication of any advertisement. Notice or errors on the rst day should immediately be called

to the attention of the classi ed department to be corrected for

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person because of race, religion,sex, colour, nationality, ancestry or place of origin, or age, unless

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Home Improvements

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Merchandise for Sale

Garage SalesBaillie House Fall Garage Sale

Tuesday to Saturday10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53’and insulated containers all

sizes in stock. SPECIAL

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Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent

FOR RENT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT2 units available, 1st oor unit ideal

for seniorsAvailable immediately

$750/month incl. heat & laundry.$100 OFF 1ST

MONTHS RENTNewly renovated units“Clapperton Manor”

2775 Clapperton Ave.250-315-8340

Duplex / 4 Plex2 bdrm suite Lower Nicola $625/mon. plus utilities. N/S, N/P. 250-378-8223

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Homes for RentAvailable immediately, 2 bed-room mobile home, wash-er/dryer, fridge/stove, add-on laundry/mudroom, sundeck, fenced yard, close to town, schools & bus. $700./month. Ph:250-378-0887.

Avail. immed., 2 bdrm mobile home, Washer/Dryer, fridge/stove, mudroom, & util. included. Fenced yard, close to schools, bus & town. $950/mth. Ph: 250-378-0887.

Room & BoardRooms to rent and/or

room & board. $400/mon. for room. Room & board negotiable. Seniors pre-ferred. Contact Doug or Donna at 250-378-5688 or [email protected]. No alcohol or drugs.

Shared Accommodation

Roommates wanted. 4 bdrm fully furnished home. $550 per/mon. Everything incl. Must be employed, males preferred. Call 250-315-9719


Transportation

Auto Financing

Need A Vehicle! Guaranteed Auto Loan. Apply Now, 1.877.680.1231 www.UapplyUdrive.ca

Cars - Domestic1993 Chevy Caval 4 dr station wagon. Runs well/good shape. Med. miles. 250-378-5688

Scrap Car RemovalFixable Vehicles, and used tires wanted. All sizes. 250- 315-4893

Trucks & Vans1997 Chevy Silverado 4X4 for $2000 250-378-5519

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