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ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET Nicola Meadows resident Audrey Nelson welcomed Dress Red for Heart and Stroke mascot “Hot Lips Houlihan” (named for the MASH character because of his heart-shaped lips) to the retirement home where he will reside for six months. In a first in the event’s eight-year history in Merritt, there was a tie for the top spot. With scores of 10 across the board for decorations, enthusiasm and dress, Nicola Meadows and the Florentine shared the top honours. Each will get a gift basket from Heart and Stroke and the residence’s name embroidered on Hot Lips’ T-shirt. The monkey will also spend six months at the Florentine. For more photos from the Dress Red event, turn to pages 10 and 11.

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Local petition pushes back against branding

The backlash against Merritt’s new brand and tagline “Country with attitude” has been swift, vocal and damning.

Local people have been cir-culating a petition opposing the new brand and tagline and have hundreds of signatures after just a few days.

Some critics of the branding say the word “attitude” has a neg-ative connotation that they don’t want associated with their town.

Lana Schindler signed the peti-tion in front of the post office on Tuesday, citing that connotation as her biggest concern.

“A lot of people I’ve talked to agree that it just comes off nega-tively,” she said.

Long-time Merritt resident Marguerite Kempin said she would sign a petition against the branding, and that she doesn’t like the tagline because the word “atti-tude” is not timeless.

“I don’t like it because that’s a slang term that is a popular term at this time, but is it going to be a popular term four years down the road?” she said. “I think it’s much too slang, much too young and not really mature enough for a city.”

People who are displeased with the branding are slated to speak before council as a delegation at the beginning of the next regular meeting on Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.

It certainly isn’t hard to find someone who’s displeased with the branding — just about everyone has an opinion on the topic, which

is undoubtedly the talk of the town.

The branding was adopted by city council at its regular meeting on Feb. 11, and included a condi-tion that implementation of the new brand includes a public open house.

Imagery associated with the brand will be unveiled at the open house.

That open house is slated for March 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Civic Centre.

However, some critics of the branding say the open house should have taken place before it was accepted by council.

Merritt Mayor Susan Roline is standing up for the city’s new brand direction in the wake of the backlash.

Roline said it was devised over a lengthy process that included about 140 community members in workshops facilitated by the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA), a regional division of the tourism marketing Crown corporation Destination BC. Those workshops took input from stakeholders on the direction the new brand should go in.

TOTA presented three taglines to council after distilling the input. The other two choices were “Country branded” and “Kicking back.”

Roline said it wasn’t just coun-cil’s choice on the tagline, and that a focus group with seven high school students helped narrow down the brand.

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“The strong choice was ‘Country with atti-tude,’ so that’s where we’ll work. This is sort of just the stepping stone into the next phases. This isn’t the end-all and be-all of this branding.”

Roline said the focus group featured high school students because the brand is aimed at a younger set.

“We wanted to get the young people who are travelling with their families and even the young single people who travel for the expe-riences, whether it’s mountain biking, ski-ing, all-terrain vehicles, whatever their interests are,” she said.

“We don’t market and we don’t brand for our residents because they know why they live here. They know why they love our commu-nity. We’re trying to pull

in those other tourists or those people who might want to look at living here, investing here or doing their business here. That’s what brand-ing’s all about.”

Roline said the word “attitude” doesn’t have to have a negative con-notation.

“Merritt has always had an attitude,” she said. “We want to be winners in all our sports. We want to be ahead of the parade, so to speak. We want to do things differently. That all takes attitude to get there.”

Roline acknowledged the criticism of council’s approval of the rebrand before the tagline went

public.“Maybe the first step

shouldn’t have come out like it did, but I can’t change that now,” she said.

Reviewing the city’s brand was identified by council as a priority in 2009.

Roline said there appears to be confusion about how much money the city has put into the process.

Between brand development, tour-ism development and website review, the city is into the rebrand for about $8,000 right now, as TOTA’s mandate includes doing commu-nity marketing work so they’re covering off the bulk of the cost, Roline said.

The Country Music Capital of Canada mark, which the city owns, did not cost the city anything except some time to fill out paperwork, Roline said.

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“Attitude” sparking debate

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Merritt’s got a brand new tourism directionMerritt has a brand new tagline. “Country with attitude” was

adopted by city council at its regu-lar meeting last Tuesday. “The whole concept came up

that Merritt is more than country music, but it’s a country living atti-tude,” City of Merritt economic development manager Jerry Sucha-ryna told council. “When you take a look at some of the new people who have migrated to Merritt, they come for that quality of life, they come for the tranquillity and being able to do all of these things in

their backyard, whether it’s moun-tain biking, hiking or fishing.”The brand direction was

devised by the Thompson-Okana-gan Tourism Association (TOTA), which partnered with the City of Merritt to develop a new brand for the city. The process included workshops with stakeholders, a task force, and public online surveys.

The brand will replace the Country Music Capital of Canada slogan. It will be featured on city signs, letterheads, business cards and city vehicles.“It’ll be a total immersion in it,”

Sucharyna said. Sucharyna said the city will

replace signs with the old slogans “Flourishing under the sun” and “Country Music Capital of Cana-da” with the new brand.“We’ll make a change so that

instead of being fragmented in different areas of the city or in different publications, we’ll have continuity,” he said.Sucharyna said the city would

“hit the ground running” with the new brand direction immediately after council adopted it.However, it wasn’t adopted

without some discussion, and the condition that implementation of the brand include an open house for people who weren’t involved

in the process to learn more about the branding and give their feed-back.

Councillors Dave Baker and Kurt Christopherson said they were hesitant to go forward with-out getting public input first.“I think it would take very little

time to find out from the commu-nity whether they like it or not,” Christopherson said. “Merritt is usually pretty outspoken in its likes and dislikes. I just don’t want to go down that road where we adopt something that the community doesn’t feel like they’ve had a buy-in. I know there was a task force, but a task force doesn’t speak for

everybody.”“I would hate for us to spend a

lot of money and time — Jerry’s already spent a lot of time on this — and have it come back and blow up in our face,” Baker said.

Who had a say in the develop-ment of the brand and how Mer-ritt residents might react to it were two of the main topics of questions from councillors. Sucharyna noted the consulta-

tion process was one of his chal-lenges as he began working for the City of Merritt well after the pro-cess got underway in 2012.

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MUSIC LOVERS Bobby Garcia and Six More Strings

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about 40 people. Some country lovers even hit the dance

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Merritt has a brand new tagline: “Country with attitude.”

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Candidates weigh in on issues

The six candidates in Merritt’s upcoming byelection got their say on a variety of issues at an all-candidates forum on Feb. 13.

Merritt’s economy and trans-parency at city hall were the hot topics of the night.

The audience question por-tion of the evening dominated the event.

Most prospective councillors shared the opinion that open com-munication is one of the most important functions of a city coun-cil. It was a theme that resurfaced throughout candidates’ answers to other questions, including what they thought about the new brand-ing direction for the city.

Most of the six candidates said in their answers they’d like to know more about the brand devel-opment process.

Julie Van Koll said she doesn’t know the background behind the tagline “Country with attitude,” but will reserve judgement until she learns more about the strategy behind it at an open house.

Linda Baird, a former educator, said she first associated the word “attitude” with school-aged kids.

“Do we have to have a brand? Can’t we just call it what it is? What does Merritt really repre-sent?” Baird said.

Mike Jolly said he doesn’t like the branding, but he also didn’t know the vision behind it. He said he needs to see the whole picture

before he makes the call. Ginny Prowal said in reading

the explanation behind the brand-ing, she understands where it’s going.

“It sounded like Merritt, and I was quite impressed with it. What I didn’t like was a little box that said ‘Merritt: Country with attitude.’ We need a logo,” Prowal said.

Neil Menard said it makes sense to stay within the country theme, but there is more to Mer-ritt than that, citing the Merritt Centennials.

Noreen Cross said the country theme makes sense, but she’s not sure she likes the word ‘attitude.’

“We do have attitude here in Merritt. If we’re going to spend the money doing this, keep an open mind before you jump down and say it’s no good. Give it a chance to resonate a bit,” Cross said. “I’m not necessarily for it either, but hey, it might grow on us.”

When asked what they think of heavy industry being located in city limits, the prospective coun-cillors’ answers revolved around similar points.

Prowal said the location of industrial zoning can be traced back to a now-defunct mine, but bylaws and buffer zones can improve potential nuisances cre-ated by heavy industry.

Jolly was staunch on his posi-tion.

“Repeat after me: no heavy industry in the city limits, period,”

he said, punctuating each word for emphasis.

Baird and Van Koll said they realize industry is important to the future of the city, and they are willing to look at other possible locations that might be appropri-ate for industrial zoning. Van Koll said a referendum might bring forth alternatives from the com-munity as to where heavy industry goes.

Cross and Menard said the tax base created by industry in city limits is a factor that can’t be ignored.

“You need the tax dollars to pay for infrastructure and all the wonderful things you want for your community,” Cross said. “If we don’t have industry, we don’t survive.”

Menard also said industry is a factor that could keep young people in Merritt.

“Not all of our young people are going to be doctors and den-tists and lawyers and whatnot,” he said. “A lot are going to be every-day working people who want to be tradesmen or production work-ers.”

The candidates’ answers ran the spectrum when they were asked what issues they feel they can address before the general election in November.

Van Koll said crime prevention is one area that council can start with.

“Crime is an issue, as it is in many communities. What people are really saying is, ‘We want a safe

place to live.’ That’s something that would need to be addressed. How do we create a safe commu-nity that people are going to enjoy living in?” Van Koll said.

Baird and Jolly mentioned investing in the city’s aging infra-structure as one of the ways to attract people to live and set up business in Merritt.

Cross and Jolly said the city’s zoning is a main issue for Merritt.

Prowal said stability at city hall is one of the main hurdles for the city.

“It’s really hard when we have a different person in a different job and they’re replaced. It’s nobody’s fault; you just need some stability at city hall,” she said.

Menard said the city’s finances and taxes are at the top.

The final question of the night was posed by an audience member who asked candidates what they would do to improve local health care.

They all agreed it is out of municipal jurisdiction as it’s dictat-ed by the provincial government’s Interior Health Authority, but they are open to ideas for the local council to help lobby or pressure the provincial government.

The candidates are vying for one open seat on city council left vacant at the end of October by the departure of Alastair Mur-doch.

General voting takes place Sat-urday, Feb. 22 at city hall.

About 90 people attended the forum.


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The six candidates vying for one vacant seat on city council agreed more than they disagreed on a number of issues at an all-candidates forum on Feb. 13 at NVIT. Emily Wessel/Herald


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We are looking for representation from those with existing home-based business, those who have businesses in commercial areas, and those that are simply interested in the matter.

If you are interested in participating in the discussion and wish to attend 4 to 5 1-hour meetings on the task force please contact Sean O’Flaherty at City Hall at 250-378-8620.

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OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 2162, 2013ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 2163, 2013

The City of Merritt Council will be holding a Public Hearing pursuant to Section 892 of the Local Government Act, to consider amendments to the City of Merritt Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 2116, 2011 and the City of Merritt Zoning Bylaw No. 1894, 2004 for the lands, shown as “subject properties” on the sketch plan below:The City of Merritt Council will consider amending:

Residential.If you feel your property interests may be affected by the proposed amendment and you wish to address City Council on any matters pertaining to this bylaw, please attend the Public Hearing at City Hall on:

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 7:00 pm

meeting by addressing them to the undersigned, or at the public hearing in person, by petition or by attorney. No letter, report or representation from the public will be received by Council after the conclusion of the Public Hearing. Sean O’Flaherty, RPP

Note: This is the second of two consecutive Public Notices.

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COUNCILLOR – ONE (1) TO BE ELECTED

Surname Usual Names Jurisdiction of ResidenceBAIRD Linda City of MerrittCROSS Noreen Thompson-Nicola Regional DistrictJOLLY Mike City of MerrittMENARD Neil City of MerrittPROWAL Ginny City of MerrittVANKOLL Julie City of Merritt

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Animal control top priorityThe following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regu-lar council meeting agenda from Feb. 11.

January 2014 bylaw report

Animal Control

Calls into the bylaw office and complaints on the street continue to be minimal, to say the least. In the month of January, the city impounded four dogs. All four were returned to their owners. In addi-tion, one other dog was taken into protective custody and returned to his/her owner the same day. Dog-related issues will continue to be a high priority for the bylaw office and the

results that have been achieved in our whole community are encour-aging.

Dogs off leash in the city have improved exponentially and it is rare when bylaw finds an owner walking a dog without a leash. The fact remains: in the city, dogs must be leashed and licensed and the message is getting out.

Feral cat-related problems and com-plaints are at low levels for the month of Janu-ary.

Our dog licensing program is off to a great start in the month of January with a total of 343 licences sold. Despite the steady prog-ress, there are still far more unlicensed dogs in the city and we must

continue to educate the public as to the value of purchasing a dog licence for the city, and that it is a requirement.

Ticketing

In the month of January, the bylaw office issued a total of 19 tickets. Eight were parking infractions in our downtown core and 11 were municipal ticket information. All of the MTIs were for more serious infractions of the Animal Control

Bylaw. The larger issue that relates to the MTIs is a residence with five dogs which have been disturbing a neighbour-hood off and on for over a year. Just a note, bylaw only recently became aware that the residence housed five dogs and moved quickly to try and mitigate the problems. The city’s Animal Control Bylaw states, “No person shall keep or harbour more than two dogs over the age of six months at any residence.”


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Diesel discovered behind motelMerritt’s bylaw officer

is trying to figure out who is responsible for the bill incurred by cleanup of a diesel dump behind the Double D Motel.

Bob Davis said on Feb. 17, he got the tip that someone dumped the diesel over the week-end.

He went with the city’s fire chief and the local conservation offi-cers to measure the spill.

The spot was about two metres by six metres, he said, and about 10 metres from the Nicola River.

“It’s not a puddle but you could see where it pooled,” Davis said. “It just stinks back there. We don’t know how much is now in the soil.”

Davis said the group measured where the water table begins, which is about two and a quar-ter metres below the soil.

“Gone are the days when you dump it on your driveway because it just keeps going. It never leaves,” he said. “It could contaminate anything.”

Davis said a man who lives at the motel said he had to clean out the tank for his vehicle after his diesel fuel was con-taminated with water. The man told Davis he

collected the fuel in a can and left it behind the motel for a minute to get something, and when he came back, it had tipped over and spilled.

Regardless of whether the spill was intentional or accidental, it will be costly to clean up, Davis said, adding he’s not sure how much the bill will be.

Davis said he con-tacted the Ministry of Environment to report the spill. A ministry employee came out to the site and dug up a soil sample to analyze.

On Tuesday, a Kam-loops-based environmen-tal assessment company that does remediation work visited the site to prepare for excavation.

Environmental engineer Greg Danyluk looked at which lines run beneath the ground before they could exca-

vate the soil the next day.

Danyluk estimated it would be one truckload of contaminated soil.

Davis said the prop-erty owner could be on the hook for remediation costs.

It’s not clear at this point what municipal

ticket he could give the man or the owner of the motel, he said.

The Ministry of Environment could administer a separate penalty, although details on how much a fine would be in this case were not available by press time.

(Above) Some of the diesel appeared to have splashed up on a hydro pole. A Ministry of Environment employee dug out a sample of the soil Monday.(Left) Mallards gather at the site of the diesel spill.

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Ah, spam. Not the canned meat,

the electronic kind. Every day, for some

reason, I receive dozens of spam emails to my work address.

The spam filter for our website is very active as well. There are currently around 7,000 comments in the spam queue. Thank-

fully, that means I don’t have to tick a box beside each comment and mark it as spam — only about one in a hundred gets through.

Last week, one that got through somehow was from a poster whose screen name was “Chinchilla dust.”

The comment was a nice one, saying something along the lines of typical spam: “Thanks SO much for this article! I can’t wait to return and read more!” on a column about mari-juana posted months ago.

I marked the comment as spam, but I could not help myself to Google those two magic words: chinchilla dust.

What I learned is that chinchillas, those creepy

little rodents with elephan-tine ears, bathe their vel-vety fur in dust.

I bet they’d fare well in Merritt, being so dusty and all.

And there are more weird things about chin-chillas. As pets, they are fairly finicky. Their teeth need to be constantly worn down because they grow continuously.

They can’t sweat, so at temperatures over 25 C, their bodies route their blood to their ears. Red chinchilla ears mean they’re overheating.

Animals’ adaptations and ingenuities are really quite something.

As it turns out, dust bathing is a form of wal-lowing, which is employed

by many species. Asian elephants chuck

a mixture of mud and dirt on themselves to give them a little bit of protection from the ruthlessly beating down sun.

When I visited an elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand, I found their mud hats, sometimes in clumps with long grass sticking out in all direc-tions, pretty hilarious. Turns out they’re adaptive, too.

Other animals roll around in snow or water for various purposes.

Hippos wallow in water to prevent dehydration. Bison wallow to bond and play. Warthogs do it to camouflage themselves.

When it comes to our

species, wallowing often takes place in a proverbial pool of self-pity.

Although I didn’t attend Theo Fleury’s speech in Merritt, I did enjoy the takeaway from that event that Herald reporter Michael Potestio put together.

In particular, I like Fleury’s analogy of a “pity party,” being that his “partying” behaviours with substances stemmed from his self-pity about no doubt very challenging circum-stances.

While a roll in the mud may feel comforting for a while, I tend to agree with Fleury. Wallowing in self-pity won’t get you any-where except mired further in the mud.

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Who provoked a school strike?

VICTORIA – I made an error in a column two weeks ago about the latest court ruling in favour of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.

I referred to an “illegal” strike in 2012, and was quickly reminded that this teacher walkout was sanc-tioned by the Labour Relations Board.

After months of withholding report cards and refusing to meet with administrators, the union went to the LRB to seek permission for a full-scale strike.

They got their wish, with autho-rization under essential services rules for a three-day strike in the first week, and one day a week after that until the end of the school year or a settlement was reached.

For the record, the last illegal BCTF strike was in 2005, in defi-ance of a B.C. Supreme Court order that resulted in a $500,000 fine against the union.

That was the same year BCTF lawyers won a split B.C. Court of Appeal ruling allowing teachers to bring political propaganda into classrooms. Two out of three judges decided this was appropriate to pre-serve their freedom of expression.

The authorized three-day strike went ahead in March 2012. Regular readers may recall my reports of students being indoctrinated in class-rooms and in some cases sent out as union pickets, and of the strong-arming of unionized government office staff here in Victoria to make them join a rally on the legislature lawn.

This was the strike that, accord-ing to the current media and politi-cal narrative, the provincial cabinet conspired to bring about.

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This notion is central to the Jan. 27 ruling of Justice Susan Griffin that orders the B.C. government to attempt to reconstruct the world of 2001.

Government lawyers filed an application with the B.C. Court of Appeal on Friday to suspend parts of this rul-ing. Imposing Griffin’s terms would cause “irreparable harm to the public interest of unprecedented magni-tude,” they said in argu-ments backed up by a series

of affidavits from superin-tendents who have to keep B.C.’s war-weary public schools running.

In Surrey, returning to 2002 conditions would add $40 million to the district payroll in year one. That’s one of 60 school districts.

The government’s sub-mission includes affidavits from superintendents around the province on its likely impact. Here’s a par-tial list:

Cancellation of specialty programs for vulnerable youth, construction of por-

tables to meet arbitrary class size restrictions, transfer of some students to other schools, closure of daycare and Strong Start preschool programs to free up space reallocated over the years, layoff of non-teaching staff, and cancellation of school participation in the interna-tional student program.

Premier Christy Clark and Education Minister Peter Fassbender have begun to push back against the conspiracy theory that has taken hold, pointing out that when the BCTF finally

did get permission to strike, the cabinet of the day acted to prevent it.

Here’s a recap. In late February 2012, nearly 28,000 teachers (90 per cent) voted to go to the full strike allowed by the LRB. The government tabled leg-islation to impose a cooling-off period with provision for steep fines on the union for any further strike action, and appointed a mediator. This kept schools open, and eventually yielded a two-year deal.

In April 2012, the union

voted to withdraw all vol-unteer work by teachers. By this time they had been ordered by the LRB to prepare second-term report cards, in part so students would know if they could apply for post-secondary studies.

Once again this mess is before the court of appeal. Perhaps there will be better recognition of the real world this time around.

Tom Fletcher is legislature report-er and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

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To the people of B.C.,

You have most likely heard of our club’s involvement with try-ing to get a locked gate removed from the public road to Min-nie and Stoney Lakes. All of our requests to the police and to the Conservation Officers and to the Minister of Highways to have that illegal lock removed from that public road have fell on deaf ears. We have failed to get any response from those agencies and have petitioned the Supreme Court to have the lock removed. The Douglas Lake Cattle Company and the attorney general have escalated the petition to a court case, and Douglas Lake Cattle Company has charged our club and the attorney general with trespassing and with theft for fishing in those lakes in subsequent protest fisheries that we

were involved with.The attorney gen-

eral was named as a co-accused because the matters that are at issue here are matters for the attorney general to defend. There were others besides the club that were involved but were not charged. We were singled out as a club and charged.

The attorney gen-eral’s office is the one that should take offence to a private business claiming public lakes and public roads are private and the fish in the lakes are private fish like the lakes are their private ponds or fish tanks, and they should be defending these lakes against pri-vate takeover of our resources by a foreign billionaire, but they have chosen to take no stand in court against the attempted take-over of public waters and fish habitat. That equals a serious breach of trust that the people transferred to these

people when they were elected, I believe. Who is the real thief here?

Minnie and Stoney Lakes are only two of the many public lakes in the province (there are about 20 in this area alone) that are being called private lakes because the pro-vincial government has taken no stand to protect public access to public property and public waters and fish. I say they have taken no stand to protect our lakes from private take-over, but really, they have taken a stand. They are helping the rich take them over by doing nothing to stop it now, and everything to encourage it in the past. The Minister of Agriculture has played a major role in an attempt to give away our lakes.

As a result of this action and because the locking of the public from public places is one of the things our club stands in oppo-

sition to as per our constitution, we find ourselves in the unique position of having to defend access rights for future generations of Canadians because the attorney general of B.C. won’t and if this goes undefended, then access everywhere is in jeopardy of being controlled by the rich. In this case, the guy in control is not a Cana-dian (Stanley Kroenke, worth $5 billion) and this will be a prece-dent-setting case.

We need a good lawyer. We have a good lawyer who is will-ing to take the case. He has a plan and we need money to get him started on the action.

We do not have the required funding to take the action that we need to take and so we find that we are going to have to rely on a combination of dona-tions and loans and fundraising to pay back the loans. We can raise the funds in less than four years so that any loans would be paid back in that timeframe or sooner. Unfortu-nately, the lawyer needs the money now.

The Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club is humbly asking for your support in this important matter in the form of a donation or a short-term loan. We encourage dona-tions of any size that

you feel you can afford and are looking for loans of $500 or more to keep the tracking to something that our sec-retary can handle and sincerely thank you for your interest in keeping public access to public places on your list of important things to protect for future gen-erations. We expect any loans to be paid back in less than three years. A pointed letter to your favourite politician would also be a good thing to do.

If you wish to par-ticipate to protect our resources from private control, call one of the numbers below to arrange a dona-tion or loan. Names of contributors will be kept in confidence as requested.

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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

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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.

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Mural unveiled March 21A new mural will

soon grace the down-town core of Merritt, but it will be in pieces.

The Loughery Mural Artworks Foundation’s Wayfinder Project, in collaboration with the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT) and Embrace BC – a provincially-funded organization that pro-vides funding opportu-nities for projects that promote anti-racism – have teamed up to bring Merritt this latest mural.

Loughery Mural Art-works Foundation repre-sentative Katie Mitchell told the Herald the cre-ation of the mural has already begun. There are 12 students from an employment skills program at NVIT and about another six people from a youth centre in Vernon working on this mural under the leader-ship of artist Michelle Loughery.

Unlike Loughery’s country music murals, this mural will be an indoor installation and painted on a series of 12 four-foot-by-four-foot panels, similar to the murals that can be found around Spirit Square.

“We wanted to find a way to encourage people to actually go inside the community and look inside the businesses and

buildings,” Mitchell said. The series of paint-

ings will be broken up and placed in businesses around the downtown area of Merritt, Mitchell said.

Each panel will be a piece of the larger mural image, she told the Herald.

“Looking at one single piece, you’ll get a feeling for the picture, but in order to explore the whole thing you’ll need to walk around town [and] go into a few different businesses to find out what the larger image is,” Mitchell said.

Under the leadership of Loughery, the stu-dents will work on each panel at the Desert Inn where visitors can stop in and check out their progress, she said.

The team will use encaustic painting, which involves heated beeswax and coloured pigments to paint the mural.

“You paint with this hot wax, blowtorches and basically big cray-ons. It’s pretty fun,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said the theme of the mural is cultural and community bridging, incorporat-ing the subject matter of Eastern Europeans who were interned at Canadian camps dur-ing the First World War with other discriminated immigrant groups and aboriginal peoples.

The Wayfinder Proj-ect aims to bridge the gap between cultures, explore various humani-tarian issues amongst them and look at how they relate to each other, she said.

“What we want to do is create opportunities for conversation and cul-tural exploration so that we can all find a way to move forward as a unit-ed community rather than everyone holding on so fiercely to their independent cultures,” Mitchell said.

She said they want to show that every cultural groups has been through difficulties at some point in its history.

“I think the preserva-tion of cultural history is really important, but there’s no need for that competitive injustice feeling.

“No one is more wronged than the other, and what we’d like to do is create a really healthy community that can move forward together.”

One piece of home-work for those involved in painting the mural is to spend time with an elder in their families or community and get a story that relates to the subject matter of the mural.

“We’ll be attaching those stories to the imag-es so that when people go and look at the image and see what it is, there will also be a story for

them that will tell them a little bit about the feel-ing and about how this art came to be,” Mitch-ell said.

The completed mural will be unveiled on March 21, which is the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Rac-ism, Mitchell said. Time and place for the unveil-ing were not released.

At the unveiling, organizers plan to pro-vide an opportunity for people to talk about their feelings on the top-ics of internment, dis-crimination and racism and discuss how to move forward as a community, she said.

Mitchell said she thinks people are not familiar with the history of the First World War in Canada and thinks this group has gone out of its way to treat this as an education opportu-nity for the students who are involved.

“It isn’t something that I remember learn-ing about in school,” Mitchell said.

In January, upon con-clusion of the employ-ment skills program the recruited painters came from, the Wayfinder Project held a workshop with the students and people who had either experienced discrimina-tion directly or were descendants of people who had been discrimi-nated against.

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VICTORIA – Finance Minister Mike de Jong unveiled B.C.’s second straight surplus budget Tuesday, with few spending and tax changes as the province plans for economic growth driven by natural gas exports.

The biggest tax change is that provincial tobacco tax goes up 32 cents a pack April 1, on top of the latest federal increase of 40 cents a pack. B.C.’s share is expected to generate another $50 million, and de Jong said a “sig-nificant portion” of that will be used to develop smoking prevention efforts in partnership with the Canadian Can-cer Society.

Provincial funding for K-12 education con-tinues at 2013 levels, as the government pursues an appeal of a court decision that could add hundreds of millions to school district costs. The budget includes a $300 million contingency fund this year, rising to $400 million next year, to cover anticipated costs in labour and other areas such as forest fires.

The budget touts investments in trade skills training, with shop proj-ects at Camosun Col-lege, Okanagan College and NorKam Secondary in Kamloops. But the largest capital project is a new campus for Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, and operating spending on colleges and institutes is projected to fall by $5 million in the coming year.

De Jong said the “re-engineering” of B.C.’s skills training programs referred to in last week’s throne speech is getting underway, and a new $1,200 education savings grant for children born in 2007 or later is being delivered starting this year.

NDP finance critic Mike Farnworth said the government balanced its budget with cuts to skills training, increases to fees and appropriating $480 million added to BC Hydro’s growing debt.

The BC Liberals

spent heavily before the 2013 election to promote a jobs plan that has seen people continue to leave the province for work, Farnworth said.

The government expects to end the current year with an operating surplus of $175 million, rising to $184 million next year, which de Jong said is mainly a result of spend-ing discipline. B.C. and Saskatchewan are the only provinces to bal-ance budgets this year, and the three western provinces remain the only ones with a triple-A credit rating.

B.C.’s personal income tax rates remain the lowest of any prov-ince, but the budget announced another four per cent increase in Medical Services Plan premiums for next year. That makes increases totalling more than 30 per cent over the past five years.

Taxpayer-supported debt rises to more than $43 billion in the coming fiscal year, climbing to $45.5 billion by 2016-17. About $11 billion of next year’s burden is operating debt left by a string of deficits in recent years.

Total provincial debt, including self-supported debt held by BC Hydro and other agencies, grows from $64.7 billion

this year to $68.9 billion three years from now.

B.C. pays $2.5 billion a year to service debt, or four cents out of each revenue dollar.

To generate the resource wealth Pre-mier Christy Clark has promised will pay off B.C.’s debt, the budget describes a two-tier income tax on liquefied natural gas exports 1.5 per cent and up to seven per cent.

LNG production companies would pay the lower rate to start, with most or all of it repaid by an investment tax credit until their capital costs have been recovered. Rates are to be confirmed with legis-lation in the fall.

No revenues from LNG are expected until 2017, and in the first three years, producers would recover income tax through a credit that continues until their capital investment is paid off.

B.C. government vows skills training

In a speech from the throne that echoed Premier Christy Clark’s election campaign, the B.C. government prom-ised Tuesday to begin a 10-year skills training plan to drive industrial development.

Lt. Governor Judith

Guichon read the speech in the ceremonial begin-ning of the B.C. legisla-ture session. It touched on the BC Liberal government’s familiar themes, including the need to train and retain citizens to fill one mil-lion jobs due to growth and baby boomer retirements in the next decade.

“British Columbi-ans can look forward to enhancements to the Industry Training Authority, as well as the re-engineering of our secondary and post-secondary institutions to ensure our students have the skills for the jobs of the future,” Guichon told MLAs gathered for the first time in 2014.

Employers and job seekers will be watching for details in the provin-cial budget, to be pre-sented by Finance Min-ister Mike de Jong on Feb. 18. Opposition crit-ics have focused on the government’s reductions of skills training and the shortage of spaces and equipment for industrial training.

The speech also promises a new 10-year plan for transportation, to build on major road, bridge and transit works that have become con-tentious in the Lower Mainland as it struggles to keep up with popula-tion growth.

In education, the government renewed Clark’s goal of a person-alized education plan for each student and “an agreement to ensure a decade of labour peace in our classrooms.” That goal comes as the government pursues an appeal of the latest court judgment in favour of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation over removal of class size and support staff from their union contract.

Speaking to reporters after the speech, Clark emphatically denied the conclusion of a B.C. Supreme Court justice that her government engineered the 2012 teacher strike to build public support for an imposed settlement.

NDP leader Adrian Dix called the speech “particularly lacking in vision or substance,” adding that it contains nothing for B.C. resi-dents who “don’t work in the industries of liquefied natural gas or liquor.”

In addition to tout-ing the future benefits of LNG exports and pending liquor law reforms, the speech recounts increases in Asian trade, the ongoing “core review” to reduce provincial spending, and new union agreements that tie wage increases to an expanded economy.

THURSDAY, February 20, 2014 • 9

PROVINCE

God the Word, the World

When we were ready to move to the homestead in Northern Saskatchewan, we had to wait until spring, until the grass had gown so that the cows and horses could feed along the roadside. And we were off. It took a good month to complete the 250 mile trek and cross the river.

When we stopped on our new “farm”, there was no clearing, only bush. What do we do fi rst? We needed to clear some land, plow it up and plant a garden. A corral had to be built where the cows and horses were to be put in for the night. Then, a cabin for the family. There were logs handy. A fi re had gone through some years before and killed all of the trees, which had fallen down. A barn for the animals for winter would be next. What a lot of work!

Hay was put up on the river fl ats, about fi ve miles away. It was good hay, but hard to get at until the river froze. Then, when a little more land was cleared and plowed so the garden could be bigger and wheat

was planted, which my Dad threshed, the old Bible way. Dad was a very handy man.

When all was ready for winter, Dad got a job with his four horses working on the railroad. The train was to come the following summer. This is what they all had been waiting for. Business people, stores, shops, hotels set up on the site, had come because of the railroad.

Dad had to go about 12 miles to where they were working on the railroad, so he stayed for a week at a time. One week he came home in the middle of the week. Why?

He and Mother sat up well into the night and talked while I listened. The work had stopped. It was October 1929, the big Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Here we were in the bush, and no hope for a railroad. All of the suppliers fares that the country had had to be hauled by wagon or sleigh for 70 miles. Things looked bleak.

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(Clockwise from top left) Hot Lips got some more admiration at the Florentine, where the Dress Red for Heart and Stroke mascot will spend six months after his T-shirt is emblazoned with the name of the seniors’ residence. The Florentine won the event in a tie with Nicola Meadows.

Honourable mention went to Brad Yakimchuk at Century 21. Photo by Lisa Verity/Heart and Stroke Foundation

This Cooper’s Foods employee was busy in the floral department on Valentine’s Day, and her spirit showed.

Copper Valley Mechanical’s staff members posed with Hot Lips in their finest rouge.

Staff and residents at the Florentine showed off their scarlet apparel with Hub Barton’s Lyndsey Wilks (holding the monkey), who organized this year’s event.

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Social worker takes shine to acting

Her name is Lela Woodland, and she is a new teacher who has come to work in the community of Lower Nicola.

Never heard of her? That’s because that’s the descrip-

tion of the role local resident Delilah Dick played in the upcoming movie Shana: The Wolf ’s Music, a locally-shot Swiss film which will soon be in the-atres.

Dick, a social worker at the Nooaitch band, said her acting career began by chance.

In 2011, director Nino Jacusso visited Merritt Secondary School looking for actors, Dick said.

At the time, she was a support worker at the high school and was encouraging students to look into the opportunity.

However, when she noticed Jacus-so was looking for someone to play a violin teacher, Dick said she decided to take a look herself.

“I spoke with Nino and did a bit of an interview, then I didn’t hear anything else after that,” Dick said.

But the following summer, there was another call for auditions for the film and Dick once again went to see the director.

This time, she got a call back for a script read, and soon enough Dick had her first acting role.

She told the Herald she’d never acted before, but wanted to try it because it was a new and unique experience for her.

“I believe life’s full of adventures and why not take the opportunity if it’s presented to you?” Dick said.

The acting process wasn’t easy but was easier than she expected, Dick said, noting she was able to make her lines flow well and only ever had to do about nine takes at the most.

Dick said she acted a lot with Sunshine O’Donovan – a fellow local actor who is the lead in the film.

She said the two of them got to know each other quite well on set, but it took time as O’Donovan was shy with her at first.

Eventually, the two would have fun together on set, she said.

“We would joke around and do karate chops, ninja moves, and play tag, things like that,” Dick said.

She also said most of the acting in the film involved her simply being herself on camera, with, of course, some direction from Jacusso.

The film was shot without any professional actors. However, Dick pointed out there was one character in the movie with experience in film: a 10-year-old wolf named Brit, who has been in movies such as Twilight and Into the Wild.

Despite her role as a violin teach-er in the film, Dick doesn’t know how to play the instrument, so she had to fake it.

“I’ve never picked up a violin before in my life. It was brand-spank-ing new,” Dick said. “We actually had a violin coach, who is Sunshine O’Donovan’s brother, and he was the one who helped me to learn to hold the bow.”

She said she practiced about an hour every night which resulted in her not having to have a stand-in for her hand.

“My husband was very support-ive, but his poor ears, I’m sure,” Dick said with a laugh.

Dick said she’d like to try her hand at more movies or television as she enjoyed the process she experi-enced with her first film role.

“It was just a really awesome experience, and I’m thinking, ‘OK, if this is what making movies is about, heck, I’m there — I’ll do it again,” Dick said.

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(Clockwise from top left) The staff at Doctor’s Eyecare Merritt outfitted Hot Lips with some appropriately-hued specs during the judging.

The crew at Interior Savings went with an Olympics theme, which doubles for healthy heart awareness.

The Royal Bank staff happily represented their red duds on Valentine’s Day.

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“Sometimes we have three turn up, other times there are over 10 of us. Every-body comes as they can or feel like,” he said.

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When it comes to orthotics, go custom

Your feet are the foundation of your entire body. They must withstand pressures every day of two to three times your body weight as you move. Just like the concrete foundation of your home has to hold the weight of the entire house, your feet have to hold up your entire body weight. If the foundation of your home begins to shift

or can no longer hold the weight, your house begins to show physi-cal changes or signs of “settling” all the way up to the roof. The same scenario occurs in your feet. There are 52 bones, 36 joints, and lots of ligaments in your feet. If the ligaments become stretched or the joints become rigid or stiff, your feet can no longer efficiently resist the daily forces that are applied to them.

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walking or standing for even short periods of time. As well, you might feel sharp pain at the bottom of your feet as soon as you get out of bed in the morning. However, this is not the end of your potential problems. When your feet are settling or changing structurally (most commonly seen as fallen or flattened arch-es), other areas of your body can be dramati-cally affected. Changes in your feet can cause pain in your knees and shins. Particularly if one foot changes more than the other, pain can also show up in your hips, pelvis and low back. In dramatic cases, changes in your feet can lead to postural alterations in your spine that can

cause problems up as high as your neck, usu-ally showing up as neck stiffness and muscle ten-sion headaches.

If the above prob-lems sound like you, then you may wish to consider being fitted for a pair of custom orthotics. A quality pair of custom orthotics is made specifically for your feet. It is highly unlikely that any two people should have identical feet and there-fore identical orthot-ics. In fact, it is not uncommon for you to need a different shape of orthotic for your left versus your right foot. Many different types of off-the-shelf orthotics are available, but they are not made specifically for you and

your individual foot problems. To ensure that you do not make your foot problems even worse, only wear orthot-ics that are custom-made for each of your feet.

To make a custom orthotic, the practitio-ner must first examine the feet thoroughly. Then a foam or plaster mould of each foot is made. This must be done in a neutral and non-weight-bearing position. This means that the practitioner aligns your foot and ankle in the position it should be, and then makes a foam or plaster mould of the bottom surface of your feet. Most importantly, this is done when you are in a seated position. If you

are standing and step into the foam or plaster to make an impression or mould, the technique used is not as accurate. For example, when you are standing to make the mould or impres-sion, the result will only show what your foot is already doing wrong. Then the practitioner must “guess” what posi-tion your foot should actually be in when he or she makes your orthotic. If the practi-tioner is using a mould or impression taken from on a non-weight-bearing and properly aligned foot, there is no guessing and each orthotic is made specifi-cally for each of your feet.

It is also important to ask the practitioner

if there is some kind of guarantee and war-ranty with the finished product. Sometimes the orthotic may require an adjustment or modifi-cation in the initial 30 days or so to achieve a good fit. This is often done without a charge. As well, if the orthot-ics cannot be adjusted or fitted to your desire, a partial or full money back guarantee should be available within the first month of using them.

In closing, do not use imitation or inac-curately made orthotics. On a separate note, if you anticipate being fitted for custom orthot-ics, extended health plans often cover 80 per cent of the cost up to $300.

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Redefi ning concept of wasting time

“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” — John Lennon

I find it interesting that in our fast-paced, multi-tasked world, so often things that are relaxing are considered a waste of time. Days are often evaluated in terms of how much was “done,” usually mean-ing how much work was accomplished. While this may be appropriate in the workplace, it often

carries over into the home.

Many will make lists of all that has to be done, be it inside work or outside work. Usually there is more on the list than is humanly possible to do in one day. None-theless, often the focus is more on what did not get done than what was done.

Because we know we are evaluating ourselves in relation to that list, anything that interferes or is not on the list is seen as a threat to our success. A mental clock is ticking in the back of our heads keeping us aware of how this interruption is setting us back.

This all creates a cer-tain level of tension, or at least a sense of being in a bit of a rush.

It also rules out spon-taneity: when we are working the list, there is no going with the flow.

Another thing that happens is that “work” is like the “meat and pota-toes” while taking time to relax is “dessert.” And we all know the rule: no dessert until you finish your dinner. There is, however, always some-thing more on the list.

Consequently, the

novel does not get read, the nap is not taken, no time is spent lying on the grass watching the sky, the dog does not get played with quite enough, and to family members we might just be a blur rushing by, and sometimes a cranky blur.

Consider this: the moments we cherish and will always remember are not the ones expe-rienced while following

our list. Most likely they are precisely those spon-taneous moments when we just relaxed and were fully present to what and who was around us. These moments are precious and just might indicate that we need to reconsider our concept of wasted time.

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

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Friday, February 14

Merritt 4 Powell River 1Despite a 12-hour bus and ferry journey that started at 5 a.m. Friday morning in Merritt, the Centennials were the team with more jump at night as they upset the Powell River Kings 4-1 on their home ice.“It was a very gutsy performance, a full team effort,” said Cents head coach and GM Luke Pierce. “We knew that we would have to weather the storm early, but I thought that we countered very well.”After the Kings took an early 1-0 lead, it was Jason Bird’s first two goals as a Centennial — less than two minutes apart — that sparked his team’s effort the rest of the way. “The scoring thing has been weighing on [Jason] a bit since he’s been here,” said Pierce. “For him to get two real quick ones back-to-back was big for us.”Zach Hartley and Gavin Gould also scored for good measure in one of Merritt’s best road outings of the season. Jarrod Schamerhorn was out-standing in the Merritt net, stopping 35 of 36 Kings’ shots.“[Powell River] didn’t get a lot of good looks,” said Pierce, “and when they did get pucks on net, Jarrod was there to make the stop.” The Cents went one-for-seven on the powerplay, and successfully killed off all nine man-advantage opportunities for Powell River.

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Saturday, February 15

Merritt 4 Cowichan Valley 3 “If Friday’s performance was gutsy, then Saturday’s was just a very deter-mined effort,” said Cents head coach and GM Luke Pierce.Sebastien Paré’s goal just 33 seconds into the first overtime period was the difference in the Cents’ 4-3 victory over the Cowichan Valley Capitals on Saturday night.“Dane [Birks] got the puck on a turnover,” said Pierce. “He went down the wing and put a low shot on net. Sebastien was there to stuff home the rebound.”After another tough travel day, the Cents again gave up the game’s first goal before settling down and finding their groove. Wayland Williams tied things at 1-1 late in the first, and Diego Cuglietta scored goals in the sec-ond and third periods to keep things knotted at 3-3 and set the table for Paré’s heroics in OT.“Wayland had a great weekend,” said Pierce. “He’s really starting to find his comfort level. And Diego and Sebastien came through when we needed them.”Jarrod Schamerhorn was good again in the Merritt net stopping 19 shots. Two of the Caps’ three goals came on a pair of powerplays in the second period.

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Sunday, February 16

Alberni Valley 2 Merritt 1 The Cents came awfully close to the weekend sweep, losing 2-1 to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Sunday afternoon.“When you win the first two, you want to win that third one,” said Cents head coach and GM Luke Pierce. “Had Alberni’s game against Powell River not been cancelled on Saturday [due to ferry issues], I think we would have had them. [The Bulldogs] were well-rested and came out hell-bent. They were hitting us at every opportunity, and I think our guys got a bit frustrated and took some undisciplined penalties.”It was 1-1 through 20 minutes with Dane Birks scoring for Merritt. The ’Dogs netted the game winner on a powerplay midway through the second while one-time Centennial netminder Connor Lecouvee shut the door on his former teammates the rest of the way, stopping 35 of 36 shots.Jarrod Schamerhorn was every bit as good in net for Merritt despite play-ing his third game in three days.“Sunday’s game might have been his best game of the three,” said Pierce. “Schamy stood on his head a few times. Their second and winning goal came on a five-on-three powerplay for them. It was the difference in the game. Our effort was good all night. We just shot ourselves in the foot a bit.”

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BCHL STANDINGS to Feb. 20

Team GP W L T OTL PTS

Penticton 54 33 15 2 4 72West Kelowna 54 31 15 3 5 70Vernon 54 28 16 4 6 66Merritt 54 28 21 4 1 61Salmon Arm 53 25 22 1 5 56Trail 53 9 38 2 4 24

INTERIOR DIVISION


Langley 54 34 13 2 5 75Prince George 53 30 18 3 2 65Coquitlam 55 26 24 2 3 57Surrey 55 24 29 1 1 50Chilliwack 54 13 35 2 4 32

MAINLAND DIVISION


Victoria 53 34 13 3 3 74Powell River 53 32 15 2 4 70Nanaimo 55 27 25 1 2 57Cowichan Valley 54 20 28 2 4 46Alberni Valley 54 19 27 2 6 46

ISLAND DIVISION

Merritt’s Dane Birks (7) returned to action from an injury in Friday’s game against the Powell River Kings. Photo courtesy of Alicia Bass/Powell River Peak

Merritt’s Scotty Patterson (on top) getting tangled up with Cowichan’s Taylor Allan on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Andrew Leong/Cowichan News Leader

Diego Cuglietta and the rest of the Centennials faced off with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Scott McKenzie/Alberni Valley Times

Cents welcome the Warriors (again) this FridayBy Ian WebsterTHE HERALD

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When West Kelowna pays its last regular-season visit to the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena on Friday, the Merritt Centennials will be look-ing to make amends for

the 7-2 drubbing they suffered at the hands of the Warriors in the two teams’ last meeting back on Feb. 11.

“We want to play [the Warriors] like we played them back on Feb. 7 (a 2-1 win for Merritt),” said Centennials head

coach and GM Luke Pierce. “We played them hungry and hard.”

The Cents will also be looking to further solidify their grip on fourth place in the BCHL’s Interior Division in advance of their Saturday night

tussle with the fifth-place Salmon Arm Silverbacks.

With the two teams having six and seven reg-ular-season games left to play respectively, Merritt leads Salmon Arm by five points in the race to the post-season..

“Our goal is to win both weekend games and make the last week of the regular schedule irrelevant,” said Pierce.

Friday night’s game at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena is ‘Western Night’ so wear your cowboy hat!


By Ian WebsterTHE HERALD

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It’s tough enough that all Merritt Secondary School Grade 8 sports teams must play 90 percent of their games away from home because of the Kamloops school district’s byzantine policies regard-ing travel.

The situation gets even worse when wintery weather conditions get added to the mix.

Merritt Secondary’s Grade 8 boys team didn’t let a full-blown snowstorm on the Coquihalla deter them as they travelled to Kamloops Tuesday night and upset the St. Ann’s Crusaders 39-37 in a thrill-ing game that was decided with just 2.3 seconds left in the game.

The MSS boys’ achievement was all the more amazing given that coach Gian Cavaliere’s squad consists of just six players.

“The boys played their hearts out and were very happy when

they pulled off the victory,” said Cavaliere.

Leading scorer for the MSS boys was Sam McNiven with 13 points while Fred Ware added nine.

The two-point boys’ win on Tuesday avenged a one-point loss to the same Crusaders team a night earlier in a rare game played on Merritt’s home turf.

With just over three seconds left in overtime on Monday, the Crudaders sank their only three-pointer of the night to edge the Panthers 49-48.

McNiven had a game high 24 points in Monday’s loss, while Ware chipped in with 14 points and Keenan Wudrich contributed eight.

Thanks to their upset win over St. Ann’s on Tuesday, Merritt’s Grade 8 boys team was slated to play the Sa-Hali Sabres on Wednesday night in their next playoff game. Results of that game were not available by the time this

paper went to press.The MSS Grade 8 girls weren’t

quite so fortunate this week in their games versus St. Ann’s.

The Panther ladies fell 25-22 to the Crusaders at home on Monday in one of their best games of the season.

“The girls have improved so much,” said head coach Nicole Bouchard. “At the beginning of the year, we had some players with almost no basketball experience. Now they’re playing help-side defence, posting up, rebounding. We just need to sink a few more shots.”

Top scorers for the MSS girls side were Sumeeti Chhabra and Jamie Neil with eight points each.

The Grade 8 girls squad had a tougher go of things in its rematch with St. Ann’s on Tuesday, losing 43-8.

Both Grade 8 teams hit the road yet again on Thursday for exhibition games in Princeton.

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A pair of Merritt runners kicked off their racing seasons with impressive performances on the weekend.

Marie-Josée Bedard, 40, was a winner of the ‘February Freeze 5K’ in Peachland on Sunday.

Bedard, an elemen-tary school principal at L’Ecole de Collettville, recorded a new personal best time of 19:48 for the five-kilometre dis-tance.

One week earlier, Bedard competed in Penticton’s second annu-

al indoor triathlon. The event was held at the Penticton Community Centre Pool and adja-cent South Okanagan Events Centre.

A total of 49 athletes (28 female, 21 male) took part in the indoor ‘tri’ which had partici-pants swim for 15 min-utes in the pool, cycle for 30 minutes on a stationery bike and run for 20 minutes around the concourse of the SOEC.

Bedard, who just took up swim training this past fall, completed 550 metres in the pool, biked 11.25 kilometres,

and ran 42 quarters (the best of all female competitors) in the time allotted for each phase. Her points total of 42 placed her eighth overall.

Also this past Sunday, School District 58 superintendant Bob Peacock, 64, finished 69th in a field of 190 runners at the ‘Starting Block 10K’ in Lavington (outside Vernon).

Peacock, who had completed a 29km train-ing run the day before, finished the 10K in 49:13, fourth-best for his age group.

Overall winner of

the Starting Block 10K was former Merritt resi-dent Hans Aaybe in a time of 34:05.

Marie-Josée Bedard com-petes in an indoor triathlon in Penticton on Feb. 9. Photo courtesy of Cherie Morgan

Peewee girls one step away from Okanagan titleBy Ian WebsterTHE HERALD

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The Merritt Joco Transport peewee girls are just one step away from winning their first-ever Okanagan superleague title. They play Kelowna #1 this weekend in a best-of-three championship series, with game one scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Friday at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena.

Game two goes Saturday in Kelowna, while a third and decid-ing game (if needed) will be back in Merritt on Sunday at 10 a.m.

The Joco girls earned the right to play for the Okanagan champion-ship thanks to a thrilling

2-1 come-from-behind series win over Kelowna #2 in semi-final action last weekend.

Merritt’s peewees lost game one to Kelowna #2 on home ice last Friday by a score of 5-2. Tyra Gage scored both Joco goals in the loss.

In game two on Saturday in Kelowna, it was Taylia McKeown’s turn to notch both goals as Merritt won 2-1 in overtime.

Game three back in Merritt on Sunday went to overtime, too. Gage’s third goal of the series in the first minute of OT won the game 3-2 for Merritt. Other scorers for the victorious side were Hope Smith and Taylor Shackelly.

Merritt’s bantam girls team is also play-ing for an Okanagan title this weekend. The

McDonald’s girls are down one game to none in their best-of-three championship series

with Clearwater, after losing 5-1 to their North Thompson opponents last Sunday.

Games two and three are both in Merritt this weekend. Times and locations have yet to be announced.

A third Merritt superleague team is also in the midst of playoffs. The Merritt midget house #1 squad will play Logan Lake in a best-of-three series beginning Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. in Merritt. Game two is slated for 1:45 p.m. on March 1 in Logan Lake and game three (if needed) is scheduled for March 2 at 3:30 p.m. in Merritt.

In league play, the local Fountain Tire

atoms defeated Kelowna 9-5 on Saturday. Merritt scorers were Max Graham, Matthew Newman, Breanna Ouellet and Sajjin Lali.

The local atoms fol-lowed that up with an 11-2 exhibition win over a Kamloops peewee girls team on Sunday.

Merritt’s atom devel-opment squad plays a pair of exhibition games this weekend. They host West Kelowna on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Merritt, and Kelowna on Sunday at 12 noon, also in Merritt.

On Saturday, there is a day-long Initiation tournament at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena. Visiting teams are from Kelowna,

North Okanagan and Princeton. Here’s the schedule:

7:30 Merritt White vs. Kelowna

8:45 Merritt vs. North O #1

10:00 Princeton vs. North O #2

11:15 Merritt White vs. North O #1

12:00 Princeton vs. Kelowna (Shulus)

12:30 Merritt Red vs. North O #2

1:45 Kelowna vs. North O #1

3:00 Merritt White vs. North O #2 4:15 Merritt Red vs. Princeton

SHOW TIME! It’s Merritt and Kelowna #1 in the final of the Okanagan peewee girls superleague. Game one goes this Friday at 4:30 p.m. in Merritt. Ian Webster/Herald

OTTER-LY AWESOME! Kelsey Jager (above) and the rest of her Merritt Otters’ teammates were in the pool at the Aquatic Centre on Saturday for the third of their winter maintenance meets. Despite swimming four to five races each in a span of just two hours, over 90 PBs (per-sonal bests) were recorded by the enthusuastic group of young swimmers. The next PB meet will be on April 25. Registration for summer swimming with the Merritt Otters will begin next month. Photo courtesy of Stef and Michelle Zabek

Local runners hit the pavement

MSS Grade 8 basketball teams real road warriors

(Above) MSS girls’ point guard Emman-uelle Dugas (13) fends off a St. Ann’s checker in Grade 8 basketball action at Merritt Secondary School on Monday. (Right) Sam McNiven (14) of the MSS Grade 8 boys basketball team puts up two of his 24 points against the Crusaders on Monday. Ian Webster/Herald

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

BrowniesMondays 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Central School - 250-315-7410Canadian Diabetes AssociationOnce a month, 7 - 9 p.m.Trinity United Church Hall. Call Eva 250-378-2897 or Gerry at 250-378-3716CMHA - Merritt ClubhouseFireside Center - 2026 Granite Ave.Wed/Fri 9 am - 2:30 pmShirley 250-378-5660Central School PacFirst Tuesday 7 p.m. Lunchroom - 250-378-4892Community ChoirMondays 7 p.m. - Fall to SpringCollettville Elementary - 250-378-9899Court Whist - Fun GameWednesdays 7 p.m.at the Seniors Centre 250-378-2776Drop-In SoccerTuesdays & Thursdays: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.Girls & Boys 16+ welcome 250-378-2530Drop-In VolleyballMondays 7 - 9 p.m. CMS. 250-378-6212.Girl GuidesWednesdays 5:30 -7:00 p.m. Central School - 250-936-8298Ladies’ Curling LeagueWednesdays 6 & 8 p.m.Call 250-378- 8175 or 250-378-4917Living With Loss Support GroupWednesdays 7 to 8:45 p.m. 2025 Granite Ave. 250-280-4040Merritt Curling ClubFor League Information 250-378-4423Merritt Dance SocietyLinda Sanford: 250-378-6109Merritt Duplicate Bridge Club

Tuesdays 7 p.m. Seniors’ Centre 250-378-5550 Merritt Elks Lodge ClubsSecond & Fourth Wednesday 8 p.m. Elks Hall 250-378-9788Merritt Lawn BowlingSun., Tues., & Thurs. at 7 p.m. 250-378-2950Merritt Lions ClubFirst & Third Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Best Western - Han’s Golden Wok 250-378-9509Merritt Moms PrenatalPost Natal Support group. Monday - Friday - 8:30 a.m. 250-378-2252Merritt Mountain Biking Assoc. Wednesdays 6 p.m. - rideE: [email protected]: #merrittbikingNavy League Cadets of CanadaWednesdays 6 - 9 p.m. Cadet Hall - Ages 9-13 welcome 250-280-6944Merritt Snowmobile ClubSecond Tuesday 7 p.m.Civic Centre 250-315-1082Merritt’s Women in BusinessSecond Wednesday 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Merritt Desert Inn 250-315-5851Nicola Naturalist SocietyThird Thursday - 7:00 p.m.NVIT. www.nicolanaturalists.caN.V. 4-H ClubSecond Tuesday - 6:30 p.m.Central School - 250-378-5028Nicola Valley Better BreathersThird Wednesdays 1 p.m.Trinity United - 250-378-6266 N.V. Community Band Tuesdays 7 p.m - MSS Music Room 250-378-5031 or 250-378-9894NVCAC

Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm at The Art Gallery. 250-378-6515 www.nvartscouncil.comN.V. Dirt Riders AssociationLast Wednesday 7 p.m. Garden Sushi - Scott: 250-378-3502 N.V. Fall Fair Third Monday 7 p.m.2145 Quilchena Ave. 250-378-5925N.V. Fish & Game (except July and Aug.)Third Wednesday 7 p.m.2236 Jackson Ave. 250-378-4572 or 250-378-4904N.V. Heritage Society Last Wednesday - Baillie House250-378-0349N.V. Quilters GuildFirst & Third Thursdays Civic Centre 7 p.m. 250-378-4172N.V. Search & RescueSecond Monday 7 p.m. at the airport - 250-378-6769 N.V. Thrift StoreFirst Tuesday - NVGH basement 250-378-9100N.V. Women’s Institute Second Wednesday - 1:30 p.m. For locations, 250-378-2536One Way Krew Youth GroupTuesdays 7 - 8:30 p.m. Crossroads Community Church - 250-378-2911Pathfi ndersMondays 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Central School - 250-936-8298Patricia Rebekah LodgeSecond & Fourth Mondays at 7 p.m. Lawn Bowling Club Rocky Mnt. Rangers CadetsTuesdays 6 p.m. 250-378-1302 or 250-572-3775Royal Canadian Legion #96Executive Mtg. Second Thursday 6 p.m. - Regular

Mtg. Fourth Thursday 7 p.m. 1940 Quilchena - 250-378-5631Royal PurpleFirst & Third Mondays 1:00 p.m. - Downstairs @ Elks Hall 250-378-6788Rotary Club of MerrittEvery Thursday - NoonBrambles Bakery Cafe. 250-378-5535Sagebrush Spinners and Weavers GuildTamarack Gardens every other Thursday at 11:00 AM Bev at 250-378-2787. Rotary Club of Merritt - SunriseEvery Tuesday - 7 a.m. Brambles BakerySeniors’ Mixed CurlingMondays & Tuesdays 1 - 3 p.m. 250-378-5539Soup BowlTuesdays 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Anglican Church HallSparks Mondays 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Central School - 250-315-7410Teen Centre / FiresideThursday & Friday 3:30-7:30 p.m. 250-378-56602 4 UFirst & Third Tuesdays 2 p.m. at the HospiceSociety - Sue 250-378-2717or Bonnie 250-315-0179Valley Scrapbooking250-936-8298Valley Visual Artists General club informationFran McMurchy - 250-378-4230Vintage Car Club - MerrittSecond Wednesday - 7:30 p.m. Ska-Lu-La WorkshopAl - 250-378-7402 Ted - 250-378-4195

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Crossroads Community Church2990 Voght St. • 250-378-2911

Service Time: Sundays 10:30 a.m.

Merritt Baptist Church2499 Coutlee Ave. (Corner of Coutlee and Orme) • 250-378-2464

Service Time/ Sunday School: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Merritt Lutheran Fellowshipin St. Michael's Church • 250-378-9899

Service Time: 3rd Sunday each month 1:00 p.m.

Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church1950 Maxwell St. • 250-378-9502Service Time: Sundays 10:00 a.m.

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchCorner of Jackson & Blair • 250-378-2919

Mass Time: Sundays 9:00 a.m.

Seventh Day Adventist Church2190 Granite Ave. • 250-378-4061Service Time: Saturdays 11:00 a.m.

St. Michael’s Anglican Church1990 Chapman St. • 250-378-3772Service Time: Sundays 10:00 a.m.

Trinity United ChurchCorner of Quilchena & Chapman • 250-378-5735

Service Time: Sundays 10:00 a.m.

NVCAC CONCERT COMMITTEE

8th Annual Community Arts Show. ”Things That Make You Smile”. Show begins Feb. 6 and runs through Feb. 28. For more info contact Meriel at 250-378-6515 or email [email protected] or [email protected]. Gallery hours are Thursday 4 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Friday 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The gallery is located in the Old Courthouse Arts Centre at 1840 Nicola Ave.

PRINCETON ARTS COUNCIL PRESENTS

Outerbridge Pure Illusions. Riverside Community Theatre. Sunday Feb. 23 7:30 p.m.

NICOLA VALLEY FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS

”Love Is All You Need” Rated G on Monday, Mar. 10th at 7:30 p.m. at the NVIT Lecture Theatre. Parking is free and there is no food or drink allowed in the the-atre. For more information phone 378-3974.

NICOLA VALLEY FISH & GAME CLUB

Annual trophy & awards night pot luch supper to be held Saturday Mar. 8 at the Seniors Centre. Big fish and photo entries. Deadline Feb. 22. Entries can be left at Ponderosa or Nicola Valley Outdoors. For info call Paul Komonoski 250-378-4904

NICOLA FAMILY THERAPY

Is hosting its 2nd annual Baron of Beef fundraiser Saturday March 1 at the Lower Nicola Community Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m. din-ner at 6 p.m. For tickets call 250-378-9222 or stop by Nicola Family Therapy in the front of City Holl building.

COURTHOUSE ART GALLERY

Dance Into My Heart: Sponsored by the Merritt Dance Society & NVCAC. March 7 - 29th. This jur-ied art show will feature a diverse mix of art from young artists to professionals. Gallery is open Thursdays 4p.m. - 8p.m., Friday and Saturday noon - 6p.m.. Join us for the reception and awards ceremony for the juried art show Thursday Mar. 7 4p.m. - 6p.m. Light refreshments will be pro-vided and you will have a chance to meet the artists and find out more about their work. For more info contact Meriel at 250-378-6515

MERRITT & DISTRICT HOSPICE SOCIETY TRAINING COURSE

Are you interested in becom-ing a Hospice volunteer? Are you interested in learning what hospice and palliative care are all about? Course offered Mar. 7, 8 and 9. For more info email [email protected] or call Maureen at 250-315-7562

NVCAC PRESENTSLa Vent du Nord. Friday Mar.

14th at 7:30 p.m. Merritt Civic Centre. Le Vent du Nord (The North Wind) is a Canadian folk music group from Quebec. The band, formed in 2002, performs traditional Quebecois music, as well as original numbers in this style, in French. The group’s membership currently consists of Nicolas Boulerice, Olivier Demers and Rejean Brunet. Their first five recordings have been nominated for multiple awards, the first two have received awards. Tickets available at Black’s Pharmacy, Mandolin’s and Baillie House.

PRINCETON ARTS COUNCIL PRESENTS

Wheat In The Barley, Friday Mar. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Riverside Community Theatre. Canadian folk fusion with crack songwrit-ing, brilliant arrangements and stunning instrumental solos unite under the banner of savvy eclec-ticism. Wheat in the Barley pulls together a lot of great influences into one package: Celtic, Slavic, French Canadian, Yiddish, Cajun and much more! Tickets avail-able at Sunflower Gallery and Thomasina’s.

HEART AND STROKE MONTH

Volunteers are needed to assist with canvassing during the month of February. Walk an area to call on people in your neighbourhood to help your health and the Heart

and Stroke Foundation. Volunteers are needed in the Diamond Vale area, Collettville, Lower Nicola, Highway 8, Mamit Lake area, Petit Creek and Spius Creek Roads. To volunteer and for more info call Gloria 250-378-4153

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The Navy League is in need of officer’s and volunteers to help out with our growing Cadet Corps. Our children are age 9 to 13 and we meet every Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you have past experience or are inter-ested in becoming a part of our Corps please contact us. Ellen 250-280-6944, Debra 250-280-4086 or email at [email protected]

KNITWITSLove to knit or crochet? Or are

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

COURTHOUSE ARTGALLERY

The Valley Visual Arts (VVA) will be holding a weekly Creative Art Session, in the Orange Room at the Art Gallery, every Thursday between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Everyone welcome to stop in and see their work.

NEWBARK RESCUENewbark Rescue & Rehoming

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

NV REMOTE CONTROL FLYER

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

TRINITY UNITED CHURCH

1899 Quilchena Ave. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Sundays - for children ages 4 to 8 years. Children learn of God’s love through stories, music, crafts and fun. More information: Gail 250-378-9706

MERRITT SENIOR CENTRE

Weekly schedule is as follows: Monday: Crib & Whist 7 p.m. Tuesday: Bingo 1 p.m., Duplicate Bridge 7 p.m. Wednesday: Carpet Bowling 1:30 p.m., Court Whist 7 p.m. Thursday: Floor Curling 1 p.m. (third week - shut-in lucheon) Friday: Rummoli & Games 7 p.m.All seniors welcome.

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Would you like to see a movie theatre in Merritt, then the Merritt Community

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If you would like to help donate to this wonderful cause please make cheque payable to Merritt

Community Cinema Society and mail it to:1952 Eastwood Ave., Merritt, BC V1K 1K3

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Elsie GraboskiElsie Graboski passed away peacefully at Gilis/Coquihalla House on Thursday, February 13, 2014 at the age of 84. She was predeceased by her husband Nick in October 1979. Nick and Elsie moved to Merritt from Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba with their children Ron (of Rocky Mtn. House, AB) and Dorothy (of Merritt, BC) in 1956. Both were very active in the community and enjoyed

curling and golf. Elsie is survived by her son Ronald, and her

daughter Dorothy, her grandchildren Corrie, Steven and Richard and her great grandchildren, Dante, Taylor and Colten who loved her dearly and will miss her deeply. At Elsie’s request there will be no memorial service. The family request that in lieu of owers a donation be made to the Cancer Society of Canada.The family would like to thank the doctors and staff of the Kamloops Cancer Clinic, Dr. & Mrs. Smit and the wonderful and caring staff of Gillis/Coquihalla House who’s constant care and attention did not go unnoticed. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

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Charan Singh SandurSardar Charan Singh Sandur of Merritt, BC passed away peacefully at Gillis House on February 12, 2014 at the age of 88.Charan was born in Jagpalpur, Punjab, India on August 18, 1925 as the eldest child to Ragbir Singh and Tara Kaur. Thanks to the sponsorship by his sister Swarn Kaur Ghog, he left India and immigrated to Canada in 1958. Once here, Charan’s working career involved logging camps and mills around the Interior of BC. For a time he also lived in Toronto, but he always called

Merritt home. Aside from friends and family, Charan’s true passion lay in horses. He was renowned for owning some of the top horses in all of Punjab. In Canada, he enjoyed going to the track to watch the horses race and spent many hours poring over sales listings looking for the perfect horse. If he wasn’t looking for horses, Charan would pass his time reading a daily newspaper from cover to cover with a cup of coffee that had a generous serving of honey. However, if you asked him what the latest news was, he’d promptly tell you to read it yourself (with a mischievous twinkle in his eye). Charan graduated from Lyallpur Khalsa College of Jalandhar in 1946 and seldom missed an opportunity to remind you of his degree status, his wealth of knowledge and the ve languages he could speak. Charan never hesitated to indulge his grandchildren and always had a large bill in his wallet for a quick trip to the corner store.Charan is predeceased by his parents, wife Karam Kaur and sister Harjinder Lalli of India. He is survived by his children: sons Baldev (Balbir) Sandhur of Surrey, BC and Sukhdev (Bakhshish) Sandur of Merritt, BC, daughter Pinder (Joga) Gill of Swindon, UK and son Ravinder (Meena) Sandur of Kamloops, BC. Charan is also survived by nine grandchildren: Jajbir (Belinda) Sandhur, Parveen Sandur, Sikander (Reetu) Sandhur, Harjeet (Cindy) Sandur, Kelly (Rob) Riddell, Sultan Sandur, Anita Gill, Gurtaj Sandur and Gary Gill. He is also survived by three great-grandchildren, two sisters and one brother.A memorial service was held on February 15, 2014 in Merritt, BC. The family would like to give special thanks to Dr. McLeod and the staff at Gillis House for the care and support Charan received over the past few years. Condolences may be expressed at www.merrittfuneralchapel.com.

In Loving Memory Marcel Roland

BernierMarch 1, 1941 – Feb. 11, 2014

Marcel Roland Bernier of Merritt, B.C. aged 72 years passed away peacefully at Coquihalla Gillis House on February 11, 2014 after a 4 year battle with cancer.

He will be dearly missed by his loving wife of 52 years Ella May Bernier of Merritt B.C., as well as his son Brett (Jen) Bernier of Kamloops B.C , son Darrin (Dale) Bernier of Barhead Alberta , and daughter Camille (TJ) Pinyon of Merritt B.C. His grandchildren Stephanie, Dillon, Noel, Devon, Becky, Joey, Daria and Dean and great grandchildren Kian, Maxwell and Isabella. He will also be greatly missed by his brothers Philip, Dennis ,Norman , Claude , Perry and sisters Alice, Louise , and Doreen as well as many brother and sister in-laws and many nieces and nephews.

Marcel was born in Morris, Manitoba to Osias and Germaine Bernier and was raised there with his eleven siblings. He met the love of his life Ella May when he was just 15 years old and she was 13 years old..They moved to B.C. shortly after getting married on August 22, 1962. They lived in Kamloops B.C. before moving to Pritchard , B.C. in 1972 where they lived for 34 years until moving to Chase, B.C in 2006 . They resided in Chase until moving to Merritt, B.C in May 2013. Marcel spent his whole working life as a Journeyman Painter. He enjoyed shing, hunting, camping, darts ,bingo and of course the casino. His pride and joy were his grandchildren . He was also an active member of the Royal Canadian Legion.

He was predeceased by his dad Osias Bernier and Mom Germaine Bernier, his brother Raymond , his sisters Carol and Florence and his youngest grandchild Serenity Pinyon. The family would like to thank Dr.Ross, the staff at the Nicola Valley Health Center and especially the staff and residents of the Coquihalla Gillis House for the exceptional care and love that they gave dad not only while in palliative care but everyday that he was there visiting mom. His nal wishes were to spend his last moments with mom at Gillis house surrounded by his loving family and the caring staff taking care of him. We are extremely touched by how his wishes were ful lled and how at peace dad was when he spent his nal day there.

There will be a Celebration of Life at the Pritchard Community Hall , 1941 Duck Range Road on Saturday February 15th at 1pm. In Lieu of owers donations can be made in Marcels name to the Coquihalla Gillis House 1699 Tutill Court, Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8.

We’ll Always Love You Dad!

Each day you strived to live,Your body too weak to be.Your love will live forever,

Since your heart has set you free.

Now you walk so bravely,You feel the pain no more.

Angels have come to guide you,And bring you to Heaven’s door.

Memories we’ll hold so dearly,Your smile. warmed our hearts.And through our lives you’ll live,You’ve touched so many parts.

Hard Days may be before us,Its all a part of gods Plan.Why uou left us so soon,

We may never understand.

You’ll be alone no longer,And you’d tell us ,

“Don’t be sad”Please believe you were no burden,

We’ll always love you, Dad.

Our lives have changed forever,Since the day you passed away.

In heaven you’ll be waiting,To meet us again someday.

Merritt & District Hospice Society

www.merritthospice.org

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Pets & Livestock

PetsBERNESE CKC PUPPIES, ready now! $1500 Call 778-240-1860 or 604-897-0485whitecrosskennel.ca

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

Misc. WantedCoin Collector Looking to Buy Collections, Estates, Gold & Silver Coins + 778-281-0030

Real Estate

Houses For Sale

MERRITT1988 Quilchena Ave.

Feb. 18th, 2014

250-378-1996 Call for all of your Residential

or Commercial PropertyManagement needs!

MERRITT REAL ESTATE SERVICESProperty Manager:

Lynda Etchart

2 bdrm Apt. $675 plus hydro.

1 bdrm Apt. $600 plus hydro.

1 bdrm townhouse. $600 plus hydro.

2bdrm Sandpiper Unit. $750 plus hydro.

1 bdrm bsmt suite, new. $650 plus hydro.

4 bdrm bsmt suite on Bench. $1000 including all utilities.

1 bdrm Suite in Heritage Home. $690 plus hydro. (X2)

1 bdrm with den in Heritage Home. $690 plus hydro. ½ month off with

1 year lease.

1 bdrm Suite in Heritage Home. $690 plus hydro.

2 bdrm duplex. $625 plus hydro.

2 bdrm duplex. 650 plus hydro. $100 move in allowance.

2 bdrm duplex. $700 plus utilities. $100 move in allowance

2 bdrm duplex. $750 plus utilities.



2 bdrm in Sixplex. $700 inc utilities (x3). (Lower Nicola)

2 bdrm house. $750 plus utilities.




5 bdrm house w in-law suite. $1300 plus utilities.

3 bdrm house in Lower Nicola. $1000 plus utilities.

Home and Land PackagesSpringbank Ave, MerrittCompletely Serviced

City ServicesTurn Key

STARTING FROM

$249,900.00

Call 250-573-2278Toll Free 1-866-573-1288

7510 Dallas Drive, Kamloops

www.eaglehomes.ca

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentAvail Mar. 1/14 One bdrm for one adult only. N/S, N/P, heat & cable incl. $525/mon. Ref’s. 250-378-2954

Help Wanted

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent

NICOLA APARTMENTS

Clean one and two

bedroom. Starting at

$600/month.NO PETS

250-378-9880

KENGARDMANOR

Ask about move-in incentives For appointment call

250-378-9880

Spacious 2 & 3bedroom apartments.

F/S, heat and hotwater included.

Starting at $725/mth

FOR RENT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT1 unit available,

1st oor unit ideal for seniors

Available Jan. 1, 2014

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

MONTHS RENTNewly renovated units“Clapperton Manor”

2775 Clapperton Ave.250-315-8340

SUMMIT APARTMENTSBrand new 2 bedroom apartments

References required.NO PETS,

NO SMOKING.250-280-7644

Mobile Homes & Pads

3 bdrm 2 bath double wide trailer in L.N. Newly reno, 1/2 acre, quiet spot $975 plus damage deposit. Avail Mar. 1st. Call 250-378-4166

Help Wanted

Rentals

Mobile Homes & Pads

Two 1 bedroom mobile homes. Wash, dryer, fridge, stove, utilities included. Small pets considered. $800 per month 250-378-0887

Homes for Rent3 bdrm, 2 bath rancher with 6 appliances. $1050/mon. plus util. Ref req. N/s, small pet considered. Call 604-781-2804 for viewing. Avail Mar. 1st.

3 bedroom house for rent. available March 1. 250-378-6788

5 bdrm & den 3 1/2 bath, c/vac, 7 appls, c/air and much more. Avail immed. $1250 plus UTIL. N/p, n/s, ref and credit check required. 778-228-6378. Craigs List - Kam-loops for pics

Rooms for RentRoom for rent in large house on golf course. Cable, internet, furnished. $450/mon. 250-378-7154

Suites, Upper2 bdrm suite, laminate fl oors, recently reno’d, shared laundry $650 incl. util. Avail immed. N/s, N/p, ref. and credit check req. 778-228-6378

Auto Financing

Houses For Sale

Rentals

Townhouses

GLENN WALKERTOWNHOMES

Available March 1, 2014• 3 Bedrooms

• 1.5 Bathrooms• Appliances

• Carport Parking• Patio

• Close to Shops• Close to Schools

$850/month plus utilitiesPlease email for an

appointment:[email protected]

or call 250-378-4215

Transportation

Auto Financing

Houses For Sale

Transportation

Auto Financing

Houses For Sale

Transportation

Auto Financing

Auto Financing - Dream Catcher, Apply Today! Drive Today! 1.800.910.6402

Trucks & Vans2005 Chevy Uplander van withremote start. $3900 obo 250-378-5519

Houses For Sale

WHERE DO YOU TURN

YOUR NEWSPAPER:The link to your community

TO LEARNWHAT’S

ON SALE?

If you see a wildfi re, report it to

1-800-663-5555 or *5555

on most cellular networks.

• 24/7 • anonymous • confi dential • in your language

YOUTH AGAINST VIOLENCE LINE

[email protected] up. Be heard. Get help.

WHERE DO YOU TURN

YOUR NEWSPAPER:The link to your community

TO LEARNWHAT’S

ON SALE?

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Quality products, friendly service!

FOR THE ULTIMATE WINE EXPERIENCE, VISIT THE WINE PRESS

Member of the RJS Craft Wine Making Academy

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Serving the BC Interior since 1911

Ben van der Gracht is in the Merritt office on

Thursdays. Drop by or call to make an appointment.

1988 Quilchena Avenue 250.378.4218

1.888.374.3350 www.morellichertkow.com

LAWYERLAWYER

Learn to Play PianoLearn to Play Piano

Brenda’s Piano Studio

Phone 250.315.0340 for details

All Ages WelcomePIANO TEACHERPIANO TEACHER

CFP Certifi ed Financial Planner CPCA Certifi ed Professional Consultant on Aging

It’s never too early to start planning for the future.

CFP Certifi ed Financial Planner CPCA Certifi ed ProfessionalConsultant on Aging

call me at: 250.315.0241

E-mail: [email protected]

Need help to create a plan to enjoy the life you desire today, & tomorrow?

➣Personalized Retirement Plans➣Detailed Risk Analysis➣Insurance & Estate Planning➣Strategic Retirement Analysis & much more

David L. Brown is here for you

FINANCIAL ADVISORFINANCIAL ADVISOR

RESTAURANTINDIAN FOODCOMBO’S2 VEGGIE SAMOSAS, SAUCE & DRINK2 CHICKEN SAMOSA’S, SAUCE & DRINKNAAN WRAP & DRINK

$572

$476Each

$699Each

Each

Open 7 days a week 250-936-8811

3683 Dewolf Way, beside ESSO Gas

Fast Food Made Fresh & Healthy

BUTTER CHICKEN COMBO, TANDORI CHICKEN, CHICKEN & FISH TIKKA, VARIETY OF VEGGIE DISHES

HACKELECTRICELECTRIC

Reg. No. 14246email: [email protected] Pooley Ave., Merritt 250-378-5580

Residential & Commercial

Over 30 years experience

ELECTRICALELECTRICAL

* NOW HIRING *

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

EMERGENCY FLOOD SERVICES

Working with insurance adjusters to restore your home!

250-378-9410

CLEANING SERVICESCLEANING SERVICES

Campbell and Co. Chartered Accountants Over 40 Years Experience

in providing professional service to all of our clients.

We are currently acccepting new clients and

look forward to meeting with you about any of

your accounting & taxation needs.

We are confident our team will add value to your business

by providing reliable and timely accounting services,

allowing you more time to grow your business.

p ell aiinin p

1988 Quilchena Ave. (Royal Lepage office)

Merritt, BC V1K 1B8

Phone: 778-257-4129

e-mail: [email protected]

IN MERRITT EVERY 2ND & 4TH FRIDAY!

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ACCOUNTANTACCOUNTANT

We love numbers. Can we work with yours?

JIM POTJIM POTTER

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

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

Schedule your FREE Estimate

TREE SERVICETERTER

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MERRITTMOBILE RADIO REPAIR

Office: 604-795-4224 Cell: 250-280-6115Fax: 604-795-4228

Where personalized service is our Motto

Ray Clark4492 Iron Mountain [email protected]

RADIO REPAIRRADIO REPAIR

“40 Years Experience in Construction”

Certified House Inspector

Licence #60792

Tel: 250.378.5042

Email: [email protected]

Cliff Shackelly, Astt - CHIIndependent Contractor

Merritt, BC

Give’r A LookHome Inspections

HOME INSPECTORHOME INSPECTOR

1953 Nicola Avenue, Merritt 250-378-8283

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK11 AM - 9 PM

10% OFF20% OFF

pick-up ordersover $15

for seniors

DINNER BUFFET$14.95 *Friday $15.95

RESTAURANTRESTAURANT

Are you expanding your client base?

Looking for an accessible way for people to nd you?

Contact Theresa at 250-378-4241 or Email:

[email protected]

JOIN the Herald’s “Local Business Directory” page

Every Thursday, Always Full Colour! *with minimum 3 month committment

Reach over 6330 readers each week.

ADVERTISINGADVERTISING

SHARPENINGSHARPENINGVISION QUEST SHARPENING

ALL KNIVES, CHAINS, HOLE SAW BLADES

ALL WOOD WORKING BLADES, ROUTER BITS & DRILL BITS

SAWZALL BLADE, CARBIDE SAW BLADES & REPLACE TIPS

Vision Quest Sharpening

[email protected]

2001 Quilchena Ave., Merritt, BC

CALL HARVEY’S CELL 24HRS, 7 DAYS A WEEK FOR PROCESSOR CHAINS

250-936-9857

250-378-2022

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Relaxes bodyreduces stressimproves circulationincreases energyincreases flexabilityimproves range of motioncenters the mind & body

2920 Clapperton Avenue, 250-280-2494Merritt BC 250-378-1318

[email protected]

9am - 9pm

by Kai from Thailand

$40/hr

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MASSAGEMASSAGE

ROOFINGROOFING LUMBER SALESMERRITT LUMBER SALES2152 DOUGLAS ST., MERRITT, BC

250-378-5382 • 250-314-4249

HOURS OF OPERATION:HOURS OF OPERATION:

Mon to Fri.: 8 am - 5 pm & Sat.: 8 am - 4 pm

Mon to Fri.: 8 am - 5 pm & Sat.: 8 am - 4 pm

SCREWS, NAILS, ROOFING,

INSULATION, JOIST HANGERS

& much more

LARGE LANDSCAPING BEAMS AVAILABLE

7x9x8’ Gum Wood Ties Untreated

$12 - $18

BUILDING SUPPLIES

MERRRITTTTTTTMERRRRRRRRIITTTTTTTTTMMEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIITIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTBBBUBBBBBU

at HACK Electric

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

SUITABLE FOR:

• Cars • Boats • ATV’s • Snowmobiles,

• Household Goods

• Monthly & Yearly Rates

• Business or

personal fi les & More.....

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

S AGE UNITSSELF STORAGE UNITS

Full-time Watchman on site

Starting @ $45./month

with HST

STORAGESTORAGE

Ph: 250-378-7122Fax: 250-378-4143 E-mail: [email protected]

IF YOU NEED A LIFT WE CAN HELP

www.adproperty.ca

Quality workmanship, Outstanding Service.

• Need help hanging Christmas lights?• Gutters overfl owing? • Lights need changing?

IIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFF YYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOPROPERTY MAINTENANCEPROPERTY MAINTENANCE

CREDIT MEDIC

Available 24/7 • mycreditmedic.ca

GOOD, BAD OR NO CREDIT.IF YOU WORK, YOU DRIVE.GUARANTEED AUTO LOAN APPROVALS! TOLL FREE

1.888.378.9255

AvailableAUTO SERVICESAUTO SERVICES

DENTISTDENTIST

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

www.dentistryatmerritt.ca

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

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

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

2 FULL TIME DENTISTS & ORTHODONTIST ON SITE

Dr. Sunil Malhotra Dr. Jaspal Sarao

Kitchen/Bathroom• Tiling• Window/Siding • Installation

Patio/Deck• Moving Local & • Long Distance

250-315-8257DAT Construction

CONSTRUCTIONCONSTRUCTION


OLD OR NEW WE HAVE WARRANTY APPROVED MAINTENANCE SOLUTIONS FOR EVERYONE

• Tune Ups • Brakes • Exhaust

• Suspension • Lube/Oil•Radiator Service • Shocks & Struts

• Air Conditioning Service

FRANK’S MECHANICAL SERVICE

2026 Mamette Avenue 250-378-1322

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PROTECT AND MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFITS

3-STEP TRADING1) Download software2) Select a strategy3) Walk away

EARN HIGHER RETURNS THEN YOU ARE CURRENTLY!

www.cooltraderpro.com/dougdixon

Ph:1-250-378-5688 Email: [email protected]

INVESTMENTSINVESTMENTS

Nicola Plumbing & Heating

Fully Quali ed Tradesmen in..

Plumbing, Heating, Bonded Gas Fitters.

Service Work & Furnace Service.

Custom Sheet Metal

Atlas RV Parts & Repairs

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

PLUMBING & HEATINGPLUMBING & HEATING

IVAN’S SIDINGSALES & SERVICE

• Vinyl & Hardie Board Siding• Aluminum Sof t, Fascia & Eavestroughs

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

SERVING THENICOLA VALLEYFOR 40 YEARS!

CALL: (250) 378-2786

SIDINGSIDING

MORTGAGE BROKER

YOUR LOCAL MORTGAGE BROKERRRRRRRRRR

thetmortgag gegmm

Call Harry Howard (250)378-9177

Use the equity in

your home to

Consolidate Debt, Top Up RRSPs,

or Tackle Renovations.

[email protected] • www.harryhoward.ca

inc.CALL 250-315-5074

RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL • sidewalks and driveways included • sanding • salting • anti-icingNEW EQUIPMENT EXPERIENCED OPERATORS - FULLY INSURED • large eet means quick response times.

AFFORDABLE RATES, while using

customers time ef ciently

24 HR. PROFESSIONAL SNOW REMOVAL

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MERRITT BC• Client Computer Work Stations

• Access to Training • Job Search Assistance

• Employment Counselling • Career Exploration

• Resource Library • Workshops

T: 250.378.5151

2099 Quilchena Ave., Box 358 Merritt, BC www.merrittesc.ca

The Employment Program of British

Columbia is funded by the

Government of Canada and the

Province of British Columbia

EMPLOYMENT SERVICESEE


Beer & Wine Store

Each purchase of $25 earns you a stamp. Fill your card with 10 stamps and get $20 off your next purchase!

$1450

$2500 $2660 $1200 $2385

$2550 $1100$435

Peller EstatesDry White/Dry Red750 ml

Wine O’ClockPinot Grigio/Shiraz750 ml

CoppermoonSauv Blanc/Cab Sauv750 ml

Naked GrapeChardonnay/Merlot750 ml

Gray FoxMerlot750 ml

Enter to WIN a46” LED TV!

Twisted Tea12 pack cans

Appleton’s Rum750 ml

Molson’s Limited Edition Olympic Victory Bottle625 ml

Bud Light, Bud, Kokanee24 cans

AlbertaPremiumRye 375 ml

Corona6 pack

NATIONALCUPCAKE DAYDuring February make a donation

and grab a cupcake.

Do it for the furballs, every little bit helps!

Bud, Bud Light, Kokanee

250-378-2229

Delivery Cut off

10:30PM

SUPER SAVER CARD

250-378-22293-3623 Dewolf Way

(up on the Hill)

All prices including taxes

ON THE BENCH

Enter to wina Corona snowboard!

AlbertaPure Vodka750 ml

$3875

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