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keeping up with the recycling needs of residents with a new sanitation truck to go along with the recently completed eco-depot facility in Lower Nicola.

“The truck was new last year as was the garbage roll-out (when the city starting using automated bins),” said Darrel Finnigan, superinten-dent of public works for the

City of Merritt. “We were waiting for the Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) to finish the site before we could roll out the recycling, so we could deliver the recycling properly.”

The city began its door-to-door recycling service on April 30. Other than a few hiccups, it’s been smooth sail-ing, said Finnigan. He said it’s important people properly separate their recycling from their garbage.

“Keeping contaminants

such as cheesy pizza boxes out is a big part — it just takes up space where it shouldn’t be,” he said.

There are several miscon-ceptions around town about the new truck and the recy-cling program.

“The biggest misconcep-tion is that we are putting recycling and garbage in the same truck,” said Finnigan. “People need to know that the truck has two sides to it. When the truck grabs garbage it dumps it into one

half. When it puts the empty bin down, there’s a valve in the truck that flips over. When the truck picks up the recycling bin it goes into a completely different compart-ment. As the operator fin-ishes the route and goes out to the eco-depot, it’s dumped separately. He dumps the recycling in the recycling pile, and then dumps the garbage in the garbage pile.”

Each residence in Merritt receives one garbage bin and one recycling bin which are

paid for through their water, sewer and garbage taxes and are picked up at the same time on the same day each week.

Finnigan says it’s impor-tant for residents to keep their recycling and garbage bins one metre apart so the truck can easily pick them up.

“Today (May 2) on one route, I probably separated 30 different residences where they had them pushed together,” he said. “That just

takes time for the operator and he doesn’t have much time in a day to complete the route.”

Finnigan said the ratio of recycling picked up com-pared to garbage is 60 to 40.

“The more we can keep out of the landfill, the longer we’ll be able to use it,” he said. “Space for landfills is very limited, so if we can recycle and re-use, that’s the best option.”

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Merritt’s residential sanitation truck picks up a recycling bin on Juniper Drive during its afternoon route on Thursday. Craig Lindsay/Herald

The bodies of two Langley teens, Austin Kingsborough and Brendan Wilson, have been found in Nicola Lake after a brief search by an independent company from Idaho.

The company, which special-izes in recovering bodies from big lakes, had been brought up by family friends after the RCMP had halted their search on Friday.

The bodies were located at a depth of 75 feet in Nicola Bay near the area where the canoe had been located two weeks earlier.

The two boys were vacation-ing in Merritt and staying at Wilson’s parents’ cabin on Nicola Lake. The two were reported missing on Sunday, April 23 after going canoeing on the lake and not returning.

“It sounded like the couple that came from Idaho began their search yesterday (Sunday)

until it got dark,” said Merritt RCMP Cpl. Tracy Dunsmore. “They were out first thing this morning (Monday). One of the family members said they had had a hit. At that point it became a coroner’s investigation.”

Dunsmore said the bodies were quickly identified as the two Langley boys.

She said the equipment used by the Idaho company was essential to finding the bodies.

“It took them about a day and a half to find them,” she said. “The equipment they have is apparently more sophisticated than the equipment we have, and this couple has been doing this since 1999. This was the 83rd or 84th people they’ve found. It’s a long lake and quite deep. There’s a lot of silt, a lot of debris down there and that presents quite a challenge to the divers.”

Dunsmore said it’s important that the family now has closure and is able to properly mourn.

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Petition to stop trucks on Highway 5A stallsBy Craig Lindsay

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Anyone who has driven Highway 5A from Merritt to Kamloops knows there are many commercial trucks that use the road, despite the fact that the double-laned Coquihalla is right next to it.

A petition to limit or prohibit trucks from using Highway 5A was brought to the B.C. legislature by Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Kevin Krueger on March 4.

Krueger, who is step-ping down as MLA, tabled a petition with more than 1,400 sig-natures gathered from homes along the highway.

Krueger told Kamloops This Week that volunteers who collected the signa-tures “knocked on more than 95 per cent of all households adjacent to Highway 5A and only had six people turn them down.”

Randy Murray, Area M director and chair of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD), said the TNRD supports a ban on large commercial trucks on Highway 5A.

“It’s been one of my pet projects for the last couple of years looking at all the troubles on that highway previously,” said

Randy Murray, “There was a pretty big head-on collision with two semis there about a year ago with two fatalities. There’ have been many incidents there over the years.”

Murray said there are several factors contribut-ing to the number of accidents including road degradation, danger of hazardous material going into the lake and contam-inating the watershed and high tourism travel.

“When you get 12 or 14 semi-tractor trailers heading in a convoy out there with that speed, mixed in with local traffic and tourists in the sum-mer, it can be a pretty tough situation,” he said. “There’s only one dedi-cated passing lane, just before Kamloops, on that whole 100 kilometre stretch. There are lots of issues there.”

Murray has taken the Highway 5A situa-tion to the TNRD board and received support for a motion to send a let-ter to B.C. Minister of Transportation Mary Polak asking to restrict all semi-tractor trailer traf-fic except for local truck traffic.

“She came back say-ing they wouldn’t do that sort of thing and set prec-edent,” he said. “I said the precedent is there that we’ve got a freeway right beside that route that is designed to handle the type of traffic we see now on 5A which is nine and greater axle trucks there.”

Murray said the peti-tion has been accepted as has the letter from the TNRD but the Ministry of Transportation has said the status quo exists and nothing will be done.

“We’ll just continue

to monitor it,” he said. “It’s not like the ministry hasn’t done anything. They’ve put large, white hash-marks on the way to Kamloops. They’ve put some solar-powered speed signs and things like that to slow the trucks down because they were tipping over on a regular basis on the tight curves. They’re trying to take some mitigating steps and it’s helped, but my suspicion is it’s just increased the speed on the Nicola Lake end. It’s an ongoing thing and it will be for a while.”

Murray said that if they can’t have an out-right ban on commercial vehicles, he suggests a speed reduction for trucks on Highway 5A, like they have on some American non-arterial routes.

“Trucks just don’t go on those routes, because it’s not economical,” he

said. “But it’s not some-thing that the government is willing to do in B.C. “

A representative from the B.C. Trucking Association told the Herald that it’s important for trucks to be able to access all major roads and high-ways in the province.

“We believe all pro-vincial highways should be open to all vehicles, including commercial vehicles,” said Louise Yako, president/CEO of the B.C. Trucking Association. “There have been discussions with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. They’ve provided us with data in terms of the crash rates on Highway 5A as com-pared to other provincial highways. In fact, the crash rate is lower than comparable highways. There’s also been a num-ber of mitigation proj-ects there to reduce the number of crashes. My understanding is there has been a Highway 5A advisory committee that made a series of recom-mendations on a number of improvements to that highway and those have been implemented.”

Yako said there is a higher level of enforce-ment on Highway 5A and you can see the results of that with the statistics.

According to ICBC, the number of crashes and injuries along Highway 5A has actu-ally been in decline since 2007.

In 2011, there were 27 crashes on Highway 5A with 14 injuries and 0 fatalities.

In 2010, there were 46 crashes with 43 injuries and 2 fatalaties.

Back in 2007, there were 56 crashes with 43 injured and one fatality.

In total, there have been 210 crashes, 157 injured victims and five fatalities recorded by ICBC from 2007-2011.

Preliminary results from 2012 indicate there were 29 crashes involving an injury.

“I recognize and acknowledge that there are residents who have concerns about com-mercial trucks on that highway,” she said. “But if we were to ban com-mercial trucks from every road that residents had concerns about, it would be very difficult to not only operate trucking businesses but to also service customers and to provide necessary goods to consumers. It’s not a sustainable going-forward plan.”

Yako said there has never been a ban on commercial vehicles on any highway in B.C.

This April 20, 2010, accident on Highway 5A at Trapp Lake — and others like it involving trucks — prompted Kamloops-South Thompson Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger to table a petition, asking that the province enact restrictions on truck traffic using the winding highway that connects Merritt and Kamloops. File photo

New eco-depot streamlines recycling processThe eco-depot is set up

on the same site as the land-fill in Lower Nicola and is operated by the TNRD. The City of Merritt pays to use the site just as any other user would.

“We just opened up last Tuesday (April 23),” said Jamie Vieira, environmental services supervisor for the TNRD. “It’s a more modern way of dealing with waste in the TNRD. The major-

ity of customers don’t enter the active landfill anymore. They come into the site and can get rid of all the same recycling they always did. We’re actually offering more recycling services, the major-ity of which are free of charge.”

Once customers have removed their recycling, they go to the eco-depot’s new weight scales where tipping fees are applied to garbage for the landfill. In the past, customers were charged by

volume. Vieira says most customers are saving money with the new method.

The TNRD charges $60 per tonne for refuse. For a full list of user fees and pen-alties please go to tnrd.ca.

At this time, the Lower Nicola eco-depot does not accept e-waste such as computers and TVs, which can be taken to the Merritt bottle depot.

Customers can pay by debit, credit card, or TNRD eco-cards, but not by cash.

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The Merritt sanitation truck dumps off recycling at the new eco-depot at Lower Nicola. Craig Lindsay/Herald

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The economy and the environment took centre stage at an all-candidates forum last Monday night at the legion ahead of the pro-vincial election on May 14.

While Liberal can-didate Jackie Tegart was double-booked and unable to attend the debate, incumbent NDP candidate Harry Lali, Conservative Michael Beauclair, and the Green Party’s John Kidder debated over issues submitted by people at the forum on fish farms, school and hospital job security, water conserva-tion and fracking.

Kidder said shrinking communities have led to job cuts in those areas.

“Merritt is the healthiest community in this riding, by far,” Kidder said in response to a question about cuts to rural health care and education. “What we need to do is think about how we actually bring activity back into these communities — cul-tural activity, economic activity — so that they become even more attractive places to live. That will get the people living here to keep those services sustainable.”

Lali said job losses in education and health care come back to spending provincial money in other areas, which takes away from support available to regions like Fraser-Nicola.

Beauclair said the Conservative Party would reduce bureau-cracy to free up money to support more front-line staff.

“We are committed to looking at the whole bureaucratic process in the B.C. education system,” he said. “That means reducing admin-istration costs, especially when those jobs have nothing to do with stu-dent learning.”

The debate then turned to the environ-ment with a question about strategies to reduce damage done to water by fracking.

Kidder said he is opposed to fracking entirely.

“It’s the wrong stra-tegic direction for the province. We know it’s wrong from the environ-mental side,” he said. “To grow economies, you grow sustainable activity in agriculture, business, in resource pro-cessing, et cetera. This is the fundamentally Green way.”

“You can’t say no to everything,” Lali coun-tered. “Our party has come out in support of the LNG proposals that are coming forward, and to make sure the gas is extracted in an environmentally safe fashion, we’ve put in a full environmental review process.”

Beauclair said water conservation comes down to individual responsibility.

“You can’t drink oil, you can’t drink gas, but you can drink water,” he said.

The candidates’ strat-egies to stimulate eco-nomic growth in rural B.C. largely overlapped, with references to mak-ing resource industries, especially forestry, sus-tainable.

Beauclair said a small-scale salvage program could help enhance and revive for-estry.

“I’m not talking about clear-cutting and wrecking the landscape, I’m talking about retriev-

ing volume and value from those towns that are most affected,” he said. “We’re losing mil-lions of cubic metres of wood across the province and I believe that by reviving this program, we can have an invest-ment from small loggers and we can let the free market system work it out.”

Lali said investment in green sector jobs and in skills training and edu-cation is key to keeping the forestry industry via-ble, while Kidder said a diverse landscape of sus-tainable small businesses would make the riding’s communities healthier. Kidder also slammed mega-projects such as the Site C dam for not properly dispersing prof-its, investment and jobs across the province.

B.C. Federation of Labour Secretary-Treasurer Irene

Lanzinger also attended on the invite of organiz-ers, and spoke on the importance of voting.

“What scares me most is not right-wing government that will take away our rights, but people who say, ‘It doesn’t matter who you vote for’ — because it does matter who you vote for,” Lanzinger said. “The democratic process is founded on listening carefully to what people say and voting for the people who share your values.”

A representative from Elections BC also spoke on the ways people can cast their ballots before the May 14 election.

The forum was organized by three local women and emceed by Tracy Wimbush, man-ager Nicola Watershed Stewardship Fisheries Authority of the Nicola Tribal Association.

(From left) Green Party candidate John Kidder responds to a question at the all-candidates forum on April 29 at the Merritt Legion as NDP incumbent Harry Lali and Conservative Party can-didate Michael Beauclair prepare their responses. Emily Wessel/Herald

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When Wayne Schindler and his wife Lynn were driving into town from their prop-erty two weeks ago, something caught their eyes.

They pulled over and found, to their surprise, a hot tub, neatly severed into four pieces.

Along with other

pieces of debris, includ-ing a hot tub cover and a motor, the hacked up hot tub was lying about 15 metres from the road on the slight decline of an embankment, lead-ing Wayne Schindler to believe that whoever dumped it didn’t want it to be seen from Lindley Creek Road.

Schindler said he and his wife own 800 acres of land — some of it

wooded — and that people probably don’t realize the land is pri-vate property, but that’s no excuse for illegal dumping.

“They shouldn’t be doing this on Crown land. Crown land is your land. It’s every-body’s,” he said. “That’s beside the point.”

And, he said, it’s not the first time he’s found garbage dumped on

his property, although it might be the most unusual find to date.

“We’ve had a little bit before, but this is more than we’re used to,” he said.

“Up on the ranch, we’ve had problems before with cattle going through garbage and standing in it, and get-ting tin cans stuck up over their feet,” he said, adding that cuts from refuse and debris can cause health problems for cattle and incur costs for the ranchers.

“I was going to clean it up and take it to the dump the other day, but I don’t want to haul it to the dump and get charged for cleaning it up,” Schindler said.

He talked to a rep-resentative from the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD), who informed him that the district would help him clean up the mess at no cost

to him. Improperly discarded

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The TNRD is hold-ing its household haz-ardous waste roundup on May 11 in the Civic Centre parking lot from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Refuse such as adhesives, bat-teries, gasoline, paint thinner, oil filters, fertil-izer, and expired fire extinguishers can be dropped off at no cost.

The TNRD spent $15,000 cleaning up ille-gal dumpsites in 2011. Figures for 2012 were not available by press time.

Wayne Schindler said it’s not the first time he has found illegally dumped refuse on his property, but this dismantled hot tub was still a surprising find. Emily Wessel/Herald

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With Iron Man 3 hitting theatres and rocketing to huge box office numbers this past weekend, the sum-mer movie season officially began.

Iron Man 3 is just one of many summer movies based on comic book char-acters.

With the success of The Avengers and the Dark Knight movies, don’t expect the influx of super-hero movies to end any time soon.

With Robert Downey Jr. capturing the wit and pathos of Iron Man and

his alter ego Tony Stark, the movies have struck a chord with audiences.

As far as anticipation for Iron Man 3, I’d give it three out of five Hulks.

Coming out in mid-June is the new Superman movie, Man of Steel.

It’s only been three years since Superman Returns, which failed to catch on with audiences. Will Man of Steel do better? It looks promising, with a cast that includes Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe and Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Shannon as General Zod.

Superman was one of my favourites comic books growing up. The toughest part is making an invulner-able, flying alien relatable. I give it four out of five Hulks.

Hugh Jackman returns once again in The Wolverine.

After several X-Men

movies and the disappoint-ing X-Men Origins: Wolverine, anticpation is a little low on this one. One out of five Hulks.

Of course, there are movies out there that aren’t superhero flicks.

Star Trek Into Darkness is the much-anticipated sequel to the very success-ful reboot to the Star Trek franchise starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.

If Into Darkness is half as good as the first J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek movie, it’ll be great. Five out of five Hulks.

I really liked the World War Z novel, so I’m looking forward to the upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt.

Zombies might be overdone at this point, but WWZ has some interesting takes on the subject. The novel looked at the zombie war as a worldwide battle

between humans and zom-bies. Plus, y’know, 100 foot zombie ladders are cool. Four Hulks out of five.

After Earth is the latest Will Smith post-apoca-lyptic battling-for-survival epic. The catch this time is he fights next to real-life son Jaden, who was actual-ly pretty good in the Karate Kid remake.

It seems like there are a lot of similar movies float-ing around, so two Hulks out of five.

In the non-action cat-egory, Now You See Me looks promising. It’s about a group of magicians who steal from banks and give the money to their audi-ence members. It stars Morgan Freeman, Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson and could be a big sleeper. Four out of five Hulks.

The Hangover 3 departs

from the first two mov-ies “wake up after a night of debauchery and put together the pieces” sce-nario.

The orginal actors return so I’m sure there’ll be laughs aplenty. Two Hulks.

This is the End is another comedy, this one with Seth Rogen, James Franco and buddies playing themselves during an apocalypse. A very meta idea that could be funny. Three Hulks.

Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock team up to bring The Heat. The two form a female version of the buddy cop movie staple. McCarthy brought the laughs in Bridesmaids so this could be funny. Three Hulks.

There are plenty more, but that’s all the room I have. Until next time, enjoy the movies.

HERALD OPINIONNDP to voters: trust us

When Adrian Dix took over as B.C. NDP leader two years ago, he struggled to communicate, especially in the sound bites of radio and TV.

There was a running joke in the legislature press gallery: It didn’t mat-ter what question you asked him, you got a six-minute answer that ended with the evils of log exports.

Even more than under Carole James, the NDP railed against log exports. “B.C. logs for B.C. jobs” became one of Dix’s favourite slogans. As the election approached, another Dixism was heard daily: “Say what you’re going to do, say how you’re going to pay for it.”

So it was a surprise a few weeks ago when the NDP signalled it would essentially not offer a policy on log exports. They’re going to meet with “stakeholders” and come up with a plan after they get a majority govern-ment.

This is exactly the same non-policy the NDP had in 2009. They don’t have an answer to the industry’s point that the high price gained by premium logs in foreign markets is what keeps many loggers working, and subsidizes the harvest of other logs for B.C. coastal mills.

Another thing the NDP doesn’t like is private power development. This issue featured prominently in the NDP leadership contest two years ago.

Leadership contender Mike Farnworth told the party faithful he would study independent power pur-chase contracts, and if he found that they are not in the public interest, he would “mend them or end them.”

Comic book movies lead the way this summer

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Another leadership hopeful, energy critic John Horgan, allowed that he would “break” contracts if necessary.

By this spring, Dix had a new non-position on power purchase con-tracts. He will “assess them and address them.” The printed platform promises a review “within the limits of existing con-tracts.” Either they plan

to risk a costly legal battle, or they’re just paying lip service. All you have to do to find out is elect them.

Labour code chang-es are another blank slate. A memo from the B.C. Federation of Labour execu-tive to members last year described how they were working closely with the NDP to rewrite B.C. labour law.

The NDP election platform punts this issue until after the

election as well, prom-ising an independent expert panel to decide on issues like whether to end secret-ballot votes for union certifi-cation.

This isn’t just a bad idea, it’s a 30-year-old bad idea. It’s based on the destructive old notion that employers are the enemy of work-ers, and only a union can protect them. The long decline of union membership in the pri-vate sector isn’t caused

by employer bullying or secret-ballot votes that protect employees’ freedom of choice. The cause is global competition. The only protection workers have from that is their own efficiency.

Balancing the bud-get? An NDP govern-ment will strive to do that over “the business cycle,” says finance crit-ic Bruce Ralston. Old-timers might remember this one. It’s taken from the NDP’s 1991 elec-

tion platform.Yes, 22 years ago

there was a widespread belief in a predictable four-year cycle of com-modity prices and other economic determinants. Whatever was left of that dusty, faded picture was erased with the financial collapse of 2008.

If you still believe in a predictable “busi-ness cycle,” you may be willing to accept that an NDP-led B.C. will become the first juris-

diction in human his-tory to eliminate pov-erty, by setting annual targets and paying out borrowed money to low-income parents.

On ferries, fracking, union contracts, capital construction and other weighty matters, the NDP’s answer is the same: trust us.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-tive reporter and col-umnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.comtfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Grade One students from Merritt Bench Elementary school sing a song in the gym on Monday as part of Music Monday, a national campaign put together by music teachers from around the country where students, teachers and parents sing along to a song streamed on the Internet at the same time on the first Monday in May. This year’s song was co-written and performed by astronaut Chris Hadfield and the Barenaked Ladies’ Ed Robertson. Students from Nicola-Canford and Merritt Central Elementary Schools also took part in the celebration of singing, and each group performed more songs for the other students. Emily Wessel/Herald

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2013 Cariboo Mainline Regional Science Fair Awards

Interior Science Innovation Council Environmental AwardWinner: Eric Holland – Princeton Secondary – The Combustible Dust Factor.

BC Innovation Council (BCIC) Student/Teacher Recognition AwardWinner: Noah Bergmann – SCIDES CoNNect School

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BC Science Teacher’s AwardWinner: Cassidy O’Flaherty – Collettville Elementary – Sanitation by Sun

BCIC Young Innovator ScholarshipWinner: Mackenzie Finch – Merritt Secondary – Drinking Water: An Environmental Filtration System Part 2

Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon Award

Winner: Isabel vanRossum – Nicola Canford Elementary – Exercise and the Brain

BC Nature Award (Federation of BC Naturalists)Winner: Mackenzie Finch – Merritt Secondary – Drinking Water: An Environmental Filtration System Part 2

Michael Crooks Physics Prize - BC Association of Physics TeachersWinner: Robert Neill – Merritt Secondary – Wind

Tunnel

Best Environmental Science AwardWinner: Mackenzie Finch – Merritt Secondary – Drinking Water: An Environmental Filtration System Part 2

Best Computational Science AwardPerpetual TrophyWinner: Noah Bergmann – SCIDES CoNNect School – Nick of Time

Best Novice Award (Grades 4-6)Winner: Nicholas Anscomb –

Nicola Canford Elementary - Which Brand Stands Up?

Best Intermediate Award (Grades 9-10)Winner: Noah Bergmann – SCIDES CoNNect School – Nick of Time

Students Choice AwardWinner: Noah Bergmann – SCIDES CoNNect School – Nick of Time

Best Senior Award - TRU Top Science AwardWinner: Mackenzie Finch

– Merritt Secondary – Drinking Water: An Environmental Filtration System Part 2

Students Selected to attend Canada-wide science fair in Lethbridge, ALTA:1. Mackenzie Finch – MSS – Drinking Water: An Environmental Filtration System Part 2 2. Noah Bergmann – SCIDES CoNNect School – Nick of Time 3. Cassidy O’Flaherty – Sanitation By Sun

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The Sagebrush hosts a windy Junior Classic

By Ian WebsterTHE HERALDsports@merrittherald.com

A hardy group of young golfers from as far away as Winnipeg battled winds gust-ing up to 90 kilometres per hour to compete in the inau-gural CJGA Sagebrush Junior Classic, April 27-28, at the Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club, located 15 minutes northeast of Merritt on the

shores of Nicola Lake.It was 13-year-old A.J.

Ewart from Coquitlam who emerged as the overall win-ner of the first-time event, carding two rounds of 80 for a final score of 16-over-par 160 in the boys 14-and-under division.

Second place went to another 13-year-old, Andrew Spalti from Vancouver, with a 165 total, including an

impressive final-round score of 77.

“The wind just never let up,” Ewart said shortly after finishing the competition. “I knew that everybody would have one or two bad holes. I just kept trying to make pars.”

“That was ridiculous,” added girls’ champion Marie Donnici from Vancouver (85-91-176) in summing up

the playing conditions on the weekend. “I can’t believe the scores. It was like survival of the fittest out there.”

Donnici had a hole to remember on the par-three fourth. After losing her first ball off the tee, she proceeded to put her second provisional shot from the tee box directly into the hole.

“I think that will be one of the best pars of my life,”

Donnici said.Topping the field in the

boys 15-19 age group was West Vancouver’s Liam Ripper with rounds of 83 and 84 for a 167 total.

The 36-holes of golf was just one part of a truly mem-orable weekend for the 30 or so youngsters, ages 9-19, who embraced the Sagebrush experience. They were also treated to some fly-fishing at

the course’s very own stocked lake (located adjacent to the 13th hole) with expert angler Bob Yamaguchi from Kamloops, enjoyed a visit from Quilchena Ranch cow-boy Miles Kingdon, feasted on a delicious Chateaubriand dinner at Terry’s Hideout, and competed in a skills com-petition led by former 2005 NCAA Division 1 golf cham-pion James Lepp.

ALL IN A DAY’S PLAY Participants in the inaugural Sagebrush Junior Classic tournament enjoyed much more than a day of golf on a world-class course. (Clockwise from top left) Vancouver’s Andrew Spalti, 13, got to go fly-fishing at Terry’s Hideout (located adjacent to the 13th fairway) and hooked a ‘beauty’. Fishing expert Bob Yamaguchi from Kamloops instructs Jenny Yuan, 16, from Vancouver on some of the finer nuances of the sport. Junior Classic winner, 13-year-old A.J. Ewart from Coquitlam, holds his trophy as he stands between Sagebrush GSC president Bob Garnett (left) and CJGA B.C. tournament director (and proud dad) Brad Ewart. Eleven-year-old Stephen Chu, from Vancouver, putts out on the 11th green while wearing a toque to fend off the strong winds. Scott Lemon, 16, shoots his way out of a sand trap after travelling all the way from Winnipeg to take part in the Sagebrush Junior Classic. A visit to the Sagebrush wouldn’t be complete without one of the local cowboys drop-ping by. Richmond’s Brycen Ko, 9 — the youngest competitor in the event — gets his picture taken with Miles Kingdon, a longtime cowboy at the nearby Quilchena Ranch. Ian Webster/Herald

Abbotsford’s Nathan Bahnman, 15, (below) and over 30 other young golfers braved hurricane-like winds on April 27-28 to take part in the inaugu-ral Junior Classic event at the Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club, located in the hills above Nicola Lake at Quilchena. Ian Webster/Herald

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SAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Misc. WantedTrue Coin Collector Looking to Purchase Collections, Accu- mulations, Olympic Gold and Silver coins, Bills + Not melting down, Serious Collector. Call: Coin Couple 1-778-281-0030

Real Estate

Acreage for SaleProperty for sale10 acres close to town on Coldwater Rd. 250-378-2927

Mobile Homes & Parks

RETIRE IN Beautiful Southern BC, Brand New Park. Af-fordable Housing. COPPER RIDGE. Manufactured Home Park, New Home Sales. Kere-meos, BC. Spec home on site to view. Please call 250-462-7055. www.copperridge.ca

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent

KENGARDMANOR

Ask about move-in incentives For appointment call

Ph: 250-378-9880

Spacious 1 & 3bedroom apartments.

F/S, heat and hotwater included.

Misc for Rent2 bdrm clean basement suite. Nice quiet area, Telus dish re-ceiver incl. Call after 4 pm - 250-378-6659 or call anytime 250-315-2247.

Suites, UpperLrg 3 bdrm ground unit fully re-no’d f/s, heat incl. Coin laundry on site. N/p, n/s, $800/mon. Avail June 1. 604-701-6493

Transportation

Auto FinancingDreamTeam Auto Financing

“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK - Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

1-800-961-7022www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

Transportation

Auto Financing

Boat AccessoriesWell built steel boat rack box. Size 69” x 69.5”. Full over cab length 145.5” came off 1988 Ford F250. Well worth looking at $400 obo 604-792-9460

Auto Financing

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www.merrittherald.com 12 • TUESDAY, May 7, 2013

BIGGEST FLOOR MODEL

MATTRESS SALE EVER!

Pocket Coil Mismatch Queen

Boxspring & Mattress

Limited Time Offer!

LimitedQuantities

First Come First Save!

Visit our website @ www.cityfurniturecanada.com

& Appliances Ltd.

MAIN LOCATION & CLEARANCE CENTRE HOURS: Mon. - Fri. 9 am - 6 pm,

Sat.: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm,Closed Sundays

2025 Coutlee Avenue, Merritt Ph: 250-378-2332

City Furniture in Merritt is clearing ALL 2012 mattress oor models. Replacement models have already arrived!

SAVE BIG on all mattresses in stock. BIGGEST DISCOUNTS EVER OFFERED.

If you are looking for a mattress set of any size,

DON'T MISS THIS SALE!

Simmons Beautyrest Pillow-top Queen Unit

Now…$799

Was…$1999

TwinBunk Mattresses

From…$99

Tempur-pedic Memory FoamQueen Mattress

Now…$1299

Was…$1999

Sealy Posture-pedicEuro Pillowtop King

Boxspring & Mattress

Now…$1199

Was…$2999

Now…$349

Was…$699

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