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Minister of Education Peter Fassbender and Minister of Advanced Education Amrik Virk paid a visit to Merritt on Thursday.

The pair dropped in on a trades awareness event at the Merritt Civic Centre hosted by School District 58 where stu-dents in Grades 6 and 7 visited with representatives from various trades.

Merritt Secondary School vice-principal and Trades and Transitions co-ordinator Alison Kuzio said representatives included a meat cutter, hairstyl-ists, plumbers, auto mechanics, painters, electricians and even a funeral director at the event.

“Who knew that was a trade? I did not know,” Kuzio said.

The event was the first of its kind, she said.

Some presenters brought along objects pertaining to their work to show the students.

Fassbender and Virk each made a speech to the crowd of students at the event.

Fassbender told the students they are his number 1 priority.

“What I care the most about as the Minister of Education is your future, your education and that you all have a chance to be successful in your lives,” Fassbender said.

Virk told the students every job requires education and advised them to think about their futures, noting classes such as math and English have relevance to their lives.

Fassbender told the Herald this type of event exposes students to the possibilities of career options for them.

“I think that’s what we need to do. We need to expose young people, not just to necessarily uni-

versity or post-secondary, [but to] jobs out there,” Fassbender said.

Fassbender said he also met with the school board on Thursday and looked at the design for the new Nicola-Canford School.

He and Virk also visited the House of Honour across from Merritt Secondary School.

Virk visited the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology during his time in Merritt as well.

Local Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) presi-dent Wade Thompson was also at the trades event and said it’s a

great event to have.“From a union perspective, it’s

great. This province needs more skilled trades. There should be people in the province getting the education to fill the jobs that are here,” Thompson said.

He said CUPE and SD58 have agreed to meet on Nov. 6 to negotiate the local terms of the new two-year contract agreed upon at the provincial level last month.

Once the bargaining is com-plete, CUPE members and school trustees will each need to sign off on the deal before Dec. 20.

Fassbender said he doesn’t think there have been many ratifi-cations at the local level yet as the process has just started, but he is optimistic.

“I’m very optimistic we’re going to get 100 per cent because everybody wants the stability. Nobody wants any disruption so I’m sure we’ll get there,” he said.

Thompson said he was hoping to have a deal complete sooner, but given differing schedules, it has been a challenge trying to get everyone involved in the process to the bargaining table at the same time.

“It’s a bit of a challenge try-ing to co-ordinate the logistics of getting everybody there and the sixth of November is the soon-est we could make that happen,” Thompson said.

Fassbender said the Ministry of Education also has plans to negotiate with the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) in the coming weeks. He said a 10-year deal is the goal, and given the fact the government will soon be back at the bargaining table with CUPE, long-term stability with both the teachers and support workers is a priority.

Education ministers visit Merritt

Minister of Education Peter Fassbender makes a speech to the Grades 6 and 7 students who gathered at the Merritt Civic Centre on Thursday for a trades awareness event hosted by School District 58. Michael Potestio/Herald

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Area causes vie for grants in competition

Three Nicola Valley organizations are vying for their share of $1 million in community grants.

Nooaitch Indian Band, Nicola Valley Forgotten and Feral Feline Society and Stonehouse Youth Ranch are part of the Canada-wide contest sponsored by insurance company Aviva.

The first round of voting closed yesterday and the organizations will find out if they advanced on Oct. 21.

Nooaitch is bid-ding for $100,000 to $150,000 for a softball and recreation field.

“Because we have a lot of young children and youth, we want to make sure they have a positive environment and to provide activi-ties that will keep them healthy,” Nooaitch community economic development officer Angela Fountain said.

The area would include an oval track

and a baseball dia-mond, as well as a rec-reation facility for the community complete with washrooms.

Fountain said the band is looking to the competition to help fund the track and baseball diamond, which would be the beginning of the $850,000 project. She said the idea is to make sports and recreation more accessible for community members with a focus on youth and elders.

“The band looks at the seven generations, not just this generation, so they want this to be a healthy community. The Nooaitch Indian Band feels youth and elders are the ones who are going to carry on traditions and culture, and that’s where we need to start: children and youth.”

The Nicola Valley Forgotten and Feral Feline Society is look-ing to assist people in the community and curb the stray cat population by offering

a low cost spay and neuter program.

If the society gets its maximum $100,000, its program could steril-ize about 1,250 cats or 588 dogs. The program includes vaccines, health checks, tattoos, and flea medicines.

Stonehouse Youth Ranch would use the money to combine a horse rescue with youth programs for people aged 13 to 19.

The programs could include caring for the animals and basic trades-applicable skills such as woodwork and metal work.

The working horse ranch is vying for a “large” category prize between $100,000 and $150,000.

The Aviva Commu-nity Fund offers $1 mil-lion in grants to organi-zations across Canada that create positive change sponsored by insurance company Aviva Canada Inc. Anyone can submit an idea to the competition.

The grants are divided into three

categories: small (up to $50,000), medium ($50,000 to $100,000) and large ($100,000 to $150,000).

Each year, the com-petition allows Cana-dians to vote online for ideas across the country in the first two rounds, with 10 ideas from each budget cat-egory going to the final round.

Each idea that makes it to the finals gets at least $5,000.

One winner from each category is selected by a panel of judges.

Past winners include a swimming pool for Smiths Falls, Ont.; Happy Valley Goose Bay SPCA in Lab-rador; a bear reha-bilitation sanctuary in Sprucedale, Ont. and a greenhouse for a Van-couver high school.

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From the Herald archives: October, 1975

Three men plead

guilty to theft under $200

Three Merritt youths pleaded guilty to a charge of theft under $200 after they were questioned follow-ing a break in at the semi-trailer contain-ing fire-damaged goods from the burned-out Fields Department Store.

The youths appeared in provin-cial court on Octo-ber 6 and pleaded guilty to the charge. Two were fined $200 each while the third received a year of probation.

The semi-trailer, belonging to the salvaging company, was parked behind the store.

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City to form task force on home-based businesses

Merritt city council unanimously approved an impromptu motion by Coun. Mike Goetz to deal with issues related to home-based businesses at the regular council meeting on Tuesday night.

Following a report request-ed by Coun. Alistair Murdoch concerning meetings and attendees per month to home-based businesses along with complaints that resulted in the discovery of parking and space restriction violations at A&M Tandem Massage on Parker Drive, council voted to collaborate with business owners on the issue of home-based business bylaws.

The motion called for either workshops or a task force to be set up to have stakeholders and council dis-cuss possible amendments to the bylaws regulating home-based businesses.

Goetz said they need to have more discussion on this issue and recommended hav-ing workshops where the city

can get information from home-based business owners.

“I think we need to have a little bit more discussion on this and make life a little bit easier for everyone,” Goetz said. “I would like the input from the home-based busi-ness people to help guide us through this process.”

He said before proceed-ing with any changes, council should get information from those involved with home-based businesses.

“We need to see if this bylaw is adequate,” Goetz said, noting council should have more information to make an educated decision on changing home-based busi-ness bylaws.

Goetz’s motion was approved unanimously by a count of 6-0. Murdoch was not in attendance.

Deputy Clerk Carole Fraser told the Herald the city is looking into creating a home-based business task force.

A&M Tandem Massage co-owner Nadine Jolly made a presentation to council during the public input por-

tion of last Tuesday’s council meeting. She said amend-ments need to be made to the bylaws surrounding home-based businesses in Merritt.

After the council meeting, Jolly told the Herald some sort of task force or workshop with home-based businesses is needed and will create con-nectivity within the home-based business community.

She said there are a num-ber of restrictions in the bylaws that don’t meet the needs of Merritt’s home-based businesses, citing the restriction on square footage as an example and noting a tiered system on restrictions for different types of busi-nesses or broader restrictions are options council should consider.

“If the restrictions stay the way they are, they don’t serve the community,” Jolly said.

Merritt Mayor Susan Roline told the Herald site-specific restrictions would be too complicated to imple-ment.

She said council has had success resolving conflicts through task forces before.


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The Nicola Valley Institute of Technol-ogy has confirmed the death of one of its students on Thursday afternoon after an ATV accident.

Another student remains in hospital with non-life-threaten-ing injuries.

The students of the Environmental Resources Technology program, delivered at the Merritt campus, were leaving a field trip in the Logan Lake area on Oct. 10 on their quad when an

unspecified accident occurred.

The name of the student who died at the accident site is not being released out of respect for fam-ily members, NVIT Director of Students Kylie Thomas said.

The college is offer-ing ongoing cultural support and critical incident and grief counselling at the Mer-ritt campus for anyone impacted by the inci-dent, including elders, students, faculty, staff, friends and family.

NVIT offers counselling after student dies, another injured

DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR

Wal-Mart manager Dave Colville presents a cheque for $1,200 to Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club member Richard Kitsch. The store matched the fish and game club’s fundraising efforts in a raffle dollar for dollar. Kitsch said the club raffled off a sporting rifle, a diamond ring, and a cottage vacation and will use the money for maintenance of the gun range.

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School District 58 has

exceeded its enrolment

projections for the current

school year.

At the first school board

meeting of the year on Sept.

18, superintendent Bob

Peacock said the district

has 1,142 students at the

elementary level — 43 stu-

dents above its projection of

1,099.At the high school level,

SD58 projected 809 stu-

dents, which it surpassed by

eight students.

Enrolment in distance

education programs, for

students who take courses by

correspondence or outside

of a traditional classroom

setting, sits at 100 students

— well above the projected

65. However, in the alternate

program, the district’s enrol-

ment fell from a projected 82

students this year to 62.

“We tend to pick up more

students from now until the

end of September, mainly

because those students take a

while to get back to school,”

Peacock told the school

board.Peacock told the Herald

Merritt Secondary School

has about 635 of Merritt’s

1,584 students. In Princeton,

the district met its projection

of 437 students, Peacock

said. Peacock said the higher

number of enrolled students

won’t translate into more

money for the school district

because any extra funding

for more students would take

away from the district’s fund-

ing protection.

He added it’s always good

to have more students in the

system.

Learning improvement

fundsThe school board also

heard the process for distrib-

uting the district’s $311,007

in learning improvement

funds, which is annual fund-

ing from the Ministry of

Education.

School principals submit

spending proposals to the

superintendent who drafts a

spending plan, consults with

local unions, and then pres-

ents the plan to the school

board. Peacock said $39,936 is

expected to go to certified

educational assistants (CEAs)

and the remaining $271,071

will be allocated to schools.

Peacock said tentatively

$162,560 will be added for

extra teaching staff, $19,500

will be added to fund teach-

er release time and $73,620

will be used for extra class-

room support such as CEAs

for kindergarten and Grade

1 classes.

The remaining funds will

be retained for next semes-

ter, Peacock said.

“In the second semester,

we’ll look at the configura-

tions that have taken place to

see where support is needed

for the remaining dollars,”

Peacock told the Herald.

By Michael Potestio

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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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Wildfi res way down across provinceThe wildfire season

in British Columbia has come to a close and in Merritt, wildfire activity was below average.

Forty-three fires burned 47 hectares of land, Wildfire Management Branch fire information officer Melissa Welsh said.

“[There were] prob-ably a lot of spot fires, most likely,” Welsh said.

In 2012, the Merritt area had 109 fires that burned 652 hectares. She said those numbers were comparable to the rest of the Kamloops Fire Centre.

Welsh said the con-centration of lightning strikes can be factor in the numbers from year to year. She said in 2012, Merritt had 74 lightning-caused wild-fires compared to 34 human-caused fires. In 2013, there were 27 fires caused by lightning in the Merritt Fire Zone. Sixteen were human-caused.

The 10-year average for Merritt is 91 fires per season burning 1,081 hectares.

The Wildfire Management Branch

encourages people to conduct open burning of natural debris around their yards at this time of year.

“We do like to encourage residents to do that because it mini-mizes the risk of wildfire to their property for next season,” Welsh said.

Starting today, people across the entire Kamloops Fire Centre are permitted to conduct open burning.

She said people need to be vigilant in ensur-ing they never leave fires unattended and have enough resources on hand to extinguish them.

A burn registration number is required for any open fire larger than three metres wide by two metres tall. That number can be acquired by call-ing 1-888-797-1717.

There were 454 fires across the Kamloops Fire Centre in 2013 that burned 2,915 hectares. The 10-year average for this fire centre is 534 fires burning 20,015 hectares, Welsh said.

Provincially, in 2013 there were more fires than last year, but less timber was burned.

The Wildfire Management Branch reports 1,818 fires

recorded and 17,284 hectares burnt while in 2012, there were 1,619 fires that burnt 98,856 hectares as of Oct. 11, said branch spokesper-son Kevin Skrepnek.

Preliminary numbers indicate the province spent $136 million on fire suppression this fire season, he said.

Estimates peg that fig-ure around the $120 mil-lion mark after the prov-ince is paid an estimated $16 million for the cost of sending firefighters outside of B.C.

Last season, the prov-ince spent $154 million battling wildfires.


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THE REGION

The Alzheimer Society of B.C. is encouraging Merrit-tonians who are caregivers for people with dementia to phone in for support.

The non-profit organization is offering a telephone workshop on support and advocacy to area families dealing with the disease.

It will focus on navigating the

healthcare system to advocate for caregivers’ needs and be led by Barbara Lindsay, director of advocacy and public policy for the society.

It includes an optional com-puter component with video presentations.

The workshop starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 24. Anyone interested

can phone 1-866-994-7745 (pass-word 1122333) or visit alzheim-erbc.org.

The workshop is the second of its kind this month, following the “understanding dementia” telephone workshop that took place Thursday.

About one in 11 Canadians over age 65 live with dementia.

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Not all lightbulbs created equal

Recently, I have had a number of enquiries pertaining to light bulbs. This is not surpris-ing given changes to Canada’s national light-ing standards that will impact some of the light bulbs that will be avail-able for sale.

In researching this issue, I learned Natural Resources Canada first announced the intro-duction of proposed national standards for lighting efficiency back in 1997. These new standards were amended in November 2011 with a further amendment announced last week.

What do the new lighting standards pro-pose? The new stan-dards establish energy

efficiency levels for light bulbs sold in Canada and also call for energy inefficient incandescent bulbs in certain watt-ages to be phased out. Specifically, the new standards will apply for bulbs in the 75- 100 watt range after Jan. 1, 2014, and bulbs in the 40-60 watt range on or after Dec. 31, 2014.

Once the new stan-dards are in place, con-sumers will have more energy efficient lighting choices that include light emitting diodes (LEDs), compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and, with the most recent amend-ment, incandescent halo-gen bulbs.

It should also be noted that not all light bulbs currently on the market will be affected by these changes. For example, decorative lamps and related light bulbs, appliance bulbs, three-way fixtures, chan-deliers, rough service/utility bulbs, oven lamps as well as specialty bulbs for agriculture and industrial applications

will all be exempt from these new regulations.

Why introduce these lightbulb energy effi-ciency standards? There are a number of reasons for these changes.

Currently, lighting (on average) accounts for roughly 10 per cent of household energy use. By using more energy efficient lightbulbs, nationally the cumula-tive energy savings are estimated at more than $750 million by 2025 with correspond-ing greenhouse gas emis-sion reductions by up to 7.5 mega-tonnes over the same time frame.

These new regula-tions also parallel the same standards being introduced in the United States. Having the same lighting standards across North America will also benefit those in the light-ing and electrical sectors including manufacturers, wholesalers and import-ers. Canada is one of 18 countries currently in the process of implementing minimum standards in lightbulb energy effi-

ciency.Last week’s amend-

ment to include energy efficient incandescent halogen lighting options is an important one for those who appreciate the appearance of tradition-al incandescent lighting in a more energy saving format. While some citi-zens have expressed sup-port for the high energy efficiency and long life of compact fluorescent lights (CFL), others have expressed concerns over a dislike for the style of lighting and the fact that CFL bulbs contain a small amount of mer-cury content. According to Health Canada, the mercury quantity in these classes of bulbs is roughly enough to cover the tip of a ball point pen.

Although no special handling is required in the use of these bulbs, in the event a CFL bulb breaks, Health Canada does have recommenda-tions on best practices for cleanup. Some of the recommendations include allowing the

room to ventilate for 15 minutes prior to entry, and to use gloves when picking up the glass and sticky tape for loose pieces.

Using a vacuum or broom is not recom-mended as this can spread the dust to other areas of your home. For more information on the use and disposal of CFL bulbs, the Health Canada website has some helpful informa-tion.

The intent of this week’s report is to help eliminate confusion on Canada’s minimum energy efficiency light standards given many recent questions on this topic. If you have further questions on this or any topic please do not hesi-tate to contact my office at 1-800-665-8711 or via email at [email protected].

Dan Albas is the member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla. His blog is DaninOttawa.com and previ-ous MP reports can be read at danalbas.com.

DAN ALBASView from the HILL

Gaps wide in oil spill scenariosVICTORIA – The

B.C. environment ministry has released its promised study of the current state of crude oil spill response capability, tracking the growing tonnage of petroleum shipping along the West Coast and estimating response time and effectiveness if oil was to spill at sea.

Oil recovery in computer simulated oil spills could be as high as 25 per cent after five days, or as low as four per cent for Alaska crude, with another quarter evaporating.

The study was com-missioned to back up Premier Christy Clark’s conditions for B.C.’s approval of expanded heavy oil shipments, either from twinning the TransMountain pipeline from northern Alberta to Burnaby, or the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway project across northern

B.C. to a new tanker port at Kitimat.

Environment Minis-ter Mary Polak said the study shows the need to increase response capability before the B.C. government would consider increased oil shipments.

“While we respect federal jurisdiction over marine spills, we must ensure B.C.’s interests are being met, and that means adding more resources to protect our coast,” Polak said.

The three-volume report also details the huge and growing traf-fic that exists now.

Shipping data show a 17 per cent increase in marine traffic vol-ume from 2011 to 2012. An estimated 110 million cubic metres of petroleum products per year are shipped, about a third of which is crude-like bunker oil carried as fuel on ships of all kinds. The big-gest tanker cargo is 38 million cubic metres of mostly Alaska crude a

year.The study includes

recovery estimates for seven oil spill scenarios, six of which assumed a spill of Alaska North Slope crude that has been shipped by tank-ers down the B.C. coast to U.S. refineries since the 1970s. Two scenarios involve an Alaska crude spill in Dixon Entrance, with four per cent recovery in summer an three per cent in winter.

One scenario exam-ines a summer-time spill of diluted bitumen in the Juan de Fuca Strait, with response from Canadian and U.S. ships and oil recovery equipment. It estimated 31 per cent oil recovery after five days, in summer condi-tions with daylight-only operations.

Diluted bitumen tanker shipments from Kinder Morgan Canada’s Burnaby ter-minal hit a high of 69 in 2010. The expansion would mean 300 tank-

ers a year in and out of Vancouver harbour.

The federal govern-ment has launched its own research project to model the drift and

behaviour of a bitu-men spill in the ocean around Kitimat, and funded marine weather forecasting to facilitate shipping.

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We may be back at work after the Thanksgiv-ing long weekend, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop being thankful.

Here are a few things the Thanksgiving holiday made me thankful for, and for which I will continue to be thankful for until next year’s turkey day.

A job I like. I have had lots of jobs that I didn’t like, and that’s why I don’t have them anymore. None

of them were terrible, but none of them were great, either.

The mild Merritt win-ter. The Nicola Valley is so pretty in the winter, it’s hard to stay mad at snow for making your socks wet and the chill for making your nose run. I no longer dread winter. In fact, I almost like it. Almost.

Leftovers. Normally, it’s a big smorgasbord with my family, but with no family here, I am left with left-overs. And this is a good thing. Tofurky sandwiches left, right and centre. Des-serts after every meal. No, desserts for every meal.

A day off work. For the glory of sleeping in.

Thanksgiving products that no one asked for. Can I interest anyone in

an oddly specific Tofurky and gravy-flavoured Jones Soda? No? How about a knitted turkey tuque to keep your noggin warm and unstylish? If you’re more crafty, there are tons of ideas online to DIY yourself some weird Thanksgiving decorations. Grab that rubber turkey and realize its potential as a master centrepiece with a can of silver spray paint! Six beer bottles lined up with the letters T-H-A-N-K-S painted on them in sparkly paint? No thanks! A Lego recreation of a Thanksgiving dinner plate? Actually, that one might be kind of cool.

In that vain, pet cos-tumes. Obviously a dog dressed up like a turkey is adorable; likewise for a pil-grim cat. The reason I’m thankful for pet costumes all year round is because

they are good for a laugh any time of year, and the holidays give us a perfect excuse to embarrass our pets just a little bit. Besides, haven’t we earned the right to laugh at Fluffy once in a while by constantly clean-ing up his messes?

Giving thanks. Maybe the logic here is a little cir-cular, but expressing grati-tude is one of the simplest and most effective ways you can make yourself happy, and so I’m thankful that it’s as nice to say as it is to hear.

The slippery slope into the holidays. I call it a slippery slope because it’s increasingly frost-slicked and the hills are literally slippery. Figuratively, now is a good time to start preparing for the impend-ing holidays in December. And by preparing, I don’t

mean blowing through your savings account in a mad panic to buy junk for your loved ones. I mean making a list of all the fun things you want to do or see over the winter to keep the urge to hibernate at bay, then celebrating if you actually manage to check anything off of that list. Plus, Thanksgiving dinner is kind of like a test run for Christmas dinner — if that’s something you do. So, I’m pre-thankful that my Christmas dinner isn’t a total mess.

While this list is pur-posely silly, I am, of course, thankful for many serious things, including my friends and family, that I live in a country that isn’t ravaged by war, that I have relative freedom, that I can read, that I have a roof over my head, that I can afford to feed myself regu-larly, et cetera.

HERALD OPINION

It’s the feedbacks, stupid

Campaign strategist James Carville coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid,” to focus the atten-tion of campaign workers on the one key issue that would get Bill Clinton elected president in the 1992 U.S. election.

Alas, the authors of the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have no such sage to guide them.

They’ll have to make do with me.The 800-odd authors of the report

are selected by their fellow scientists in the various disciplines relevant to climate change as the acknowledged leaders in their field of study.

Their job was to review all 14,000 scientific papers on climate change published in the past five years.

And they are doing this work at the behest of the world’s govern-ments, not as some random pressure group — it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Scientists are very cautious people.They won’t go one millimetre

beyond what the evidence makes indisputable, knowing they will be attacked by rival scientists if they do.

They are much more comfortable talking about probabilities rather than certainties. They are, in other words, a nightmare for journalists who have to transmit their findings to the world.

Of the nearly 100 scientists I have interviewed on climate change over the past five years, not one doubted global warming is a big and frighten-ing problem. Indeed, there was often an undercurrent of panic in their remarks. But, when it comes to writ-ing official reports, they retreat into science-speak.

Staying thankful after the long weekend

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So, the Second Assessment of the IPCC, published in 1995, said it was more than 50 per cent likely that human emissions of greenhouse gases were con-tributing to global warming.

The Third Assessment, published in 2001, raised the likelihood to 66 per cent.

The Fourth Assessment, in 2007, upped the ante to 90 per cent, and the Fifth Assessment says 95 per cent.

But, how do you make a headline out of that? How much warming? How fast? And with what effects on human beings?

The latest report will run, in its final version, to 3,000 pages and the answers are buried among the statistics.

What would Carville do? He’d say, “It’s the feedbacks, stupid.”

Without the feedbacks, we could go on burning fossil fuels and cutting down the forests and the average global temperature would creep up gradually, but so slowly that

most of the inhabited parts of the planet would stay liv-able for a long time.

But, if we trigger the feedbacks, the whole thing goes awry.

The feedbacks are natural sources of warming that we activate by raising the aver-age global temperature just a modest amount with our own greenhouse-gas emis-sions.

The consensus number used to be 2 C, but some scientists now argue the real threshold may be as low as 1.5 C.

There are three main feedbacks.

As the highly reflective ice and snow that cover most of the polar regions melts, the rate at which the sun’s heat is absorbed goes up steeply over a large part of the planet.

We are creating a new warming engine that will shift the planet’s heat balance and, once it has started, we can’t turn it off again.

There is reason to believe it’s already too late to avoid

this one.The protective cover-

ing of floating ice that has shielded the Arctic Ocean from solar heating for so long is now going fast — and we will probably see an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the August-September period as early as the 2020s.

Mercifully, this is the smallest of the three major feedbacks in terms of its impact — but it triggers a bigger one.

The warmer air and water in the Arctic then starts to melt the perma-nently frozen ground and coastal seabed (permafrost) that extends over more than 10-million square kilometres

of territory, a considerably larger area than Australia.

This melting releases a huge amount of methane that has been locked into the ground for millions of years.

Methane is a far more effective warming agent than carbon dioxide.

Finally, the oceans, as they warm, release some of the vast quantities of carbon dioxide they absorbed in the past, simply because warmer water can contain less dis-solved gas.

Most of the excess heat in the Earth’s system has been going into the oceans during the past few decades, which is why the rise in land temperatures seems to have

slowed down.But, that is no real conso-

lation.It only means the biggest

feedback is also being acti-vated.

Those are the killer feed-backs.

Earth has lurched sud-denly into a climate 5 to 6 C higher than now a number of times in the past.

The original warming usually came from massive, long-lasting volcanic erup-tions that put a large amount of CO2 into the atmosphere.

However, in every case, it was feedbacks like these that carried the planet up into a temperature regime where there was a massive dieback of animals and plants.

We are the volcanoes now.Our own emissions would

take a long time to get us up to really high average tem-peratures worldwide, but all we have to do is pull the trig-ger on the feedbacks.

The rest is automatic.

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MLA working on issues from UBCM

The past month has been a whirlwind, but this busy time has presented two significant opportuni-ties to hear directly from

communities about the pri-orities that matter to them.

The first was the week-long Union of B.C. Municipalities Convention in Vancouver. Here, local governments had a chance to sit down face-to-face with MLAs and cabinet ministers to explore ways to move forward on projects of most significance.

We heard concerns around roads, rural health care and forestry, to name a few, and also heard about many successful initiatives such as the Health Care Partnership in Princeton,

the Ashcroft Terminal, and working to develop an assisted living facility in Clinton.

I am working to address the issues raised and to support many meaning-ful community projects. Having the opportunity to connect community leaders directly with cabinet minis-ters is an important step in getting these projects closer to fruition.

The second opportunity to learn about the priorities of citizens of B.C. involves a lot of travel!

As part of the Select

Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, I join colleagues on both sides of the House in a tour of the province to gather input on what people would like to see in Budget 2014.

Individuals, organiza-tions, and small businesses have all come forward with thoughtful ideas and sug-gestions, and I was espe-cially pleased to hear from all of you who turned out to our stops in Merritt and Kamloops.

If you were not able to attend a meeting, you can

still make a submission or fill out our online survey at leg.bc.ca/cmt/finance.

The information we gather will be compiled in a report that will go directly to Finance Minister Mike de Jong, so I encourage you to have your say!

And as always, I welcome your inquiries and ideas about any issue in Fraser-Nicola.

Stop by our constituency office in Ashcroft, or email me at [email protected].

Enjoy your autumn!

JACKIE TEGARTView from the LEGISLATURE

‘‘‘Our own emissions would take a long time to get us up to really high average temperatures worldwide, but all we have to do is pull the trigger on the feedbacks.’

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The proposed bylaw authorizes City Council to borrow for the stated purpose by way of debentures a sum not exceeding Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000) repayable not later than twenty (20) years from the date of issue of such debentures.

The number of eligible electors in the City of Merritt is estimated to be 5,000. Council may proceed with adoption of Bylaw No. 2151, 2013 unless, by the deadline set out below, at least 10% (500) of the estimated number of electors of the City of Merritt sign an alternative approval process elector response form indicating that Council may not proceed with adoption of the bylaw without rst receiving the assent of the electors by voting.

INSTRUCTIONS:• If you are opposed to the adoption of the bylaw without it rst receiving assent of the electors by voting, you may sign an alternative approval process elector response form.• If you are not opposed to the adoption of the bylaw, you need do nothing.• Alternative approval process elector response forms will be accepted only if they are in the form established by the Council of the City of Merritt. The forms are available at the Merritt City Hall, 2185 Voght Street, Merritt or on the City’s website www.merritt.ca . Alternative approval process elector response forms must be submitted to the Deputy Corporate Of cer, City of Merritt, 2185 Voght Street, Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8. The deadline for submission of signed forms is on or before 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2013.• Accurate copies of the elector response form may be made and used for signing.• A person may not sign an elector response form more than once.• A person who is not an elector of the City of Merritt must not sign the elector response form.• A person may not withdraw his or her name from an elector response form after 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2013.• The name and residential address of the person signing must be included in this elector response form, and if applicable, also the address of the property in relation to which the person is entitled to register as a non-resident property elector.

To sign an alternative approval process elector response form you MUST meet the following criteria for either a Resident Elector OR a Non-resident (Property) Elector in the City of Merritt:

Resident Electors:• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been a resident of the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed; and• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law.

Non-Resident Electors:• Must NOT qualify as a Resident Elector of the City of Merritt;• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been the registered owner of real property in the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law;• If there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may register as a non-resident property elector and only with the written consent of the majority of the owners; and

NOTE: A person must not sign any alternative approval process elector response form more than once and may not withdraw his or her name from the alternative approval process elector response form after the deadline for submission of the elector response forms has passed.

The Bylaw and related material is available for public inspection at the Merritt City Hall, 2185 Voght Street, Merritt, B.C., during normal business hours being 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive (except Statutory Holidays) from October 8, 2013. The materials can also be found on the City’s website www.merritt.ca.

The deadline for submitting a signed alternative approval process elector response form, opposing adoption of the bylaw without rst receiving the assent of the electors by voting, for the “2013 Asphalt Project City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2151, 2013” is on or before 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2013.

This is the rst of four publications of this Notice. Dated this 15th day of October, 2013.

Carole FraserDeputy Corporate Of cer, City of Merritt

NOTICE OF ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS OPPORTUNITY REGARDING“2013 Public Works Utility Building City of Merritt Loan Authorization

Bylaw No. 2153, 2013”


Pursuant to Section 86 of the Community Charter, the City of Merritt is proposing to seek the assent of the electors of the City of Merritt by an alternative approval process. This alternative approval process applies to the entire City of Merritt. The question before the electors is whether they are opposed to Merritt City Council adopting “2013 Public Works Utility Building City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2153, 2013” (a bylaw to pay for the replacement of the old water works storage building), without rst obtaining the assent of the electors by voting.





Resident Electors:• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been a resident of the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed; and• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law.

Non - Resident Electors:• Must NOT qualify as a Resident Elector of the City of Merritt;• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been the registered owner of real property in the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law;• If there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may register as a non-resident property elector and only with the written consent of the majority of the owners; and



The deadline for submitting a signed alternative approval process elector response form, opposing adoption of the bylaw without rst receiving the assent of the electors by voting, for the “2013 Public Works Utility Building City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2153, 2013” is on or before 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2013.



Legal Notice


NOTICE OF ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS OPPORTUNITY REGARDING“Central Park Improvements – Upgrades to the washrooms and construction of a lacrosse box City of Merritt Loan Authorization

Bylaw No. 2150, 2013”


Pursuant to Section 86 of the Community Charter, the City of Merritt is proposing to seek the assent of the electors of the City of Merritt by an alternative approval process. This alternative approval process applies to the entire City of Merritt. The question before the electors is whether they are opposed to Merritt City Council adopting “Central Park Improvements – Upgrades to the washrooms and construction of a lacrosse box City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2150, 2013” (a bylaw to pay for upgrades to the washrooms and construct a lacrosse box at Central Park), without rst obtaining the assent of the electors by voting.

The proposed bylaw authorizes City Council to borrow for the stated purpose by way of debentures a sum not exceeding Six Hundred and Ninety-Eight Thousand Dollars ($698,000) repayable not later than twenty (20) years from the date of issue of such debentures.




Resident Electors:• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six monthsimmediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been a resident of the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed; and• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law.

Non-Resident Electors:• Must NOT qualify as a Resident Elector of the City of Merritt;• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six monthsimmediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been the registered owner of real property in the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law;• If there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may register as a non-resident property elector and only with the written consent of the majority of the owners; and



The deadline for submitting a signed alternative approval process elector response form, opposing adoption of the bylaw without rst receiving the assent of the electors by voting, for the “Central Park Improvements – Upgrades to the washrooms and construction of a lacrosse box City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2150, 2013” is on or before 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2013.



NOTICE OF ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS OPPORTUNITY REGARDING“2013 Sidewalk Project City of Merritt Loan Authorization

Bylaw No. 2152, 2013”


Pursuant to Section 86 of the Community Charter, the City of Merritt is proposing to seek the assent of the electors of the City of Merritt by an alternative approval process. This alternative approval process applies to the entire City of Merritt. The question before the electors is whether they are opposed to Merritt City Council adopting “2013 Sidewalk Project City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2152, 2013” (a bylaw to pay for installation of sidewalks, curb and gutter along Nicola Avenue from Blair to Menzies where sidewalks do not currently exist), without rst obtaining the assent of the electors by voting.





Resident Electors:• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six monthsimmediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been a resident of the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed; and• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law.

Non - Resident Electors:• Must NOT qualify as a Resident Elector of the City of Merritt;• Must be eighteen years of age or older;• Must be a Canadian citizen;• Must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least six monthsimmediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must have been the registered owner of real property in the City of Merritt for at least 30 days immediately before the day the response form is signed;• Must not be disquali ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disquali ed by law;• If there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may register as a non-resident property elector and only with the written consent of the majority of the owners; and



The deadline for submitting a signed alternative approval process elector response form, opposing adoption of the bylaw without rst receiving the assent of the electors by voting, for the “2013 Sidewalk Project City of Merritt Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2152, 2013” is on or before 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2013.



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