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This is the last school year until a newly developed K to 9 curricu-lum becomes mandatory across the province, and SD 58 superinten-dent Steve McNiven is confident that it will be a change for the bet-ter.

He also said that with each of the district’s schools now with a goal surrounding student wellbeing, one of the district’s goals mov-ing forward will be engagement — with students, staff and the community at large.

The new curriculum and increased engagement work in tan-dem.

“How do we move forward, as everybody is across the district, with inspiring students to be engaged in their own learning?” McNiven said. “That’s our focus, and it’s broad, obviously, but it’s something that will take up most of our conversa-tions going into the new year.”

Part of the answer is in meta-cognition, as young children come to realize who they are as learners, and what makes them passionate. The district’s job will be in capital-izing on that and bringing it into

the classrooms. As they get older, students need

to have “leaning pathways” to choose from. McNiven said that’s where a “blended” education can be useful. “[We have] opportuni-ties to use distributed learning for courses, opportunities to mix that with face to face, and get students choosing how they want to take that course, because you’ve got kids who want to do it at a different time, a different pace, a different way.”

The district will have a South Central Interior Distance Education (SCIDES) teacher at Merritt Secondary School to sup-port students in distributed learning on site, though most of their stu-dents will still be off site students.

“The opportunity to bring that type of teaching into the school, and have those conversations going and that teamwork is really a step in the right direction,” said McNiven.

He outlined how next year’s curriculum will change not just students’ learning experience, but teachers’ teaching experience as well.

SD 58 welcoming new province-wide curriculumDistrict plans to focus on engaging with students, teachers and the community

David DyckTHE MERRITT HERALD

HEADING BACK TO SCHOOLSD 58 enrollment remains low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Op-ed from minister Andrew Wilkinson . . . . . . . . . .

Education minister announces new curriculum . . .

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Student enrollment at School District 58 doesn’t look like it will rebound from the dip it took last year when the labour strife between teachers and government delayed the start of the school year by two weeks.

SD 58 superinten-dent Steve McNiven said the number of students enrolled in a full-time equivalency (FTE) in SD58 is an estimated 2,077 head-ed into the start of school next week.

Last September, the school district had 2,067 students enrolled full-time for the start of the school year.

The delayed school year saw the district down 62 FTE students from the year before.

In 2013, there were 2,129 students enrolled at SD58 schools at the start of the school year, which was down only slightly from the 2,138 students enrolled at the start of the 2012-13 year.

“It’s nice to come in with a regular start, and a positive feeling of coming back on time,” McNiven said. “It was a challenging start last year.”

SD 58 has added some new names to its roster of teachers for 2015-16, half of whom are substitute teachers, also known as teaching on call (TTOC).

There are 18 new teachers who are being added in the school district. Nine are TTOCs, and eight are filling temporary or continuous con-tracts at brick and mortar schools. One new teacher has been added at the South Central Interior Distance Education School (SCIDES), which is located at the Kengaard Learning

Centre in Merritt.There are three

teachers within the district who are mov-ing over to teach out of SCIDES as well this year from the tradi-tional brick and mor-tar schools.

Last year six teach-ers in SD 58 retired.

Two new teachers have been brought in at Merritt Secondary School, one will teach at John Allison Elementary, two will be placed at Nicola Canford Elementary and Diamond Vale

Elementary, and one will teach at Collettville Elementary, McNiven told the Herald.

Most of the new teachers in the district come from within B.C. and some have worked as TTOCs as well, he added.

Schools around SD58 should look a bit polished this school year. Over the summer there were four differ-ent schools that had their roofs upgraded, new flooring was installed in eight class-

rooms throughout the district, bathrooms at Merritt Secondary School and Central Elementary School were renovated, a gar-den was dug at Nicola Canford Elementary, and new paint and siding was added on to portables at Merritt Bench Elementary.

Next spring the school district’s inter-net will be getting greater bandwidth.

“We want to improve the quality of our learning environ-ments,” said McNiven.

Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD

HITTING THE BOOKSSchool District 58 is coming back into the school year with about the same enrollment numbers as last year, 18 new teachers, and signifi cant renovations done at several schools

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BARN BURNER BUSTED

A Merritt man will be spending one year in provincial

prison for committing arson and assaults with weapons.

In a Kamloops courtroom last Thursday, 19-year-old

Tyler Litke pleaded guilty to multiple charges, the most

serious of which were for burning down a barn behind the

Spring Island Trailer Court in Merritt back on June 7, and

assaulting multiple people in the weeks that followed.

Litke received a year in jail for the arson with two years

of probation, six months in jail for assaulting his roommates

and three months for assaulting a stranger on the street.

Crown prosecutor Frank Caputo told the Herald the

assault charges are concurrent, meaning Litke will serve

those nine months at the same time he serves the one year

sentence for arson.The sentence is less the month and a half of time Litke

has already served, Caputo said, adding that the defense

asked for a seven month jail sentence.On June 7 at about 2:30 a.m., the Merritt Fire Rescue

Department responded to a barn fully engulfed in flames.

Firefighters had the abandoned structure at 1500 Spring

Street behind the trailer park extinguished in an hour.

No one was hurt, and no other properties were damaged

by the flames.Police charged Litke and fellow 19-year-old Kayla

MacDonald with arson after receiving information from the

public that the two had been seen at the barn at about the

time of the fire.The court heard that Litke simply decided to burn the

barn down with no further reasoning, Caputo told the

Herald.Using a cigarette, Litke lit some tar paper on the barn to

start the fire, he said.MacDonald is expected to appear in court next week.

On June 18, Litke assaulted two of his roommates with a

baton, baseball bat and brass knuckles.“He came home and he was locked out,” Caputo said.

“He got angry and retrieved weapons.”On July 29, Litke assaulted a man he thought was some-

one who had assaulted a relative of his, however the man

was not someone he knew.No injuries stemming from these incidents were discussed

in court, Caputo said.Caputo said the two years of probation is more than

what is usually given.“We seldom see probation orders that long,” he said.

The City of Merritt will have to stop short

on its plans to repave Coldwater Avenue from

Main Street to Voght Street this year.Council received word that their submission

for a matching grant from the New Building

Canada Fund for Small Communities was

denied. A letter from the provincial co-chair of the

oversight committee for the Small Communities

Fund in the council agenda states “the program

received significantly more applications than

could be funded.” With the help of the grant money, water and

sewer lines below that stretch of road as well as

the asphalt above would have been replaced.

Sans grant, this project only covered the

1400 block of Coldwater Avenue, which was

replaced this past spring.While the final number hasn’t come in yet,

public works manager Shawn Boven said that

work cost the city about $640,000 prior to the

road being paved.There will be a second intake of applications

for the grant, but a date for that hasn’t been

determined yet.To be eligible for this grant, the city put up

$1.5 million for the government to match, funds

which Boven said he’ll recommend council hang

on to in order to maintain eligibility for the sec-

ond intake.In addition to the 1400 block of Coldwater

Ave., the water and sewer lines and the asphalt

road for a portion of Clapperton Avenue and

the Langstaff Place cul-de-sac were replaced

this year.The City of Merritt also had Voght Street

from Merritt Avenue to Nicola Avenue, and

Houston Street from Nicola Avenue to Priest

Avenue repaved.

Coldwater Avenue paving grant deniedMichael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD


Merritt resident Tyler Litke plead guilty to the arson of this building. It was set ablaze in the early hours of June 7. Michael Potestio/Herald

A Merritt Man will be spending one year in pro-vincial prison for committing arson and assaults with weapons.

The City of Merritt will have to stop short on its plans to repave Coldwater Avenue from Main Street to Voght Street this year.

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For one thing, the new curriculum will have fewer learning outcomes. The superintendent said the rationale for that was providing more space for students to focus on what they want to learn, in a less content-driven environ-ment.

“Access to information changes what we need to do around teaching content,” he explained. “If we want to know about medieval history, it’s at our fingertips with the technology we have. So we’re focusing less on com-petencies that are across the grade levels, and then allowing for that space to happen for personalization and differentiation — and in many cases digging deeper into what kids are interested in learning.”

He described the goal of personal-ized learning as a lofty, but he was optimistic the school board could achieve it. “When you talk about a system that has a history of stand and deliver, perhaps — that isn’t the case now, there’s lots of different types of learning, lots of different types of teaching that’s taking place — but you have a classroom full of 30 learners.”

The high-level solution to this is through engagement, by the school district.

This afternoon from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the NVIT theatre, the Friends of the Nicola Valley Society (FNVS) is hosting an information session to inform the public about pyrolysis — an alternative processing method for biosolids.

Kevin Hull, CEO of Emergent Waste Solutions will give the presentation. According to the company’s website, Emergent Waste Solutions deals in converting waste into products that reduce the need for fossil fuels and generate profits.

“Biosolids are placed in an oxygen deprived environment and heated to a point at which the composite chemical makeup of the feedstock separates and the molecules recombine into usable products like fuel oil, syn-gas and a charcoal like product called bio-char,” says the com-pany’s website.

“It’s not new technology, but it’s certainly becoming more and more popular because of the fact that it doesn’t inciner-ate,” explained Randy Murray, director for Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) and member of FNVS.

The syngas can be cleaned and used to create steam in the process, making the process self-sufficient, he said.

“Any of the other excess steam that’s created from use of the syngas can be used to drive power turbines to put electricity back into the ground.”

The third phase for excess gas is use as vehicle fuel.

“This is one of those things that we can maybe work towards, a P-3 partnership or something,” said Murray. “I’m not saying Kevin’s company is the one, but he’s one of many that are starting to get very

active now.”He said today’s session is

a move towards the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) resolution that will be presented in Vancouver at the end of September to pressure govern-ment for a full scale review of the organic matter recycling and agricultural land reserve regula-tions.

“Yes, they’re higher cost, but they also have a cost recovery option — a more long term solu-tion, a sustainable solution to the management of biosolids in B.C.,” said Murray. “This is a step in the process of education.”


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Next council meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca

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Bear-human conflict occurs in Merritt every year and results in the destruction of many bears.

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look the best as possible. A frequent question to the City’s Bylaw Department is “Who is responsible for maintenance of boulevards and lanes?” The short answer is the adjacent property owner. Just as with winter snow, the adjacent property owner is responsible for shoveling the sidewalk in front of their home, so during the rest of the year the adjacent property owner is responsible for keeping the boulevard and lane abutting their property neat and tidy. We may even want to consider helping some of our neighbours who may be less capable.

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After word of the Caravan concept spread, we received two incredible offers. First we will be the marquee attraction at the Travel, Adventure and Gear Expo in Seattle, Washington, and now we have been invited to be a fea-tured attraction of the largest trade and con-sumer event in Western Canada, the Vancouver International Auto Show.

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affair of the automo-bile with the excep-tional lifestyle offerings of this region was a perfect fit and we’re thrilled they are able to be a featured attraction at the upcoming auto show,” says Vancouver Auto Show executive producer Jason Heard.

Caravan will also be the centre attraction of the March 5th and 6th Travel, Adventure and Gear Expo, the larg-est tourism show the Pacific Northwest.

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Merritt Mounties are keeping their ears to the ground when it comes to the potent painkiller known as fentanyl.

This opiate has made headlines recently for its potency — and for being linked with multiple overdoses and deaths.

On Aug. 9, fenta-nyl was the suspected cause of 16 overdoses reported in the Lower Mainland, six of which occurred within one hour. Luckily, none of these cases resulted in death.

Merritt police — a town known to see drugs from the Lower Mainland creep into the community — are listening to people in the local drug scene and monitoring for fentanyl.

“If it’s here in Merritt, we haven’t seen it yet,” RCMP Const. Ryan Dell told the Herald.

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) released a bulletin in August say-ing that according to the RCMP, fentanyl is finding its way into the illicit Canadian drug market in two ways.

One is the diversion of pharmaceutical fen-tanyl products — pri-marily fentanyl patches, which are often given to cancer patients to treat chronic pain — from domestic supply and distribution channels.

The other mode is via smuggling fentanyl powder into the coun-try, most notably from China.

Fentanyl powder is either pressed into pills by drug dealers in illicit labs or sold, or mixed with other drugs.

Retired pharmacist David Quinn said fen-tanyl is like any other opiate.

“It’s the same old story. If you take a handful of any kind of opiate, you’re going to end up with a depressed respiratory system, which means the brain tells the lungs you don’t have to breathe any-

more,” Quinn said.Fentanyl is known

to be 50 to 100 times stronger than mor-phine, however, Quinn said fentanyl isn’t dan-gerous because of its potency; rather it’s the dosage one takes that can be harmful.

The pills are made to look like OxyContin and the powder can resemble heroin.

“You just don’t know what you’re getting, and there’s no quality control, so one tablet could contain a huge amount and another contain very little,” said Dr. Jane Buxton, harm reduction lead for the BC Centre for Disease Control.

Dealers have been known to mix fentanyl into drugs like cocaine, marijuana and heroin to enhance the potency.

Dell said the preva-lent drugs police find circulating in Merritt are crack cocaine, mor-phine and heroin.

“Believe it or not, the dealers don’t inten-tionally make poisonous pills,” Dell said, noting that doing so would eliminate their client base.

“I suspect that even at times the street level dealers don’t even know what they’re selling because they’re supplied it by another, higher level dealer,” he said.

Fentanyl is often misrepresented on the street as the common street level painkiller OxyContin, which isn’t prevalent in Merritt’s drug scene, Dell said.

Dell said fentanyl pills look similar to Oxycontin and its street name is Green 80s for its colour and the num-ber stamped on it.

“To my under-standing, fentanyl is being sold as a tablet often represented as OxyContin, and then somebody uses it think-ing it’s OxyContin, and it’s not, and they over-dose,” Dell said.

Symptoms of a fen-tanyl overdose include severe sleepiness and trouble walking, talking and breathing.

“Often the effects are fatal,” Dell said.

On Aug. 1, a

17-year-old Vancouver teen and his 16-year-old friend passed out in a park after a suspected fentanyl overdose. Police said the teens ingested fake OxyContin pills known as “fake 80s,”which were green in colour and had the number 80 stamped on them. The 16-year-old recovered, but the 17-year-old died after being taken off life support.

Fentanyl detected deaths have become much more prevalent in the past three years.

In 2012, deaths related to fentanyl made up just five per cent of all illicit drug overdose deaths in the province. By 2014 that number had increased to 25 per cent, Buxton told the Herald.

The numbers sky-rocketed from 13 to 49

to 90 deaths.While the numbers

for fentanyl detected deaths this year in B.C. are provisional, they don’t appear to be decreasing, Buxton said.

Barb McLintock with the BC Coroners Service said there have been 66 fentanyl detected deaths in B.C. so far this year, and more are likely pending the results of pending toxicology reports.

She said there have been about eight in the Southern Interior.

“This is mostly a Lower Mainland prob-lem,” McLintock said.

Fentanyl detected deaths mean that the drug was found in the body, but wasn’t neces-sarily the cause of the death.

“Almost all of them are mixed drug over-doses with fentanyl one

of the drugs detected,” she said.

Last year in Alberta, there were 120 fentanyl detected deaths, com-

pared to six in 2011, the CCENDU reported.

An antidote for fen-tanyl overdoses known as naloxone, is avail-

able in take-home kits at various sites around B.C. The closest ones to Merritt are located in Kamloops.


No trace of potent painkiller fentanyl found in Merritt


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For students who need financial assistance,

a mix of grants and loans is available to help them to fund post-secondary education, and programs are in place to help students reduce their debt faster.

To make post-secondary education more affordable, British Columbia was the first province in Canada to launch a government-sponsored open textbook project. By this fall, approximately 8,000 students in B.C. are expected to have saved up to $1 million with open textbooks. Post-secondary students and instructors in B.C. will be able to use more than 120 free open textbooks as dozens of new skills training titles are released this fall.

Post-secondary education is also more read-ily available. Our government has made more post-secondary seats available in more regions of the province, with 32,000 new student seats and seven public university campuses added to the public post-secondary system since 2001.

HERALD OPINION

Alaska sits in judgement of B.C.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett spent much of last week in Alaska, trying to assure local fishermen and environ-mentalists that B.C.’s mine approval process is “basically the same” as Alaska’s.

Bennett visited an abandoned mine in northwest B.C. that continues to leak acid and metal pollution into the Taku River, vowing to supervise cleanup by a new operator. He noted that one of B.C.’s proposed new mines includes a 23-km pipe system to move ore out of the shared water-shed for processing.

This is typical of the discourse between B.C. and our American cousins. Only our industry is ques-tioned.

Meanwhile in Colorado, the latest mine spill disaster was blamed on a mistake by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And in Alaska as in the rest of the U.S., new metal mines such as the giant Pebble project depend on the same engineering and testing as ours.

Here in Victoria, the Fantasy Island dialogue about oil continued, with Green Party leader Elizabeth May calling a news conference to announce she is (brace yourself) opposed to pipelines and tankers on the B.C. coast.

She stood at Clover Point, where daily Alaska crude tankers sail past, many on their way to vast refin-ery complexes just out of sight at Anacortes and Cherry Point in Washington. A good portion of B.C.’s gasoline comes from there.

Back to school for B.C. post-secondary students

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Without a drunk-captain incident since 1989, these tankers load up at the ter-minus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Let’s take a closer look.

For 47 years, the pipe-line has pumped huge vol-umes of oil across Alaska from the charming north-ern outpost of Deadhorse to Valdez in the south, just east of Anchorage where cruise ships dock.

In his new book, Rust: The Longest War, science writer Jonathan Waldman calls it “the biggest, bad-dest oil pipeline in the world.

“From Prudhoe Bay to Prince William Sound, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System stretches 800 miles, which leaves engineer Bhaskar Neogi account-able for one of the heaviest metal things in the Western Hemisphere, through which the vast majority of Alaska’s economy flows,” Waldman writes. “Daily, the four-foot steel tube spits out $50 million of oil.”

It was once the largest private infrastructure in the U.S. Today it’s the most regulated pipeline in the world, with planes flying infrared sensors to detect leaks of warm oil and “line walkers” looking for soft spots in the permafrost.

And this isn’t low-fat, shade-grown oil for Seattle fuel-sippers. It struggles to flow, with a black asphalt

bottom and thick wax that has to be scraped out of the pipeline by the ton with giant “pigs” that clean and monitor walls for corrosion.

The five Prudhoe Bay oilfields have been declin-ing in production for 20 years, to the point where the Trans-Alaska pipeline now carries about a quar-ter of its design capacity. It’s expected to run out around 2040, but for now Valdez still loads more than a tanker a day.

Waldman writes that when North America’s largest oilfield was discov-ered in 1968, companies first considered extending the Alaska Railroad up to Deadhorse. But they would have needed 63 trains a day of 100 cars each. Trucks, cargo planes and even nuclear-powered submarines running under the Arctic ice were briefly considered.

Since we had a bit of hand-wringing last week about a small earthquake near Fort Nelson that may or may not have been trig-gered by hydraulic fractur-ing, it’s worth noting that Trans-Alaska oil also causes noticeable tremors as it rushes down the Chugach Mountains to a sudden stop at Valdez. But those are American earthquakes, so no story there.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected]

Environmental criticism should be a two-way streetFrom Page 6

Editor:

We seniors are struggling to stay in our homes longer and income splitting helps.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has said many times he would eliminate income splitting in order to pay for extra police and add a million spaces for child care.

How sweet it is to take away from the old to meet his goal.

As an 87-year-old NDP voter, Mulcair has

lost my vote and given it to Stephen Harper!I see nothing in any of the parties’ plat-

forms that will help seniors stay in their homes longer.

With higher taxes, home repairs and rising bills, we will be taxed right out of our house. Does this sound like they are helping seniors stay in their homes longer?

Lloyd WilliamsKamloops

This voter has had enough of HarperEditor:

As a former compatriot of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s in the Canadian Reform movement and a staunch supporter of it ever since, I have watched and waited through Harper’s three terms in office.

In August, with the economy in reces-sion, debt and unemployment at high levels and inflation beginning to show, Harper decided to seek a fourth term as prime min-

ister.With due respect, he is offering

Canadians no acknowledgement of respon-sibility and no solutions — only more of the same as though it were good enough.

I believe I speak for the majority of Canadians when I say enough is enough.

Prime Minister Harper must retire now.

Ted JoslinKamloops

NDP loss is Conservative gain for this voter

This means students have many options if they choose to stay in B.C. — and even stay in their hometowns — for their studies, helping keep their costs down and allowing them to more easily pursue career opportunities in B.C.

Post-secondary students in B.C. can readily move between institutions, programs and regions as they pursue their education and training, thanks to the most compre-hensive credit transfer system in Canada. The BC Transfer System involves 38 public and private universities, colleges and institutes. It enables stu-dents to move from one insti-tution to another and receive credit for previous applicable course work, giving them flexi-bility to complete their studies.

As our economy grows,

there will be thousands of job openings in various occu-pations. More than 78 per cent of these openings will require post-secondary educa-tion. These jobs range from professions to skilled trades to management. To ensure that British Columbians have the training and skills needed to take advantage of these opportunities, our govern-ment launched B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint in April 2014. Thousands of students who are taking courses this fall — from critical trades to health care to business administration — are able to do so as a result of targeted funding for high-priority occupations.

Government has also developed a number of pro-grams to make post-secondary education more accessible to Aboriginal people. For example, the Aboriginal Post-

Secondary Education and Training Framework and Action Plan — developed in collaboration with Aboriginal post-secondary partners — will improve post-secondary opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal learners. We are seeing success with more than 3,200 credentials awarded to Aboriginal students in 2013-14, an increase of 23 per cent since 2009-10.

British Columbia has taken great strides in making post-secondary education afford-able and accessible for students of all backgrounds. Our gov-ernment works with students, institutions and employers to provide research, education and training to position our diverse workforce for contin-ued success.

Andrew Wilkinson is the Minister of Advanced Education

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Destination BC is putting the call out for a service provider to manage the BC Visitor Centre at Highway 5 exit 286 in Merritt.

A request for pro-posals is being issued in mid-October for a two year contract to operate the facility with three one-year extension options, said Ninette Ollgaard, Destination BC direc-tor of visitor experi-ences and industry development.

The current agreement with the company Adventure Management Ltd. is expiring in December, Ollgaard said.

Destination BC, the provincial body that manages the govern-ment-owned facility, is responsible for finding a third party to provide visitor services at the Merritt Visitor Centre.

Last November Destination BC launched a new corpo-rate strategy, Ollgaard said, and part of that was reviewing all of its programs.

She said from January to July 2015, Destination BC con-ducted 20 community workshop consultations with communities that have visitor centres.

“How do communi-ties best serve visitors to their community was the nub of the conversations when we were going around the

province talking to all these different visitor centre managers,” she said.

Ollgaard said that in this day and age visitor services can’t be focused merely on a static visitor centre.

“They very much still play a critical role in visitor services, more in some communi-ties than others, but it’s also about having a presence on social media, attending festi-vals and events, being

more mobile,” she said.She added that in

some communities, the visitor centre serves the needs of the com-munity and in others it is one component of a multi-pronged visitor servicing strategy.

The Kamloops Fire Centre announced that as of noon Monday, Aug. 31, campfires are permitted throughout the jurisdiction, including Merritt and the Nicola Valley.

Category 2 and 3 open fires are still banned. “These prohibitions include all open fires larger than a half-metre wide by a half-metre high, fires with a burn registration number, industrial burning, fireworks, sky lanterns and burning barrels,” reads a release from the Kamloops Fire Centre.

The lifting of the campfire ban is due to the wet weather. Risk of wildfires has decreased in the region, and the fire danger rating has been designated as low to moderate.

Destination BC putting out RFP for Merritt Visitor Centre operationsDavid DyckTHE MERRITT HERALD

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The Crown has stayed a charge of assault against the CEO of a Kamloops social agency.

Interior Community Services (ICS) said Kelly Kelland will return to her position as CEO.

The Crown entered a stay of proceedings on a charge of assault stemming from a domestic incident on July 8 this year at the Monte Creek home Kelland shared with her partner.

Following a review of the file, prosecutor Chris Balison said the Crown determined there was not a sub-stantial likelihood of a conviction on the charge.

Shelly Bonnah, ICS’s acting CEO, said Monday there is relief within the organiza-tion the charges were stayed and Kelland will return to her role as its leader.

“Staff are fully aware of what’s going on and we support Kelly,” Bonnah said.

Kelland could not be reached for com-ment.

Kelland’s lawyer, David Paul, said pub-licity of the charge has been damaging to his client, a community leader and a member of Canada’s Olympic softball team in 1996.

Kelland was induct-ed into the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame in 2011, when she was 48, following her time playing softball at Ohio State University, where she set the university record for strikeouts in a season and where she also earned a teaching degree.

“My client is relieved. Justice is done and the matter was resolved quickly,” Paul said.

ISC’s board announced last week

Kelland would be on a leave until the matter was resolved.

“She’s a person who, for 25 years, worked extremely hard to serve people in the community and she has a terrific reputa-tion,” Paul said.

Interior Community Services is a non-profit agency providing about 50 programs in 32 com-munities.

It offers support and services to about 1,100 people, from infants to seniors.

Assault charge against Interior Community Services CEO stayedDavid DyckTHE MERRITT HERALD

Fatality on the CoquihallaOne man is dead and a woman was taken to

hospital in Kamloops following an accident on the Coquihalla Highway four kilometres south of Merritt on the morning of Monday, Aug. 31.

At 7:45 a.m., Merritt RCMP and BC Ambulance services responded to a report of a sin-gle vehicle collision. A pickup truck was travelling northbound when it left the road and entered the northbound ditch, according to the RCMP.

The male passenger, 38 years old, was ejected from the vehicle. He was taken to the Nicola Valley Health Centre where he passed away.

The female passenger was taken to the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops with non-life threat-ening injuries.

Both are residents of the lower mainland.Two ambulances, along with one critical care

helicopter from Kamloops, were initially dis-patched, said BC Emergency Health Services. After the ground crews arrived at 7:55, they cancelled the helicopter.

“It is unknown at this time why the pickup truck went off the highway,” stated a press release from Sgt. Mike Pears, of Central Interior Traffic Services. “The evidence located at the scene is consistent with other collision scenes where the driver is not paying attention to the task of driving a motor vehicle.”

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The new school year in B.C. is the start of a three-year transition to a new cur-riculum that Education Minister Mike Bernier says will emphasize “hands-on” learning.

The new curriculum is being phased in this year for Kindergarten to Grade 9, with high-er grades still in devel-opment. Bernier said this year it will be up to local school districts and teachers to begin implementing it before it becomes mandatory in the fall of 2016. Grade 10-12 curricu-lum is to be mandatory in 2017.

Bernier, the Peace River South MLA appointed education minister this summer, said he’s heard from teachers who are look-ing forward to a cur-riculum that allows more flexibility and individual learning. He stressed that basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic will remain, but students will also be taught life skills, communication, col-laboration and critical thinking.

Two areas of emphasis for the new curriculum are envi-ronmental education

and an aboriginal perspective, which Bernier said will be present in “every single component in the curriculum.” Local schools are encouraged to work with aboriginal communities across the province to represent the full diversity of aboriginal experience, he said.

Hands-on learning is already in place in schools, and Bernier used the example of a shop teacher in his home town of Dawson Creek who encour-aged students at risk of dropping out to take his course. They learned mathematics and physics through taking motors apart and reassembling them, he said.

Bernier invited parents to look for themselves at grade-by-grade documents post-ed at curriculum.gov.bc.ca, listing learning standards and areas of emphasis.

In the science cur-riculum, for example, students are to be taught “big ideas” that in grade one include “observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and land-scape.”

By Grade 8, they are to learn at “Earth

and its climate have changed over geologi-cal time.”

Science compe-tencies required by grade seven include the ability to “exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use sci-

entific knowledge and findings for their own investigations to evalu-ate claims in secondary sources” such as media reports.

By that time they should be able to iden-tify possible sources of

error in their investiga-tions, understand qual-itative and quantitative evidence and “dem-onstrate an awareness of assumptions … and bias in their own work and secondary sources.”

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Imagine sitting in your vehicle stopped at a red light and getting rear ended by another vehicle travelling at a low speed.

This type of acci-dent may cause only minimal damage to the vehicles involved and you might genuinely question whether either person could be injured from such a low speed accident.

While it may be that both parties escape with-out injury, I have seen

time and time again as a personal injury lawyer that just because an accident occurs at a low speed does not mean that injuries cannot occur.

In fact, people can and do sustain injuries in low speed accidents in much the same way as they are injured in accidents that occur at higher speeds.

This is something I confirmed by count-less doctors that I have dealt with on behalf of injured clients.

If you are injured in a low speed accident, ICBC may advise you that you are not entitled to injury compensation because of the low speed nature of the accident and minimal property damage.

ICBC will often refer to this type of accident

as a “low velocity” acci-dent.

It is important to realize that whiplash and other injuries may occur at any speed and that these injuries can have a significant impact on your day-to-day life, no different that injuries sustained in more signifi-cant accidents.

Furthermore, just because ICBC might initially deny your claim for injury compensation does not mean you are not entitled to compen-sation.

ICBC may have an internal policy regarding low velocity accidents and injury compensation but the law in British Columbia ultimately governs these situations.

The courts have made it clear that as long as an injured party can prove that their inju-

ries were caused by the motor vehicle accident, speed is irrelevant.

In the case of Gordon v. Palmer, the plaintiff sustained soft tissue injuries as a result of a low speed accident where each vehicle sus-tained very minor dam-ages.

The judge in that case confirmed that there is no legal prin-ciple to support the idea that when an accident occurs at low speeds and causes minimal dam-age, a person cannot be injured.

This notion may be relied upon by ICBC to initially deny com-pensation to an injured person, but it is not one that is supported by our courts.

If you find yourself in a situation where you have been injured in a

low velocity accident you should speak to a law-yer about any position put forward by ICBC regarding your entitle-

ment to injury compen-sation.

Greg Pratch is a lawyer and partner with Pushor

Mitchell LLP. He practices in the area of litigation with a particular emphasis in per-sonal injury matters and tax disputes.

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In the gospels, Jesus was God’s power incar-nate. And he was the pillar of strength all the way, even while on earth.

The challenges he faced while displaying his power, even from his religious contemporaries, did not weaken his resolve to fulfill the will of God in its entirety.

A story of his heal-ing work does indicate that it was not he but his fence-sitting ‘admir-ers’ who were victims of their own unwillingness to believe in him.

Apostle John related the story in great detail in chapter five of his gospel wherein a cripple was instantly healed by Jesus from his disease of 38 years.

Year after year he lay near a pool, appar-ently without friends and completely paralyzed. None helped him until Jesus saw him.

Yet, before doing the instant miracle on him, Jesus asked him a strange question: Do you want to be healed?

It is easy for physi-cal weakness, mental depression, a sense of hopelessness and despair to take away our willing-ness to do anything in such circumstances.

We might even be unwilling to believe and obey someone who has the power to heal us and make us whole.

I once asked a research student at a university if he would be willing to become a Christian if his intel-lectual objections were answered. He had the honesty to admit that he was not willing to believe for other reasons.

Sometimes, man’s greatest barrier to belief is his unwilling-ness to believe, however convincing reasons for believing might be.

The cripple in the story did not understand how Jesus could help

him, but when Jesus spoke to him he obeyed and was healed. He had overcome one barrier to belief.

But he had not bar-

gained on the religious prejudices of some of the Jews who were watching him.

In this story, the Jews had become overly legal-

istic about observing Sabbath.

The Law had said that the Sabbath day must be different from other days. But the

Jewish ecclesiastical lead-ers were not content with broad principles. They had set out 39 different classifications about the law surround-

ing routine ‘work.’Hence, certainly the

man who was carrying his bed on the day of his healing was working! It looked as if religious

men were once again trying to hinder a man from finding and follow-ing the truth.

Some common barriers that hinder belief in the gospel

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First, although Jesus kept the Sabbath in principle, he ignored the petty rules and regulations imposed by the church of his day.

Second, because Jesus claimed to be equal with God.

When the Bible says that God rested on the seventh day, it

means that He rested from one form of activity (creation) and continued on to other forms.

It does not mean that from that moment He ceased to be active in the affairs of men. “My Father is working still, and I am working,” said Jesus.

To the Jews, these words made Jesus a blasphemer who was claiming to be equal with God and therefore deserving of death.

The real question is whether

Jesus had the right to say such things.

We must be willing to obey the truth when we discover it, and we must be ready to distin-guish between religious prejudice and religious principles.

If we don’t, we shall find our-selves diverted from — or hostile to — the truth.

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When Jesus was about to return to Heaven, He gave the disciples and church a job. He instructed them to go into all the world to every nation, tribe and people and preach the gospel, the good news of salvation throughout Jesus, His second coming and home in Heaven.

Jesus and the prophets gave signs that would be showing the nearness of His return. All things are coming to a close. One of them being my paper article. There will only be one more. The Seventh Day Adventists, in one of their movements, is telling the wonderful story of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and His return.

In the time of Jesus, before and after, weddings were done quite differently than now. A young man would nd himself a girl he loved. He would go to the girl’s father and it was the father that sold or gave the bride. The deal was made. The dowry was paid. The papers were signed. All this was done

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I have believed for a long time that most extended conflicts are counter productive.

Conflict may be use-ful in the beginning, because it points out to us that someone is unhappy with the way things are. That should be the signal to get into problem solving with a win-win orientation. However, that is not gen-erally the way it works.

Most people are uncomfortable with con-flict, and tend to get into emotional or defensive reactions. This extends the conflict, and often expands it to include other arenas of life, not just the current situ ation.

“You forgot to take out the trash this morn-ing,” becomes “You never help around

the house,” and if the conflict continues this in turn can become “I don’t know why I mar-ried you, I’m sure I could do better!”

So what do we do if we do not agree with a charge that has been lev-eled at us?

Debating the point, unless all parties are incredibly patient and polite, usually creates a lot of anger and frustra-tion.

We know there are two sides to every story, and both parties are certain that their ver-sion is the most correct. How then, do we get to peaceful resolution when we can’t even agree on the “facts.”

Well, there is a way to bypass the conflict, which allows all to remain their best selves and also focuses on solu-tions.

It goes like this. If your partner tells you, for example, that you are watching too much television, and you really don’t think you are, in stead of arguing the point, you ask yourself, “If this were true, what

would the solution be?” Well, it might be to

watch less T.V., or it might be to watch less when your partner is around.

Your partner may really be telling you that he/she wants more of your attention.

Often we cannot decipher the hidden meanings, or they may even be out of the awareness of the one making the comment. If your child says, “You never play with me!” and you choke because if you played one more Sesame Street game you’ll go crazy, instead of telling the child that they are suffering from delusions, you ask your-self, “If this were true, what would the solu tion

be?” Now, it might be

playing more with the little, one, or it might be finding out what spe-cifically you have been judged as not playing enough of.

Perhaps the message is “You don’t ever play outside with me.”

Another solution might be as simple as planning to play at times in the beginning of the day, so the child knows exactly when you will be available.

So there you have it: an effective way to move into problem solving before the conflict gets out of hand.

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

During this first week of classes, children are excited to head back to school and see all of their friends.

However, when it comes to their back-pack, if they don’t know exactly how to choose, load, lift and wear them, then their backpack can be a pain in the back — liter-ally. Not to mention the neck, head, and shoul-

ders.Carrying a heavy

load that is unevenly or improperly distributed can result in poor pos-ture.

It can even distort the spine, forcing it out of alignment. This can cause muscle strain, headaches, back, neck and arm pain, and even nerve damage.

More than 50 per cent of young people experience at least one episode of lower back pain by their teenage years.

Research indi-cates that this could be caused, to a great extent, by improper use of backpacks.

Here are a few pointers to help you help your school age children carry their load

comfortably and safely.1) Choose the

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Pick a pack that has two wide, adjust-able, padded shoulder straps, along with a hip or waist strap, padded back and plenty of pockets.

Make sure the pack fits properly, is not too snug around the arms and under the arm-pits, and that its size is proportionate to the wearer’s body.

2) Packing it properly:

They’re not moving out! Make sure your children’s packs contain only what is needed for that day, and that the

weight is distributed evenly.

It’s a good idea to know roughly what each item weighs.

The total weight of the filled pack should be no more than 10 to 15 per cent of the wearer’s own body weight. Pack heaviest objects close to the body, and place bumpy or odd shaped ones on the outside, away from the back.

3) The right way to wear a backpack:

Both shoulder straps should be used, and adjusted so that the pack fits snugly to the body, without dangling to the side. I repeat! DON’T sling your backpack over one shoulder — this can cause the spine to lean, putting stress on the

joints and muscles in the mid and lower back. If a backpack is fitted properly, you should be able to slide your hand between the backpack and your child’s back.

The waist strap should also be worn for added stability. The waist strap reduces the strain on your back and transfers some of the load to your hips.

Finally, don’t carry your backpack too low on your back as this will cause you to lean forward and puts the weight on your upper back.

If your child does complain of back pain, numbness or weakness in his or her arms and legs, have them exam-ined by a chiropractor as soon as possible.

It’s time to put on the backpacks!

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With a line-up each night laden with rookies and future prospects, the Merritt Centennials managed a split of their home-and-home exhi-bition series with the Prince George Spruce Kings on the weekend.

Saturday, in Prince George, the Centennials broke open a very-evenly played contest for 40 minutes with three unanswered goals in the third period en route to a 7-4 victory.

“There was a lot of inexperience out there, and quite a few mistakes made by both teams, but you certainly couldn’t fault the effort,” Cents head coach and GM Joe Martin said. “I was just enjoying watch-ing the players in their

first Junior A game.”The Spruce Kings

jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first peri-od on Friday with goals coming from Chase Dubois and Brayden Dale). Zach Zorn and Cole Woodliffe would reply for the Centennials.

The two teams traded goals in the sec-ond period as well, with Henry Cleghorn and Riley Barnes tallying for Merritt and Cavin Tilsley and Parker Colley for the home side.

It was all Cents in the final stanza, how-ever, as Justin Peaker, Aidan Wagner and Cleghorn into an empty net managed to find the back of the twine.

Martin had good things to say about

the play on Friday of Merritt minor hockey product Sunil Sahota. The 16-year-old, recent-ly-converted blueliner impressed the coach with his composure and

intelligent play on the ice.

A couple of other 1999-born players that caught the coach’s attention were defence-men Dash Thompson

from Whistler and Langley’s CJ Corrazin — both members of the Yale Academy U15 team last year.

“Everyone played well on the backend —

for their age and for their experience. They did asn exceptional job.”

Between the pipes, netminder Spencer Eschyschyn from Kamloops pitched a shutout in his 30 min-utes of action. The youngster was equally impressive on Saturday night, allowing just two goals against a strong Prince George line-up.

“That’s why he’s still here,” Martin said. “He’s done well.”

Twenty-four hours later, in front of close to 200 fans at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena, experience prevailed over youth as a veteran group of Spruce Kings got the better of their youthful opponents 4-1.

“That was a really good test for our young guys,” Martin said. “It

was good for them to go through that.”

Martin made it clear that a handful of the rookies who saw action on the weekend will be playing for the team this year.

“The ones that aren’t, we want to keep them interested in what we’re doing here.”

As for the eight or nine veterans who didn’t see action at all on either Saturday or Sunday, Martin said, “I want them hungry for game play. I want them itching to get out there. All of them wanted to play Saturday night, and I think they all thought they were going to play.

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There’s something about late-season rodeos that brings out all the stars.

The Nicola Valley Pro Rodeo regularly attracts many of the biggest names in the sport as competition for a spot at the Canadian Finals in Edmonton in October really heats up. Only the top 12 in each event qualify.

This year is no dif-ferent. Merritt’s annual Labour Day weekend extravaganza has no fewer than 40 cowboys and cowgirls currently ranked in the top-10 in the CPRA standings scheduled to compete, along with a host of other contenders who are knocking on the door.

The long list of top names includes two who call the Nicola Valley home — bull rider Ty Pozzobon and barrel racer Katie Garthwaite.

Pozzobon is com-

ing off a massive win in Okotoks on the week-end, where he posted a season-high score of 92 on board Vold Rodeo’s Proper Ripped, the Canadian Bull of the Year in 2014.

One week earlier, Pozzobon was a winner in Kalispell, Montana, scoring 88 on the Kesler Rodeo bull Grand Slam.

The two wins just seven days apart netted Pozzobon over $4,000 in earnings, and moved him into seventh place in the CPRA standings.

Garthwaite has been on a role all sum-mer long, with wins in Cranbrook and Lethbridge during the final weeks of August.

The Mammette Lake barrel racer currently sits in 10th place in the CPRA standings, and would like nothing bet-ter than to solidify or improve her position on home soil this weekend.

There’s good reason to go to both perfor-

mances of the this year’s Nicola Valley Pro Rodeo as Garthwaite is scheduled to compete on Saturday, while Pozzobon is up on Sunday.

A number of other local cowboys and cow-girls are also scheduled to take part in this year’s Merritt pro rodeo.

Katie Garthwaite’s husband, Mike, is com-peting in steer wrestling on Saturday, while Spencer Rutherford and his partner Stetson Vest from Childress, Texas, are up in team roping on Sunday.

Competing in ladies barrel racing on Sunday is Merritt’s own Fallon Fosbery, a former B.C. high school rodeo con-testant.

Fosbery and her horse, Dutch, are coming off a very successful first-place finish at the Iron Springs Barrel Races in Merritt last weekend.

The list of top rodeo competitors on hand this weekend includes

number-one-ranked Cody DeMoss from Water Valley, Alberta in saddle bronc, number-two-ranked Matt Lait from Cayley, Alberta in bareback, third-ranked Ryan Jarrett from Canmanche, Oklahoma in tie-down roping, and numbers-one-and-two-ranked Tanner Milan and Scott Guenther from Cochrane and Consort,

Alberta respectively in steer wrestling.

In addition to Pozzobon, look for number-four-ranked Jason Parsonage from Maple Creek, askatch-ewan in the bull riding event, while Garthwaite will have to contend with top-ranked barrel racer Taylor Jacob from Carmine, Texas, fourth-and-fifth-ranked Kendra

Edey and Kirsty White from Longview and Big Valley, Alberta respective-ly, as well as her travelling partner, number-seven-ranked Julie Leggatt from Kamloops.

An outstanding field of team ropers is led by number-one-ranked heeler Klay White from Airdrie, Alberta.

Hard-core and casual rodeo fans alike

are reminded of the slack performance on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. featuring tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping and ladies barrel racing events.

The main perfor-mances, with all the same events and more, as well as added attractions and entertainment, go at 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

Ian WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD

DYNAMIC DUO The Nicola Valley’s Ty Pozzobon (left) and Katie Garthwaite will be featured in the bull riding and ladies barrel racing events at this weekend’s rodeo. Garthwaite rides on Saturday, while Pozzobon is up on Sunday. Photos courtesy of CPRA

Cents pare the numbers after split with Spruce KingsIan WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD

CREASE CRASHERS Merritt Centennials prospects Kole Comin (22) and Wilson Northey (19) go hard to the Prince George net on Saturday night. Ian Webster/Herald

See ‘Cents and River-men’ Page 18


“Most of them will be in the line-up at some point this weekend [in the home-and-home series with the Langley Rivermen].”

The lone Merritt goal on Saturday was scored by defenceman Mike Faulkner, easily the best player on the ice for the Centennials. The Brunswick Prep prod-uct from Connecticut loooked comfortable at both ends of the ice — breaking up plays in his own zone and frequently initiating the rush from behind the blueline.

Three of Prince George’s four goals on Saturday came from their top line, as the trio of captain Jake leBrun, centre Corey Hoffman and Luc Soares com-bined for eight points in total. The Sprucies’

fourth goal came off the stick of Rider Stoglin.

On defence for Prince George was rookie Cooper Prechal, who played last season for the Princeton Posse of the KIJHL and APed on several occasions in a Cents’ uniform.

Gone from the Spruce Kings’ line-up is 20-year-old Daniel Nachbaur, as the former Centennial was traded to the Wenatchee Wild dur-ing the off-season.

Going into this weekend’s games versus Langley, the Centennials were down to 27 players, although two of those players — Tyler Ward and Zach Zorn — are away at WHL training camps in Kamloops and Calgary respectively.

One of the remaining 27 players is Merritt’s Riley Barnes who scored one of the goals in

Prince George on Friday night.

The third local product, Marcelo Bose, suffered a broken col-larbone in the second intrasquad game last Wednesday.

“The final cuts [down to the league-mandated 22] are going to be tough, real tough,” Martin said. “A lot of it has to do with chemistry and what is the best fit for the team. It’s like pieces of a puzzle.

“That’s where the exhibition games are so important, because you see what other teams have, and what you may or may not need. Do you go with a bit more physi-cality and a little less skill or go the other way? All the pieces can play, but it’s finding the pieces that fit.”

Game time Saturday is 7:30 p.m.

The Braves let their bats and gloves do the talking on the weekend, as they went a perfect 7-0 to claim first-place at the 6th Annual Aces Memorial Slo-Pitch Tournament on the weekend.

A total of 10 teams took part in the two-day event held at the Central Park ballfields in honour of the late Luke Saul and Raymond Saul Jr.

Saturday, the Braves won all three of their round-robin games by a combined score of 48-30. Their toughest

test was a narrow 21-20 victory over the Zodiaks.

On Sunday, the second-ranked Braves began elimination play by knocking off Wii Not Fit 14-3.

While the Braves needed only two more wins on Sunday (over the Strikers and Zodiaks) to earn their ticket to the championship game, Wii Not Fit had to play and win five games in a row in order to set up a rematch with the Braves.

In the title tilt, Wii Not Fit got the early jump with the maximum five runs in the top of the first inning, while the

Braves could muster only three in reply.

After shutting out their opponents to begin the second, the Braves really got the sticks going, scoring nine runs in the second and third innings to take a 12-6 lead.

Wii Not Fit rallied briefly in the fourth with another five-run outburst, but the Braves were simply not to be denied. They shut out the ‘back-door bandits’ in the fifth and sixth innings, while racking up another five runs of their own en route to a 19-15 victory.

The Braves team was comprised of play-ers from five different Interior communites: Merritt, Kamloops, Lytton, Lillooet and Surrey.

Winning pitcher for the Braves was Shane Hurst, who celebrated his birthday on Sunday.

Despite the loss in the final, a special shout-out goes to the cheering section for Wii Not Fit. They constantly kept their team’s spirits up throughout the tourna-ment, while keeping the opposition on their toes with some good-natured heckling.

SPORTS

PRINCE GEORGE LITTLE BRITCHES RODEOAugust 22-23, 2015

Merritt Top 10 Finishers Saturday Sunday

Jr. Girls Barrel Racing 6th Maya Starrs 2nd Gracie Garthwaite 10th Gracie Garthwaite 7th Ayla Goss 8th Maya Starrs

Jr. Girls Pole Bending 4th Gracie Garthwaite 5th Kelsey Starrs

Jr. Girls Goat Tail Tying 3rd Gracie Garthwaite 3rd Gracie Garthwaite 6th Kelsey Starrs, River 5th Maya Starrs Anderson 6th Kelsey Starrs 10th Maya Starrs Jr. Girls Dummy Roping 4th Maya Starrs, Ayla 6th Kelsey Starrs Goss, Gracie Gart- 7th River Anderson waite 10th Ayla Goss, Maya Starrs, Gracie Garthwaite

Jr. Boys Stake Race 4th Nathan Van Rensberg 3rd Jalen McRae 5th Jalen McRae 4th Nathan Van Rensberg 7th J.W. Stewart 7th J.W. Stewart 9th Soren Anderson 9th Kolt Alexander 10th Soren Anderson

Jr. Boys Goat Tail Tying 1st Jalen McRae 1st Jalen McRae 6th J.W. Stewart 6th Nathan Van Rensberg 8th Nathan Van Rensberg 9th J.W. Stewart 9th Soren Anderson 10th Kolt Alexander 10th Kolt Alexander

Jr. Boys Dummy Roping 4th Nathan Van Rensberg 2nd Nathan Van Rensberg 5th Jalen McRae 9th Jalen McRae 7th J.W. Stewart

Sr. Girls Barrel Racing 10th Gracyn Bose 9th Taylia McKeown 10th Gracyn Bose

Sr. Girls Pole Bending 6th Taylia McKeown 3rd Taylia McKeown

Sr. Girls Goat Tying 4th Gracyn Bose 3rd Taylia McKeown 10th Taylia McKeown 5th Gracyn Bose

Sr. Girls Breakaway Roping 1st Taylia McKeown 1st Taylia McKeown

Sr. Boys Stake Race 4th Tryton Bose 1st Armoni McRae 7th Troy Holmes 5th Wyatt Smith 8th Armoni McRae

Sr. Boys Calf Tying 1st Armoni McRae 5th Armoni McRae 5th Troy Holmes 9th Tryton Bose

Sr. Boys Chute Dogging 6th Armoni McRae 3rd Peyton McRae 9th Armoni McRae

Coed Steer Riding 4th Armoni McRae 1st Tryton Bose 3rd Taylia McKeown 4th Wyatt Smith

SIMPLY THE BEST (Above) The champion Braves slo-pitch team, comprised of (back row, left to right) Terry McRae, Kyle Dick, Mike Hendricks, Bren Joseph with son Sequoia, John Charlie, Jordan Collins, (middle row) Ivy Edwards-McRae, Denny Higginbottom, Dustin Doss, birthday boy Shane Hurst, (front row) Cheryl Gilbert and son Tuff, Tawny Fortier, Crystal Narcisse and Jen Narcisse. (Below) A close play at second base in Sunday’s championship game between the Braves and Wii Not Fit. Ian Webster/Herald

Braves win Aces annual slo-pitch tourneyIan WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD

Cents and Rivermen this weekendFrom Page 17

Calling all drug-store Cowboys! The Nicola Valley Rodeo Association invites you to enter a

Businessmen’s Calf Dressing team in this year’s Labour Day weekend Pro Rodeo. Anyone can enter with the winning team donating their cash prize to the local charity of their choice. It’s a great way for local businesses to participate in one of Merritt’s longest-standing events AND help others in our community. Call Karen at 250-378-1578 for more information.

Calling all patients of dr. JJ gillis To gather at the Baillie House Property – Saturday, Sept. 5 at noon. Meet the members of the Gillis family during the reunion weekend and share your stories! The Gillis family will attend this gathering following the Rodeo Parade in downtown Merritt. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided! Please RSVP to the Baillie House at 250-378-0349 or email [email protected]

st. MiChael’s theatre troupe St. Michael’s Theatre Troupe will hold a final audition for the full production of A Christmas Carol (Scrooge) by Charles Dickens on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. at St. Michael’s Anglican Church, 1990 Chapman St. The production will be staged at the specially-remodelled heritage church at 7 p.m. on Dec. 10, 11, 12, a Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All ages welcome for the audition. Anyone who is interested or having technical stage exper-tise is also welcome to attend.

Merritt Chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada is hosting the 5th annual car show in Ashcroft on Sunday Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. All cars, truck and cruisers welcome. Dash plaques and the Fall Fair is on. Contact Cam at 250-453-9308 FMI.

bC thanksgiVing food driVeThe annual BC Thanksgiving Food Drive is preparing

to re-stock the shelves of the Merritt Food Bank. On Sept. 19 volunteers will be collecting food donations from the homes of Merritt residents sorting the food and delivering it to the Food Bank. You can help by fill-ing the bag that will be left on your doorstep just prior to the 19th. Leave the bag on your front step Saturday morning for collection. If you can help by distributing bags in your neighbourhood and collecting them, your help will be most gratefully accepted. Please call Ruth at 250 378-8160 for more information. Visit bctfood-drive.org for more information about this Province-wide annual event.

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LECTURE THEATRE. Parking is FREE and there is no food or drink allowed in the theatre. For more info phone 378-3974.

Conayt bingoJoin Conayt Friendship Society every Thursday for bingo.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and bingo starts at 6 p.m. Everyone welcome to come and play! 2164 Quilchena Ave.

Conayt elders drop in CentreTuesday & Thursday mornings, 8:30 a.m. – noon, 2164

Quilchena Avenue. All Elders welcome – just come out and visit! For information contact Deloris at 250-378-5107.

liVing with loss support groupLiving with the Loss Support Group Wednesday 7 p.m.

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danCeLove to Dance Academy is now accepting registration

for their fall classes. Please call 250-378-9898 for more information.

CoMe get answers!Crossroads Community Church will be hosting a FREE dis-

cussion on Creation/Evolution with guest speaker Richard Fangrad of Creation Ministries International on Wednesday, sept. 9 at 7 pm at the church, 2990 Voght St. everyone is welcome! For more information call 250-378-2911

looking for VolunteersWe are looking for convenors and helpers for the Fall

Fair. If you are interested please call Kathy 250-378-5925 or Marianne 250-378-9929 or any convenor in the fair catalogue. We are looking for helpers of all ages. Many jobs available please call for schedule of events and work days.

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On June 30, we sadly said goodbye to an amazing mom, grandma, friend and person. She was a very determined, brave and courageous woman who worked hard all her life.

She will be terribly missed by her daughters, Judie (Maurice) & Theresa (John) and grandchildren Brandon and Alisha all of whom Alix was so very proud of. She is predeceased by her husband, William Arthur (Bill) Ridley, and her parents.

Alix spent her life helping others. She loved the Merritt area where she lived for the past 15 + years. She developed many wonderful friendships in the community and she will be sadly missed by everyone whom she touched.

She loved her children, grandchildren & her animals – her Maltese & later her Miniature Pinschers who brought her such joy as did her cats! She also loved gardening and could grow and create an amazing ower garden display. She held many types of occupations during her life, which led her on many adventures with her family and many friends at her side. Alix worked as a radio dispatcher with the RCMP in various communities for many years and was so very proud to be a part of the RCMP family. As helping others gave meaning to Alix, she continued working in the service industry up to the onset of her sudden illness.

We wish to thank the great medical staff at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt for their care of mom and say a special thank you to Dr. Adamson and the Langley Hospice Palliative Care Team who were very supportive during mom’s nal days.

We also wish to extend thanks to the many family and friends who have been so graciously caring and compassionate throughout Alix’s life.

On Saturday, September 12 at 1:00 a Celebration of Life is to be held at the Civic Centre, Merritt, BC.

In lieu of owers, donations to Angels Animal Rescue (Merritt – www.angelsrescue.com) or to Langley Hospice Society – a Memorial Gift on behalf of Alix Ridley – www.langleyhospice.com - would be greatly appreciated. Online condolences can be left at http://www.dignitymemorial.ca

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Archie Rutz1930 - 2015

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Archie Rutz on August 23, 2015 in Merritt, BC.He is survived by his wife Mollie, daughters; Audrey (Alvon) Hollingshead, Beverley (Clifford) Wilson and Laura (Bill) Pattyson, grandchildren; Cindy (Mike) Fisher, Rhonda (Lon) Hingley, James (Tanya) Wilson, Heather Wilson (Sean Kerr) Carrie Pattyson, Chad (Caitlin) Pattyson, 11 great grandchildren, brother Ron, sisters; Marge (George) Demmans, Lorna (George) Martens and brother Lorne (Shirley).He is predeceased by his parents, brother Gordon and sister-in-law Joan.He was born May 31, 1930 in Empress Alta. He moved from Makwa Sask to Keremeos B.C. in 1948 where he met Mollie. They were married Feb. 14, 1950. Together they had 3 daughters. In 1971 they moved to Merritt where he was a mechanic and bus driver till he retired. He was an active member of the BPO Elks Lodge for 55 years, where he held many positions.Memorial service will be held Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015 at the Elks Hall at 1:00 p.m. in Merritt, BC. In lieu of owers, donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or charity of your choice would be gratefully appreciated.

James V. BOBOct. 19, 1953 - May 1, 2015

James Bob passed away peacefully at the Kelowna General Hospital. James was born to John Mack of Sts’ailes Indian Band and his mother Ada George from Coldwater Indian Band.He grew up in Sts’ailes before he left home to travel and working in the U.S. for numerous years from California to SeattleHis savviness to carve and paint was second nature to him. he had stories to share, always a big smile. James leave behind 4 children and 9 grandchildren.On behalf of his children we would like to thank Dr. Ross of Merritt and numerous Dr.’s from Kelowna General and the ICU-A nurses for making his last days comfortable.

His cremations will be buried on September 5, 2015 on the Sts’ailes Band.

We will always love you.Love Manie, Dion, Tyson and Jackie.

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Department: Recreation Position Title: Recreation assistantHours: 12-20 hrs per week, evenings and some weekends Start Date: September 28thTerm: Permanent Wage: NegotiableReports to: Recreation/Shulus Arena Manager

Summary of responsibilitiesUnder the direction of Arena/Recreation Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and participating in recreational programs and events for Lower Nicola Indian Band youth, adults and elders.

Duties and tasks Work with instructors and co-worker ensuring all participants are satis ed • Develop recreational programs that interests youth, adults and elders• Must be willing to participate with youth during activities • Report to LNIB membership on a monthly basis through LNIB newsletter • Driving and maintenance of LNIB recreation van • Ensure LNIB and other facilities are properly taken care of following use by the • recreation department Work within recreation budget • Organize fundraising events for recreation department special events •

Qualifications: High school completion with one to two years related work experience, or an • appropriate combination of education and experience, preferably with First Nation’s community services. A valid class 4 driver’s license or willing to complete and pass the driving test • Background working with First Nation youth• Excellent communication and high energy while working with youth • Computer literate in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher • A team worker with a great work ethic, a self-starter and able to work independently• Ability to speak or willingness to learn the N’lakapamux language• Must be willing to produce a criminal record and a vulnerable sector check •

Deadline to apply: Friday September 18th, 4:00PM

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Department: Arena Position Title: Arena Maintenance Assistant Hours: 16-20 hrs per week, evenings and weekends Start Date: September 28th/2016 Term: Until March 31st 2016 Wage: NegotiableReports to: Recreation/Shulus Arena Manager

Summary of responsibilitiesUnder the direction of Arena/Recreation Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for all arena maintenance and zamboni duties while on shift.

Duties and tasks Drive and operate the Zamboni and other various types of hand operated tools and • equipment Resurface the ice sheet in such a manner that its condition is kept in good conditions • at all times Will handle services and needs of general public, such as, but not limited to program • questions, phone calls etc Follow and direct others to follow the posted safety standards• Complete all janitorial tasks whenever needed to provide a tidy and respectable • facility Will take mechanical readings and record properly on all equipment in the arena• Perform other duties as assigned or directed • Arrive to work every day, on time as scheduled •

Required knowledge, skills and abilities Ability to follow verbal and written instructions• Background working with First Nation youth• Excellent communication and high energy while at work • A team worker with a great work ethic, a self-starter and able to work independently• Able to communicate well and con dently with the public, we are in the people • business

Minimum Qualifications Must be at least 18 years old• Valid British Columbia driver’s license • Some high school or working towards completing high school diploma• Some related work experience preferred but not required • Must be available to work exible hours, evenings and weekends•

Deadline to apply: Friday September 18th, 4:00PM

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individuals for the following positions:

Lillooet Schools

Cayoosh Elementary SchoolFountain Valley Run - Lillooet

Loon Lake Run - Ashcroft

School istrict f ce Ashcroft

Lytton Elementary Schoollease refer to the School istrict we site

for details of the positions. Application deadline is .

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 74 (GOLD TRAIL)

The Gold Trail School District requires Relief/Casual workers for on-call work in all district communities for the following positions:

(Class 2 and Air Ticket required)( S Certi cation required)

(Secretarial Skills Test required)

Dentistry @ Merritt POSITION: FULL TIME

CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANTS (CDA)

JOB POSTING

Dentistry@Merritt is looking to hire 2 Full time Certified Dental Assistants in a busy dental office in Merritt, BC.

Applicants must be available to work Tuesday-Saturday. Above average hourly pay. Health benefits available.

New grads welcome. Start date is immediately.

Please email your resume at [email protected]

SUBWAY RESTAURANTIS LOOKING FOR FULL/PART TIME

PEOPLE FOR ALL POSITIONS.

Please e-mail your resume to: [email protected]

or drop at 2190A Voght Street or 3623 DeWolf Way, Merritt, BC



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Apt/Condo for Rent

NICOLA APARTMENTS

Clean Bachelor, One and Two

Bedroom starting at $575/month.

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ask about the

Property Management

MERRITT1988 Quilchena Ave.

September 1, 2015

250-378-1996 Call for all of your Residential

or Commercial PropertyManagement needs!

MERRITT REAL ESTATE SERVICESProperty Manager:

Lynda Etchart

1 bdrm Apt. $600 plus hydro (X2)

3 bdrm Apt on Bench. $800 plus hydro

2 bdrm Suite. $700 plus hydro.

2 bdrm Bsmt Suite. $750 including utilities.

3 bdrm Townhouse. $800 plus utilities.

Brand New 1 bedroom Suite on Bench. $1000 incl utilites,

satellite/internet

2 bdrm duplex. $700 plus utilities (X2)

3 bdrm duplex. Newly Reno-vated. $975 plus utilities.

1 bdrm house. Fully furnished. $1100 including utilities

2 bdrm house. $850 plus hydro

3 bdrm house. Large fenced yard. $1100 plus utilities.

3 bdrm house. $850 plus utilities

1 bdrm Suite in Lower Nicola. $600 plus hydro.

2 bdrm in 6plex in Lower Nicola. $600 inc utilities.

1 bdrm in 4plex in Lower Nicola. $600 plus hydro.

2 bdrm house in Lower Nicola. $700 plus utilities

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Move in bonus - 1/2 month free rent

For appointment call

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Spacious 1 & 3bedroom apartments.

F/S, heat and hotwater included.

Starting at $625/mth

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Lower Nicola Indian Band (LNIB)

Contracting Opportunity

Lower Nicola Nte?kepmxcin Language NestDevelopment Coordinator

The Lower Nicola Indian Band, in Merritt, BC, is in the early stages of the process of establishing the Lower Nicola Nte?kepmxcin Language Nest, and needs the services of a quali ed contractor to act as Nte?kepmxcin Language Nest Development Coordinator. The main goal of the Lower Nicola Nte?kepmxcin Language Nest is to introduce LNIB children from age zero to six to the Nte?kepmxcin language in a natural setting and to encourage the inter-generational transmission of the Nte?kepmxcin language to the children’s families. The mission of the language nest is to teach the children of LNIB Nte?kepmxcin language as a rst language, in a nurturing and enriched kindergarten setting, as a basis for continued uency throughout their lives, so they will become key agents in the revitalization of the Nte?kepmxcin language.

We are looking for one Nlaka’pamux Nation member fully uent in Nte?kepmxcin, and with experience in the development of a language nest and fully familiar with early childhood care licensing requirements and standards. As extensive inter-action with other stakeholders (families, elders, volunteers, LNIB School and HeadStart program, and LNIB Chief & Council) will be required, as the ideal candidate will act as champion of this important initiative in bringing together all stakeholders, and leading the establishment of all facilities, systems, curriculum, programs, and resources. The successful contractor will provide the following services:

Lead the team and coordinate all aspects of the development of the • language nest initiative;Develop curriculum, lessons and learning resources and materials for use in • the language nest, including speaking, reading and writing tools;Design, develop, plan, and implement learning development • Nte?kepmxcinlanguage programs for the language nest;Foster a culture of strict compliance to all applicable laws and regulations• Recruit Nte?kepmxcinspeakers to teach the children, and establish elders’ • support network;Recruit quali ed and BC licensed early childhood professionals;• Develop a work environment based on cooperative learning and nurturing • learning environment conducive to preschool learning designed to foster creative thinking, self-esteem, resiliency, and self-motivation in groups, and monitor student progress;Work closely with the administration and other programs of the Lower • Nicola Indian Band;Promote and coordinate parent, family, and volunteer involvement • activities;Promote the use of Nte?kepmxcin language amongst LNIB families;• Work with other LNIB programs, including LNIB School HeadStart program, • and with the Scw’exmx Child and Family Services Society when required;Market the programs of the language nest, especially among families with • young children;Develop operating fundamentals, including vision statement, mission • statement, guiding principles, standards, code of conduct, planning framework, mandate, goals, policies, objectives, planning calendar, and capital and operating budgets for the language nest;Develop funding and sponsorship proposals to potential funders and • institutions involved in the revival of Indigenous languages in British Columbia and Canada;Prepare progress reports to Chief & Council and/or other sponsor agencies, • as required.

If you feel that you have the knowledge, quali cations and experience to perform these services and you are keen in leading this important initiative, please send a response to this posting in the form of a sealed letter, including your personal resume, and indicating evidence of your experience and quali cations, your charge per hour and your time availability to:

Lower Nicola Indian BandLower Nicola Nte?kepmxcin Language Nest

Development Coordinator ContractC/O Helder Ponte, Executive Director

181 Nawishaskin LaneMerritt, BC, V1K 0A7

Responses will be accepted until 4:30 PM of Friday, September 25th, 2015.Preference will be given to Lower Nicola Indian Band Members.Thank you for your interest in this opportunity.

Conayt Friendship Society

FOR RENTTwo, Three and Four Bedroom Units

Conayt Friendship Society (CFS) in a non-profit organization that provides services for First Nations and non-First Nations community members from Merritt and the surrounding areas. One of these services is affordable housing. CFS owns rental units and town houses (approximately 40) around the city of Merritt. The units vary in size from 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom units. This invitation for application is open to all First Nation working renters.

We are currently accepting applications from First Nation renters in the Merritt area. We offer rent-geared-to-income housing for families looking for affordable housing. Requirements for applicants are; must be 19 years of age, of First Nations ancestry, currently working with a steady income, personal, professional and landlord references as well as a willingness to complete the application process.

Applications are available at the Conayt Friendship Society or by emailing [email protected]. The application is the first step and we will require additional information from each of the applicants including income verification, references and financial information. Once application process is complete and references are verified we then move onto the approval process and if approved will be given notice to move into a unit when one is vacant.

If interested in applying for rent-geared-to-income housing to suit you and your family’s needs please contact Jordana at Conayt Housing for further information at 250-378-5107.

In person: Jordana McIvor-Grismer Housing Department Conayt Friendship Society, 2164 Quilchena Ave, Merritt B.C. Or By Mail:Housing DepartmentP.O. Box 1989Merritt BCV1K 1B8

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Aspen Planers is seeking a full-time Receptionist /Accounts Payable Clerk. We are looking for a self-motivated individual who works well in a team environment. They must have good customer service skills, be proficient in Excel and Microsoft Word.

Duties include answering telephone and forwarding calls, greeting visitors, mail, ordering office supplies, photocopying, filing, Entering AP invoices, data entry for maintenance system and responding to supplier inquiries as well as various other duties.

Starting wage $14.00 per hour

Interested applicants should submit their resumes by September 10, 2015 to:

Aspen Planers Box 160 Merritt BC, V1K 1B8

or by fax 250-315-4237

We thank all applicants who apply but only those selected for interview will be contacted.

3 Bedroom townhouse, 2 bath, small fenced yard, pets

negotiable, laundry hook ups, $1,000/month includes gas,

close to downtown. (250) 682-0844

Duplex / 4 Plex

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Stoyoma Dental is Merritt’s newest Dental Clinic. We are a Not For Profit Society serving all residents of Merritt and the surrounding areas. If you are covered by Status, Healthy Kids, Disability, Ministry or the Emergency Plan you are fully covered for eligible services & no additional funds will be required of you!

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