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Last Thursday, the Nicola Valley Theatre Society was shown the concept art and building schematic for the 550-seat cinema and performing arts centre they hope to build on the corner of Garcia Street and Coutlee Avenue.

Architect Chris Allen with Landform Design Build Ltd. presented the plans and said the 14,000 square-foot building is designed to incorporate local materials and style.

The plans show the param-etres of a four-bay theatre with three 100-seat theatres on one side of the building and a larger 250-seat theatre across the hall.

By comparison, the lecture theatre at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology sits 144.

All four theatres are designed to contain movie screens and

stages, and the designs show 1,200 square feet of storage space behind the stage of the largest theatre.

The plans also outline the basic layout of the building’s concession, parking spaces, multipurpose room, green room and its washrooms.

The primary structure will be concrete and steel, while the exterior of the building is pro-posed to incorporate wood slats between steal verticals.

This is modeled after the cladding of the town’s historic Coldwater Hotel.

Allen said architecture at its best is an expression of a town’s culture.

“This culture has a history in ranching, the forest industry, so that creates a certain mate-rial palate that’s appropriate to Merritt, and so we’re trying to draw on that,” Allen said.

“If we do that, then we’re

able to use local contractors, local sawmills, local concrete plants — local producers to build the building — which truly makes it a public enter-prise, and it spreads the money that’s being raised for the theatre back out into the com-munity.”

The amount of time Allen estimates it will take to construct this theatre is one year and the building will fill about two-thirds of the property.

It’s lifespan is estimated at 50 to 100 years depending on maintenance, Allen said.

The facility is designed to act as both a movie theatre and a performing arts centre. It will run as a non-profit, with funds from movie tickets help-ing to support the performing arts function of the facility, said society spokesperson Kurt Christopherson.

He told the Herald the movie

theatre operations, however, will be run like any other business, with regular employees paid to maintain and operate the facil-ity.

The three smaller theatres will show Hollywood movies, Christopherson said.

“Without first-run mov-ies, we can’t compete with Kamloops,” he said.

The design plans now in place, the next step for the soci-ety is to raise money and find in-kind support for the construc-tion of the building, which will cost an estimated $3.2 million. The cost of the architectural design plans alone is about $136,000.

Christopherson said these designs are a huge step forward as the community can now see what this theatre will look like if they can get it off the ground.

OFF TO THERACES?

Merritt stands to get a little more country as the Sagebrush Agri Park Society wants to establish a horse racing track and an equine learning centre in the Nicola Valley.

Society president Malcolm Lynn was at city council’s regular meeting Tuesday (Sept. 15) asking to use the property along Lindley Creek Road, across the street from the rodeo grounds, to build a $10 million horse racing facility.

Lynn says the society plans to fund this initiative from provincial and federal grants.

The reason he wants to build this track here is because Merritt is horse country.

“The federal government says, according to [Statistics Canada], that there’s 90,000 horses within a 100 mile radius of Merritt,” he told council.

The land Lynn intends to use for the track consists of both City of Merritt and Thompson-Nicola Regional District land as well as some private land.

Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD

A preliminary outline from the Sagebrush Agri Society of the horse racing track it wants to establish across the street from the rodeo grounds. Michael Potestio/Herald


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From the Herald archives: September, 1990

BUMPER HAY CROP AFTER

THREE YEARS OF DROUGHT

Make hay while the sun shines, the saying goes.

And this year, ranchers in the Merritt area did just that.

After several years of drought condi-tions, resulting in many area ranch-ers having to buy hay or feed, condi-tions this summer couldn’t have been better for hay pro-duction, says Nicola Stock Breeders’ Association president Mark Pooley.

And, by all accounts, it’s been a bumper crop. Which not only means a sav-ing for ranchers, but also extra money in the pockets of local merchants.

The hay crop, says Pooley, has been “fantastic,” which creates a double ben-efit for ranchers.

On the one hand they will not have to purchase hay as they have the past few years, and on the other hand cattle should be able to stay back on the range somewhat longer this year since there has been such a bountiful crop of grass, and the calves will likely come home quite a bit heavier.

During the past three summers the combination a small snow pack, combined with dry spring and summer weather, has meant hay production has been low.

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“It’s going to take a community to build this theatre, it’s not going to be a little group saying ‘Here’s a present for you.’ If we want this proj-ect, people have to get involved,” Christopherson said.

The theatre society is asking for residents and local groups to contact them with any input regarding the design for the theatre.

“There will be some time for some tweaking of it, but not unlimited time,” Christopherson said, adding the theatre society has earmarked Oct. 28 as the date for a public meeting and membership drive.

The facility would incorpo-rate various types of horse rac-ing from quarter horse to char-iot and chuck wagon racing.

He also wants to partner with a local business to estab-lish an off-track betting telethe-atre in an existing business.

The teletheatre could be relocated to the track’s grand stand if that facility comes to fruition, Lynn said.

He told council the ideal horse track would be three-

quarter mile, and the time frame the society has for con-structing this facility is two years.

“I think that if we can do this, and we can get all the money that you’re talk-ing about from the province and the feds, I’m sure that our council will be more than happy to work with you,” Merritt Mayor Neil Menard told Lynn.

Lynn also said he’s been in talks with the TNRD and NVIT regarding turning the

old Upper Nicola Band school into an equine learning centre to teach youth how to care for and train horses.

At the moment he’s hoping to speak with School District 58 about leasing the property.

This learning centre could consist of a blacksmith school, veterinary school and even an equine swimming pool, he said.

Lynn said renovating and expanding the school would cost between $500,000 and $1 million, and would be funded through government grants.

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Horse racing track and equine learning centre possible

Bob Scafe has a thing for insulators.

“People are like crows — they just have an appeal to people,” Scafe told the Herald, as he carefully handled a bright green one last weekend (Sept. 12). He was in the middle of hosting his annual — sometimes twice annual — insulator trade show on his ranch just outside of Merritt off of Coldwater Road.

“The beauty of this hobby is that there’s something in it for everyone, and everyone likes it for different reasons,” he said.

What does he mean? History, aesthetics, science, industry and the art of collecting are all potential components to an obsession with the now outdated pieces of equipment.

For those who haven’t visited Scafe at Insulator Ranch, a his-tory lesson.

Insulators were originally invented in the 1840s as a way to prevent electricity from being lost by travelling down tele-graph poles and dissipating in the ground. As the telephone became a more popular means of communication, it was adapt-ed for use on those poles as well. Some are made of glass, others glazed clay. They are all gener-ally in the shape of a bell, with some modifications. Hundreds of them are set up on Scafe’s lawn, in rows and rows of dis-play racks.

Scafe’s collection specializes in foreign insulators, and par-ticularly those made in Britain

and used around the world, exported from the U.K. to its colonies. In the golden age of railroads, Britain was number one in railroad building and operating. Telegraph lines were put in so signal operators could communicate, and with them, transformers.

Scafe pointed to a sampling of beige-coloured insulators from Uruguay. “Uruguay invited Great Britain to come and build a railway, so the British build-ers went back to England and ordered British-made insulators for use on the Uruguayan rail-way.”

He and his wife Bev have been having collectors over to

his Merritt property since 2005, and before that at their Fort Langley house. In the past, some attendees have come from as far away as France and California.

He said the numbers were low at this year’s event. “This year was our smallest show that we’ve ever had,” he said. “I think we had something like 40. Last year we had 90, including 20 first-timers to Merritt. This year it’s primarily our regulars.”

Despite the low turnout, Scafe said he wasn’t too worried. “It’s funny, I kind of anticipated this with such a large show last year. These things ebb and flow, they’ll be back next year,” he said optimistically.

Another weekend show

AT INSULATOR RANCHDavid DyckTHE MERRITT HERALD

Bob Scafe and his wife Bev have been hosting the insulator show at their home in Merritt for a decade. David Dyck/Herald


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Report from planning and

development ser-vices manager Sean

O’Flaherty on the animal control bylaw, fees and

charges bylaw, and municipal ticket

information bylaw — background

There have been 25 impounded dogs so far in 2015. Bylaw enforcement duties with respect to dogs at large have indicated that the animal control fees are not represen-tative of the costs.

Furthermore, license fees for dogs have been stagnant for 10 years and a modest increase is proposed.

The other proposed change here is to cre-ate a category for aggressive dogs.

Aggressive dogs are a reality in every com-munity. Our bylaws have not been effective in dealing with aggres-sive dogs in the past, so the intention is that we can now start to track and license these dogs appropriately.

Our dangerous dog bylaw regulation states that a dog that “seriously injures or kills” is dangerous, but a dog that injures somebody or has the propensity to be aggressive by charging, baring teeth and so forth has no appropri-ate category.

Currently, we are unable to deem a dog dangerous for charging and scaring people even though our bylaw states this; it would not hold up in

court. When it comes to court, if an owner should challenge us for designating their dog dangerous because it charged or gave super-ficial injuries we would not be able to prove the dog is dangerous. A dog charges for many reasons — chas-ing tires, chasing other dogs (excited), chasing for fear, lunging out of fear, dogs nip — these

behaviors do not make a dog dangerous. Many people perceive barking as aggres-sion or jumping when excited but that is not always the case.

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After sitting in stor-age for a year, the tur-bine known as the wind onion will get assis-tance from the city to see it displayed promi-nently in Merritt’s downtown.

City council voted to approve committing up to $5,000 to the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives to assist in placing the wind onion on a foundation at Lions Memorial Park after a delegation asked council to do so at their regular meeting on Tuesday (Sept.15).

Erecting the 20-foot-tall structure will make it Merritt’s first art sculpture, and serve as a tribute to its creator, Heinz Lange — a longtime Merritt resident who was as a high school teacher

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Delegation spokes-person, Murphy Shewchuck said the museum plans to pass on the maintenance responsibilities for the structure to the city.

The wind onion turbine was donated to the museum by Lange’s family, and sat in stor-age for the past year because the museum didn’t want to invest in the project before they had a spot designated for the wind onion. They now have that spot.

Shewchuk, said the cost estimate they have for sandblasting, paint-ing and moving the wind onion is about $2,700.

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The Nicola Valley Museum and Archives is hoping to refurbish and display Merritt artist Heinz Lange’s onion-shaped wind turbine. Submitted photo


Editor:

Over the past two decades the Liberals, then the Conservatives raided the employment insurance premium fund by — get this — over $50 billion. That’s right, billion.

Workers and employers have paid into this with the expectation that they

were buying insurance in case they became unem-ployed. But these govern-ments funneled that into general revenue. In 2014 the Harper government continued the process by bilking EI of $1.6 billion while they reduced claim payouts.

When insurance pre-miums go to general

revenue that becomes a tax. So much for the “no tax” governments. This $1.6 billion figure is basi-cally the budget surplus the Conservatives are now boasting about in this elec-tion campaign.

The only major party that constantly opposes this is the NDP. They firmly advocate that any

EI surpluses should be directed to –— guess what — reducing unemploy-ment. Why shouldn’t all EI surpluses be directed to Canadian students learn-ing useful trades and devel-oping other critical skills? I call that an investment in our future; other leading countries invest in their youth. The Conservatives

call it a bad idea for their continuous re-election plat-form. What do you think?

On October 19 vote for change. Vote to invest EI premiums where they should have been for the last two decades. Vote for the NDP.

Steve BurkeWest Kelowna

HERALD OPINION

Do balanced budgets really matter?

The federal elec-tion cam-paign has produced a jumble of conflict-ing claims about whether or not Canada has a bal-anced budget or a deficit, how it was determined, and whether it even mat-ters.

The definitive word on this came out last week, with the release of the Government of Canada Annual Financial Report, signed off by Auditor General Michael Ferguson.

“The government posted a budget-ary surplus of $1.9 billion for the fis-cal year ended March 31, 2015, com-pared to a budgetary deficit of $5.2 billion in 2013-14,” the report says.

“Revenues increased by $10.7 bil-lion, or 3.9 per cent, from 2013-14, reflecting increases across all major revenue streams. Program expenses increased by $5.2 billion, reflecting increases in major transfers to persons and other levels of government, offset in part by a decrease in direct pro-gram expenses.”

The Conservative government’s pre-election budget calculated that last year was in deficit, and this year would be the first in the black since 2008. Ottawa pundits say this “surprise surplus” was engineered with intentionally pessimistic budget estimates, so Prime Minister Stephen Harper would get a boost right about now.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau claimed last year’s surplus was partly generated by cuts to Veterans’ Affairs and Aboriginal Affairs. Wrong and wrong. Veterans’ Affairs spending was up 13 per cent, and Aboriginal Affairs spending rose nearly 30 per cent.

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Dear Prime Minister:

I am writing you and offering my sincere public and personal apology to you as a person. In a recent letter to The National Post, I made the mistake of roundly (and, I thought, soundly) criti-cizing you as a leader; and the dramatic changes in federal policy introduced by the federal Conservatives over the past ten years.

The rebuttal was swift and brutal. Despite the fact I have never belonged to a political party in my life, I have been branded as a socialist.

In today’s Google universe, I could be forced to carry the crushing burden of this distaste-ful label for the rest of my life.

Thus, I wrote to apologize to you and your family, in hopes that your supporters would bet-ter understand me, instead of resorting to profanity or accusing me of cheating on my taxes on national television.

(We don’t know each other personally and I doubt you

remember sending me a letter in 1987, during the birth period of the Reform Party. I was a cub reporter at The Russell Banner back then, a little newspaper in Russell, Manitoba. We put you guys on the front page one week and, enthralled by my new-found power as a published reporter, I even wrote a couple of vocifer-ous columns encouraging folks to explore Reform’s perspective.

You wrote me to thank me for the coverage, I think. I’m just about fifty now but my memory serves me well enough).

Anyway Mr. Prime Minister, I wanted you to know — and I especially wanted your sup-porters to know — that I mean you no personal harm. You see, I have been essentially home-less and powerless since I was thirteen years old; so no-one has ever invited me to one of your events.

I don’t blame you for my lifelong inability to raise myself out of the shackles of the pov-erty and pain I experienced as a child. That is definitely not your

fault. I was just trying to point out we used to live in a country where even powerful people actually cared about issues like homelessness and powerlessness.

If I had known that it was wrong to wish for things like achieving international peace without necessarily resorting to war, or wanting to insure that the dozens of single parent families lined up at the Food Bank in my city are treated with kindness and compassion; if I had known these desires, publicly spoken, would brand me a socialist I would have retracted my letter.

Sorry Mr. Harper. I was sim-ply expressing my opinion. Now that people who will vote for you know I don’t have enough money to matter anymore, they can for-get all about me.

Max Rundle WilkieKelowna

Max Rundle Wilkie, a homeless musician by trade, lists newspaper reporter and columnist, ski salesman and goatherd amongst his various skills.

Trudeau has also insisted Canada is in recession now, which helps his suddenly adopted position that a Liberal government would run deficits for the next three years to build infrastructure.

Harper ran the biggest deficits in Canadian his-tory after the 2009 crash, bailing out auto makers and building lots of “shovel ready” infrastructure, as did the U.S. and other countries. The question raised by Trudeau’s plan is whether it’s a good idea to keep doing that without a financial crisis.

France, for example, has run operating deficits every year since the early 1970s, although the cur-rent Socialist government vows to balance the books by 2017. France’s operating debt is now equal to 91 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product.

Canada’s net debt-to-GDP ratio is currently around 30 per cent, down from frightening levels in the 1990s before the Chrétien government finally balanced the budget.

(Fun fact: then-finance minister Paul Martin not only cut transfers to provinces, unlike the current government, he inflicted the largest-ever cuts to the CBC. Harper’s CBC cuts were part of government-wide reductions, again due to that 2009 crisis.)

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has promised to balance the budget every year of his mandate, should he form Canada’s first-ever socialist govern-ment. He will spend the rest of the campaign trying to reconcile this promise with the grandiose spend-ing plans he has piled up.

Meanwhile in B.C., Finance Minister Mike de Jong may have benefited from Harper’s lowball budget. In his first quarter update last week, de Jong reported that his February budget forecast is on track, with a $277 million surplus.

This is despite a $300 million bill for forest fire-fighting, thanks to personal and corporate income tax revenue expected to be $374 million higher than budgeted. B.C. bases its tax revenue figures on fed-eral estimates, and the ones they got early this year were clearly low.

Understated or not, this is a nice problem to have. De Jong says that at the current pace, B.C. will pay off its accumulated operating debt by 2020.

The last time the province was free of operating debt was 1982. The big debt peak came during the NDP 1990s, with another spike from 2009 to 2013 under the B.C. Liberals.

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

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Federal leaders spar on economy

The three contenders for the prime minister’s office clashed in their second debate Thursday evening in Calgary, where slumping oil pric-es and industry layoffs framed a discussion on the economy.

NDP leader Tom Mulcair accused Conservative Stephen Harper of having a “rip and ship approach” to natural resource devel-opment, adding that Harper “put all of his eggs in one basket, and then dropped the bas-ket.”

Harper said it is “simply false” that the oil industry’s woes represent the entire economy, and overall it continues to perform well and pro-duce more tax revenue despite a 40 per cent reduction in small busi-ness taxes and other tax cuts.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said his plan also includes reduction in small business taxes, and he emphasized he is the only leader willing to raise personal income taxes on the wealthiest one per cent of income earners, to finance a cut for the middle class.

Moderated by David Walmsley, editor of The Globe and Mail, the debate drew out differ-ences between the three established party leaders on several topics.

Greenhouse gases:• Mulcair favours a

cap-and-trade system, but he avoided questions about what his system would cost the economy or consumers. The NDP will “enforce overarching sustainable development legislation,” he said.

• Trudeau defended his position that each province should address emissions in its own way. He said Mulcair wants to impose a national bureaucracy, including on B.C., which Trudeau called a world leader in use of carbon tax.

• Harper said carbon taxes are about revenues

to government, not the environment. He said under his 10-year administration, Canada has seen a decline in emissions while the economy grew, adding that his government invests $1 billion a year in alternative energy.

Infrastructure:• Trudeau defended

his plan to run three deficits of up to $10 bil-lion to finance roads and other infrastructure, with interest rates at a low ebb and Canada’s debt relative to the size of the economy declining.

• Mulcair called Trudeau’s plan “reckless and uncosted,” while the NDP calls for steady investment over 20 years.

• Harper said over 10 years, his government has spent 15 times what the previous Liberal government spent on infrastructure. That includes record deficits for public works projects in the wake of the 2009 economic crisis.

Taxation:• Harper said the

other parties promise tax relief for small busi-nesses, but their plans to

increase Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance premiums amount to a payroll tax 10 times as big as their small business tax cuts.

• Mulcair said he will raise income tax from 15 to 17 per cent for large corporations, but he believes individuals are paying their fair share now. Mulcair reminded viewers that Trudeau has supported Conservative budgets, and his first vote in Parliament was to support Harper’s tax “giveaway” to big busi-ness.

• Trudeau empha-sized that his is the only plan that increases taxes for bank executives and other wealthy individu-als as well as on banks, while reducing income tax on the middle class.

Green Party MP Elizabeth May wasn’t invited to the Globe debate, but chipped in with videos on her Twitter account. In one, May noted that there was no discussion of “investor state agree-ments” such as one with China that have intruded on Canada’s sovereignty.

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It’s that time of the year again, when communities across Canada remember the efforts of the now iconic Terry Fox and his attempted run from coast to coast.

About 100 Merrittonians gathered in Voght Park last Sunday, Sept. 20, strapping on shoes to do just that.

MJ Berezan, with the Rotary Club of Merritt Sunrise, has been helping organize the run here for several years. “It started with Terry’s run 35 years ago, trying to run across Canada,” she told the Herald. “He wasn’t able to complete it, but he asked that everyone finish the dream, and for 35 years Canadians have been trying to do that.”

All the funds raised go towards the Terry Fox Foundation in Vancouver for research related to cancer.

Berezan said she had the opportunity to visit the facility several years ago. “It’s amazing what they’re doing and how much they are accomplishing with the money raised, and thank goodness Canadians haven’t forgotten and they’re continuing to fight the fight that Terry started.”

While past years have typi-cally seen about $1,500 raised, she said this year’s event brought in $1,800. She added that the money raised and the number of people who vol-unteered and participated on Sunday showed the event was growing.

Berezan encouraged busi-nesses and local organizations to get involved in future runs.

Her vision is to make the run an all-day event, with family activities. “I would like to see it to grow bigger and develop partnerships within the city,” she said.

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And they’re off! Adults, children, and even pets participated in last Sunday’s event. David Dyck/Herald

TENNIS TIME There was plenty of tennis action over the weekend in Merritt with a few tournaments hosted by the Merritt Tennis Club. On Saturday three teams faced off in a mixed doubles round robin with the top two teams playing head-to-head in a championship game. Amar Khangura and Diane Quinn won in the finals 1-6, 6-2, 6-4, over Harbans Sandhu and Neelam Sahota.On Sunday the tennis club played a men’s doubles and women’s doubles tournaments.On the men’s side there were three teams with the duo of Amar Khangura and Bhavinder Vansi coming out on top after a round robin. The two defeated Harbans Sandhu and Balwant Bains 6-4, 7-6 in the finals.On the women’s side, there were just two teams, so with one game to play Barb Scapinello and Deanna Sheloff lost to Diane Quinn and Neelam Sahota 2-6, 6-4, 2-6.The Merritt Tennis Club plays all year round until the snow falls and is always interested in adding new members and competition. Michael Potestio/Herald


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canvassed the downtown core on Aug. 19 to

clean up graffiti for the fifth annual Paint Our

City Clean campaign.

Gabrielle Smith (left) and Michelle Schultz of

Smart Step clean graffiti off of a wall outside

the Adelphi Hotel.

Merritt RCMP Const. Tracy Dunsmore told the

Herald they’ve noticed less graffiti to clean

up than last year, but the numbers aren’t

necessarily trending downwards; rather, they

fluctuate from year to year.

Dunsmore said this initiative fosters

community pride in the Smart Step

participants.

Michelle Schultz of Smart Step city squad said

participating in Paint Our City Clean shows

that youth like herself can have a positive

impact on the community.

In all, 30 locations were cleaned up during

Paint Our City Clean.

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Low attendance, volunteer turnout at festival

Sturgis Canada closed a day

early because of low attendance and

a shortage of volunteers, according

to the music festival and motorcycle

rally’s president Joan Hansen.

Approximately 1,100 tickets

were sold in advance of the festival,

which ran Aug. 21 to 23 at the old

Mountainfest site. Hansen said there

were some tickets sold at the gate,

but the final ticket count was not

known as of press time.

She said she estimates there were

about 2,000 people at the festival

site on Saturday night, when head-

liner Burton Cummings played.

In terms of volunteers, Hansen

said they had about 100 confirmed,

but only about 45 actually showed

up.As for those who bought tickets

for Sunday’s shows, Hansen said

they are working on a plan, and are

leaning toward offering some sort of

credit as opposed to a full refund.

“We’re not going to make any

promises at this point, but we’re

working on a plan,” Hansen said.

Hansen said weather may have

been an influencing factor in the

low turnout as the area did see some

rain.“We didn’t have a whole lot of

people show up from Merritt on the

Thursday — the free day — but it

could possibly be weather-related as

well, which I’m thinking it is,” Han-

sen said.She didn’t say whether or not

the festival will return to Merritt

next year, as organizers will need

to evaluate if the Merritt-area site

is a viable location based on the

numbers.Hansen said she’d like to hear

from the people and business own-

ers in Merritt to see if Sturgis Cana-

da has their support.

“I don’t want to come back if

there’s no support,” Hansen said.

“We’ve already heard a lot of

people want us back, but we’d like

to know from the business perspec-

tive whether it was even profitable

for the town.”By Michael Potestio

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food products from the weekly Nico-

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provincial government, thanks to an

expansion in the provincial program

that includes the local market for

the first time this year.

The Nicola Valley and District

Food Bank is administering the

coupon program with help from the

Conayt Friendship Society, which

runs Merritt Moms and Families

programming.

Together, the organizations

hand-picked families with young

children and five seniors to receive

16 weeks of coupons.

The coupons can be used like

cash at participating farm markets

to buy locally grown fruit, veg-

etables, meat, eggs, dairy products,

nuts and herbs.

The catch is that participants in

the program also take a monthly

nutrition and food preparation

course, which is being offered

locally by food bank board members

Dorothy Molnar and Helen Croft.

Food bank manager Marlene

Fenton said they’re also teaming up

with the chamber of commerce’s

Legacy Merritt program on home

canning on the afternoons of Aug.

21 and 22, starting at 1 p.m. at the

Civic Centre.

That program is free to partici-

pate in, and connecting with other

organizations helps maximize the

food skills resources offered in Mer-

ritt, Fenton said.

“It has three different groups in

the community working together.

I think it just builds good relation-

ships,” she said.

Fenton described the coupon

program as a win-win because it

supports local people’s basic needs

as well as the area’s farmers and

food producers.

She said the educational compo-

nent of the program is as important

as the nutrition it ends up providing.

“We’re looking at teaching peo-

ple what locally produced vegetables

there are and what sort of things

you can do with those,” she said.

“When you go to the farmers mar-

ket, you’ll see there’ll be currants

available or kohlrabi, or something

like that, and people might not have

tried that — especially if money’s

sort of tight, then you don’t buy

something you’re not sure you’re

going to like. If you’re given these

coupons, it makes you a little more

brave or adventurous because it

doesn’t come out of what your ini-

tial food budget was going to be.”

She said some of the kids

involved in the coupon program

have come back and reported on

what they tried and liked.

The coupons represent an injec-

tion of $6,000 into the local farmers

market, Fenton said.

The increase is part of a

$750,000 expansion to the prov-

ince’s farm market coupon pro-

gram, which includes markets in

Clearwater, Salmon Arm and Lyt-

ton for the first time this year as

well.

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Merritt Herald, September 22, 2015

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