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Merritt teachers came out in large numbers Friday afternoon to let the public know they’re still deter-mined to fight for what they believe in as their labour dispute with the province lingers.

Collettville Elemen-tary School teacher Nicole Mackay-Smith said the demonstration is a posi-tive and concise way to get their message across to the public.

In a co-ordinated dance, teachers from around Mer-ritt swayed back and forth with protest signs to the song Brave by Sara Bareilles, in front of a small group of children and adults.

Nicola Valley Teach-ers’ Union president Peter Vogt told the Herald they wanted to put the issues of the labour dispute into a simplified context. He said teacher picket lines went up the week before the 2014-15 school year was set to begin.

Vogt said the union has been flexible when it comes to benefits for teachers and that while the teachers want a wage increase on top of benefits, the government wants the pay raise to be inclusive of benefits.

On Wednesday, striking teachers will vote on wheth-er to take the union’s pro-posal to binding arbitration, BC Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker said Monday.

Accepting binding arbi-tration would see an arbitra-tor settle issues surrounding wages, signing bonuses, preparation time and ben-efits.

The union would send its wage and benefit demands as well as its proposal for class size and special needs support to an independent arbitrator, Iker said.

“We think it would be really tough for government to come back and decline that offer, because they’ve been trying to say all along that somehow this is our fault we’re out here,” Vogt said.

“If they’re not going to go to binding arbitration, what is their plan for set-tling this?”

Binding arbitration was already rejected once by the province over the weekend.

Lead negotiator for the B.C. Public School Employ-ers Association Peter Cam-eron said the government wouldn’t move towards the union’s wage and benefit demands. He also said the BCTF’s proposal had too many stipulations.

School District 58 chair-man Gordon Comeau told the Herald regardless of what is eventually agreed upon, the concern for the school district is that the government fund the deal rather than having that burden fall on the district’s shoulders.

“We want to see the kids in school, we want to

see the teachers get a fair settlement [and] at the same time, we want to make sure the government funds what-ever agreement is made,” Comeau said.

Comeau also disap-proved of the $40 per day allowance the government is giving parents with chil-dren under the age of 13 affected by the strike, saying that money should be real-located back to the district. That money comes from the savings the province is mak-ing from not having to pay teachers during their strike.

— With files from Black Press’ Tom Fletcher

Nicola-Canford delayed

Construction on the new Nicola-Canford Elementary School is about 95 per cent complete, but its grand opening has been delayed due to teacher picket lines, School District 58 treasurer Kevin Black told the Herald.

He said the classrooms are ready, but there are still some “odds and ends” that still need to be worked on.

Unionized workers have been asked not to cross the teacher picket line at the site of the new building.

SD58 chairman Gordon Comeau said non-unionized workers are still working

on the building, but teach-ers and unionized CUPE workers have some items left to move over to the new school.

When the strike ends, students could move over to their new school within a day or two, Comeau said.

Province eyes longer school year

Meanwhile, Education Minister Peter Fassbender says the province may take extraordinary steps to ensure senior secondary stu-dents’ school year is not cut short by the teachers strike.

That could mean adding days to the school calendar later in the year, he said, to ensure Grade 12 students in particular complete their courses and get all the marks they need.

“Do you put it on the end of the year? Do you take it out of spring break? Do you take it out of Christmas holidays? My staff are looking at all of the options,” Fassbender said.

“It’s going to depend on how long this drags out. Whatever length of time it takes to get this settled, we will do everything we can to make sure the school year is kept whole for those stu-dents.”

It’s unclear how the government would finance adding extra days of classes later when all of the $12 million per day in strike savings may be consumed by the province’s offer of $40-a-day payments to par-ents.

Teachers hold fl ash mob as labour dispute goes onBy Michael Potestio

THE HERALDreporter@merrittherald.com

A flash mob of teachers from School District 58 gathered at Spirit Square on Friday morning in front of a group of spectators, which included school-age children. The teachers held the demonstration to remind people why they are on strike as the labour dispute between their union and the B.C. government enters what would normally be the second week of the school year. Michael Potestio/Herald

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Merritt transmission line delayed 11 months

The completion of BC Hydro’s Merritt Area Transmission (MAT) project has been delayed a year because of two faulty transformers.

The entire initiative was expected to be completed this com-ing November, but will now take until Octo-ber 2015 to finish.

Andrew Leonard, BC Hydro project manager for the MAT line, told council at its regular meeting on Aug. 26 that two trans-formers, which had come from a supplier in China, were found to be damaged and defective upon inspec-tion.

Leonard said the transformers had been contaminated, which can lead to sparking within the device, causing explosions in the worst case sce-nario.

“The transformers are the heart of the substation,” Leonard said.

Leonard said BC Hydro could not take

the risk of repairing the transformers and putting them into ser-vice.

“The risk being if one or both of those transformers had failed, basically the city would be out of power for at least three days — likely longer,” he said.

He said the size of one transformer is roughly equivalent to the size of a garage and they cost $1 mil-lion apiece.

Leonard also said BC Hydro had inspec-tors at the factory in China examine these two transformers.

“This damage and contamination just was not caught because you can’t be there at all times,” Leonard said.

In the meantime, BC Hydro will con-tinue to operate the current 69 kilovolt substation and trans-mission line, which the company says can continue to satisfy Merritt’s energy needs in the interim.

There are three transformers in use at the current Mer-

ritt substation, rang-ing from 14 to 17 mega volt amperes. Additionally, the sta-tion houses a back-up transformer ready to use in the event one of the transformers fail, Leonard told the Herald.

A second backup transformer will be available in Vernon if need be.

BC Hydro reviewed the current peak loads that have been expe-rienced the past few years in Merritt, and the health of the cur-rent station, Leonard said via email. He said they determined the existing station with the mobile transform-er on site are enough to keep the station in service one more year.

Two new trans-formers have already been ordered from another manufacturer, with which BC Hydro has a good relation-ship, Leonard said.

This new sup-plier is Hyundai and is expected to have the new transformers ready by July 2015.

Leonard said BC Hydro expects to

remain within their original budget despite the delay.

The MAT project consists of a new 35 kilometre-long 138 kilovolt transmission line, and a new substa-tion that includes two 75 mega volt amperes transformers and an indoor 25 kilovolt gas insulated switchgear building, located at the end of Spring Bank Avenue next to the current substation.

Most of the project is still expected to be near completion by November. Leonard said the two substa-tions will be about 85

per cent complete by that time and 75 per cent of the transmis-sion line will be fin-ished.

Construction on the new Merritt substa-tion began last May. The modifications to the Highland substa-tion near Mamit Lake began this past June.

The transmission line is being erected primarily on a cleared corridor and will come south from the Highland substation entering Merritt from the east along the Coquihalla Highway.

The delay in the project isn’t expected

to have an impact on the Merritt Green Energy biomass plant.

The MAT project is

replacing the current radial line and Merritt substation that serve the city.

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Faulty transformers bump completion date to Oct. 2015

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U.S. day of terror

impacts Canada

Borders closed and airports were shut down in Canada as well as the United States just hours after the worst terrorist attack in history.

The World Trade Centre in New York, the Penta-gon and the State Department in Washington, D.C., and several pas-senger aircraft were destroyed early yesterday morn-ing in what has been termed a co-ordinated terrorist attack.

Prime Minister Jean Chretien called the attacks coward-ly and depraved.

As of yesterday afternoon, the num-ber of people dead or wounded at the different locations after the attack was not known.

What is known is that the twin towers of the World Trade Centre hold approx-imately 50,000 workers and can hold up to 70,000 with tourists.

Film society back for a new season

The Nicola Valley Film Society is kicking off its 2014-15 season with a show-ing of British-Australian war film The Railway Man.

Based on the autobiog-raphy of the same name by Eric Lomax, the film tells the story of Lomax’s struggle to dispel his demons after he was tortured while a prisoner during the Second World War forced to work on the Thai-Burma Rail-way — known as the Death Railway.

Lomax’s new wife Patti encourages him to find and face his torturer.

The film was released in May 2013 and features a star-studded cast: Colin Firth plays Lomax and Patti is played by Nicole Kidman.

The Railway Man plays at NVIT on Sept. 15 begin-ning at 7 p.m. — a half-hour earlier than previous seasons’ start times.

The change in start time

is to prevent the showings from running too late, espe-cially for those who have to drive as far as Logan Lake to get home.

The season of six films will continue Oct. 20 with a screening of The Grand Seduction, a 2013 Canadian comedy about the residents of harbour town Tickle Cove, Nfld. in their quest to attract a doctor to the village — their last hope at winning a factory contract that will save the town.

November’s film will be The Lunchbox, a 2013 roman-tic drama from India follows the changing relationship between a widower and a lonely housewife through the notes they exchange via a mistakenly-delivered lunchbox.

Next on the bill is Janu-ary’s showing of Tracks, an Australian adventure film following a young woman’s 1,700-mile journey across the West Australian desert.

Like Father, Like Son follows a Japanese businessman’s

personal struggle after his life-altering discovery that the boy he raised as his son was actually switched at birth.

The season wraps up with Calvary, a dark Irish drama following a Catho-lic priest’s interaction with townsfolk after he receives

a threat in confessional one Sunday.

Tickets for each of the 7 p.m. showings are $5 at the door.

By Emily WesselTHE HERALD

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Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman star in The Railway Man, which is the first film in the Nicola Valley Film Society’s 2014-15 season.

HIGH-FLYING STYLE This homemade plane was one of about nine that were on display at the Merritt Flying Club’s final fly-in breakfast of the year Aug. 31. Flying Club president Tom Fox said he saw more locals than usual at the event. The Vintage Car Club had some of their vehicles on display as well. Michael Potestio/Herald

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Roads & Utilities Working ForemanApplications are invited for the position of Roads and Utilities Working Foreman for the Public Works Department in the City of Merritt.

For complete details, visit City of Merritt website at www.merritt.ca

Detailed resumes attached with a cover letter will be accepted until 4:00 p.m., Friday, September 26, 2014 and should be addressed to:

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We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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SPRAY PARK RESURFACINGThe City of Merritt’s Spray Park located at Rotary park, will be unavailable from Sept. 15 - 17 in order to complete the spray pad resurfacing project.

The resurfacing project will entail base preparation and applying a rubber product over the entire surface. The rubber product is made from 100% recycled BC tire rubber. This will result in a much more resilient, softer and slip-proof surface. This is a 2014 Capital Budget Project.

Only the spray park will be inaccessible during this time. The rest of Rotary Park will still be available for the enjoyment of the local community and visitors alike.

Please note that the resurfacing project dates may be subject to change as the project is weather dependent.

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Merritt recognized for green effortsThe following is

an excerpt from the City of Merritt regu-lar council meeting agenda from Sept. 9, 2014.

Dear Mayor Roline and councillors:

On behalf of the joint provincial Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Green Communities Committee (GCC), we would like to extend our congratulations on your successful efforts to measure and reduce your corporate greenhouse gas emissions for the 2013 reporting year.

As a signatory to the Climate Action Charter (Charter), you have dem-onstrated your commit-ment to work with the province and UBCM to take action on climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in your community and corporate operations.

Climate change is a global challenge. The

work that your local gov-ernment has undertaken to measure and reduce its corporate emissions demonstrates strong climate leadership and sets the stage for broader climate action in your community. This leader-ship and commitment is essential to ensuring the achievement of our collective climate action goals.

As you are likely aware, the GCC was established under the Charter to support local governments in achiev-ing their climate goals. In acknowledgement of the efforts of local leaders, the GCC is again recog-nizing the progress and achievements of local governments such as yours through the multi-level Climate Action Recognition Program. A description of this pro-gram is attached to this letter for your reference.

As a Charter signa-tory who has completed a corporate carbon

inventory of the 2013 reporting year and has demonstrated familiar-ity with the Community Energy and Emissions Inventory, you have been awarded Level 2 recogni-tion: Measurement.

In recognition of your achievements, the GCC is very pleased to provide you with green com-munities branding for use on official websites and letterheads. An elec-tronic file with the 2013 logo will be provided to your chief administra-tive officer. Also included with this letter is a 2013 Green Communities window decal for use on public buildings.

Congratulations again on establishing your cor-porate emissions inven-tory and your overall progress. We wish you continued success in your ongoing commitment to the goal of corporate carbon neutrality and your efforts to reduce emissions in the broader community.

ProclamationWhereas: approximately 11 people will

end their lives by suicide today in Canada. Awareness is essential to changing this behaviour. Understand why people con-sider suicide and attempt to take their own lives.

Whereas: suicide is preventable. Many factors and circumstances can contribute to someone’s decision to end his or her life. Find out how to recognize the warning signs and learn the importance of talking about suicide.

Whereas: are you having thoughts of suicide Do you know someone who has experienced suicidal thinking? Help save lives.

Whereas: if someone you know has died by suicide, you are not alone. The fact that someone died by suicide does not diminish our right and need to celebrate their lives and accomplishments. We’re here to sup-port bereaved survivors in the process of healing.

Whereas: the number of lives lost each year through suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined.

Whereas: World Suicide Prevention Day is an ideal time to inspire people to work towards the goal of developing creative new methods for eradicating stigma.

Now therefore: I, Susan Roline, Mayor of the City of Merritt, do hereby declare September 10, 2014 as World Suicide Pre-vention Day, and in issuing this proclama-tion, ask our citizens to recognize this day.

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Catching up with the Boom BoomsIt’s been a busy sum-

mer for reggae-inspired soul six-piece the Boom Booms — something the Vancouver band is ready to share with Merritt fans on Thursday.

Concertgoers at the Culture Club will be treated to some new tracks off Love is Overdue — the followup to 2011’s ¡Hot Rum! — which will be released in early October, and some even newer material the band has been working on since.

“The record is more R&B, somewhere between like ’90s hip-hop, R&B and throw-back soul, along the lines of Bill Withers and Al Green,” lead singer Aaron Ross said.

The Boom Booms have been on a steady rise since winning sec-ond place in Vancouver’s PEAK Performance Project in 2011.

Winning that $75,000 prize gave the six-piece some room to breathe — something afforded while their debut album gained momentum.

“It’s still new to lots of people in different places,” Ross said of their first record with a laugh.

“The fact that it’s served us so well and had a good lifespan has been a blessing and kind of a surprise,” he said. “We feel like we’ve grown so much as a band and we’re happy to be presenting new music.”

They’ve recorded two music videos to go with the new record — one for the title track and one for the new single Satisfied — which will

be released in the next month.

Along with the major milestone of recording their sophomore record, the group put together a mini music festival called the East Van Summer Jam in July.

The Summer Jam is a reincarnation of the Boom Boom Block Party, which took place in the alley between two of the bandmates’ houses for six years.

In 2012, the block party brought out more than a thousand people and raised $14,000 for the Music Tree, a charitable foundation Ross started with Team Canada basketball player Levon Kendall.

The society has provided more than $20,000 to organizations locally and internation-ally, including East Vancouver agriculture programs for youth and hip-hop programs for youth in Uganda.

Being its first year, the Summer Jam didn’t raise any money for the charity, but did lay a solid foundation for next

year’s event, Ross said. Changing over from

a block party to a festival

within the city’s limits meant more behind-the-scenes work than getting

friends in other bands together for the lineup, assembling a stage and

buying some chicken and rice, Ross said.

“It was a full-time job for a few months,” he said.

But even as momen-tum around the Boom Booms continues to grow, the band hasn’t lost sight of its roots.

“This was mostly about building the idea, and everybody is very keen to see a festival in East Vancouver thrive, and especially to be done by East Van kids — we accomplished what we set out to do,” he said.

They also played at Pemberton Music Fes-tival in July, which fea-tured headliners such as Nine Inch Nails, Snoop Dogg and Metric.

“That was cool. To

eat fried chicken with Andre 3000 and stuff like that was cool,” Ross said of one half of hip-hop duo Outkast.

After their Thursday night show in Merritt, the Boom Booms will continue on to Edmon-ton and Calgary before returning to play more shows around B.C., then heading south to Florida to play Woodystock — a benefit concert to raise money for people with spinal cord injuries.

Doors to the Culture Club on Granite Avenue open at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11.

The show is present-ed by friends of SaySo, and tickets are $20 and available at Black’s Phar-macy.

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On Saturday, Sept. 13, people in the Nicola Valley can have their teeth cleaned for free during Dentistry at Merritt’s first free dental day.

The free services are available to those who oth-erwise couldn’t afford them.

The services include X-rays, crowns, fillings and even wisdom teeth removal.

The clinic is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, call 378-4888.

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In life, there are some topics of conversation that divide people into factions like no others: war, reli-gion and politics are three that spring to mind.

But after a few recent incidents that have been widely reported in the

media, we can now add reclining your seat on an airplane to that list.

Evidently, people will go to great lengths to defend their position on seat reclining and even greater lengths to convince others to join their side in the fight.

On the one hand, you have the pro-recliners, or at least those who are pro-reclining choice.

Those seats are built to recline, so it’s the pas-senger’s prerogative to use that ability or not, the argument goes.

On the other hand, you have the anti-recliners, the ones whose growing anxi-

ety at having a seat back inch closer to their knees makes the blood rise to just below the surface of the skin on their faces and the steam begin to whistle from their ears.

This second person is perhaps liable to invest in the Knee Defender, a $20 gadget designed to slide down the arms of your lowered tray table and jam the seat in front of you, preventing it from reclin-ing.

The product has been on the market since 2003, but recently shot to infamy after an American busi-nessman used them on a United Airlines flight on

Aug. 24. When the woman in

front of him could not recline her seat, the two had a nasty spat that included her allegedly throwing a drink in his face and the pilots actually diverting the plane from its original destination of Denver to Chicago.

While it’s a sneaky design, the device gives rise to what is perhaps the great debate of our time: who does that space between the knees of one person and the seat back of the next belong to?

There is merit in both arguments.

Sometimes on a long

flight, you just want to make yourself an iota more comfortable.

Sometimes you’re in front of a tall person and you don’t want to bang your seat into their knees.

Sometimes you’re the one who’s leaned on and you’re the middle domino in a line of reclining pas-sengers.

If I’m not leaned on, then at worst I’m a half-way leaner.

If the seat behind is vacant, why not? I say go crazy and recline that puppy all the way if that’s what suits your mood.

Next step should be binding arbitration

If super-mediator Vince Ready cannot get the two sides in the edu-cation labour dispute close enough to even mediate, what next?

If both sides remain convinced they have bent as far as they will go and cannot offer any more conces-sions, what next?

If the BC Teachers’ Federa-tion truly believes its position is just and that the majority of the public stands with it, and if the provincial government believes likewise, what next?

How about binding arbitration?How about both sides drop their

pages and pages of proposals on a table and agree to allow a mutu-ally agreed upon arbitrator to wade through the requests and demands and emerge with a final decision that will end this standstill and allow kids to get back to school?

If either side will not agree to binding arbitration, then there is wavering in a belief it has support and that its stance is justified.

As the latest talks collapsed, the BCTF called on Premier Christy Clark to get involved in the impasse.

The request was odd in that it was Clark, as education minister in 2002, who stripped classroom size and composition from the union’s bargaining rights.

It appears as though the pro-vincial government is not willing to agree to the BCTF’s proposals and it appears as though the teachers’ union has decided to not cave.

Of course, students are the losers in this battle, which is why both sides should agree to binding arbitration and let the chips fall where they may.

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Have you been involved in an accident on a B.C. highway?

Do you think Merritt is a green

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Above all, if the person behind you requires aver-age or more than average leg room, it’s simple courtesy to be mindful of the people around you. You are, after all, stuck with them for perhaps hours inside a metal tube sus-pended 30,000 feet in the air. It’s probably best not to make trouble in such a delicate situ-ation.

The passive-aggressive route of the Knee Defender and the aggressive-aggressive route of throwing a drink in someone’s face did not pan out well in this scenario.

People will do all kinds of things that you’ll find irksome throughout your lifetime, but many of those things are a matter of how big of a deal you make them.

As much as you should choose your battles, you

should probably also choose what you let really tick you off.

In a year, you probably won’t remember that time you flew for three hours while the person in front of you reclined as luxuriously as economy air travel will allow.

But you might remember for a long, long time if you block them and get a drink in the face.

And if reclining fliers is one thing you just can’t get over, try just using your words.

I say it’s best to not let your blood pressure rise or, heaven forbid, boil over into an erup-tion of rage at something that is really only an inconvenience for a few hours of your life.

Even if we can never all agree on reclining etiquette, perhaps we can all agree that there is simply not enough legroom to go around in econ-omy cabins.

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Five taken to hospital in Voght Street crashA two-vehicle

accident along Voght Street Sunday night sent five people to hospital.

Both drivers and three passengers in total sustained minor injuries in the crash involving a white 2002 Ford pickup truck and a 2012 Ford Escape.

It is believed there were no major inju-ries, Merritt RCMP Const. Tracy Dun-smore said.

The pickup was carrying one passen-ger and the Escape was carrying two.

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She also said alco-hol isn’t believed to be a factor, but speed has not yet been ruled out.

Dunsmore said she believes the pickup was travelling down-hill, toward Merritt.

The pickup truck is being inspected for any mechanical mal-function as well.

“There was some indication from the driver that the brakes had failed,” Dunsmore said.

The crash occurred at about 7:30 p.m., with one lane of traf-fic open. The street was cleared complete-ly by about 9 p.m.

The file is still under investigation.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS

Volunteers with the BC Thanksgiving Food Drive will be going door to door in Merritt on Sept. 15, but instead of collecting dona-tions as they go, they’ll be leaving something behind.

Each volunteer will pound the pavement in a particular area of town to leave dona-tion bags at houses at the beginning of next week.

Residents who receive the bag can fill it with non-perishable food items for the Nico-la Valley and District Food Bank and leave it on their doorsteps on Saturday, Sept. 20 when the volunteers will come back around and pick up the dona-tions.

Local co-ordinator Ruth Yates said about 20 volunteers are need-ed to cover Merritt.

“We assign the vol-unteers an area of town that they would like to canvass, and then they pick them up on Satur-day morning,” she said.

Sorting the dona-tions takes place at the Mormon church on Spring Bank Avenue on Saturday.

The food drive is non-denominational and anyone from the community is welcome to volunteer, Yates said.

“It’s helping a good cause and for the com-munity, and that’s all there is to it,” she said.

Yates said all dona-tions are appreciated, but there is no pressure.

She added that while the campaign goes to people’s doorsteps, it is not intrusive. Volun-teers do not knock on doors or collect cash donations.

The food drive is primarily for non-perishable food items, but other items such as baby food, diapers, soap and laundry deter-gent can be distributed by the Nicola Valley and District Food Bank as well, Yates said.

Since it began in Burnaby in 2009, the campaign has spread to over 50 communities

throughout the prov-ince, serving thousands of British Columbians.

Over 6,000 volun-

teers participated last year to collect over 400,000 pounds of food valued at approximately

a million dollars. The goal in the

2014 food drive is to collect 500,000 pounds

of food. “It is tremendous

how it has grown over the last four years. Peo-

ple have got the mes-sage and it seems to be helping,” Yates said.

Anyone interested

in volunteering can contact Yates for more information at 378-8130.

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By Ian WebsterTHE HERALD

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All sports coaches in the Nicola Valley — both current and pro-spective — should mark the weekend of Sept. 20 to 21 on their calendars.

That’s when the Merritt branch of PacificSport Interior will be hosting a free series of NCCP (National Coaching Certification Program) seminars as part of BC Coaches Week, which runs from Sept. 20 to 27 through-out the province.

All three clinics (see

below) will take place at the former Coquihalla Middle School gymna-sium, located at 2975 Clapperton Ave. in Merritt.

Pre-registration for any of the courses is required in order that enough manuals can be ordered.

Interested individuals or groups can register or find out more infor-mation by contact-ing local PacificSport Interior development coordinator Josée Warren at 250-315-1075 or jwarren@pacif-icsport.com.

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Merritt Centennials head coach Luke Pierce has been selected to serve as an assistant coach for Team Canada West at the 2014 World Junior A Challenge, slated for December 14 to 20 in Kindersley, Sask.

Last year, Pierce was the head coach of Team Canada West at the CJHL’s Top Prospects Game, which was held in conjunction with the 2013 WJAC in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

“I’m honoured to be given the opportunity to join the Canada West staff, and to work with such an elite group of players and coaches,” Pierce said in a press release issued August 25. “I look forward to help-ing prepare for the camp and tournament, and am excited that we have

the opportunity to play on our home turf. My experiences with Hockey Canada have always been first class, and I expect that this will be no different.”

Pierce joins a Team Canada West coaching staff headed up by Trent Cassan, bench boss of the 2013 RBC-champion Yorkton Terriers of the SJHL. Cassan was an assistant coach with Team Canada West at the 2013 WJAC.

In addition to Pierce, Hockey Canada also selected Tim Fragle from the Sherwood Park Eagles of the Alberta

Junior Hockey League and Jason Williamson from the Vernon Vipers as assistant coaches under Cassan.

“One thing that you learn about Hockey Canada is that they like to develop and go through a process — from being a guest coach at first to helping with the selection process to being an assistant coach and hopefully one day to being a head coach,” Pierce said. “It’s an hon-our to know that they want to keep having you back.”

Pierce is excited about this year’s Canada West

coaching personnel.“We’re a young

group,” Pierce said. “Trent and I have devel-oped a good relation-ship over the last few years. We started with our teams at the same time and have shared

a lot of things. As for Tim, he actually played for Merritt very briefly at the same time as my brother Ben. Jason, of course, I know well from Vernon.”

Canada West has appeared in six of the

eight gold-medal games at the World Junior A Challenge since the tournament’s inception in 2006. The team won gold the very first year (Yorkton/Humboldt, Sask.), in 2007 (Trail/Nelson) and in 2012 (Langley).

Coincidentally, all three Canada West gold-medal teams included a former Merritt Centennial on their ros-ters. In 2006-2007, it was Casey Pierro-Zabotel, and in 2012, it was Reece Willcox.

On Sept. 3, Hockey Canada announced that the six teams compet-ing in this year’s World Junior A Challenge would be:

Group A - Canada East, United States, Switzerland

Group B - Canada West, Russia, Denmark.

Round robin games at the 2014 WJAC will

take place from Dec. 14 to 16, with the winner of each group earning a bye to the semi-finals on Dec. 18. The losers of each semi-final will play for the bronze medal on Dec. 19. The gold-medal game will go on Saturday, Dec. 20.

“It’s exciting to watch the growth of Junior A hockey across Canada,” president and CEO of Hockey Canada Tom Renney said. “The World Junior A Challenge has undoubt-edly played a lead role in that growth. Canada’s 10 CJHL leagues continue to produce world-class talent.”

Since the first WJAC in 2006, over 200 NHL draft picks have played in the tournament, including 21 first-round selections such as Beau Bennett, Joe Colbourne, Nikita Filatov, Kyle Turris and John Moore.

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THE PRICE IS RIGHT Local Merritt minor hockey goalie Manjot Panghli met his hero, Montreal Canadiens’ star netminder Carey Price, while attending a hockey camp in Penticton in August. Photo submitted

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NCCP Competition Introduction ModulesSaturday, Sept. 20, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Planning a Practice (6 hrs. classroom, 1 hr. lunch) Learn how to organize a well-structured practice plan with safe, age-appropriate activities designed to match the proficiency level of the participants; identify potential risk factors; create an emergency action plan; identify practice goals and design activities that offer the best training benefits for the athletic skills required in the sport.

Sunday, Sept. 21, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Making Ethical Decisions (3.5 hrs. classroom)Learn how to analyze a challenging situation and determine if it has moral, legal or ethical implications, and how to apply the NCCP Ethical Decision-Making Model to properly respond to each situation in a way that is consistent with the NCCP Code of Ethics.

Sunday, Sept. 21, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., Nutrition (1.5 hrs. classroom)Learn how to determine if foods and beverages consumed by athletes before, during and after training are adequate; offer suggestions for more suitable food and beverage alternatives; gain a better under-standing of the best ways to promote healthy food and beverage choices to athletes and parents that are consistent with basic sport nutrition principles.

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FINANCE COORDINATORThe Coldwater Indian Band has an up and coming exciting and challenging opportunity for a full time Finance Coordinator position. This individual reports to the Coldwater Indian Band Administrator. The Finance Coordinator is responsible for assisting in the overall management and reporting of the nancial affairs of the Coldwater Indian Band, managing the day-to-day accounting affairs, and assisting in the development and administration of accounting policies and procedures.

Speci c Duties and ResponsibilitiesHuman Resource Management – Supervises and • evaluates the performance of all employees in the Finance Department, etc.Financial Management – Administers the nancial • affairs of the band in accordance with the band nance policy, etc.

Financial Accounting System – Manages day • to day accounting affairs of the band (payroll/AR/AP/GA/SPA/statutory and regulatory disbursements and reconciliations, etc.Audit – Coordinates the preparation for year – • end audit, etc.Reporting – Completes data reports and analysis • for the band, etc.General Administration – provides backup • for PR and band programs in posting and disbursements, as required, etc.

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Apt/Condos for SaleBEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED ON LAKE OKANAGAN Turn-key, luxu-rious, immaculate, 1000 sq. ft. con-do in West Kelowna. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms with fabulous amenities: private beach, marina, pools and so much more! $325,000. Call 250-826-4267

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China Cabinet, hutch,Table &4 chairs in Dusty Rose/Maple $300. Queen Bed complete w frame.$50.00. (250)378-4227

Houses For Sale4 Bdrm, 2.5 Bath’s $260,000 includes GST or OBO (604)576-0338

House For Sale7bdrm, 4 washrooms, 2 car garage, 2 bedroom legal suite. Ast. value $360,000 selling for $280,000(604)576-0338

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