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Kinder Morgan crews excavate the soil contaminated by a crude oil spill from its TransMountain pipeline on Thursday about 40 kilometres southwest of Merritt near Kingsvale. A spokesperson from Kinder Morgan estimates that the leak, which sprung from a defective section of pipeline, wasn’t sudden, and could’ve been slowly seeping oil for weeks. The National Energy Board confirmed about five barrels of crude oil had spilled. Michael Potestio/Herald

TransMountain pipeline springs leak near Merritt

By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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The TransMountain pipeline may have been slowly leaking for an extended period of time before Kinder Morgan Canada crews found crude oil on the ground.

Hugh Harden, Kinder Morgan Canada’s vice-president of operations, said it’s difficult to say how long

oil had been escaping.

“I would say it was a matter of days or weeks rather than months or years,” Harden said. “It was a very, very, very slow leak. It’s almost classified as a weep.”

He said Thursday crews were expected to install a permanent repair sleeve, allowing the line to reopen by Friday evening.

Harden said the leak was found because

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Kinder Morgan crews arrived to check that section of the pipeline after an in-pipe inspection device flagged it as having a potential defect.

They noticed an oily patch the size of a wagon wheel on Wednesday in the Kingsvale area, about 40 kilometres southwest of Merritt, and called the control centre, which shut down the

pipeline.

The company originally estimated the spill at 12 barrels — or 2,000 litres — of crude oil, but after a couple of days of examination, dropped that number to about half at between five and six barrels.

On Friday, the National Energy Board confirmed the leak to be less than six barrels, according to com-

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was no damage done to any watercourses or threats to the public, noting the spill was located in a remote area.

The size of the spill they identified on the surface was two metres wide by two metres long, Galarnyk said.

He also said residents within a kilometre of the spill were notified the same day the spill was discov-

ered, as were local police and fire authorities.

The pipeline was still shut down as of Friday, but Galarnyk said Kinder Morgan was hopeful it would get the pipeline turned on again that same day.

He said Kinder Morgan also notified its shippers of the short-term shutdown.

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Kinder Morgan media relations spokesperson Andrew Galarnyk told the Herald that the leak was fully contained on Thursday and that repairs on the pipeline were nearing completion by Friday as crews worked through the night to fix the problem.

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MOTOCROSS MANIA (From left) Professional motocross racers Camille Baker and Rachel Springman answer questions from students at Merritt Central Elementary School at an assembly on June 7. The women were two of five racers, including Springman’s brother Kyle (right), who spoke at the school-wide assembly on teacher Sheldon Stuttard’s invite.

to wear the safety gear and you have to be careful,” he said.

“I’ve been riding and racing motorcycles since I was in Grade 7 myself,” Stuttard said. “It’s been a lifelong passion of mine, and I just wanted to share it with the kids at my school.”

Stuttard said fun and safety were the main focus of the talk.

Stuttard said he wanted to present this assembly after the success of a similar assembly to students at the Coquihalla Middle School when he was a teacher there two years ago.

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LNIB, Kinder Morgan to meet over leak

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Five-barrel spill happened on Lower Nicola band’s traditional land From Page 1 “We’re hoping to get it back up and running as soon as possible. For a short-term shutdown there’s no impact on the market or on consumers, but at the same time, we need to work with the National Energy Board before we can put the line back into service,” Galarnyk said.

Galarnyk said the company still has to confirm the exact cause of the leak.

“That’s something that’s still under investigation and we won’t know for certain for some time yet,” Galarnyk said.

Although he did not know how old this specific section of the TransMountain pipe is (as various repairs and maintenance have been done on the pipeline over the years), Galarnyk did say the pipeline in general has been in operation since 1953.

Galarnyk said Kinder Morgan had maintenance crews working in the area several days prior to the leak discovery.

On Wednesday, a crew member noticed what looked like a patch of crude oil on the right-of-way. Upon further investigation, the substance was confirmed to be crude oil and as a precaution the pipeline was shut down, Galarnyk said.

“We identified this release, we determined that it was minor in nature and we responded immediately by shutting the line down and initiating repairs,” Galarnyk said.

He said unfortu-

nately spills like this happen, but it’s something they are prepared to handle.

“We train regularly for this. We are prepared in the rare occasions that these events do occur and I think we continue to provide the assurances that we do take the operation, the safety, and the maintenance of our pipeline and the surrounding communities seriously,” Galarnyk said.

The National Energy Board said in a press release that it received an incident report late Wednesday afternoon, and the pipeline had been shut down to prevent more oil from being released into the environment.

“There is no immediate safety concern for local residents and precautions are being taken to ensure continued public safety,” the NEB said in a press release.

“Our emergency response team is on site,” NEB Communications Advisor Rebecca Taylor told the Herald.

“They’re overseeing the immediate response and making sure that it’s all going appropriately.”

Taylor added that the first member of the response team to make it to the site is based out of Kelowna, and that the NEB has emergency response team members all over the country.

On Thursday, Taylor said Kinder Morgan was excavating the contaminated soil and monitoring soil and water samples for contamination, as well as conducting wildlife

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assessments.

“So far, no concerns have turned up,” she said. “They’re on top of the monitoring and our people are there making sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to.”

Kinder Morgan has proposed expansion and twinning of the pipeline, which carries crude oil from Edmonton to a dock in Burnaby.

The pipeline has run through the Merritt area for 60 years. If twinned, it would nearly triple in capacity, from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day.

Lower Nicola Indian Band expresses concern over leak In the wake of the Kinder Morgan oil spill, the Lower Nicola Indian Band is expressing its concern over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline.

Jacob Beaton, media relations officer for LNIB, said in a press release the band has confirmed the spill is located within their traditional territory. He also said the LNIB staff are investigating the incident and communicating with Kinder Morgan.

The band requested to have a meeting between its chief and council and Kinder Morgan CEO Ian Anderson to discuss the spill.

Galarnyk confirmed this meeting will take place and is scheduled for June 28.

“Our initial thoughts were that we would like to have a meeting with the CEO of Kinder Morgan to explore the idea of having an emergency spill or damage facility here in Merritt,” LNIB Coun.

Robert Sterling told the Herald.

This way, the Merritt area wouldn’t

need to rely on Kinder Morgan’s emergency facilities located outside the area, Sterling said.

“If we had something a little more local, I think the community would feel a little more safe,” Sterling said.

In the aforementioned press release, the band says it would like to see this proposed spill response facility staffed with properly trained LNIB members.

Sterling said he’s not sure if this could occur through established emergency response crews — such as fire crews from the Lower Nicola Indian Band or City of Merritt — or if it would require specialized training and crews.

“I’m not sure if this is something that could fall within the training of our emergency response people that exist already in our system, or if this would call for specialized training and specialized people who would need

to be independent from our emergency crews at this point,” Sterling said, “but I’m sure that’ll come up in our meetings with them following this incident.”

Sterling also said the band expects the proposed facility to be one Kinder Morgan would foot the bill for.

The LNIB is evaluating Kinder Morgan’s handling of the leak to ensure the area is cleaned up completely.

Sterling said the band’s executive director, Arnie Narcise, and biologist Dave Caswell visited the site on Thursday.

“The one thing that we found out is that we’d like to be participants in the assessment, the procedures and be an active participant in making sure that our community and our environment is safe,” Sterling said.

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A new note of optimism was struck at the Nicola Pine Mills here this week when news came of an order for 100,000 feet of pine for shipment to Durban, South Africa. Part of the order will be filled from the Penticton Sawmills plant and part from Merritt.

Shipping dates from Vancouver are June 22 and July 22. The order is worth about $5,000 and being for export is an indication of further orders being received from the same source.

The box factory resumed operations in a small way on Tuesday and the plant is getting tuned up for bigger business as the demand improves with the season.

R.S. Warr is manager of the Nicola Pine Mills here and the South African order is largely due to his persistent selling campaign conducted during shutdown months.

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Drivers urged to yield to buses, obey traffic law

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B.C. Transit is concerned with the lack of yielding to buses in the city of Merritt.

The organization points out that it’s the law to yield to a bus and not simply a common courtesy.

Nicola Valley Transportation Society manager Jan Oswald told the Herald that Merritt drivers simply do not slow down and yield to buses as they should.

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we’re going to end up having an accident and it’s not going to be my driver’s fault, it’s going to be the person who refuses to stop,” Oswald said.

The B.C. Transit press release on the issue states the law, under the Motor Vehicle Act, section 169.1, is to yield to B.C. Transit and other vehicles that fall under the B.C. Transit Act when the transit operator signals or gives other displays of intention to re-enter the traffic flow.

‘It’s getting worse and worse all the time and with summer coming now, we’re going to end up having an accident and it’s not going to be my driver’s fault.’

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It has become such a problem that Oswald reached out to B.C. Transit and requested they put out a press release on this issue.

“I asked them to release it because we have problems in this city because people will not obey the traffic rules,” Oswald said.

She said people will usually just ignore a bus when it is trying to pull out from a stop and simply drive past it, cutting it off from rejoining the traffic flow.

Oswald also said the situation is getting worse and with summer just around the corner, a collision could end up happening — and if one does, the bus driver won’t be the one at fault.

“And it’s getting worse and worse all the time and with summer coming now,

Oswald said she gets complaints all the time from Merritt bus drivers.

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Sheila Schwan of the Merritt Knitters and Weavers Club practices her craft on an old-fashioned spinning wheel. June 8 was International Knitting Day and the lone member of the club was on hand at the Baillie House for their knitting in public event.

She said the reason for the event was to try and support the craft by putting it on display in public. Schwan said she loves to knit and when she was a kid, knitting was even taught in grade school.

She was later joined for one other knitter for the event. Schwan attributed the low turnout to the hustle and bustle of peoples’ daily lives, but mentioned some crafts wear out while others revive.

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time, she would get up to eight complaints a day from her drivers who were involved in incidents where they were forced to break due to vehicle traffic failing to yield to their buses.

Oswald said the traffic flow on Voght Street is horrible.

“And the two stops that my buses have, the one in front of Subway and the one in front of city hall, are the worst ones in town for people ignoring the buses and pulling right by them,” Oswald said.

She also noted that the bus stop at city hall can be deceiving because it looks like there are two lanes there, when really it’s only one lane, and

therefore not wide enough for passing.

Cars will sometimes go around a bus at the city hall stop and cut them off before trying to make a right on to Nicola Avenue, Oswald said.

Oswald said an incident at the Voght Street bus stop in front of the Subway a couple of weeks ago prompted her action.

A bus was trying to pull out from the stop when a car drove right out in front of it and cut it off from reentering traffic.

The vehicle even pulled out into the oncoming lane just to go around the bus, flipping the bus driver the bird in the process, she said.

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first time it’s happened — it’s happened lots,” Oswald said.

She said transit has been in Merritt for about six years now but people still complain about the buses stopping in the street, but that’s all part of what transit does.

The message Oswald wants the public to know is to obey the rules.

“Obey the traffic laws and stop for the buses,” she said.

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Slow-pitch tourney to stop violence Fred Feistmann, Investment Advisor

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Twelve teams took part in the inaugural “Stop the Violence� slow-pitch tournament over the weekend at Central Park. The tournament was hosted by the Coldwater Indian Band to promote its Journeys Into Tomorrow Transition House for women and children leaving abusive living situations. Emily Wessel/Herald

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Coldwater Indian Band held its first ever slow-pitch baseball tournament to raise awareness for its Journeys Into Tomorrow Transition House, a shelter for people leaving domestically abusive situations.

The theme of the 12-team tournament was “Stop the violence.�

The band also set up tents with information as well as resources from other health organizations. “Basically, it’s to spread awareness about our house; just to get the word out that we’re here,� Coldwater Indian Band’s Sharon Collins said. “The reserves know we’re here, but it seems like the main part of Merritt is still unaware that we even exist.�

The day also featured a bouncy giraffe for kids. “It’s set up like a family event but it still promotes our house,� said Collins, the program director for the house.

The teams enjoyed sunny and warm weather for the two-day

tournament, which ran roughly from 9 a.m. to early evening. Two of the teams even came out from Lytton.

Collins said the tournament appeared to work to start a wordof-mouth awareness campaign in the area, and organizers are excited about the event becoming an annual one. “The aim is to get bigger and bigger every year,� Collins said.

Collins said the transition house is also looking at a day camp for kids at Rotary Park in August. “It’s also to get awareness to children that we do exist,� she said.

Collins said the house has been in operation for over 20 years. It serves the five First Nations in the Nicola Valley and the city of Merritt. “Our primary function is to provide shelter for women and children fleeing violence. We also can do some assistance with the agencies in town for counselling. To get women settled in town, if they wish to, or get them to Kelowna if they want to go there, is our primary job,� she said.

Employees at the house also work closely with the hospital, RCMP, victim services and other social agencies to help their clients.

Collins said there is a no-questions-asked policy when people are seeking shelter.

The house runs on federal grants from the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development department and receives no provincial monetary support, Collins said.

The house can accommodate a dozen people at a time, but

Collins said it’s not easy to estimate an average number of clients. “Some days we’re so full, and other days we’re not,� she said.

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HERALD OPINION What ails the NDP? Plenty TOM FLETCHER B.C. VIEWS VICTORIA – After 34 NDP MLAs were sworn in to continue a stretch of opposition that will reach at least 16 years, leader Adrian Dix took a few questions about his future.

The party’s provincial council will meet June 21 to set the terms of reference for a review of the party’s dismal election performance, Dix told reporters. He repeated

that his performance won’t be spared, and ticked off some conventional wisdom about the NDP campaign.

Dix mentioned the alleged lack of “negative” ads, the local campaigns (read candidates), the decreasing reliability of polls and, when pressed, his surprise decision to come out against the proposed twinning of the TransMountain oil pipeline.

Like last week’s hysteria over a tiny leak in that pipeline, these are great sound bites for the short attention spans of the modern media. But they don’t explain much.

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Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS The leak on the TransMountain pipeline about 40 kilometres southwest of Merritt on Wednesday made national headlines, but it wasn’t for

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the size of the spill.

Rather, it was for its timing.

The roughly 1,000 litre crude oil spill was the 79th reported by pipeline operator Kinder Morgan to the National Energy Board since it began operating the pipeline 60 years ago.

Between that first year and last year, the largest spill the company reported on the line was a 1,587,000 litre crude oil spill at the Edmonton tank farm in 1985, according to the list of spill reports on its website.

But again, it’s not the size of this relatively small

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oil spill that caught the attention of news outlets and their readers/listeners/ viewers, but its timing.

Kinder Morgan recently pitched plans to the province to twin and expand the pipeline to nearly triple its capacity from Edmonton to Burnaby.

While this proposal generally garnered less criticism in the province than Enbridge’s proposal for the Northern Gateway pipeline through northern B.C. at first, this leak could change all that.

Enbridge pipelines reported 34 spills and leaks in 2001 alone, totalling

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25,980 barrels of oil — about 4.1 million litres.

As the old argument goes, these are simply the risks we take when we live with a dependency on black gold. We risk our groundwater, our soil, and our wildlife. But, as the other side of the argument goes, we risk it for the sake of Canada’s economy, which affects all aspects of daily life for all Canadians.

But do we have to accept that our fate is sealed by oil dependency?

The debate around oil dependency is extremely polarizing, and a “little spill” like this one has

brought that to the forefront of the TransMountain expansion plans.

In the blue corner, we have the environmental doomsayers. For them, an oil pipeline represents certainty of an environmental disaster, and is only a matter of time.

In the red corner, the armchair economists posit that our dependency on oil has sealed our fate. These are the risks we assume in the name of Canada’s economy.

But somewhere in the purple area of ambivalence between them sits a conflicted portion of the

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Canadian population that sees both as true, and is therefore the target of both sides’ persuasive tactics in the war to resolve that dissonance.

Modern psychology posits that people who hold ambivalent attitudes are more receptive to processing information than people with stauncher attitudes, and, fittingly, it’s those people in the purple who are targets of each side of the debate’s most convincing arguments.

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YOUR OPINION Happy(ish) ending to illegal suite saga in sight Letter writer feared homelessness after eviction Dear Editor, Heroes are alive and well in Merritt. Just when visions of tents and sleeping bags were dancing through my head, along with a trip to a campsite, somewhere, anywhere — up they popped.

These wonderful people will forever live in my heart as their help is in direct opposition to the meanness that lives in the hearts and minds of others.

I won’t mention the names of these heroes, as they would probably, as with most heroes, not wish it. However, they know who they are, and I

would sooner thank them privately.

Brandon and I have been offered a ‘legal’ and sweet little home to reside in, and we are so very grateful.

Of course, the cost of changing residences comes to the fore, but there are no complaints there. Just a tighter budget, but things do balance out.

I’ve lost 20 pounds (due to the stress), but Brandon has gained 10. He’s a professional table-begger.

I sign this off in wonder — I bet I’m the only person to be turfed out of an illegal

residence three times over!

Once by the city, and twice by the ‘landlord’ who thought that an almost-30-day notice (yeah, that was illegal too) was too much time, and shortened it up to a 10-day eviction notice.

Much difficulty with all this, as I’ve nearly always owned my own homes.

Possibly I’ll still be in that campsite for a few days yet as the 10 days is over a week short of moving day. But I haven’t had a vacation in years — too busy moving — heh heh.

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This all-powerful NDP provincial council is a case in point. A glimpse into its inner workings was provided by a summary of an NDP policy development workshop called “Imagine Our Future” that was leaked by the BC Liberals in the final days of the campaign.

The workshop took place in November 2010, coincidentally at the same provincial council meeting where the revolt against former leader Carole James tumbled into the open. While 13 caucus members were knifing

their leader for reasons they still can’t or won’t articulate in public – a glaring problem in itself – the backroom policy brainstorm revealed a deeper malaise.

Among the “dream tree” notions put forward in the workshop was “free” postsecondary tuition and public transit, along with raising wages and lowering fees for daycare. This isn’t a dream tree, it’s a money tree.

Remember, this is the NDP’s ruling body, not a high school “social justice” class or an Occupy Vancouver squat.

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Showing a glimmer of adult supervision, the workshop table on “equitable tax policy” even identified the problem. Its first recommendation: “Increase our economic and financial literacy to gain credibility.”

The “public ownership” table really got radical. Scrap public-private partnerships, the basis of most government construction today.

“Nationalize” independent power projects, in the Venezuelan style of state seizure of private assets. And perhaps most incredibly, tear up the trade agreement between Saskatchewan,

Alberta and B.C. that harmonizes transport truck regulations and so forth.

In the real world, the four western premiers met this week in Winnipeg. And the three-province project now called “New West Partnership” will continue to dismantle archaic inter-provincial barriers.

Why would the NDP be secretly against that?

Because it’s also a “labour mobility” agreement.

This harkens back to a supposed golden age in Canada, when two corporate titans shared the beer busi-

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ness, producing identical bland lager from identical factories in identical stubby bottles. Inter-provincial trade in these stubbies was strictly forbidden, requiring each province to have a big unionized brewery to make uniformly bad beer for the proletariat.

This is the power of a monopoly union.

And because of it, this was how governments tried to “create jobs.”

It’s a bygone era to which many core NDP supporters stubbornly cling. This explains the party’s revival of a “job protection commissioner” for forestry.

Which brings us

to the proverbial root cause of the B.C. NDP’s woes. Its largest financial donor is the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union, which donated $1.4 million to the party in the past eight years, nosing out the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Hospital Employees’ Union.

Former HEU and BCGEU presidents now sit in the NDP caucus, critics for health and “green” jobs respectively.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com.

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Carolyn Palaga, MSc, Aud (C) The six-actor company Theatre Merritt Hearing Clinic in the Raw will A division of Carolyn Palaga Audiology Ser vices Ltd. deliver the three plays on a two-hour Authorized by: bill, with music by WCB Call Monday - Friday Blues for the Road, First Canadian Health a guitar-and-vocals Veterans Affairs duo. The troupe’s Registered under 2076A Granite Avenue, Merritt artistic director, Jay (Located at Nicola Valley Chiropractic) the Hearing Aid Act (B.C.) Hamburger, said the three plays have some challenging themes, and he is curious to see how they’ll be received on their four-stop tour.

“We held a run Open House Volunteers Wanted Theatre in the Raw’s Roger Howie performs in the one-act play Talk Medicine which the Vancouver troupe will bring to Merritt. Submitted through today of one Highland Valley Copper’s Open House Committee is tenth live theatre tour started up in a cafe about men trying to and so forth, without of the shows and I seeking “letters of interest” from local non-pro¿t orgathe troupe has done. in 1994, and since come to grips with giving it away,” he was almost in tears,” nizations for volunteers to assist us at this year’s Open “I’m just fascinated then, has evolved their fathers and the said.

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House on Monday, August 5, 2013. to see the response of from experimental relationships between doing some bouncy, “Some of this stuff The volunteer members may be asked to assist in one bringing these shows shows to its current fathers and sons — of our concession stands, preparing hot dogs, assist really hits. That’s what sexy musical, we’re with parking and distributing informational handouts etc. into Merritt. It’s been mandate, which is living up to standards we’re looking for; we’re bringing a show in One representaive must have a Food Handler’s Certi¿a labour of love, but and how that plays out focused on thoughtthat’s timely and it’s not looking for huge cate in the food areas. we’re willing to take provoking content about something that’s in their relationships commercial success, If selected, a monetary donation for services rendered the chance. If we get over commercial with women,” he said. would be issued directly to your organization. we’re looking for more going on now.” people thinking, we’ve “It’s about how we can success. The Merritt The other play, of the content. I think If interested in being part of this fun day, please submit done most of our job,” Live Theatre Society fall into patterns and Talk Medicine, is a that’s in the DNA of a “letter of interest” before July 5, 2013 to the attention of: HIGHLAND VALLEY COPPER Hamburger said with a how damaging that can worked with the this particular troupe.” monologue of life 2013 OPEN HOUSE COMMITTEE laugh. troupe to set up the be.” experiences told by One of those plays c/o Jacqui Schneider Theatre in the Hamburger said the Merritt stop on the a taxidermist. The is Maybe Miles, which P.O. Box 1500 Logan Lake, B.C. V0K 1W0 Raw will hit the stage four-town tour, which company gets some play was written by tells the story of an at the Culture Club also hits Cawston, of its performance Calgarian Sheryl encounter between a The organization selected will be noti¿ed on or before July 12, 2013.

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COUNTRY RUN FUN! (Photos from top) Race director Mary Jorgensen with 5K winner and B.C. Lions’ trainer Tristan Sandhu. Marathoner Darch Oborne, 68, from Merritt ran the 21K. Joan Jennings, 69, from Kamloops took on the 10K run. Eight-year-old Paige Asselstine from Merritt tackled the 5K with a smile. Ian Webster/ Herald TROPHY WINNERS! Country Run award winners (from left): Tiffany Anderssen, Jodie Peachey, Jenna Kane, Taylia McKeown, Martin Kratky, Craig Asselstine, Hans Aabye, Emily Anderson, Kelly Donaldson, Wayne Little, Bella Creighton, Valerie Cox and Emmie Clements. Missing: Tristan Sandhu, Parker Finch, Ryan Pidhirniak, Jordan Goerlitz, Eric Brown and Stephanie Moore. Ian Webster/Herald

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It was a busy weekend of sports RUGBY The Merritt Barbarians got two tries from Cameron Graham (left, with the ball) in a decisive 36-17 home field victory over the visiting Vernon Jackels on Sunday at Voght Park. Other Merritt scorers were Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Cooke and Zach Wright. Ian Webster/Herald

TRACK & FIELD Over 200 athletes from six area elementary schools converged on Voght Park on Friday for the annual district track and field championships. Bench’s Teanna George (right) employed the seldomseen scissors technique to win the Grade 7 girls’ high jump at 1.27 metres. Ian Webster/Herald

LACROSSE The Nicola Valley Thunder bantam lacrosse team prepped for the upcoming zone championships this coming weekend with an impressive 4-1 victory over the Penticton Heat on Sunday at the Shulus arena.

(Left) The Thunder’s Parker Finch runs the ball up the floor against the Heat. Heather Koppe/Penticton

STOCK CARS (Right) Dale Calder (16) and Jake Mills (75) duke it out on turn two in the Hobby division dash event (5 laps) at the Merritt Speedway on Saturday. Prince George’s Grant Powers won the race, and took the main event (25 laps). Ian Webster/Herald

LITTLE BRITCHES Merritt’s Tryton Bose (left) is all business as he competes in the junior boys’ stake race at the B.C. Little Britches rodeo in town on the weekend. Over a dozen local cowboys and cowgirls, as young as two years of age, took part in the event which sees competition in barrel racing, pole bending, goat tail and calf tying, breakaway and dummy roping and steer riding. Ian Webster/Herald

YOUTH SOCCER Ten-year-old Olivia Schmid (right) makes a point blank save off a penalty shot while playing her very first game in goal. Her Orange team defeated the Pigeons 5-3 in Grade 6-7 youth soccer action on Saturday at the former Coquihalla Middle School playing fields. This coming saturday is the final weekend of regular MYSA play this season. Ian Webster/ Herald

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Please be advised that Roy Millar is proposing to remove 22 hectares of private land from woodlot license W0358 located in the vicinity of Hendy Creek inquiries/comments to this proposal must be submitted to Roy Millar 753 Tatlow Road, North Saanich B.C. V8L 5M1 by July 20, 2013. Only written enquiries received by the above date will be responded to. Information about this proposal can be obtained by contacting Roy Millar at 250-656-5130

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Elisa Lillian HAMM (TURNER) June 6, 1966 – June 10, 2013 of McLeese Lake B.C. (1420 Enright Road)

Sores with the eagles, as she watches over her husband Allen and sons Robert and Tyrone, daughter-in-law, sisters, brothers, mother, mother and father-in-law, sisters & brother-in laws, aunties, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, grandchild to be, all her friends and co-workers.

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The Merritt Herald, an award winning twice-weekly newspaper, published in the Nicola Valley, is seeking a full time advertising consultant to join our team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding career in advertising and marketing. If you are a highly creative individual, with an ability to multi-task in a fastpaced team environment and have good interpersonal and sales skills, a valid drivers licence and reliable vehicle - we would like to meet you. While experience is an asset, it is not a prerequisite.

To apply, please forward your resume with a cover letter to: Theresa Arnold, Publisher Merritt Herald 2090 Granite Ave., P.O. Box 9 Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8 e-mail: publisher@merrittherald.com

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SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE TO MEMBERS Nicola Valley Indian Services Association Society

THIS IS NOTICE TO: ANY MEMBER OR PERSON ENTITLED TO MEMBERSHIP IN

Lower Nicola Band

1. Upper Nicola Band 2. Lower Nicola Band 3. Nooaitch Band 4. Shackan Band 5. Coldwater Band Regarding Resolutions On Updating the Constitution, Bylaws And Articles DATE: Monday June 24, 2013 PLACE: Lower Nicola Indian Band Hall

TIME: 10:00 am To 2:00 pm

Shackan Band