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Residents of Miller Road in the Sunshine Valley Estates west of Merritt are raising concerns regarding the intent to spread biosolids as compost on a piece of property near their homes.

Biosolids are the solid waste left over after sewage is treated at a water treatment facility.

The piece of land in question is a 320-acre property on Woodward Road in Area M of the ThompsonNicola Regional District, which was recently purchased by BioCentral — the sister company of Agassiz-based construction company Timbro Construction, which offers services in wastewater treatment, and sludge removal.

The Woodward Road property is located on a hill above a housing development.

No biosolids have been spread on the property yet.

Sunshine Valley Estates resident Georgia Clement said she and her neighbours are concerned that biosolids will harm their air quality, contaminate their water and devalue their properties.

She said they are also concerned the Merritt area will become known as a dumping ground for waste.

Clement told the Herald the site BioCentral intends to spread biosolids on is above an aquifer which the housing development derives its drinking water from.

Neil Caine, chairman of the Sunshine Valley Estates water board, said the Woodward Road property is in this aquifer.

Caine said he’s opposed to spreading biosolids there because of the presence of two creeks that run through the Woodward Road prop-

erty, which replenish the aquifer and designate it as a watershed.

Waneta Murphy, another resident of the Sunshine Valley, said she has had a petition circulating against biosolids coming here from outside the Nicola Valley. That petition is said to have almost 700 signatures.

TNRD Area M director Randy Murray said he’s had approval from the TNRD’s board of directors to create a workshop that will address land use issues regarding biosolids, and give feedback to the provincial government.

Murray said he wants to know if biosolids are being tested enough for contaminants.

He said he also has concerns regarding the impact this practice will have on tourism and property values.

“A lot of the things I’m seeing, that I have to deal with, are from a policy perspective and a change of policy perspective between layers of government,” Murray said.

Murray said the regional government doesn’t have to be informed of this type of land use as the Ministry of Environment is.

The Ministry of Environment and Interior Health Authorities are the two provincial bodies that need to be notified of the intent to spread biosolids on a piece of land under the Organic Materials Recycling Regulation, IHA health protection team leader Mike Adams said.

There are two types of biosolids listed under that regulation: Class A biosolids and Class B biosolids, which differ primarily based on the difference in fecal coliform count and level of metals contained in the matter.

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Gasps were audible in the courtroom on Monday morning as the accused killer of Kathryn-Mary Herbert of Matsqui and Monica Jack of Merritt made his first appearance in Abbotsford provincial court.

The room was packed with about 30 family members of the two girls, including their mothers, and many appeared shocked when they saw Garry Taylor Handlen, 67.

The only photo that most have seen of the Ontario man is almost 40 years old, showing him with a thick head of dark wavy hair.

Now, Handlen has grey thinning hair, a pot belly and wears glasses. “He looks a lot older than I thought he would,� one court observer was overheard saying.

The appearance took less than five minutes.

Handlen, wearing a prison-issued red jumpsuit, had his next court date set for March 2, at which time his next appearance will be scheduled.

He remains in custody and faces two first degree murder charges in the murders of Kathryn-Mary, 11, in 1975 and Monica, 12, in 1978.

It is not yet known when his bail hearing will take place.

Both Kathryn-Mary’s mom, Shari Greer, and Monica’s mom, Madeline Lanaro, declined to speak to media outside of the courtroom, but a traditional First Nations healing ceremony was conducted in the parking lot of the Abbotsford courthouse.

Kelly White of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, one of the cofounders of the Women’s Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women, led the ceremony.

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draped in a “star quilt� adorned with thunderbirds and butterflies, signifying the transformation of life, as they were surrounded by their families.

Drumming and prayer followed. White said the idea of the ceremony is to bring strength and healing to the families, and she thanked them for allowing that to happen. “We appreciate them ‌ for allowing us to come over during their suffering time to permit us to create a healing process for them,â€? she

said.

Handlen was arrested in Surrey on Nov. 28, and police held a press conference on Dec. 1 to announce the two first degree murder charges.

They also released a photo of Handlen as he would have appeared in the 1970s around the time of the murders.

Kathryn-Mary was last seen in the area of Townline and Marshall roads in Abbotsford on Sept. 24, 1975, and her remains were discovered on Nov. 17 of that year near Harris Road in an undeveloped area of

Matsqui First Nations.

Her skull was fractured and her jaw was broken. The autopsy was not able to confirm whether she had been sexually assaulted.

Monica vanished on May 6, 1978 while riding her bike along Highway 5A near the Nicola Ranch. Her remains were found on nearby Swakum Mountain in June 1995.

A weekly newspaper reported last week that Handlen had been living in Minden, a small community in Ontario, for the past decade.

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Fatal collision on Coquihalla Hwy A 61-year-old man from Brantford, Ont. was killed when the transport truck he was in rolled on the Coquihalla Highway on Tuesday morning.

The man was the codriver of a Freightliner commercial truck and was believed to have been unrestrained in the sleeper portion of the vehicle when the 50-yearold driver lost control of the truck descending Desmond Hill in the northbound lanes.

The truck hit the cen-

tre median and rolled on its passenger side, blocking southbound lanes.

The driver sustained minor injuries in the crash.

The accident happened at about 4:55 a.m. approximately 40 kilometres north of Merritt.

Highway 5 was closed on and off for about five hours as police investigated.

RCMP note the road was slippery at the time of the incident, and remind drivers to take

their time and be extra cautious in winter driving conditions.

Suspect in Kamloops lockdown found dead The search for a suspect who prompted a school lockdown in Kamloops on Tuesday ended with the discovery of the suspect deceased in a vehicle near Lac Le Jeune Road.

Kamloops RCMP were called to that city’s downtown core at about

2:10 p.m. on Dec. 9 for a domestic incident, which included concern a 40-year-old Kamloops resident was going to attempt to contact children associated to him at

RL Clemiston School.

The school was locked down as a precaution.

The suspect vehicle was observed by police helicopter travelling in the Lac Le Jeune Road area.

As police cordoned off the area, the vehicle left the roadway.

Police found the lone male occupant of the vehicle deceased from an apparent self-inflicted injury. Officers also recovered a firearm from the vehicle.

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IHA looks at potential setbacks to drinking water resources and confirms the company’s testing methods for the specified classification of biosolids is correct, Adams said.

Nearby surface and groundwater sources and wells impacted

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RA AM M Butcher started running PAGE In total, there were about 300 parmarathons merrittherald.com when ticipants, said event organizer Mary he retired at age 66 and said 5 his daughter was a big inspiration for Jorgensen. him.

The 5K had 157 runners, and the 10K attracted 100 participants. “She’s done the Ironman [triathlon] and she led the way. [She] said, Thirty-three people ran the half‘Dad, why don’t you run?’ so I did,� marathon. said Butcher.

Former Rotary Club of Merritt bcclassified.com president Darch Oborne particiFamilies came out to run as well. pated in the half-marathon race. The Helen Asseltine and her eight-yearold daughter Paige finished the 5K 68-year-old is an avid runner, having race together. Her husband Graeme completing three marathons in 53 and six-year-old son Isaac were not days just two weeks ago. When asked far behind. Even her mother-in-law, how he manages to run so much in Bernice Asseltine, 82, took on the 5K such a short period of time, Oborne race at the Country Run. answered, “You gotta do it while you’re young. “This was her first 5K and it was “Relative to tomorrow, I’m young,� our first time doing it together,� Helen said about running the race with her he told the Herald. daughter.

Another relatively young runner to take part in the half-marathon was 78-year-old Bruce Butcher from See ‘Country Run’ Page 3

Some residents of the Sunshine Valley in the Merritt area are not happy about the idea of companies trucking biosolids into the area for composting and use on grazing land. Michael Potestio/Herald

BioCentral’s $1.15 million deal with the Regional District of Central Okanagan to acquire biosolids from the Westside Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant came about after the IHA halted plans to continue dumping biosolids at the Brenda Mine, located above Peachland. The biosolids were proposed to be used as fertilizer on areas being re-vegetated there.

However, Peachland’s district council opposed that idea, citing concerns about impacts to the town’s watershed. The IHA determined the plan for the proposed treatment and use at Brenda Mine was insufficient to protect drinking water if “an extreme wet weather event� took place.

Though the site of the biosolids is about 20 kilometres away from the Peachland boundary, a creek that contributes to the town’s drinking water was about 12 kilometres away from the biosolids site.

Concerned residents from the Sunshine Valley related the recent decision by IHA to stop the spreading of biosolids at Brenda Mine because of drinking water concerns to the situation in the Nicola Valley. “From our perspective, it’s not much different,� Murray said of the Brenda Mine and Woodward Road situations.

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BioCentral owner Andres Murillo said the company intends to spread Class A biosolids on the Woodward Road property in order to help grow grass for grazing cows.

Murillo said no more than an inch of the biosolids will be spread once per year on the property. He said his company’s biosolids have a fecal coliform count of under one fecal coliform per gram — well under the Class A maximum of 1,000 fecal coliform count per gram. He also said for every gram of biosolids, there are 27 micrograms of lead. The regulation allows for lead up to 500 micrograms.

To be permitted to apply biosolids to the land, BioCentral must meet the requirements outlined in the OMRR, including those related to pathogen reduction.

Murillo said they submit reports to the Ministry of Environment on a regular basis, too. “It’s regulated. It is actually heavily regulated,� Murillo said.

Companies notify the IHA of intent to spread biosolids, and the health authority has 30 days to reply to the notification, the IHA’s Mike Adams said. He confirmed IHA has until Dec. 18 to reply to the notification for the Woodward Road property.

by the application of biosolids are considered by IHA in this process, Adams said. “For us, when we’re looking at sensitive areas for drinking water, it’s within 100 metres of a surface water source or a ground water intake,� Adams said.

The well the Sunshine Valley Estates housing development draws its water from is about two kilometres away from where BioCentral intends to spread the biosolids, Adams said.

Adams said IHA staff have visited the Woodward Road site, and the creeks might be closer than two kilometres.

BioCentral recently closed contracts to bring biosolids from the Westside Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in West Kelowna and the Abbotsford Mission Environmental Systems Wastewater Treatment Plant to its composting facility on Sunshine Valley Road.

Murillo said they will not be spreading the biosolids near the water sources on the Woodward Road property, and although they are processed in the Merritt area, not all of it is spread on lands here. He said some of the biosolids are spread on land the company owns in the Lower Mainland area, too.

Murillo said he is open to talking to people who are concerned about biosolids.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Merritt intends to consider the adoption of City of Merritt Highway Closure and Removal of Dedication Bylaw No. 2180. The proposed Bylaw would close to traffic and remove its dedication as highway of unimproved portions of road located north-west of the City of Merritt Airport.

A copy of Bylaw No. 2180 and related reports and agreements are available for viewing at City Hall and may be obtained by contacting Allan Chabot, Chief Administrative Officer at 250-378-8613 or by e-mail at achabot@merritt.ca All persons who deem their interests affected by the Bylaw may make representations to Council at the Regular Meeting scheduled to be held Tuesday, December 16, 2014, commencing at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 2185 Voght Street, Merritt, BC. This is the second of two notices, dated this 11th day of December, 2014.

Public Notice REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

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MERRITT LEISURE GUIDE PUBLICATION & DESIGNATION AS THE CITY OF MERRITT’S OFFICIAL 2015 VISITOR GUIDE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Merritt intends to dispose of an interest in land under the terms of a Land Exchange Agreement between the City and Superstar Properties Ltd. (Inc. No. 3654712).

The City of Merritt is seeking Requests for Proposals from qualified proponents for the publication of its Leisure Guide and being granted the designation as the City’s official “2015 Visitors Guide” for Visitor Guide Publication.

Under the terms of the Agreement the City would transfer, in fee simple, the portions of “Road to be Closed”, comprising 1.033 ha, identified in City of Merritt Highway Closure and Removal of Dedication Bylaw No. 2180 and would receive, by registration of a plan of subdivision, in exchange for those lands a replacement road comprising 0.710 ha and proposed Lot 1, comprising 0.323 ha, in fee simple.

This project includes the preparation of the City’s Leisure Guides for 2015 (three publications) including layout, design and production work, and the rights to be designated as the City’s official 2015 Visitor Guide, for publishing of a Merritt Visitor Guide. RFP documents are available on the City’s website: www.merritt.ca and on the BC Bid website.

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The City of Merritt reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals, modify the terms of the proposal at any time, to waive defects in any proposal document and to accept the proposal which it may consider to be in the best interests of the City. The lowest cost proposal or any proposal will not necessarily be accepted.

A copy of the Land Exchange Agreement, related reports and Bylaw No. 2180 are available for viewing at City Hall and may be obtained by contacting Allan Chabot, Chief Administrative Officer at 250-378-8613 or by e-mail at achabot@merritt.ca This is the second of two notices, dated this 11th day of December, 2014.

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Police seize drugs, guns from Merritt house THE HERALD

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Kamloops shooting brings dangers of job home Last week’s shooting of a Kamloops RCMP officer brings home the dangers of policework for local officers.

Cpl. Jean Rene Michaud was shot while approaching a white Chrysler Intrepid he had pulled over in Kamloops’ Batchelor Heights area at about 2:35 a.m. last Wednesday.

The result was a 13-hour manhunt, which led to an arrest that afternoon.

Merritt RCMP Sgt. Norm Flemming described the shooting as a “tough day” and said the incident drives home the reality of the job.

Flemming said it’s easy to become complacent in the job, but something like this reminds officers that it can happen to anyone.

“As a police officer,

that’s the situation that can occur any time, any place, anywhere, and we rely on our own tactical abilities, our training, our understanding and ability to read a situation,” Flemming said.

He said from what he’s heard, Michaud conducted the traffic stop by the book.

“You can do things by the book and they’ll still go bad,” Flemming said.

“All we can do is take the very best precautions we can take, remain as vigilant as we can be and go out there, work as a team, to be as safe as we can be out on the road, understanding that sometimes there’s just nothing else we can do.”

Michaud continues his recovery in hospital in Kamloops. As of Monday, he was conscious and able to speak to his wife and two young children.

Local officers awarded for their Merritt Two Merritt police officers have received accolades for their

efforts in teaching.

Cpl. Kelly Bartch and Const. Tracy Dunsmore each received an award at the 34th annual Police Honours Night on Nov. 20 at Government House in Victoria from Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon and Justice Minister Suzanne Anton.

The awards recognize their teaching efforts in the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology’s Law Enforcement Preparation Program, which covers the basics of law enforcement.

The duo has helped teach the course for about three years.

Sgt. Norm Flemming said the work takes up a fair amount of time to prepare outside their duties as police officers.

In total, 87 officers received awards at the ceremony. Nineteen officers received the Award of Valour — the highest honour a B.C. police officer can receive. Sixty-eight officers received meritorious service honours, which recognize exemplary performance that exceeds expectations and enhances the pub-

lic image of police officers, a provincial government press release stated.

Nurse assaulted at Kamloops hospital The British Columbia Nurses’ Union is calling for more security measures at hospitals across the province after a nurse was attacked at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.

The experienced nurse was working at the Hillside Centre on Sunday when a patient grabbed her by the hair, punched her several times and threw her against a wall.

The nurse had a security alarm but its battery was dead.

That same day, a doctor at a Penticton psychiatric facility was assaulted by a patient during a routine oneon-one interview.

The patient walked out of the room and announced the doctor might be dead.

Other staff members found the doctor unconscious at the Penticton Hospital.

Gregory Nield, 30, faces charges of assault

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The doctor is recovering in Kelowna Hospital with a broken jaw, facial injuries and other injuries.

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All three have been released by police and charges are pending.

The case is still under investigation, and RCMP are reminding the public to report suspicious occurrences to the police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

“Drug trafficking, drug houses, drug involvement in the community is everybody’s concern, and we [police] can’t be everywhere all the time, so we do appreciate when calls come in,” Sgt. Norm Flemming said.

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By Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS tfletcher@blackpress.ca

A year-end interview with Premier Christy Clark.

TF: Are you still confident that we’re going to see a major LNG project approved by the end of 2014?

PCC: We’re still in negotiations with Petronas and Shell, so I don’t know if it will be by the end of 2014, but I’m hoping in the next few months.

[Days after this interview, Petronas announced a delay in their investment decision until 2015.]

TF: I talked to a couple of SFU climate mitigation specialists, and they agreed that it’s unlikely to the point of impossible to have a major LNG industry and still meet Gordon Campbell’s ambitious greenhouse gas target of a 33 per cent reduction by 2020. What do you think?

PCC: I think that we may prove them wrong. Many of these facilities, not all of them, will be partly or fully electrically powered up, so that reduces those impacts, and there’s going to be a real incentive to invest in new technology to minimize that as well.

I think the bigger picture is what really matters, which is that in shipping 82 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas to Asia, we help them get off coal and other dirtier sources of oil, and that is the biggest contribution that we’ve ever made to reducing climate change.

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Big bonuses for bigwigs don’t sit well

Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Do as I say, not as I do: that’s the message two B.C. transit companies are sending paying customers after news of corporate executives raking in huge bonuses broke.

At BC Ferries, two executive vice-presidents and the company’s CEO saw massive monetary perks

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after hitting their corporate targets. Think $133,000 in the case of the CFO, nearly double his previous bonus of an already outrageous sum bordering on $74,000.

Over at TransLink, the company that heads up Vancouver’s ground public transportation, the CEO got a bonus of nearly $84,000.

Big bonuses are a way of ‘topping up’ executive salaries, as was evidenced in the news of MLA Amrik Virk’s dealings with the executive at Kwantlen Technical College. Subsequent condemnation over the ‘top-up’ defence was swift and harsh.

Absolutely, these people have high-stress jobs at which they work long hours

and for which they have been highly educated to do.

It takes a competitive salary to attract and retain a highly educated, skilled manager or CEO. But at some point, the money becomes unsettling when you consider Statistics Canada pegged the average household income in B.C. at $71,660 as of 2012.

Oh, and that the TransLink bonuses came during a salary freeze that was put into place in 2013.

Sure, it can be argued a bonus isn’t technically salary, but that’s kind of missing the forest for the trees.

The timing of these bonus disclosures is what makes these sums so hard to stomach.

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simply go over badly with people when they see no change at the level of service they’re receiving.

It’s even worse when they feel the level of service is declining.

BC Ferries is still under fire for cutting some ferry routes and hiking fares, which some say is detrimental to Vancouver Island’s tourism industry.

Now the ferry company has come out with the news it’s planning to upgrade its software programs to allow customers to book reservations online without an added fee. It’s also looking into starting up an enhanced travel card for frequent customers, but I’m not convinced that will be enough of a good thing

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to distract people from the perks those at the very top are privy to.

TransLink is still hearing about several stalled SkyTrain incidents over the last year.

I’m sure the decisionmakers at both corporations believe in their reasons for big corporate bonuses, but in the court of public opinion, they’re likely going to have to work very hard to defend said costs.

In Merritt, we may not rely on ferries and the SkyTrain to take us about our daily tasks, but may use them on occasion, and we all contribute to the public coffers that help keep these quasi-Crown corporations afloat.

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Plea for return of stolen wood splitter

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Dear Editor, We have a fenced in yard, and yet our wood splitter was stolen Monday night out of our backyard. My husband has a pile of wood to split, and we are seniors — we cannot afford to buy a new one.

If someone needed to use it, he would have gladly let whoever took it use it. He probably would have helped them split the wood.

Do we have to make prisons out of our own homes so people won’t steal stuff we worked so hard to get?

So please, whoever took the wood splitter out of our backyard in the 1800 block of Granite Avenue, please bring it back. No questions asked.

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Dear Editor, I am fed up with the high gas prices in Merritt. The price at Costco in Kamloops was $1.03 per litre and here in Merritt it was $1.18 per litre — 15 cents a litre more at 7-Eleven.

No wonder a lot of people I know shop in Kamloops instead of Merritt. Why doesn’t someone in authority do something about this? Maybe the new mayor and city council can do something. We will see.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone.

WELCOMING WINTER The Civic Centre was the site of fifth Winter Powwow in Merritt this past Friday through Sunday.

Organizer Trent Abraham said powwows are great ways of socializing with friends, making new ones and displaying various styles of dance.

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Surplus to go toward province’s debts From Page 6 TF: Ontario and Quebec have taken a page from your book. They have seven conditions for an oil pipeline, Energy East, which involves conversion of gas pipelines and taking Alberta oil to the East Coast. What do you think?

PCC: I think they took our five conditions and elaborated on them. So you’ve got British Columbia, Alberta, now Ontario and Quebec, all signed on

to some version of the five conditions. And of course Enbridge and Kinder Morgan as well.

TF: What about the conditions they have added?

PCC: One of the things they say they want to protect against is a shortage of natural gas coming to Ontario and Quebec. These are the same two provinces that have put a moratorium on extracting natural gas.

They want to make sure that we do it here, good enough for us to do, and

send it to them, but they won’t do that themselves. I look at their last two conditions, and I roll my eyes a little bit.

TF: All the way to New Brunswick, they’ve basically bought the anti-hydraulic fracturing myth?

PCC: Yes. Somehow they all watched an American mockumentary or whatever you call it, and believed it. Here in British Columbia we do fracking better than anywhere in the world. It is the gold standard.

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TF: Finance Minister Mike de Jong says we have a surplus estimated at more than $400 million for this fiscal year, and he suggested that much of that would have to go to pay off deficits from previous years.

Of course the opposition is interested in welfare rates and in particular ending child support clawbacks.

What’s your view?

PCC: Like any family that’s been through tough times, the first thing you need to do when you get

back to finding a job and making an income again, is to pay off your credit cards.

And that’s what we’re going to do.

We are going to see if we can find ways to improve some of the programs over time, but can’t do that until we can afford it. It’s typical, the NDP want us to spend the money before we have it.

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NVIT health-care program funds set Celebrate-a-Life NICOLA VALLEY

NVIT’s health-care assistant certificate program was spared from being cut this year thanks to $132,500 in provincial funding.

Fourteen of the program’s 15 spots are filled and the class runs until March.

NVIT also runs an access to practical nursing course, but given budget constraints, the school would have had to run only one health program at a time if there wasn’t enough money to run them concurrently.

That plan put the healthcare assistant program on the chopping block for this year.

Previously, the course has run annually.

The school only has two full-time health teachers, and the funding will go toward paying the teachers to run the class and any other operational costs, Chenoweth said.

The funding was given as part of a province-wide initiative to support short-term health education programs.

NVIT and six other schools will receive the one-time funding, and in total the government is contributing $1.5 million to 188 student spaces in short-term health education programs.

The funding is meant to address the needs of specific communities that don’t have sufficient student and employer demand to support a program on a long-term, ongoing basis, a provincial press release stated.

Chenoweth said there is demand for these types of jobs from institutions such as Interior Health and senior centres such as Gillis House.

He said as long as there is demand for these types of workers, NVIT will continue to look for funding to run the program.

NVIT’s health-care assistant program trains students to provide care services to seniors in continuing care homes, through home support, and in adult day care and assisted living settings.

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The Merritt Hospice Society is offering local people the chance to remember a lost loved one with its annual Celebrate-a-Life Tree.

The holiday season can be a particularly difficult time for people who have lost someone they love. Even several years after the initial loss, the holidays can still be challenging.

The Celebrate-a-Life Tree offers people one more opportunity to remember a loved one during the holidays by hanging a tag with their name on a tree.

The tree will go up this Friday, Dec. 12 at Extra Foods and will stay up until Dec. 20.

Volunteers from the Hospice Society will be available at the tree on Friday and Saturday of this week and again on Dec. 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

They will also have a sampling of some of the pamphlets and books available from the Hospice library.

For more information, call Merritt Hospice co-ordinator Jill Sanford at 250-378-4577.

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The Nicola Valley Pro Rodeo Association held two meetings in November. Members in attendance reviewed the events of a successful season just past, and began the planning for a busy year ahead.

The 56th edition of the Nicola Valley Pro Rodeo, held on the Labour Day weekend, was a major topic of conversation. Association spokesperson Haley Rutherford reported that overall attendance for the two performances was up almost 10 per cent from 2013, and that the many new initiatives that the committee had put in place were very well received.

Those initiatives included a change in the start time of the Saturday performance to 5 p.m., the addition of a dance and a live band on Saturday night, the designation of Sunday as ‘Family Day’ with special events for kids at the intermission including mutton bustin’ and a shoe scramble, the presence of a special Kidz Zone for the youngsters on both days, the inclusion of a local businessmen’s calf-dressing event, and the existence of more on-site vendors and program contests.

The NVPRA committee was unanimous in its praise of local businesses for their tremendous support and generosity.

“Without their contributions, the Labour Day weekend pro rodeo simply could not and would not happen,” Rutherford said.

Despite the success of this year’s event, the NVPRA knows that many challenges lie ahead. Committee member Allison Thompson attended the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association’s annual ‘roundup’ in Edmonton in November and reported that pro rodeo committees across western Canada are experiencing tough times.

“The get-together

was held in conjunction with the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR),” Thompson said. “There were delegates there from practically every CPRA rodeo committee in the country. We had two days of meetings and roundtable discussions. We talked about upcoming changes in the rodeo world, common concerns, and how we’re moving ahead.

“The meetings were an opportunity for individuals from both large and small rodeo committees to sit down together, brainstorm, and find out what’s working and not working.”

Thompson stated that almost universally, rodeo attendance is down from five and 10 years ago, although there are exceptions.

“The small community of Teepee Creek in northern Alberta is enjoying tremendous growth and success,” she said. “One of the reasons is the enormous support its rodeo receives from the city itself and the surrounding district. That is absolutely vital.”

Thompson went on to add that diversification is also key. A successful weekend can’t just be about a rodeo.

There has to be many other things going on at the same time in a community to make it attractive for residents to stay in town and get involved, and attractive for out-of-towners to want to visit.

“By being multi-faceted with fairs, a parade and so on, it appeals to a wide range of interests,” Thompson said.

“It’s about gathering the whole community together. The more people that you can have working towards a common goal, the greater the success you’re going to have.”

With respect to the rodeo event itself, Thompson said that the CPRA is working hard to address the ongoing problem of cowboys and cowgirls entering and then withdrawing at the last minute.

“The issue of no-

shows exists for everybody,” she said. “In Edmonton, we talked about it as a committeeof-the-whole. Right now the fine for ‘turningout’ is $100. That’s not a big deal for a lot of these competitors.

The CPRA is looking at ways to resolve the situation to everyone’s satisfaction.”

Another major topic of conversation at the CPRA’s annual meet-

ings was animal-rights activism.

“There’s no question that it’s impacting rodeos,” Thompson said.

“The Luxton rodeo this year was hit hard by animal activists, almost to the point of shutting down the rodeo.

Some of [the activists’] concerns are very legitimate and do need to be addressed. The CPRA and its membership are working hard to do just

that.

“At the Nicola Valley Pro Rodeo, we do have measures in place to deal with animal welfare. We work with the stock contractors to make sure everything is safe. We have a vet on site. If something is wrong, we address it.”

Thompson said a lot of the concerns of animal-rights activists can be dealt with through education and

information.

“If you don’t know or understand something, there is a tendency in society to not like it, or find fault. As ambassadors for the sport, it’s our job to educate and to promote awareness and understanding as to what rodeo is all about, and why we showcase the best of the best.”

In addition to making the Nicola Valley

Pro Rodeo on the Labour Day weekend a bigger and better event, the local rodeo committee has some other important irons in the fire for the coming year.

In May, the NVPRA will assisting/supporting the Nicola Valley Stock Breeder’s Association as it plays host to the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association province-wide AGM.

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• Powerful Pro star 44 HP engine • Fuel injected, Duel overhead cams • On Demand True All Wheel Drive (AWD) • 11” Ground Clearance • Integrated Front Storage

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Getting You OutThere!

Warning: The Polaris RANGER and RZR are not intended for on-road use. Driver must be at least 16 years old with a valid driver’s license to operate. Passengers must be at least 12 years old and tall enough to grasp the hand holds and plant feet firmly on the floor. All SxS drivers should take a safety training course. Contact ROHVA at www.rohva.org or (949) 255-2560 for additional information. Drivers and passengers should always wear helmets, eye protection, protective clothing, and seat belts. Always use cab nets. Be particularly careful on difficult terrain. Never drive on public roads or paved surfaces. Never engage in stunt driving, and avoid excessive speeds and sharp turns. Riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. Check local laws before riding on trails. ATVs can be hazardous to operate. Polaris adult models are for riders 16 and older. For your safety, always wear a helmet, eye protection and protective clothing, and be sure to take a safety training course. For safety and training information in the U.S., call the SVIA at (800) 887-2887. You may also contact your Polaris dealer or call Polaris at (800) 342-3764. ©2014 Polaris Industries Inc.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS ART AUCTION Eleven-year-old Niah Prowal donated her pencil sketch of a northern pygmy owl to the Nicola Naturalist Society for a raffle.

Ticket sales from the raffle raised $400 for the group, and the lucky winner of the original artwork was Ron Tiessen.

Submitted

Natural gas. Good for cosy homes.

Choosing natural gas for space and water heating means comfort and energy savings.

Appliance care

Rodeo recruiting volunteers for busy year ahead From Page 9 In June, the rodeo grounds in Collettville will be the site of the Back Country Horsemen of B.C.’s 2015 Rendezvous, a week-

long event expected to attract well over 200 horse-and-rider registrations.

“We have a busy year ahead,” Thompson said, “and we’d appreciate any and all support

we can get from the community.”

For more information on the NVPRA, or to volunteer your help, contact Thompson at 250315-3016.

Keep your appliances operating at their best. Have them regularly inspected and maintained by a licensed natural gas contractor.

Use the FortisBC Trade Ally Network to find a contractor in your community.

Learn more at fortisbc.com/appliancecare.

FortisBC uses the FortisBC name and logo under license from Fortis Inc. (14-117.24 12/2014)

HURRY! YOUR LAST CHANCE TO WIN

$50,000!!

TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST

ONLY A MAXIMUM OF 999 TICKETS SOLD!

MERRITT CENTENNIALS BOOSTER CLUB LOTTERY GRAND PRIZE OF $50,000, BEING DRAWN THIS COMING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13TH, 2014 AT 8:00PM AT THE MERRITT CENTENNIALS HOME GAME AGAINST THE SALMON ARM SILVERBACKS. IN ADDITION TO THE $50,000 GIVEAWAY ON SATURDAY, OUR GAME NIGHT SPONSOR COOPER’S FOODS WILL BE CONDUCTING THEIR ANNUAL CHARITY TURKEY TOSS, CHARITY HOT DOG ROAST, ROULETTE WHEEL. THERE WILL ALSO BE SPORTS MEMORABILIA AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE COOPER’S FOOD FUNDRAISER WILL BENEFIT THE BC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.

Tickets are $100 and are available at THE MERRITT CENTENNIALS MARKETING OFFICE LOCATED INSIDE THE PROPERTY GUYS OFFICE ACROSS FROM THE POST OFFICE 10AM-2PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, OR AT THE MERRITT CENTENNIALS OFFICE LOCATED INSIDE THE NICOLA VALLEY MEMORIAL ARENA

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Christmas time often means one party after another with drinks galore. When you accept an invitation, plan ahead of time how you’re going to get home. Members of the same family or group of friends can designate a driver, arrange to share a taxi at the end of the evening, or use a free or for-hire drive home service.

Even if your alcohol consumption is moderate you still ought to check that you’re still capable of driving safely. Use a personal breath alcohol tester to find out if you’re over the legal limit; they are on sale at most provincial liquor and wine stores.

It might be hard to remember this when under the influence, but a person’s behaviour and faculties are altered by alcohol.

When blood alcohol content is over 0.5 g/l, a driver’s field of vision shrinks, distance perception changes, visual reaction times increase, there is more sensitivity to glare, and vigilance and resistance to fatigue are reduced.

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OPEN Tuesday to Saturday - 10:00am to 5:30pm

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2226 Nicola Avenue, Merritt

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2055 Quilchena chena Ave Across from Fields

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3663 DeWolf Way, Merritt, BC

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Merritt Liquor , Beer & Wine Store (up on the hill)

WE DELIVER! SUPER SAVER CARD

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22

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$ Santa’s Private Reserve

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Blitzen Belgian Tripel

650ml

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Merritt Liquor , Beer & Wine Store (up on the hill)

WE DELIVER! SUPER SAVER CARD

Budweiser

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24 cans

$

39

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24 cans

39

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X-Mas Craft Beers Available!

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Canadian

$

Go ahead make your day, give us a call and we’ll be on our way!

650ml

• Russell

Naughty & Spiced Porter 650ml

250-378-2229

• Rogue

Yellow Snow IPA 650ml

• Howe Sound • Steamworks

22

Merlot & Cab Sauv 750ml

$ Santa’s Private Reserve

90

Stolichnaya All Flavours 750ml Free 2l

save

$

200

Father John’s Winter Ale

Blitzen Belgian Tripel

650ml

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3-3623 Dewolf Way

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Claudette Edenoste Broker/Owner

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250-280-0689

250-315-5178

250-378-1586

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250-315-3548

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12-1749 MENZIES ST $207,000 MLS# 125489

5033 LAUDER RD $219,000 MLS# 124731

2825 CRANNA CRESC $259,000 MLS# 124590

2240 REID AVE 2612 FORKSDALE PL 17-1901 MAXWELL AVE $289,000 MLS# 125655 $299,900 MLS# 125741 $319,000 MLS# 120678

4420 IRON MOUNTAIN RD $345,000 MLS# 124045

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1599 COLDWATER AVE $265,000 MLS# 125663

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Remembering Chief Felix’s stories fondly My dad encouraged Mom to visit Chief Felix and his wife as they were both getting on in their years. Mom shared her embroidery work with Mrs. Felix, while Mrs. Felix showed Mom the buckskin moccasins she was making. Women back

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then never worked outside the home.

They had enough work to do, such as planting gardens.

Mom used to have a huge garden. She had red currant bushes, rhubarb plants, and an apple tree.

See ‘Visits’ Page 19

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Visits with former chief educational, entertaining From Page 18 Then Chief Felix came in and told stories of his travels to Ottawa, the differentspeaking native people with their clothing and their culture.

He told of Eskimos, who wore heavy winter clothes, and their hunting skills. Chief Felix admired them. He told of their killing seals and other sea life for their food, of the roaring oceans on which the Eskimos travelled by canoes or dogsleds in winter.

We Okanagans had never seen anything like that. We were used to beef, moose or deer meat.

We travelled by horse and buggy or wagon in the summer, and a big sleigh with a team of horses in the winter. The snow was so deep sometimes, the horses would pull the sleigh with their breath steaming from their nostrils, their backs covered in snow, and icicles hanging from their whiskers, shining like bright diamonds as the afternoon sun shone on them.

In the summer, the horses would pull the sloop filled with hay, their bodies wet with sweat, their long tails swishing to chase flies away.

I always enjoyed our visits with Chief Felix because he loved to tell stories of his many travels to different places and people.

Visiting with Chief Felix was educational.

Old people who did not speak English very well would call Chief Felix ‘Chief Peelix’ because they could not pronounce the letter F. Josephine would be ‘Shooshapine.’ My Mom used to visit Josephine and her husband Fred Michel in Quilchena.

My dad’s sister’s name was Julianne.

The elders would pronounce her name as ‘Chulianne.’ Those are just a few examples of how our people spoke native slang.

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As always in friendship, Jeanette McMaster Elder, Upper Nicola Band

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• Female • Age 50 or older • Past menopause • Prolonged sex hormone deficiencies • Ovaries removed or menopause before age 45 • Not enough calcium in your diet • Limited exposure to sunlight or insuffi-

cient vitamin D in your diet • Not enough physical activity • Family history of osteoporosis • Thin body frame or “small boned” • White or Eurasian ancestry • Smoker • Caffeine intake (consistently more than three cups a day of coffee, tea, and cola) • Alcohol (consistently more than two drinks per day) • Excess use of certain medications (cortisone, prednisone, anti-convulsants, thyroid hormone, and

aluminum-containing antacids).

One way to use this assessment is to realize that the more risk factors you have, the greater your risk of developing osteoporosis. Specifically, if you have four or more of the common risk factors listed above, the Osteoporosis Society of Canada advises you to discuss being tested for bone density loss with your physician. There are also “stronger predictors” of bone density loss. If one or more of these stronger predictors applies to you, the

Osteoporosis Society of Canada recommends that you talk to your physician about being tested for bone loss.

These are as follows: • A strong family history of osteoporosis • Prolonged use of cortisone or prednisone (glucocorticoids) • Primary hyperparathyroidism • Amenorrhea (missed periods) • Early or surgical menopause (before age 45) • Decreased estrogen levels in women or decreased testosterone levels in men.

What to do when the sky is falling GWEN RANDALL-YOUNG Psychology FOR LIVING What do we do when it feels as though our whole world is coming crashing down around us?

This feeling can come as a result of external circumstances but it can also be triggered by inner mood shifts. At such times, life seems incredibly hard, and a future filled with that kind of pain seems utterly unbearable.

There is a feeling either of hopelessness or an urgency to change the external situation.

Sometimes there is an urge to escape, either through death or addictive behaviours including alcohol, drugs, work, and perhaps even eating or television.

Notwithstanding the fact there may truly be a need for some concrete life changes, let us look at how we can deal with the sense of emo-

tional devastation in the short term.

Remember how we all learned that if we find our clothes on fire, we should not run, but we need to “drop and roll.” To run would only fuel the flames, and we could not run away from the fire because it was right there with us.

Dropping to the ground and rolling removes the oxygen source, without which the fire cannot continue.

When we have emotional pain and we try to run from it, we similarly fuel that pain. We are not doing anything to alleviate it. When we formulate catastrophic expectations and worst case scenarios, we add fuel to the fire. When we berate ourselves, we fan the flames. Emotional pain is generally not extinguished as easily as a fire might be, but we can learn how to survive it and how to control it.

Ironically, the best way to handle these feelings is to accept them, and allow ourselves to feel the pain for a while. It is not the time to abandon ourselves. Even if we feel we have been rejected,

abandoned or betrayed, it is not the end of the world. Even if we cannot find anything to like in ourselves or our situation, it is not the end of the world.

These situations may force us to see we must make changes, but change is always possible. If we realize we must take a new path, we must remember there will be new people and situations there, and there could be a bright new world waiting just around the corner.

There would have been little progress for the human species if there had not always been individuals who were willing to venture into the unknown. We all have the capacity within us. The unknown aspects of our own consciousness or our own potential

futures can seem as daunting as the wilds of Africa or the jungles of South America. But we can call upon the traditions of our ancestors to give us the strength to explore beyond the safety of our known circumscribed reality.

Someone once said that faith is knowing, as you hold desperately to the edge of the cliff, that if you let go, one of two things will happen: either there will be someone there to catch you or you will be shown how to fly.

Know that whatever happens for you, you can choose to be all right. Things may be different, perhaps even hard, but you can still be all right. Don’t ever forget that. All right?

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

Finally, assessing your risk factors can help identify those that you can change. Some of these factors are a result of heredity, while others we call lifestyle factors. By making

changes in your lifestyle, like incorporating weight-bearing exercise, you are doing something to improve your bone health and lower your risk of developing osteoporosis.

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God

the Word, the World

By Herman Kneller

When we watch the news these days, a big portion of the time is taken up by what is going on in Syria and the area.

The problems are Isis and Hamas. Both are religious monuments that are part of Islam.

What did He teach? How to love God, of course. How to live with in harmony with a neighbour.

Then, Jesus said to follow Him. What did He mean by that? Well, Jesus wants us to do what He was doing, live how When you become a member of one He lived. He never was forceful. “Do as of these, it seems to me, that these people I do.” then feel it is their responsibility to bring Well, I guess He used the force of love. others into their faith. How do they do it?

Jesus led by example. When we saw They use force to bring others under their him on the Sabbath, He had gone to the power. We see every kind of terrible thing, synagogue (the church) to worship. like beheading people. How different this is from Christianity.

Jesus showed us when to worship, and He demonstrated what the Sabbath was When Jesus was here on Earth, He used meant for. It was not only a time to sit, a very different method. He used love. sing, listen and learn, but also to keep your Look at what He did. Jesus fed people eyes open to see if you could be a help who were hungry. At one time, He fed and a blessing to anyone or everyone.

5000 men, not counting the women and children.

Jesus did heal on the Sabbath. He showed His love for people. He said to What was Jesus trying to show them? the people, “If you love me, keep my He was trying to make them see that He commandments.” The commandments was the Son of God, the Creator’s own, were given for our good, our health, and and that He cares for us all. our happiness. It even states that you Jesus not only fed them, He healed all should not do anything, for your beneÀt, who had problems. that would create work. The Sabbath is a day for us to rest.

Then it says that He taught them.

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Cents prove themselves to be road warriors Team earns five of a possible six points from a bounce-back weekend away from home

By Ian Webster THE HERALD

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The Merritt Centennials’ resiliency shone through on the weekend as they battled their way to two wins and an overtime loss in three games played away from home.

In doing so, the Cents officially put an end to their four-game losing streak, and put themselves back in the mix in the BCHL’s tight Interior division.

Merritt currently sits in fourth place in the six-team conference, just one point behind the West Kelowna Warriors going into last night’s clash between the Warriors and the Vernon Vipers.

The five of a possible six points came courtesy of a 3-2 overtime win against the Nanaimo Clippers on Friday night, an 8-7 overtime loss to the Victoria Grizzlies on Saturday and an 8-5 victory over the Coquitlam Express Sunday afternoon.

“Getting the five points was definitely nice,” Cents assistant coach Joe Martin said.

“There were a lot of other things inside the weekend that really worked out well, too.”

Martin referenced the fact that 16 different Centennials picked up one or more points on the productive weekend — something that the coach feels will do wonders for the team’s confidence.

Despite falling behind 2-0 early against the Clips, the visiting Centennials were full value for their victory over the Island Division leaders.

“Friday night was almost picture perfect,” Martin said. “Yes, they jumped out to a twogoal lead, but we were the better team all night.

The guys played well for the whole game and deserved to win.”

Twenty-year-old John Schiavo got the ball rolling for the Centennials midway through the second period, scoring his team-leading 17th goal on the powerplay. Nick Fidanza would make it a tie game just 1:37 into the third period with the Cents again enjoying the man advantage.

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while singles came from Clifford, Schiavo and Cole Chorney.

Martin said that Gould was on fire all weekend.

“I’ve never seen Gavin play better. Due to circumstances, he got a little extra ice time this weekend, and he made the most of it.”

Ederer also made the best of some bonus minutes.

“Mostly because of penalty troubles, we double-shifted Mike a few times and he really seemed to enjoy that and pushed the pace.

When guys like him are playing with speed, they’re hard to stop.”

BIRTHDAY BOY Merritt Centennials defenceman Jake Clifford celebrated turning 20 on December 8 with a pair of goals on the weekend. Clifford, shown above in action against the Nanaimo Clippers on Friday, scored once against Victoria on Saturday night and again versus Coquitlam Sunday afternoon. Photo courtesy of Scott McKenzie/Nanaimo Daily News

That’s how things stayed until the 48-second mark of the second overtime when yet another rookie, Colin Grannary, managed to bang the game winner past Nanaimo netminder Jakob Severson.

Jonah Imoo picked up the victory in the Merritt net, stopping 27 of 29 Clippers’ shots, while Severson took the loss. The Centennials went two-for-six on the powerplay and limited Nanaimo to one goal on four man-advantage opportunities.

It was a very different game 24 hours later in the province’s capital as Victoria and Merritt combined for 15 goals in a riverboat, run-and-gun

type of hockey game that saw countless defensive breakdowns at both ends of the ice.

“We don’t see [Victoria] enough, and it’s hard not to get caught up playing the same style of game as they do,” Martin said.

“We just kind of got sucked in.”

Sucked in, indeed.

The two sides traded goals all night long in a contest more reminiscent of pond hockey than an elite Junior A game.

The Grizzlies led 3-2 after 20 minutes. The Cents were in front 4-3 at the end of the second. Seven more goals were scored in the final 20 minutes of regula-

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Monday, he was confined to bed.

The Grizz outshot the Cents 34-30, and outscored them 2-1 on the powerplay.

Despite the short turnaround that included a ferry trip across Georgia Strait, the Cents were the team with more jump in the game against the Express at the Poirier Centre in Coquitlam on Sunday afternoon.

Merritt peppered Express’ netminder Chris Tai with 35 shots, while Imoo faced just 25 at the Merritt end of the rink.

Gould continued his hot play with another two-goal outing. Michael Ederer also had a pair,

Still out of the lineup on the weekend were defencemen Malik Kaila and Cole Arcuri, along with forward James Neil. Their return date remains uncertain.

“We’d love to see all three guys back in the lineup,” Martin said, “but we don’t want to rush things. We want them healthy and feeling good every period.”

Up next for the Centennials is a tough road trip to Prince George on Friday for a game against the Spruce Kings, followed by a home engagement on Saturday with the visiting Salmon Arm Silverbacks.

The Cents fell 5-2 to the ’Backs in their most recent home game back on November 29.

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tion, including five in the final, frenetic eight minutes.

Deadlocked at 7-7, the Cents weren’t quite as fortunate this time around in extra innings as Victoria’s Garrett Forster ended things at the 3:31 mark of the first OT period.

Merritt scorers in the ‘Wild West shootout’ were Gavin Gould with two, Josh Teves, Shane Poulsen, Diego Cuglietta, Jake Clifford and Rhett Willcox.

Centennials’ netminder Anthony Pupplo could be forgiven for a slightly sub-par performance as the ’tender was somewhat under the weather. By Sunday, he was throwing up and by

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MSS junior girls host hoops tourney this weekend

By Ian Webster

MSS Junior Girls Basketball Tournament Schedule

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Merritt basketball fans will have a great chance to see ‘a whole lotta hoopla’ this weekend as the Merritt Secondary School junior girls team hosts a two-day tournament at the MSS gymnasium.

In addition to a pair of Merritt squads, there will be visiting high school teams from Princeton Secondary and Valleyview in Kamloops.

Action gets underway at 2 p.m. on Friday and wraps up at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Spectators are most welcome, and admission is free.

MSS coaches Tamara Slanzi and Matt Kuroyama have over 20 girls coming out for practices, and have decided not to make any cuts this year.

“We want to focus on growing the basketball program at MSS and filling the stands at the gym on game nights,” Slanzi said. “It may be a work in progress, but, given time, it can happen with the athletes we have.

“We didnt want to discourage any girls from trying out. By keeping them all, we can focus on improving their skills and development for future years. That is how champion teams are built.”

Slanzi went on to add that each week of the season, a travelling squad of about a dozen players will be selected for league games.

“We told the girls that the squad will

Friday, December 12 2:00 3:30 5:00 6:30

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change from week to week based on the committment and level of play we see in practice,” Slanzi said. “So far, the ladies have stepped up to the challenge, and seem eager to work their way up to a starting position.

“Our practices focus on conditioning (boot-camp style), running a motion offence and learning a 2-3 zone defence. We have chosen to play Tier 1 ball so that we can battle against the harder Kamloops teams.”

In addition to hosting their own pre-Christmas tournament, Slanzi and Kuroyama plan to have their junior girls team attend two other tourneys in the new

COURT STARS The MSS junior girls basketball team: (back row, left to right) Simreeta Chhabra, Chloe Murphy, Emmanuelle Dugas, Naomi Martin, Simren Panghli, Courtney Christie, Autumn Morel, coach Tamara Slanzi, Caity Walsh, Jensen Cavaliere, Mesha Naiker, Dystin Aird, Danika Prato, (front row) Amber Lorette, Kalea Palmer, Casidy Sheena, Takara Kubo, Kaitlyn Hack, Keisha Henry. Missing: Breanna Kerridge, Kerragan Selman, Honey GrismerVoght, Madeleine Barnes and coach Matt Kuroyama. Ian Webster/Herald

year — in Penticton January 9 to 10, and in Midway January 22 to 23.

The MSS junior girls and boys teams typically play their league games on Thursdays starting at 5 p.m. The next pair of games are on December 11 when they host the St. Ann’s Crusaders.

In their season opener last week, the MSS junior girls fell to the Sa-Hali Sabres

from Kamloops.

“There were lots of positives that came out of the game,” Slanzi said. “We had just introduced the motion offence, so the girls were pretty intent on running that. In the first half, they kind of focused on their passing and cutting. In the second half, they began driving the ball to the hoop and taking more shots. The work ethic was great.”

Ramada peewee reps win it all at Penticton tournament The Merritt Ramada peewee reps got points from 13 different players and outstanding goaltending from Troy Holmes and Bryce Garcia en route to winning an eight-team tournament in Penticton on the weekend.

The Merritt peewees went a perfect 5-0 at the tournament with wins over Salmon Arm (8-1), Seattle (7-2), Port Alberni (7-0), Revelstoke (6-3) and Aldergrove (5-2) in the final.

Spencer Vaughan led all Merritt scorers with eight goals in five games, followed

by Talon Zakall (6), Breanna Ouellet (5), Matthew Newman (4), Atrayu Johnny and Garrett MacDonald

(2 each), Sajjin Lali, Chase Cooke and Jayden Story (1 apiece).

One or more assists went to Vaughan, Zakall, Ouellet, Cooke, MacDonald, Johnny, Allison Moore and Divaan Sahota.

MINOR HOCKEY REPORT Midget Rep The Merritt Tracker Sportswear midget reps improved their league record to 9-2 (good for sec-

ond place) with a 4-2 home-ice victory over Clearwater on the weekend.

In a penalty-filled contest that saw four game misconducts

handed out to the visitors, the Merritt team got goals from Lane Antoine, Grady Musgrave, Marcelo Bose and Brayden Thormoset.

Assists were given to Musgrave, Antoine, Bose, Thormoset, Jesse Kane, Bailey Tomkinson and Dakota Wudrich.

Sam Suzuki picked up the win in net.

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CHAMPIONS! The Merritt Ramada peewees celebrate their tournament title in Penticton on the weekend. They defeated Aldergrove 5-2 in the championship game. Photo submitted

The Merritt Fountain Tire atoms edged South Okanagan 3-2 on the weekend.

Max Graham (2) and Robert Sterling looked after the

PUCK LUGGER As goaltender Carson Lang looks on, Interior Savings captain Tryton Bose (5) carries the puck up ice during his team’s game against Chilliwack on the weekend. Complete results of the eight-team peewee house tournament were not made available. The North Delta Devils defeated the Kamloops Blazers in the championship game, while the Hope Wildcats were winners of the consolation final. Ian Webster/Herald

scoring, while Jalen McRae, Corbin Vaughan and Sterling picked up assists.

Nathan Willey and Manjot Panghli shared the win in the Merritt net.

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Navy League Cadets Craft sale/small business 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Santa pictures from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Dec 13/14 @ The Cadet Hall 1755 Coldwater Ave. Hot Turkey soup available. For more info phone Ellen 250-280-6944.

trinity united On Saturday, Dec. 13 the Trinity United Church will be hosting its annual Christmas lunch, brake and craft sale from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Dec. 14 Trimming the Tree Pageant. Telling the story of the decorations, childrens choir, Trinity ensemble and carol singing with audience participation.

Fishing derby The Nicola Valley Fish & Game Club would like to invite you to their annual Mamette Lake Ice Fishing Derby. It will be held on Sunday Jan. 11 from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. There will be 50/50 for goods, prizes and increased cash prize for biggest fish. Free coffee and hot chocolate and hot dogs will be available by donatioin. Purchase your ticket at Ponderosa, Gun-Fishin or at the fishing derby. If you would like further information you can contact Ed Collins 250-378-2547 or Paul Komonoski at 250-3784904.

Shelter looking for volunteers

LIVING WITH LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

The Nicola Valley Shelter and Support Society is seeking volunteers to fill shifts at the Extreme Weather Response Shelter located at 1937A Quilchena Ave. from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and 9 p.m. to midnight daily. Volunteer application packages are available at the Community Policing Office (250-3783955) located at 2013 Quilchena Avenue.

Living with the Loss Support Group Wednesday 7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. #122025 Granite Ave, Merritt - Call Marilyn at 250-3783513.

Love to knit or crochet? Come on down to Brambles Bakery Thursday evenings bring your yarn and needles and join in the fun.(1st Thursday of the month)

RISING FROM THE ASHES

MERRITT MINOR HOCKEY

Fire relief fundraisers for Earth Walker Spiritual Shop. You can either donate money to the bank account set up at CIBC or drop off your bottle donations to the bottle depot.

Register for the 2014/15 season at merrittminorhockey.com. Call 250378-6827 for more information.

Conayt Bingo Every Thursday evening, doors open at 4:30 p.m. first game starts at 6 p.m. Bingo is at 2164 Quilchena Avenue.

No Bingo on Thursday December 25, 2014 and Thursday, January 1, 2015.

Bingo will resume as normal on Thursday, January 8, 2014.

The Nicola Valley Community Band Fall season of practices on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the music room at MSS. info: James 250-378-9894.

The Community Choir New season has started, come at 7 p.m. Located at Colletteville school. New members are very welcome.

For more information contact: Ellen 250-378-9899 or Barb 250-389-2678.

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volunteers needed The Navy League is in need of officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and volunteers to help out with our growing Cadet Corps. Our children are age 9 to 13 and we meet every Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

If you have past experience or are interested in becoming a part of our Corps please contact us. Ellen 250-280-6944, Debra 250-280-4086 or email at nlccventure@gmail.com

Merritt senior centre Weekly schedule is as follows: Monday: Crib & Whist 7 p.m. Tuesday: Bingo 1 p.m., Duplicate Bridge 7 p.m. Wednesday: Carpet Bowling 1:30 p.m., Court Whist 7 p.m.

Thursday: Floor Curling 1 p.m. (third week - shut-in lucheon) Friday: Rummoli & Games 7 p.m. All seniors welcome.

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Friday - Frosty Friday - 5 p.m. Saturdays - Meat draw: 2:30 p.m.

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Would you like to see a movie theatre in Merritt, then the Merritt Community Cinema Soceity can use your help!

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Phase 2 has started.

Goal to reach $144,000 for design & architect fees

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SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 58 (NICOLA-SIMILKAMEEN)

Robert (Bob)

HUTTON

MECHANICAL TRADESMAN

We are with shattered hearts announcing the passing of Robert (Bob) Hutton on the 25th of November.

Applications are invited for the position of Mechanical Tradesman with School District No. 58, (Nicola-Similkameen) in Merritt.

He is survived by his children; Cherish, Bobbie, Kalen, Joshua, Felicia and their mothers Angelle and Tonya. Also left to mourn his passing is his mother Marilyn (Bud), his father Bill, his dad John (Monica), his sister Gena and niece Dekara, his twin brother and best friend Jim and his kids; Verdann, Dayton, James Dymond and Dryden. Kate and Leigh-Lyn. Services will be held on Saturday, Nov. 13 at 1 pm at the Evangelist Church located on the corner of Voght and Maxwell

This is a 12-month per year, 7.5 hours per day position. Salary and benefits will be in accordance with the C.U.P.E. Local 847 Collective Agreement.

For a complete listing of the job description and qualifications please visit the district’s website at www.sd58.bc.ca click on Jobs/Support Positions and search under ‘Current Job Opportunities’ and follow the prompts (Job Code 796147).

Applications, including a detailed resume with a minimum of three references, will be accepted until December 19, 2014.

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Gerharda (Oma) Velt It is with great sadne sadness ess hat we announce the that passing of Gerhard da Gerharda (Oma) Velt on December 06, 2014 at the age of 89.

Born in Ede, Holland, her gift of helping others led her to become a care aid nurse, looking after families needs when the mother was ill. That one of these children, now a doctor, writes to her 60 years later, indicates how great of an impression she made on them.

In 1955 she married Peter Velt and with their children Paul and Sonja, they emigrated to Merritt in 1960. Both Mom and Dad worked hard to make a good life for their family, and though not rich monetarily, we were given a wealth of love and caring.

Moms goal in life was to help others. She loved people and animals alike and they all loved her. Untold numbers of family, friends and strangers crossed our threshold and were fed and given a bed if needed. She and her kitchen were the heart of the house and it was Àlled with laughter and well fed visitors.

She was a wonderful cook, seamstress and gardener. After Dad retired, they loved to go Àshing and even then, would invite people they met at the lake back for a meal. Strangers became good friends.

Mom’s last years were difÀcult with Dad’s passing and several serious illnesses, but she dealt with them as usual, without complaint. She had amazing inner strength. When she moved into Coquihalla Gillis House, she was back in an environment she was familiar with. Though a resident herself, she loved helping those who needed a hand or a kind word. To everyone, she was Oma. Staff would often visit her and she would tell stories of life in Holland and feed them cookies or dutch licorice. She was the ultimate nuturer and Mom. Predeceased by her husband Peter and sisters, Riet, Ans and Fiet, she leaves to mourn her son Paul (Pam), daughter Sonja (Nigel) and grandsons Ben (Kaytlynn) and Derek and sister Wil. We wish to thank Dr. Smit and especially the staff at Gillis House for the love, care and dignity they have given her and our family during this very difÀcult time. We will miss her warmth, her smile and the mischievous twinkle in her eye. She made a lasting impression on so many people. What a wonderful legacy to leave behind. Safe journey Oma and until we meet again.

A celebration of Omas life to be held at a future date.

The district has a high percentage of First Nations and other multicultural students and so being sensitive to cultural diversities would be an asset.

Application forms are available at the School Board office, 1550 Chapman Street, Merritt, BC, or you can apply on-line at www.sd58.bc.ca, click on Jobs/Support Positions/Job Postings and follow the prompts provided. Applications, including a detailed resume with a minimum of three references will be accepted until December 12, 2014. Please forward to: Attn: Secretary Treasurer School District No. 58 (Nicola-Similkameen) P.O. Box 4100, 1550 Chapman St. Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 Fax: (250) 378-6263 Only those applicants being interviewed will be contacted.

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