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Merritt’s Ramada peewee reps defeated Whitehorse 4-1 in the gold-medal game on Friday in West Vancouver to win the B.C. provincial tier 3 crown. For the full story, turn to page 9. Photo courtesy of Mike McDonnell

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Four injured in crash on Highway 97D Four people were sent to hospital after a crash on Highway 97D between Logan Lake and the Coquihalla Highway last Friday afternoon (March 18).

The crash happened at about 2:25 in the afternoon, and other media reports suggested a vehicle went off the road and down a steep embankment. Three ambulances and a helicopter attended the scene.

BC Health Services told the Herald one person is in critical condition and was transported to hospital via air ambulance. Three others were sent to hospital with non life threatening injuries via TOP AND LEFT Emergency crews respond to a single vehicle ground ambulance. accident near Logan Lake last Friday afternoon. CFJC Today

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS COURT REPORT

“Breaking the Chain of Abuse”

Shooter of Kamloops Mountie handed 16.5-year prison sentence Cam Fortems KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

A 38-year-old man who admitted to unloading six shots at an RCMP member who pulled him over in December 2014 was sentenced Thursday to more than sixteen years in prison.

After the charge of attempted murder was read out to him, Kenneth Knutson replied “guilty.” He has been in custody since his arrest in the afternoon of Dec. 3 that year, about 12 hours after the shooting and a police manhunt.

Austin Cullen, the associate chief judge for B.C. Supreme Court, agreed with a joint submission from the Crown and defence that Knutson be given a sentence of sixteen and a half years. With credit for time spent in custody, his effective sentence is 14.5 years.

His prior record includes convictions for assaulting police and manslaughter. He was given credit for pleading guilty and avoiding at trial at which his victim would have testified.

Seriously injured in the shooting was Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud, who was struck by several bullets. He underwent a number of surgeries and has not returned to full duty.

Michaud was in the courtroom but RCMP officials said he would not speak publicly on the shooting or sentencing.

Knutson declined to speak to the courtroom before his sentence.

“Mr. Knutson committed a very serious crime,” said defence lawyer Jordan Watt.

“What we’re proposing is a very serious consequence for that crime.”

Crown lawyer Colin Forsyth detailed the events of the evening that began with Michaud pulling over

a Chrysler Intrepid that was suspected to be involved in drug sales. Knutson was not part of that investigation.

Michaud called for backup after the car failed to immediately pull over on Eighth Avenue in North Kamloops. Instead, it continued up the road to Batchelor Heights, eventually pulling over.

Court heard Michaud approached

9-mm handgun.

A police dog later recovered the gun in a grassy area near the townhouse unit where he was arrested.

Knutson was injured from a shot fired by another Mountie who backed up Michaud.

A woman in the passenger seat of the Chrysler, Angela Kapral, later told RCMP when they were being pulled over, she told Knutson “‘pull over, it’s all good, it will be fine.’”

Forsyth said Kapral reported Knutson seemed “panicky” because he had no licence and didn’t want to go back to jail.

She next saw the light from Michaud’s flashlight and Knutson with the handgun.

the vehicle with caution.

“When Cpl. Michaud exited his vehicle, instead of approaching from the driver’s side as normal he decided to approach from the passenger’s side,” Forsyth said.

As he passed between the front of his cruiser and the back of the Chrysler, the rear passenger window blew out, Michaud heard gunfire and saw a muzzle flash.

“Cpl. Michaud was struck by at least two bullets, possibly more,” Forsyth said.

Through their investigation, RCMP determined Knutson fired six bullets from the Smith & Wesson

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE

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Road maintenance budget gets boost from province Minister confident local highway maintenance concerns are being addressed

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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: March, 2011

ALBAS ELECTED TO REPLACE DAY

Transportation Minister Todd Stone at the March 18 announcement. Michael Potestio/Herald Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

While a local group led by Merritt Mayor Neil Menard continues to lobby the province for better winter maintenance on local highways from VSA, Minister of Transportation Todd Stone says he’s satisfied the contractor is doing a good job.

“I personally am satisfied that VSA [Highway Maintenance] is meeting the standards that are detailed in their contract,” Stone told the Herald.

Announcing a $36 million budget increase to the province’s road maintenance budget Friday (March 18) at the Walloper Interchange between Merritt and Kamloops off Highway 5, Stone said the additional funds will ensure highway maintenance is kept at a high standard.

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increase is meant to cover rising costs in highway maintenance and inflation, as well as enable contractors to continue to purchase new equipment.

“I’m more than confident that we’re not just able to address the concerns raised by the mayor of Merritt today, but that we will be able to do so well into the future,” he told the Herald.

“We certainly take his concerns seriously,” said Stone. “That’s why we’ve met with the mayor three times in the last six weeks, we’ve actually devoted about 30 hours of staff time and contractor time to meeting with the mayor and his team to walk through the concerns that he has.”

Contrary to the Minister’s comments, Merritt Mayor Neil Menard doesn’t believe the Ministry of Transportation is addressing the group’s concerns regarding highway

maintenance. He also said the last meeting they had with the ministry was five weeks ago.

“We had our last meeting with them on the 12th of February and we’ve been pushing them to get an answer ever since then and we still haven’t got it,” Menard told the Herald in a phone interview following Stone’s announcement.

Menard said that he doesn’t think more money is the answer to addressing their issues as he doesn’t believe VSA is performing their duties to provincial road maintenance standards.

The group currently have a petition circulating that has collected more than 2,500 signatures.

Stone said he’s always looking for ways to improve road maintenance.

“And that’s why the additional $36 million over the next three years is going to assist our contractors in being able to invest in more innova-

tive technologies,” he said.

He said the transportation ministry is in the process of determining how much of the new funding each area of the province will receive.

“These additional dollars will be distributed across the entire province — different amounts to different districts based on the challenges that exist in each of the districts,” Stone said. “We will ensure that each district around the province has the dollars that they need to maintain the standards that are expected in the contracts and, if possible, even go beyond that.”

The announcement represents a meaningful increase to road maintenance funding as the government is increasing this budget over the next three years by 10 per cent, compared to a 25 per cent increase over the last 15 years, Stone said. reporter@merrittherald.com

Dan Albas will carry the Conservative flag into the next federal election in Okanagan Coquihalla.

The 34-yearold beat out two other challengers – Penticton realtor Marshall Neufeld and West Kelowna businessman Rusty Ensign when all of the ballots were counted, Tuesday evening at the Ramada Inn. “It’ a big honour for me to win,” said Albas. “When you have people who have heard your message and then believe in you enough to say ’you’re their man’... it’s an honour. I look forward to representing the Conservative flag in the next election and I’m very honoured to have competed for this nomination with two very worthy individuals.”

While final tallies were not announced to the media, unofficially Albas edged Neufeld, his nearest rival, 166-107.

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City Calendar March 22 7 pm - Regular Council Meeting Merritt City Hall March 23 8 pm - Pre-Teen Night Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre March 24 - 27 Junior Native Hockey Tournament 2016 Nicola Valley Memorial Arena March 24 8:30 pm - Teen Night Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre March 25 10 am to 12 pm - City Easter Extravaganza Rotary Park

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Moving or demolishing buildings.

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Relocating a mobile home.

Interior renovations including structural work or plumbing changes.

Installing wood-burning appliances.

Constructing retaining walls over 1 meter in height.

Changing the use or occupancy type of an existing building.

Creating a secondary suite.

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When you have completed your plans for construction, you can obtain a Building Permit Application from the City of Merritt website (www.merritt.ca) or from City Hall.

Contact Planning and Development Services at 250-378-4224 to confirm the application requirements for your specific project.

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Aaron Goodvin will share the stage with Sam Hunt, Brent Lee and other big ticket acts this summer. Submitted photo David Dyck THE MERRITT HERALD

Up and coming country music artist Aaron Goodvin will be one of the acts at this year’s Merritt Rockin’ River Festival — but it won’t be the first time he’s performed in the Nicola Valley.

Goodvin last performed in Merritt as a teenager.

“I’m super pumped. I did the Merritt Mountain Music Festival years ago — I did a little side stage performance. It was a great time — great people — and there was a lot of partying,” he remembered.

“I was not a part of it because I was underage,” he laughed.

Sharing the stage with Sam Hunt, Brent Lee, and the Chris Buck Band this summer, Goodvin is a long way from his home in Spirit River Alberta, where he learned to sing at an early age. “I grew up playing hockey and singing songs with my family around a campfire — that’s basically where my love of country music started,” he said.

While that’s how he developed his love for country music, he picked

up the guitar and started writing his own songs with a specific objective in mind. “Back when I was younger, everybody laughs, but you wrote songs to pick up girls,” he laughed.

“There’s no other reason at that point — so I wrote a lot about girls.”

When he was 17, he moved to Edmonton, and at 25 to Nashville to pursue a career in music. Now he has an album set to drop next month with Warner Canada, and he’s currently on tour with country music star Jonny Reid. Although he’s doing a solo show with Reid, he’s bringing the whole ensemble to Rockin’ River.

“It’s just me and my guitar just doing my thing, which is a really cool thing that I get to do on this tour, but what I’m really looking forward to is bringing my band up to do the show in Merritt,” he said.

“Festivals are just a little bit more upbeat overall. Everybody at a festival wants a show, but if I remember Merritt correctly there’s a lot of partying, so we’re definitely going to bring that aspect of it and pick up the pace a little bit on stage.”

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HERALD OPINION MP REPORT

Seeking input on death and dying This week is a constituency week, meaning the House is not sitting as Members DAN ALBAS of View from the Parliament HILL are back in their ridings before returning to Ottawa next week for just four days until the House rises again for two more constituency weeks before resuming on Monday, April 11.

Part of the reason why I oppose the idea of the House of Commons no longer sitting on Fridays is due to the fact that I believe there is an adequate number of constituency weeks to achieve a balance between time in Ottawa and our home ridings as is.

I will also raise the concern that by cancelling Fridays, we will eventually see the productivity of Thursday sittings plummet as MPs try to use Thursday as a travel day in order to take advantage of Friday in their ridings.

In essence, Thursday will become the new Friday, meaning less votes on Thursday, less regular attendance on Thursday committees and perhaps less debate in the House of Commons.

For this week’s MP report I would like to re-submit a portion of my MP report from February of 2015. While I seldom re-run a former report, in this instance the topic is one that I know all Canadians take very seriously; that is the subject of doctor assisted suicide as it relates to a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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The Obamas’ visit to Havana

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Japanese soldiers stumbling out of the jungle to discover that the war ended a generation ago.

And the Rolling Stones, who are staging a free concert for half a million people in the Cuban capital on Friday, explained that Obama was their opening act.

The U.S. embassy in Havana has already reopened, but only the U.S. Congress can end the 55-year-old American trade embargo against Cuba. Under Republican control Congress is not going to do that, so this visit is really just a social call. Indeed, it was

scheduled to coincide with spring break in U.S. schools so the Obamas could bring their daughters along.

Yet no journalist watching all this can resist speculating about whether this opening portends great political changes in Cuba, maybe even the eventual end of the long dictatorship of the Castro brothers and the Cuban Communist Party. Least of all me, as I have been speculating about that in public, at intervals, for most of my adult life.

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when the leadership lived in permanent fear of American invasion or subversion, and most Cubans really were ready to fight to defend the revolution. My first visit was in the mid-1980s, when the bloom was already off the revolutionary rose.

Most of Latin America was living under brutal U.S.-backed military dictatorships at the time, and the Cuban dictatorship seemed to me almost gentle by comparison.

It didn’t even kill people much. But Cubans, unable to travel and aware that the regime’s propaganda usually lied,

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were in a stroppy mood.

If you spoke even a little Spanish, they unloaded their discontent on you.

So I went home and predicted that the regime, if not on its last legs, was at least in its last decade.

This did not come to pass on schedule, but when I next went to Cuba, in 1994, it certainly looked imminent. The collapse of the old Soviet Union had cut off all the subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat despite the American embargo and its own huge inefficiencies.

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YOUR OPINION LETTER

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Assisted suicide is Health care not up to snuff a complex issue Editor:

From Page 6 My reason for re-running a segment of my previous report is due to the fact that the riding boundaries have since changed as have our Parliaments over the past year and I believe it is important to hear from citizens in our new riding of Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola on this important subject that will soon be before the House.

When I last raised this topic I received a large amount of very sincere and at times heartfelt comments and thoughts.

One particular constituent shared a perspective that I believe raises unique and important concerns that I would like to share with citizens for added perspective. The following is an edited excerpt from my Feb. 2015 MP report: The citizen in question suffers from a very severe physical disability and opposes the legalization of assisted suicide.

The reason for this opposition is not based on faith, nor a previous encounter with suicide or hope that a miracle cure will be discovered.

The concern from this particular disabled citizen is guilt.

As a severely disabled individual, this person relies very heavily on family to serve as specialized care givers. As many will know, providing specialized and end of life care for a severally disabled loved one can be a challenging experience.

In this case the constituent who contacted me shared a great love and appreciation for family members in making great sacrifices to help them live a better quality of life.

The concern of this severely disabled constituent is that legalized suicide would create an easy option for this person to end their own life with the assistance of a willing doctor.

This person expressed a strong will to live. They have no desire to die. Where assisted suicide is a concern to this person is over a profound level of guilt. This guilt comes from the significant ongoing efforts of family members in providing specialized care. As legalized suicide could end the need for that care by not pursuing suicide, this individual would feel intense guilt that they are imposing on loved one’s when another option is available.

Suffice to say this was a difficult and emotional conversation and I apologize in advance that I am not relaying this concern in the manner it truly deserves.

I have shared this point again as it illustrates a situation of a severely disabled person who does not wish to die but has admitted the guilt of not pursuing suicide to relieve family members from serving as care givers could potentially result in a reluctant medically assisted suicide.

As I commented then, I do not believe this is a situation any Canadian would welcome and is one we should be mindful of in this discussion.

As I discovered when I last requested input on this subject, there are other situations and different perspectives in this conversation that are well deserving of consideration.

I welcome your views, opinions and experiences. I can be reached at Dan.Albas@parl.gc.ca or toll-free at 1-800-6658711.

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Cuba has stubbornly remained at status quo From Page 6 During the “Special Period in Time of Peace,� which lasted through most of the 1990s, nobody starved, but almost everybody went hungry and the average Cuban lost 9 kg (20 lbs) in body weight.

Social order broke down, with crime rampant and desperate young people openly selling their bodies in the streets.

So I went home and predicted the imminent collapse of the regime again. Communist regimes in Europe whose people were quite well-fed had been falling to non-violent democratic revolutions with scarcely any resistance in the past few years, so it seemed implausible that this aging, ramshackle dictatorship would last much longer either.

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Fidel Castro retired after 42 years and handed power to his brother Raul in 2008, Western embassies in Havana (minus the United States, of course) arranged for various “experts� from their countries to visit Cuba and explain how things were done in a real democracy — which they fully expected that Cuba would shortly become.

I was asked to go along as an alleged expert in media and civil-military affairs, to tell Cuban journalists and military officers how they should operate in a democracy. It was a well-meant but ridiculous initiative, but I went anyway because it gave me unprecedented access at a very interesting time.

And I came back convinced once again that a democratic transformation was really imminent,

because most of those I was speaking to expected it themselves. Few of them, even in the armed forces, feared for their jobs, and most of them thought that change would be for the better.

But fast forward another eight years, and very little has changed. Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 (when he will be only 86), but a new generation of Communist leaders is already being promoted into key positions.

In fact, I now think that the regime will probably survive until and unless the U.S. Congress finally ends the embargo and exposes Cuba to the full force of international capitalism.

Of course, I have been wrong in the past.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Re: “Letter: Emergency room care is exemplary� (March 3) I was very pleased the care needed was given but I hate to inform you that Interior Health does not provide the services this community should be getting. The hospital runs 24/7 but the lab, X-ray, etc. closes at 4:30 p.m. and the only one that can call them in is the doctor. On Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. my wife went to emergency. A doctor from Kelowna who I will not name was on duty. It was not hard to see she was very sick, but he did no blood work, EKG or X-ray. At 11:00 p.m. he sent her home with one Gravol pill.

Less than 48 hours later she was on life support at Inland Hospital in Kamloops.

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In the next month, half the population of the Nicola Valley will be without a doctor. Interior Health say they are trying to find doctors — I don’t believe them. There are doctors from Europe and South Africa that can’t get through the red tape, yet we can bring in 25,000 refugees in a matter of weeks.

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A Merritt team wins first provincial minor hockey title in 31 years Ian Webster THE MERRITT HERALD

For the first time in 31 years, Merritt has a provincial minor hockey championship team!

The Merritt Ramada peewees won the B.C. Tier 3 peewee rep hockey title last week in West Vancouver, defeating Whitehorse 4-1 in the gold-medal game played on Friday afternoon.

“The team came out ready to play,” reported team manager Jodi Graham shortly after the Merritt victory.

Merritt built a 3-0 lead against Whitehorse in the first period on goals by Missy McDonnell, Breanna Ouellet and Matthew Newman. After a scoreless second stanza, Max Graham extended Merritt’s lead to 4-0, before Whitehorse ended the shutout with just two minutes left in regulation. Merritt assists in the game went to Newman (2), Ouellet and Graham.

“Manjot Panghli stood strong in net for Merritt making 24 saves,” Graham said.

“The team played an amazing game. In fact, their defence was unreal

all week. A true team effort.”

Merritt earned a spot in the championship final with a 3-0-1 record during round-robin play, and a hard-fought 7-5 win over Trail in semifinal action on Thursday.

In preliminary play, Merritt downed the hosts, West Vancouver, 11-2, the Sunshine Coast 7-4, Cranbrook 22-0, and tied Dawson Creek 4-4.

While Merritt was beating Trail in one semi-final, Whitehorse was getting the better of Dawson Creek 4-1.

Dawson would go on to edge Trail 8-6 in the bronze-medal game.

“The game against Dawson Creek was probably one of the fastest tempo games we’ve had to play all year,” coach John Graham said. “Our semi-final game against Trail was also a tough one. We went down 3-0 early in the first period and had to battle back.”

The Merritt peewees learned their lesson against their Kootenay opponent, and didn’t make the same mistake in the championship final versus Whitehorse.

THE ROAD TO THE TITLE IN WEST VAN Game 1 Sunday, March 13 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6

THE CHAMPS BC Hockey’s Bill Veenstra presents the provincial peewee tier 3 championship banner to Merritt players (from left) Breanna Ouellet, Chase Cooke and Max Graham. Photo courtesy of Mike McDonnell

They came out guns-ablazin’ and never looked back.

“The kids realized that it’s a lot nicer to play with a lead,” Graham said.

Merritt’s Breanne Ouellet was the top overall scorer at the provincial tier 3 championships with 15 goals and 11 assists for 26 points in six

games. In second place was Dawson Creek’s Hayden Smith (17-7-24), followed by Merritt’s Max Graham (11-8-19).

Fourth were two more Merritt players: Matthew Newman (5-8-13) and team captain Chase Cooke (6-7-13).

The Merritt line of Ouellet, Graham and Newman accumulated

58 tournament points in total — an average of 9.67 points per game.

Merritt players swept the tournament’s hardest-shot competition with Cooke taking top overall honours thanks to a clocking of 117 km/hr.

Ouellet led all girls with a best effort of 91 km/ hr., while Bryce Garcia was the cream of the

Merritt 11 West Vancouver 2 Monday, March 14 Merritt 7 Sunshine Coast 4 Tuesday, March 15 Merritt 4 Dawson Creek 4 Wednesday, March 16 Merritt 22 Cranbrook 0 Thursday, March 17 Semi-Final Merritt 8 Trail 5 Friday, March 18 Championship Final Merritt 4 Whitehorse 1

goaltenders at 87 km/ hr. (with a regular hockey stick).

The provincial crown caps an incredible season for the Merritt peewees who went undefeated with a 49-0-3 record, and five tournament titles.

“It’s was an incredible week, and an incredible season,” coach Graham said. “This group of kids is just real special. They bought into the plan and stuck with it all year.

The improvements that they’ve made are just amazing.

“The bottom line,

however, is that we’ve had this ability all year to out work other teams for the full 60 minutes of a game.”

“I’m really happy for our team,” 12-year-old captain Chase Cooke said. “We really came together for this provincials and played hard.

We got what we had to done.”

The Ramada peewees’ provincial title is the first for a Merritt team since the 1984-85 season when both the bantam and midget rep squads won B.C. Tier 2 titles in the same year.

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The Administrative Assistant provides day-to-day administrative/clerical duties including: answering incoming telephone calls, addressing visitors, directing inquiries, Àling, photocopying, faxing, word processing, processing mail, maintaining telephone and ofÀce equipment, and other duties as required.

QualiÀcations • Graduated from High School Grade 12 or Equivalency • One – Two years Administrative/Clerical experience Other Requirements • Accurate typing speed of 40 wpm • ProÀciency in the use of computer programs for word processing, databases, spreadsheets, email, and the internet • Ability to deal tactfully and effectively with clients, customers, suppliers and co-workers • Ability to self-regulate, meet deadlines, have attention to detail and multitask • Ability to maintain a high level of conÀdentiality • Recognizes and respects all cultural diversity and has an understanding of Aboriginal Culture • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Criminal Record Check Start date: ASAP as needed.

Pay: Rate will be negotiated based on experience.

Deadline for submitting applications: April 4, 2016 Interviews will take place: April 5, 2016 Apply by submitting your cover letter, resume and 3 letters of reference to Yvonne Hare, Executive Director Scw’exmx Child & Family Services, Box 129, Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 Telephone (250)378-2771, Fax (250)378-2799 Email: ExecutiveDirector@scwexmx.com Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society thanks all those who apply, however, only qualiÀed candidates will be considered for an interview.

Lower Nicola Indian Band Health Centre Community Health Nurse The Community Health Nurse reports to the Director of Human Services, and is responsible for health promotion, education, and communicable disease control, Pre-natal programs, counseling of young families and elders, School Health services with a team of health and social services.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: • The delivery of health promotion and prevention programs • The prevention and management of communicable diseases • To identify health needs and provide health promotion and disease prevention services ADMINISTRATION: • Maintain statistical data required for reports • Professional nursing support provided by First Nation’s Health Authority (FNHA) KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS • Bachelor of Nursing • Current registration or willingness to become registered with CRNBC • Valid Driver’s License • Knowledge of Immunization program • Good Communication Skills • Responsible and accountable • Experience working with First Nations Communities preferred • Proven ability to lead and work well with other individuals in a team environment to ensure high quality program delivery

Thanks to all who apply only qualiÀed candidates will be considered

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Scw’exmx Child & Family Services is an Aboriginal Child Welfare Agency providing services to the Àve First Nations communities of the Nicola Valley. We offer a positive work environment with a committed team of people.

Please send resumes to careers@askwellness.ca no later than 4:30pm, Wednesday, March 23, 2016.

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