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MUSIC MAVENS Fowl Mouth McPhee plays to a crowd of about 50 people on Saturday night during the first City of Music weekend. The one-third Merrittonian, two-thirds Horseshoe Bay-based band rocked the main stage behind the Merritt Desert Inn before Johnny Cash tribute band David James and Big River. The event, which organizers hope to make annual, gave local musicians the chance to share the stage with more than a dozen acts over Friday and Saturday at various venues around town. The weekend wrapped up with an Elvis tribute show on Sunday. Emily Wessel/Herald

Treasure Mountain operations suspended: Huldra Exact number of layoffs unclear while Huldra Silver secures financing By Emily Wessel THE HERALD

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Treasure Mountain Mine has temporarily stopped operations while operator Huldra Silver completes financing, but the mine has not shut down, interim CEO Peter Espig says. “We’ve gone into what’s called care and maintenance,” Espig said. “Care and maintenance is, essentially,

you’ve positioned yourself to go back into full production at any time. That’s the status we’re in.” One newspaper reported the suspension cost about 20 local people their jobs at the silver, lead and zinc mine about 20 kilometres northwest of Merritt, but Espig did not confirm that number. “I can say we had approximately 100

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employees and the financing would allow us to bring the people back,” he said. “Right now, we’ve probably got 10 people, which you would require to have the care and maintenance.” Huldra began mining the site in 2012, and stopped operations for care and maintenance at the site late last month. Espig said there’s no timeline yet

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right now. “It is unfortunate that the Treasure Mountain Mine shut down production due to the reduction in the price of silver and while the company pursues additional financing,” a Ministry of Energy and Mines spokesperson wrote in an email, noting mines take large amounts of capital financing to start up and maintain.

pany has done about 60 per cent of that financing and is now looking for the final 40 per cent. “All I can say is that we’re working very hard on getting the financing to facilitate the recommencement of full operations,” he said. A Ministry of Energy and Mines spokesperson said capital markets to provide financing for mining ventures are difficult

good part of the mine, but we had to raise required liquidity in order to complete the mining of that area of the mine,” Espig said. “There’s significant revenues coming out of that if it is mined. That’s what we’re out there looking for, but obviously, the equity markets have collapsed and so the silver prices were hurt.” Espig said the com-

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Local scores TNRD bursary Merritt Secondary student Geoffrey Goetz is one of the students in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District to recieve a bursary from the regional district governmen’t bursary program. Clinton’s Dustin Coldwell, a Grade 12 student at David Stoddart Secondary School (School District 71) received a $1,000 bursary for his education. His application required him to show community volunteerism, academic achievement and write a 500-word essay on local government. Jennifer Sage from Kamloops

Secondary School in School District 73 and Derick Leclerc from Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School in School District 27 also received TNRD bursaries. The TNRD bursary program was approved by the board of directors in November 2012 with all electoral areas participating in the program. Each of those areas contributes four $1,000 bursaries every year. Those bursaries are then given to the four school districts within the TNRD and the school districts then select the successful candidates for the bursaries.

Business owner finds defaced mural By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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Graham Whitecross discovered a swastika painted on the Tim McGraw mural outside his business Cooper Valley Mechanical at 2151 Coutlee Ave. on Friday. He said he notified police of the vandalism. The Merritt business owner of 40 years said it’s a shame to see one of Merritt’s murals vandalized. “It’s certainly not very smart to do things like that. We’ve been doing our damnedest to beautify our town to bring people to town, paid for the thing [mural] and here we’re having some individual just deface it,” Whitecross said. He said he isn’t sure when the van-

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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: July, 1986 This swastika was discovered by Copper Valley Mechanical owner Graham Whitecross on the Tim McGraw mural outside his Coutlee Avenue business on Friday. Michael Potestio/Herald

dalism occurred but suspects it was done at night. Whitecross said he became aware of the vandalism after someone came into his store and told him

there is a swastika painted on the side of his building. He said he didn’t notice it himself as he usually enters and exits from the front and back of his busi-

ness and the graffiti was painted on the side of the building. There were some people were outside the building Friday taking pictures of it, Whitecross said.

Flood risk ends as river levels abate Nicola River down two feet since its peak By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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The city’s sandbags have been removed and Merritt is not expected to experience any flooding this summer. Sky McKeown, emergency program co-ordinator for the City of Merritt, said the sandbags were removed a few weeks ago and water levels of Merritt’s rivers are stable. McKeown said at this point, Merritt has received all the water flow from remaining snowmelt. “The sandbagging was really put in place in regards to the mon-

soon season that we actually received here this year, with the one rainfall and then about a week and a half later with the other big rainfall,” McKeown said in regards to June’s showers. “Those put just over 70 millimetres into the Nicola watershed area,” McKeown said. This caused the need to allow more cubic metres per second (CMS) of water to be released from Nicola Lake down the Nicola River, he said. When the sandbags were in place, the Nicola River saw a height of 34 CMS rushing down the

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waterway from the Nicola dam. Since then, the outflow from the Nicola dam has dropped from about 24 CMS and now 12 CMS, McKeown said. He said the river bank appears to have dropped about 10 to 12 inches since the reduction from the Nicola dam. Since its peak at

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34 CMS, the river levels have come down about two feet. He said the outflow was reduced to about 14 CMS and the sandbags came off the river just prior to the monsoon rain Merritt sustained for about a week at the end of June. In response, the outflow was increased to 28 CMS before decreasing

again to its current 12. Compared to last year’s monsoon season, Merritt had a few more millimetres of rain but 10 per cent less snowpack, leaving less runoff from the snow. As for the rest of the summer, McKeown said water levels of the rivers are stable but people need to remain river smart. “The rivers have gone down, but if people are going to be out in the rivers with their kids, doing any kind of tubing or any of that kind of stuff, they still need to respect [the river]. Even though it’s a lower flow and a slower rate, it’s still

powerful,” McKeown said. McKeown said when it comes to heavy rain from monsoon seasons the potential danger lies in the Nicola watershed. If rain is pouring there for days at a time, that is when monsoon seasons can affect flooding and water levels as was the case in Calgary, where a large amount of rain dumped in areas that were already saturated with water, he said. “It had nowhere to go, other than down a river that was already full,” McKeown said in regards to the recent Alberta floods.

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City bylaw infractions: Got a complaint? Write it down Local residents who are dismayed because they feel City of Merritt bylaws aren’t being properly enforced should cite a specific example in a written complaint if they want action to be taken. That’s the word from City Administrator Leo den Boer, who said unless “life and limb or property are at stake, we don’t regularly patrol for infractions.” Concerns have been expressed in recent weeks by local residents who feel that one bylaw in particular — the city’s parking bylaw — isn’t being properly enforced, especially now that an increased number of vehicles are using Merritt streets. Den Boer said two years ago, the city was faced with a similar parking situation and hired a meter maid.

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Pole knocked over across Pooley Fred Feistmann, Investment Advisor

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Advanced Powerlines employees work to repair a fallen powerline pole at about 8:30 a.m. Friday morning. The pole was snapped in two and fell across Pooley Avenue after a semi-truck making a right turn onto the road hit it. Michael Potestio/Herald

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Members of the Merritt Fire Rescue Department and RCMP responded to a call of a fallen power line across the 2800 block of Pooley Avenue on Friday morning. The power line was knocked over by a semi-truck turning onto the roadway. Fire chief Dave Tomkinson told the Herald 16 firefighters

responded to the call, secured the area and waited for BC Hydro to arrive and de-energize the power lines. Const. John Ryan and one other member of the Merritt RCMP attended the scene to assist firefighters in the incident at about 8:30 a.m. Ryan said one power line fell to the ground and traffic had to be blocked for about an hour while BC Hydro worked to de-energize the power

lines. Ryan said the road was re-opened just after 9:30 a.m. The incident occurred when the driver of the semitruck was turning right from a yard onto the Pooley Avenue roadway and struck the pole, Ryan said. Ryan said the driver wasn’t impaired and thinks the the cause of the crash was likely from an oversized load. He added that the file is still under inves-

tigation and damages and possible charges have yet to be determined. “It was pretty quick; it was not very intrusive at all,” Ryan said regarding the repair made by BC Hydro. Tomkinson said any time there are down power lines, there is the danger of electrocution but the area was cordoned off and bystanders kept out of the area by firefighters. “We’re just fortunate no one got hurt,”

Ryan said, adding there were no other vehicles driving by when the incident occurred. Ryan also said RCMP received a report of a fire caused by the fallen line, but there was no fire when police arrived on scene. Advanced Powerlines were at work replacing the pole on Friday afternoon. The pole broke in two when it was knocked down.

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Teaming up on healthcare issues Members of the Princeton Support Our Health Care Coalition (SOHC) will be working with researchers from UBC’s Okanagan campus to gain knowledge about how to improve care for people in Princeton living with life-limiting chronic illnesses. Princeton has struggled through its own healthcare crisis in the past — too few physicians, an aging population and a hospital threatened by emergency room closures. Currently, the hospital emergency department is closed four nights each week and acute and specialist care services have been reduced, often resulting in people driving to Penticton or Kelowna for medical services. A local committee, made up of residents and SOHC members, will work with UBC researchers while they try to answer questions surrounding available services for the chronically ill. Princeton residents will help UBC researchers better understand the healthcare issues in their community. In exchange, the committee hopes to benefit from the expertise of UBC’s researchers. The first step is to complete a survey of available resources, a literature review of current rural healthcare models for supporting people with life-limiting chronic illness, and determine relevant baseline data to track outcomes by next June. The SOHC applied for and received a $5,000 teambuilding grant from the Rural Health Services Research Network of B.C. UBC Associate Professor Barb Pesut said the burden of having to travel for health care may mean that people choose not to attend a medical appointment, delay treatment, or move away.

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The Merritt Flying Club is welcoming the public to have some pancakes and learn a little more about aviation at its annual fly-in breakfasts, happening Aug. 4 and Sept. 1. The event can bring in as many as 30 aircraft from all over B.C. in addition to the 10 that typically use the Merritt airport, flying club member Herb Graham said. “I’ve lived in this valley for over 50 years, and I’ve never seen the airport this active,” Graham said. “It’s just booming and busting at the seams.” The event runs

from 8 to 11 a.m. and is free to attend. “It’s kind of like a show-and-shine they do with cars,” Graham said. “People get their breakfast, wander around and look at the airplanes, jump in and fly away.” Graham said the flying club holds the event to create more interest in aviation, and said the hobby has caught on quite a bit in the last three years. “It’s been three long years of rebuilding the flying club from three members up to what it is today,” he said, noting there are as many as 10 aircraft on the ramp at any time. Graham attributed

much of that growth to the efforts of club president Tom Fox and vice-president Dan Jackson, as well as Merritt’s mayor and council for supporting the airport’s development. He said the fly-in has been well-attended in past years, with planes coming in from all over, including Abbotsford, Salmon Arm, Penticton and Langley. Four or five aircraft from Vernon have even flown over Merritt in formation, he said — and that’s not the only potential spectacle. Since participants don’t need to register beforehand, there’s no telling what

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HERALD OPINION TRU needs to explain departures Another day, another high-profile resignation/firing at Thompson Rivers University — with nary an explanation given to the public, which funds the majority of operations at the Kamloops school. This week, Chris Axworthy resigned from his post as dean of the faculty of law, just three years after the university heralded his appointment to lead Canada’s newest law school. When asked why Axworthy would resign, university officials were again less than forthcoming to media. Claiming it to be a personnel issue, the university’s PR staff declined to comment on the reasons behind Axworthy’s departure. The same excuses were given in years past when a number of senior members of faculty were fired or left for other reasons. We would argue the people who pay the substantial salaries of those on the Kamloops campus deserve to know why there seems to be an epidemic of faculty being shown the door — or choosing to open it themselves. Has the university suddenly been beset with a skills shortage among those who have worked there for years? Is there a morale problem that has led to various staffers to leave lucrative jobs? Have any of the firings or resignations been preceded with internal strife in the form of harassment complaints? Of those who are no longer on campus, how many received severance packages and how much were they worth? Did Axworthy receive a severance package and, if so, for how much are taxpayers on the hook? To say TRU has been less-thanforthcoming is a serious understatement. For a school that boasts often about its Open Learning division, Thompson Rivers University is awfully closed when communicating these issues.

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No smilin’ faces on cover of Rolling Stone Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Rolling Stone magazine came under heavy fire recently for putting Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover. The part news, part music magazine put a feature about Tsarnaev’s life leading up to the Boston Marathon bombings in its pages and used the headline The Bomber: How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster to tease

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the story inside. The decision resulted in boycotts of the magazine. Editorials for and against the decision to put his face on the arguably coveted cover of the Rolling Stone have taken over the Internet. Throughout the criticism, a common thread is that by giving Tsarnaev the cover — which eerily resembles a mixture of the magazine’s famous Charles Manson and Jim Morrison covers — the magazine is glamourizing the accused killer while the victims remain largely anonymous in the collective conscience. The criticism reminded me of that which greeted the Winnipeg Free Press last year after the daily paper published photos of killer Russell Williams wearing stolen lingerie. The story of a decorated military

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man turned rapist and murderer was jarring when paired with the visual of an imposing-looking man in women’s and children’s underwear and absolutely repulsive when paired with the knowledge that he murdered two people. The picture on the Rolling Stone cover isn’t nearly as overtly scandalous, but it essentially does the same thing the photos of Williams did: they both force us to stare the perpetrators of terrible crimes in the face, and wonder how someone who appeared so “normal” could commit such horrific crimes. The photos are a strong visual representation of the collective trap we fall into, which is to judge what’s on the inside by what’s on the outside. In this case, we find it inconceivable that a young man (he’s only 19) who seemed

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so “normal” would purposely plant explosives with potential to maim and kill dozens — even hundreds — of people at random. These photos point out that discrepancy between our perceptions and reality, forcing us to examine and resolve that dissonance. While the photo on the front cover generated a lot of controversy, the headline teasing the story on the front cover also brought some heat on Rolling Stone for painting a “sympathetic” portrait of a killer. However, I think it’s less about feeling bad for the guy than understanding the series of events and circumstances in his life that went wrong, and ultimately left him more susceptible to take extreme, dangerous, and violent actions. It takes perspective and context to understand and

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properly persecute someone who could do something so heinous, and that’s what this story gets into. The picture immortalizes a seemingly normal exterior while the story delves into a deeply troubled interior. So, does putting the criminal on the cover of a magazine glamourize his crimes, or does it get people thinking more critically about the false pretences of “normalcy” we subscribe to? Everyone’s got an opinion, and they likely fall somewhere on the spectrum between the two extremes above. Of course, there’s also the super-cynical line of reasoning, which goes from selling magazines at one end to controversy for controversy’s sake at the other. And it’s not wrong — the issue certainly got people talking.

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YOUR OPINION Credit for taxes on unused basement suite only fair Letter writer told reimbursement a no-go Dear Editor, I believe the City of Merritt owes me money which it will not reimburse! For the years 2007-2011, the city has been charging me property taxes for a secondary basement suite that I have never rented out, nor do I intend to. I signed a form in 2006 at city hall saying the suite was not being rented out. However, with the delivery of two garbage cans to my home, I realized I was being charged the extra taxes. I went to city hall to inquire about reimbursement and was told, “We don’t do that.” Why? “We just don’t.” That’s not a very good reason. Since last year, I have written four letters to the city and have only had a reply to the first one. The last letter was written to the mayor personally. For the first letter, I received a phone call from the city and I was told, “You could present your case to the mayor and council but it will go public and then we’ll have to do this for everyone.” I have written to the city requesting time to present my case at a council meeting but the letter was never acknowledged. I was also told because I have a stove electrical outlet in my basement I was being charged an extra $680 — just for having the outlet!

My home was never inspected to check for a second stove outlet so I was charged for the extra taxes based on the assumption that I had one. Apparently we can’t have an extra stove in our homes for personal use without being charged for it. I was told if the stove outlet was “decommissioned” I wouldn’t be charged extra property taxes. I have provided proof that the stove outlet was decommissioned in 2006. And why can’t we have a second stove for personal use without being charged? That’s not fair! I know of homes that do have a second stove in their basement for personal use and they are probably not being charged. And by the way, I signed a form in May 2012 for the city to collect the second garbage can. It’s still in my yard! I don’t think I’m asking too much to have my money reimbursed. I have even offered to take a credit to pay for future taxes. Any other place of business would have acknowledged their error and reimbursed me long ago. I just want to be reimbursed. That’s only fair. Peggy Fraser Merritt

New BC Hydro investment needed Dear Editor, Re: Get ready for Hydro rate hikes (B.C. Views, July 10). While NDP energy critic John Horgan asserts there is no business case for a nation building project like the Northwest Transmission Line, a line that will bring power to a huge part of the province currently running off diesel generators, our government believes investments such as this are exactly what BC Hydro should be doing. This project will open up world class mineral deposits and support new mines, like Red Chris, one of the top 10 copper gold deposits in the world. In fact, the Mining Association of BC estimates the line could attract more than $15 billion in mining investment, creating up to 10,000 jobs and generating $300 million in annual tax revenues. None of this happens

unless we build the line to provide the power these mines need. We need to ensure we have a diverse grid that can provide reliable power today, and into the future. That’s why we continue to support new, cleaner sources of power such as wind and run of river. Do these sources produce power at a higher cost than what our heritage assets do? Of course they do. Like most other things, it costs more today to produce power than it did decades ago. But these sources are cleaner than alternatives such as coal or gas and less expensive than building brand new hydroelectric dams. We are investing in projects that are powering our needs today and ensuring we will have the power we need for our future. The unprecedented opportunity in liquefied natural gas and other growing

sectors such as mining must be supported with stable, secure power. This is what we are building. You can’t make these kinds of legacy investments that will benefit all British Columbians without putting pressure on rates. Contrary to some reports, BC Hydro is managing their capital projects within their planned budget. There are a couple of projects over budget but most are under budget. I have been very clear that my mandate, as given to me by the premier, is to minimize rate increases while continuing to make historic investments in Hydro’s infrastructure to grow our economy. I am committed to accomplishing this goal. Bill Bennett Minister of Energy and Mines Victoria

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Put an end to electric car subsidies Dear Editor, Re: Get ready for Hydro rate hikes (B.C. Views, July 10). Tom Fletcher’s article reiterates what we have been told for some time. A large part of the future BC Hydro rate increase is caused by the fact that expansion of generating facilities delivers new power at a rate higher than today’s rates. However, the government is bribing people to switch to electric cars, contributing to consumption increases, which will cause rate increases for us all. Provincial consumption is also high because, although the E-Plus contracts with residential customers expired decades ago, the government is choosing to grandfather the “half-price electric heat” offer for political reasons. Also, some large government buildings are still being heated this way. At the same time, the minister is telling us that we are producing more natural gas than we need, so we should be consuming large amounts of energy to compress it and ship it overseas. Should the first step not be to switch to natural gas-powered cars, natural gas heating for almost all homes where possible, and for all large government buildings? The grant money for electric car purchases should be diverted to incentives for this move. Right now, electric cars are causing the burning of fuels at distant power plants anyway, because that is where our “last watt” comes from. Rein Nienaber Saanich, B.C. SETTING IT STRAIGHT In the July 18 edition of the Merritt Herald in the article Water Meters Decrease Consumption: WRAC, the Water Resource Advisory Committee recommended that council read residential water meters only on April 1 and Oct. 1, 2014.

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Cabinet ministers’ value not lost in shuffle DAN ALBAS View from the HILL As you may have already heard, one of the larger media stories out of Ottawa this week focused on the subject of last Monday’s cabinet shuffle. For political pundits and journalists alike, cabinet shuffles are somewhat like open season as speculation, opinion and judgment are cast within mere hours of

the announcement — long before any of the newly announced ministers have had the opportunity to spend time in a new or pre-existing portfolio. Over the past two years while I have served on Parliament Hill, I have worked with many of those named to cabinet on Monday. I have gained an insight and a much better appreciation of and respect for the demanding job of being in cabinet and the great importance of the role. My comments might be at odds with what you may have heard from recent media reports. From reviewing many of the pundits’ comments over the past 24 hours, one recurring theme from some in the Ottawa-based

Green light on pot vote By Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS tfletcher@blackpress.ca

VICTORIA – Elections BC has given approval in principle to marijuana activist Dana Larsen’s bid to lead a petition drive for decriminalizing marijuana possession. Larsen has proposed that B.C. go around the federal law with a “Sensible Policing Act” that would disallow the use of B.C. police resources to prosecute simple possession of small amounts of pot by adults. This fall, Larsen will be allowed to begin collecting signatures in an effort to force an initiative vote similar to that used to reverse the harmonized sales tax. Individuals and groups have until Aug. 12 to register with Elections BC to oppose the initiative, run ads for or against the petition or collect signatures. Larsen, who was involved with the B.C. Marijuana Party before seeking the leadership of the B.C. NDP in 2011, has worked for the last year to build support for what he calls Sensible BC. His organization will have 90 days from Sept. 9 to collect signatures from 10 per cent of registered provincial voters in each of B.C.’s 85

electoral districts. If that threshold is reached, Elections BC would hold a provincewide initiative vote, likely by mail as was done to repeal the HST. Decriminalizing pot has received mainstream support in recent years, including a narrow majority vote at the 2012 Union of B.C. Municipalities convention. In a debate at that convention in Victoria last September, former B.C. Liberal attorney general Geoff Plant advocated for loosening marijuana laws, as has since been done in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado. The idea was opposed by criminologist Darryl Plecas, who was elected B.C. Liberal MLA for Abbotsford South in the May provincial election. Larsen has had a colourful career, including editor of Vancouver-based Cannabis Culture magazine and co-founder of the Vancouver Seed Bank, which has sold seeds for marijuana, poppies, peyote and coca. Larsen resigned as an NDP candidate in the 2008 federal election, after videos surfaced showing his drug use a decade earlier.

media gallery seems to be that cabinet “doesn’t matter.” It was not my intention to cover the topic of the cabinet shuffle in this week’s report. However, after reading many media stories, I feel compelled to comment from another perspective. It is my experience as a member of Parliament that who serves in cabinet does matter, and in my view, it matters to all of us. I would like to share one of my first challenges as an MP that will forever be in my memory. Not long after being elected, a situation occurred where a priest, who was legally in Canada and working on starting a new life here at a local temple, was, in error, issued a deportation order and given five days to leave

our country. In this instance, the community in question — including the local mayor and MLA — rallied strongly in support of the priest. As the newly elected MP, my only option was to pursue this matter directly with the minister responsible. I was very much aware that the minister could have simply said, “MP Albas, there is nothing I can do in this case.” However, that was not the response I received. Instead, the minister took the time to hear the concerns, looked at the information I presented and offered to try and help. In the end, we found a solution, but it was not lost on me that were it not for the minister’s willingness to take the time to get involved in this case, it cer-

tainly would have had a very different outcome. To the pundits in Ottawa, these small events seldom make the media radar screens but to the people involved, they are important. Having ministers who take the time to listen and are willing to help make things happen goes a long way toward making a difference in our communities. In this shuffle, the ministers referenced in this report have been moved into other ministries where I believe they will continue to make a difference for Canadians. There are also a number of parliamentary secretaries who will be moving into cabinet whom I have worked with extensively on various parliamentary committees. Without

exception, these are capable and committed people who I also believe will do good work on behalf of Canadians. There are a number of different and important issues to be addressed in the communities within Okanagan-Coquihalla and I look forward to working with our new cabinet to ensure continued success for our region. As my summer listening tour is soon to begin, I welcome the opportunity to meet with you or your organization. Please do not hesitate to contact me at 1-800-665-8711 or via email at dan.albas@parl.gc.ca. Dan Albas is the member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla. His blog is DaninOttawa.com and previous MP reports can be read at www.danalbas.com.

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The award winning Merritt Herald is currently looking for an enthusiastic individual to help out in our circulation department. Main duties would be to make sure our newspaper arrives at every doorstep in the Merritt, Lower Nicola and Logan Lake areas. Responsibilities â&#x20AC;˘ Communicating with carriers and customers. â&#x20AC;˘ Handle all phone inquires and complaints in a professional and efĂ&#x20AC;cient manner. QualiĂ&#x20AC;cations â&#x20AC;˘ Must have strong organizational and communication skills â&#x20AC;˘ Be able to work well under pressure. â&#x20AC;˘ Some ofĂ&#x20AC;ce/computer experience is also required. â&#x20AC;˘ Must also have own form of transportation. If you are interested please drop your resume off in person to 2090 Granite Ave., Merritt, BC. No phone calls please.

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

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Cars - Domestic Estate Sale, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;06 Buick Allure approx 88,000km, fully loaded too many options to mention. $7000. 378-4566/315-9632

Off Road Vehicles 1998 Blazer SL 4x4 auto 4 dr, red. Loaded clean, history, coolant pump. 114k miles. $3750. Fred 250-523-6930 or email loganlakers@gmail.com

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