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Volunteers clean up defaced mural By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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NO HANDS Malcolm MacDougall, 18, was on his way home to Vancouver when he and a friend decided to make a quick stop in Merritt to ride their bikes at the skate park on Sunday. MacDougall calls the trick pictured here a “no-hander.” Michael Potestio/Herald

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The spray-painted swastika on the Tim McGraw mural was cleaned up on Thursday by a group of volunteers. A group of four women — who were part of crews of at-risk youth who worked on the murals with artist Michelle Loughery as part of the former Youth Mural Project — took it upon themselves to restore the McGraw mural to its former glory. Former crew member Christy Whittaker spearheaded the initiative and was hard at work Thursday afternoon scrubbing away the graffiti with her 10-year-old daughter Kitana Shuter and fellow Youth Mural Project volunteers Kim Harry and Lloya Spahan. “This isn’t right at all,” Whittaker said. “Michelle [Loughery] has done a lot for this community, and the community needs to respect what she’s done — what we’ve done.” Whittaker said the four originally tried Mr. Clean wipes to remove the graffiti, but it wasn’t working so they switched to a graffiti remover. “We just have to be careful because it will remove the paint,” Whittaker said. Whittaker said she tried to get more former members of the mural project to attend but most of them were either busy with work or no longer live in town. As one of the at-risk youth involved with the project, Whittaker said she views Loughery as a mother figure. “She took the youth at risk that were on the mural crew under her wing and gave them a direction,”

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Whittaker said, noting Loughery gave them a different perspective on life and showed them there is more to it than drinking and partying. She said the murals gave the atrisk youth something else to focus on. Loughery told the Herald she wasn’t aware of the swastika graffiti until she went on Facebook and saw that some former crew members had already began organizing a clean-up crew. “It was just so wonderful to know that what we did there worked, and that they took it upon themselves to not only be upset about somebody wrecking the work, but have the leadership to do something about it,” Loughery said. Loughery also said when the mural project was in Merritt, it gave at-risk youth training in trades through mural painting as well as job skills training and job shadowing. She said the initiative of those former members shows the success the program had in Merritt.

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Fire danger rating high The B.C. Wildfire Management’s fire danger rating dropped from extreme to high in the Merritt area over the weekend, but with fire season in full swing, the Kamloops Fire Centre is urging people to use caution. The danger ratings range from one, a very low danger rating, to five, an extreme danger rating. Kamloops Fire Centre Fire Information Officer Melissa Welsh said with the current dry conditions and little to no rain as of late, the fire ratings have climbed rapidly the last two weeks. “It wasn’t that long ago that we were in a low to moderate, and now we’re in a high,” Welsh said. The rating peaked last week at “extreme,” meaning potential fire fuels are dry and pose a serious risk of easily starting a fire and spreading quickly. Welsh said given the dry, hot state of the Kamloops Fire Zone this time of year, people need to be careful with both campfires and items that could cause a spark. She told the Herald Friday the Wildfire Branch expects some high-rated areas may move into the extreme fire danger rating as the branch anticipated an increase in wind. As of Friday, most of the southern half of the province, including the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, had a high fire danger rating, according to the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch website. So far in this fire season, there have been 114 fires burning just over 1,700 hectares of land within the Kamloops Fire Zone. Welsh said the average number of fires per year over the last 10 years is 265, burning a total of around 2,650 hectares each year. “Given that number, we’re honestly just seeing fire season probably kicking off here,” she said. Welsh said of the

114 fires so far this year, 90 of them were human-caused while 24 were stared by lightning. She said it’s usually a 50-50 split by summer’s end as lightning is more common later in the summer, and it may still balance out this year’s numbers in terms of fire causes. The Wildfire Management Branch began increasing its fire warden patrols this past weekend, monitoring people and campgrounds to ensure compliance with campfire regulations, Welsh said. They are also upping patrols in the backcountry and a campfire ban is being considered before the August long weekend. The official start date to fire season is April 1. The Kamloops Fire Zone stretches from the Canada-U.S. border to around Blue River in the north, and from Goldbridge in the west to around Lumby in the east. Wildfire updates Two human-caused wildfires burned a total of about 30 hectares of land in the Kamloops Fire Zone last week. The B.C. Wildfire Management Branch responded to both fires, one on July 23 near Logan Lake and another on July 24 near Ashcroft. The two fires were discovered and extinguished over the course of a few days. Fire Information Officer Michaela Swan told the Herald the fire near Logan Lake was eight kilometres west of the town, near Bose Lake, and was reported at about 4 p.m. last Tuesday afternoon. As of 10:30 a.m. the next day, the blaze was 100 per cent contained she said, with 40 firefighters, one helicopter and four pieces of heavy equipment on scene putting out hot spots from the extinguished fire. The fire did not threaten any structures, Swan said. Crews worked through the night to

extinguish the blaze and at the fire’s peak on Wednesday it was fought by three air tankers, 55 firefighters and three helicopters. The blaze was an estimated 14 hectares in size, Swan said. One hectare is comparable to the size of two football fields. It burned a slash pile and trees. The day that fire was put out, another

human-caused wildfire was reported to the Wildfire Management Branch at about 11 p.m. Fire Information Officer Melissa Welsh said that one was 16 hectares in size and located about two kilometres southwest of Ashcroft on reserve land. The Wildfire Management Branch continues to monitor that scene.

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Visitor Info Booth booms in spring By Emily Wessel THE HERALD

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The Visitor Information Centre at the Baillie House had its busiest second quarter ever with a 17 per cent increase in visitors over the same period in 2012. Nearly 4,500 visitors stopped at the centre over April, May and June, up from about 3,800 in the same three months last year. Most of the visitors — about 72 per cent of them — came from British Columbia. The next highest-represented province at the centre was Alberta, with nine per cent. Seven per cent of the visitors were from Europe, four per cent from the rest of Canada, and three per cent from the U.S. Asians and Australians made up four per cent of the visitors, while the remaining one per cent was listed as “other” in a report to city council presented at the regular council meeting on July 23. The distribution of visitors’ origins is about

Employees from the Kameliun painting company finish up the afternoon’s work at the Baillie House on Friday. Emily Wessel/Herald

the same as from the spring and early summer of 2012, Baillie House manager Sandy Curnow wrote in the report. Most of the visitors asked about site facilities, including washrooms, tours, drinks, and the picnic area, while about 13 per cent asked for directions. Another 12 per

cent asked about shopping and 10 per cent asked about attractions, while six per cent inquired about adventure recreation. About two per cent of the visitors asked about investment or moving, Curnow reported. “They want the real estate guide or to know how much houses cost,”

Curnow said. “When they think about moving here, they want to know about the hospital and the services they have. And they ask about snow all the time, and the weather.” The Baillie House recently received a new coat of paint while the barn on the historic property was painted earlier in the year,

which the Heritage Society raised $13,000 to pay for in two garage sales this year. Volunteers also planted red and white petunias along the sidewalk on Voght Street this summer, and the Art in the Garden event in May brought over 250 people through the property. “We’d like to say thank you for all the people who donate to our yard sales, because that’s how we pay for the painting projects,” Curnow said. The information centre was open for a total of 614 hours in the second quarter of 2013, the report stated. Council accepted the report at the meeting, meaning the city will now process the next quarterly payment of $8,960 to the site for operations. “I think they’re doing a fabulous job over there and I think all of council is impressed with what they’re doing,” Coun. Alastair Murdoch said. “They’re one of the best investments we make with the taxpayers’ money.”

Mural maintenance up to businesses From Page 1 Katie Mitchell, executive director of Loughery’s charity (Loughery Mural ARTwork Foundation) said she contacted the City of Merritt regarding the cleaning of the mural. Carole Fraser, human resources manager for the City of Merritt said she told Mitchell the mural’s maintenance is the responsibility of the owner of the business on which the mural is painted. Copper Valley Mechanical attempted

cleaning the mural and then the group of former mural crew members stepped in to take on the job. Robyn Grebliunas was a life skills instructor for at-risk youth in the mural project and said she thought the initiative shows a lighter side to an otherwise bad story. “I think that’s a great reflection of the work that was done in that program,” Grebliunas said. Whittaker said this isn’t the first time a mural has been defaced in Merritt.

Christy Whittaker (left) and Kim Harry, former volunteers with the Youth Mural Project group that painted the country music star murals around Merritt, work to scrub away a swastika that was spray painted on the cheek of the Tim McGraw mural earlier this month. Michael Potestio/Herald

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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: July, 1999 Rally for Sally It seems the only people without an opinion on the Fruit Stand Sally controversy are those who spend less than an hour at the Visitors Info Centre. Travellers pull up, get out, stretch their legs, and perhaps purchase some refreshments from one of the various vendors on the info centre’s grounds, all blissfully unaware they may have been helping support someone the city is calling a “trespasser.” While public support for Fruit Stand Sally Grows, the City of Merritt continues to press ahead with its legal action. Calling Fruit Stand Sally operator Sally McLean a trespasser, the city voted in a special, in-camera session of council last Tuesday to terminate McLean’s contract and give her 72 hours’ notice to vacate the Visitor Info Centre premises.

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JUMPING FOR JOY Merritt Country Run organizer Mary Jorgensen (right) presents Canadian Tire owner Dave Kopacz and his daughter Meghan with a cheque for $2,500 for Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart Program. The money was raised from the Merritt Country Run back in June and will be used to help Merritt families who cannot afford to enrol their children in organized sports. Canadian Tire will match the $2,500 donation, giving the Jumpstart program $5,000 to help local kids. Jorgensen told the Herald for the past four years the Merritt Country Run has raised money for the Jumpstart program.

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Weekend fires lead MFRD briefs Members of the Merritt Fire Rescue Department were busy over the weekend. At about 8:30 on Saturday morning, 19 firefighters, two fire engines and a ladder truck attended a fire at Aspen Planers burning in the trusses of the roof of a building adjacent to the site’s dry kiln. Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson said the fire was burning under the metal sheathing of the roof and ran the length of the roof. He added the blaze was quite difficult to extinguish as firefighters had to saw through the metal sheathing and an absence of fire-stopping material in the roof allowed the fire to spread. Crews used piercing nozzles to battle the flames until about 3 p.m. Tomkinson said the dry kiln was loaded with wood when fire crews arrived but Aspen Planers’ crews had hose lines and were managing the situation before firefighters arrived. Tomknison said the cause of the fire is to be determined and it is unknown if it was human-caused or some sort of mechanical failure. On Sunday, firefighters responded to a grass fire on Coldwater Road at

about 3 p.m. Tomkinson said nearby homeowners used a Bobcat to contain the fire until fire crews arrived. He said when fire crews responded they just had some mopup to do, extinguishing the fire relatively quickly. Tomkinson said the grassfire was minor in nature. Rescue truck back on the road The fire department’s rescue truck has been back in operation

“some of the kinks” with the repaired emergency vehicle, Tomkinson said. “We had a bent driver’s seat,” he said. “It appeared that the rear axle wasn’t straight on the frame. There were a few little things like that we didn’t notice until we actually started driving it.” Tomkinson said the truck has new paint and body work on the rear end as well as new emergency lighting.

for about a month now after it was hit on the Coquihalla Highway while members attended to an accident in March. A transport truck struck the parked rescue truck on its right rear side. Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson said the costs of the repairs — minus some extras, which come in the form of a traffic arrow board — were covered by the insurance of the transport truck driver. The fire department is still working out

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2014 PERMISSIVE TAX EXEMPTION APPLICATIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE. In some instances, Council has chosen to grant property tax exemptions. Under the Community Charter, Section 224, City of Merritt Council may choose to grant property tax exemption to non-proÀt organizations. The application for 2014 Tax Exemption is now available and due on August 30, 2013 at 4:30PM. The organizations approved for exemption by Council will receive an exemption for the 2014 Tax Year and must apply annually to receive exemption. For a copy of the application please go to www.merritt.ca or drop by City Hall.

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Money Rates CRASH COURSE No one was injured in what became a four-car collision at the intersection of Voght Street and Nicola Avenue on Friday morning. A collision between a silver Ford Fusion and a Chrysler Sebring sent the Fusion into a green Subaru, which then bumped a black Dodge Challenger. Both RCMP and firefighters responded to the collision, which slowed traffic through the intersection for about an hour. Michael Potestio/Herald

Rescue truck back on the road From Page 4 The new traffic arrow board was added in an attempt to increase safety for the MFRD’s firefighters. “It’s a large board that’s run on hydraulics so it lifts up,” Tomkinson said. “It’s a black board with amber LED lighting that points in an arrow to direct vehicles left or right to avoid the truck

or the work area.” He said this new feature, which is an addition to the emergency lights and striping the truck already has, may or may not have made a difference in preventing the collision that occurred in March. In that collision, firefighters were attending a motor vehicle crash on the Coquihalla about 10 kilometres south of Merritt. The

rescue truck was positioned on the highway to shadow the crash site in an effort to protect emergency workers and those involved in the crash from oncoming traffic, Tomkinson said. A transport truck skidded into the back of the stationary truck that had its lights on. The truck was travelling about 80 kilometres an hour, pushing the rescue truck down the

highway about 80 feet, Tomkinson said. “It was quite a vicious hit,” Tomkinson said. Tomkinson also said if the truck had been at the accident scene — as it usually is — it probably would have been pushed through the scene where all the emergency workers were working. The lone occupant of the fire truck when

it was struck has since made a full recovery from his injuries, Tomkinson told the Herald. “This is the type of thing that police, ambulance, firefighters, tow-truck drivers and highway workers experience every day,” Tomkinson said. “It can be quite scary out on the highway, working out there.”

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Canadian Common A&W Revenue Royalties 21.30 ATCO Ltd. 44.18 Arc Resources Ltd. 26.07 BCE Inc 42.55 Barrick Gold Corp 18.28 Ballard Power Sys 2.18 Bonavista Energy Corp 13.30 Bombardier 4.90 Bank of Montreal 65.56 Bank of Nova Scotia 58.32 Can. National Railway 103.24 Canadian Tire (NON VTG A) 84.16 Cameco Corporation 21.89 CIBC 78.24 Canadian Utilities Ltd. 36.39 Can. Real Est. Trust 41.99 Can. Nat. Res. Ltd. 32.20 Enbridge 45.72 EnCana Corporation 18.51 Finning 22.11 Husky Energy Inc. 30.21 Imperial Oil 43.25 Kinross Gold Corp 5.62 Loblaw Companies 49.04 Maple Leaf Foods 15.34 Molson Coors Can Inc. 51.92 Manulife Financial 18.30 Pembina Pipeline Corp. 32.22 Potash Corp of Sask 38.14 Pengrowth Energy Corp. 5.98 Power Financial Corp. 32.63 Precision Drilling Corp 10.35 Rogers Comm Inc. 41.36

Royal Bank 65.00 Research In Motion Ltd. 9.13 Sun Life Financial Inc 33.62 Shaw Comm Inc 25.87 Shopper’s Drug Mart 61.12 Suncor Energy Inc 32.60 Toromont Inds Ltd 22.92 Toronto Dominion Bank 88.36 Transcanada Corp 46.43 Telus Corp 31.40 Tim Hortons Inc 59.29

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Alcoa Inc. American Express Co. Mellon Corp Cisco Systems Inc. Deere & Co. Walt Disney Co. (The) Gap Inc. General Electric Co. Home Depot Inc. Johnson & Johnson Macy’s Inc. Microsoft Corp. Sprint Nextel Corp PÄzer Inc. Pepsico Inc. AT&T INC Staples Inc. United Tech Corp Walmart Stores Inc. Wendy’s Arby’s Gr.

8.07 75.34 31.76 25.50 82.81 64.98 45.48 24.65 78.74 92.83 48.17 31.62 5.74 29.37 85.31 35.60 16.54 104.97 78.00 7.14

Fred is an Investment Advisor with RBC Dominion Securities specializing in efÄcient money management strategies. Any questions or comments can be directed to him at 1-800-774-9631 or e-mail fred.feistmann@rbc.com

DID YOU KNOW. . . .

M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials of its inventors Mars and Murrie.

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As it happens, I was in Detroit this month. I went to see the art and the architecture, domains in which Detroit is still one of the richest U.S. cities. It’s broken and it’s broke and, now, it’s bankrupt, too. But bankruptcy is actually a device for escaping from unpayable debt. All over the world, Detroit’s bankruptcy is being used as an excuse to pore over what’s sometimes called “ruin porn” — pictures of the rotting, empty houses that still stand and the proud skyscrapers that have already been torn down. There’s even a self-guided tour of “the ruins of Detroit” available on the Internet; people take a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the calamitous fall of a once-great city. Two-thirds of Detroit’s population have fled in the past 50 years, but there were specific reasons why Detroit fell into decline — and there are also reasons to believe that it could flourish again, not as a major manufacturing centre, perhaps, but “major manufacturing centres” probably don’t have a bright long-term future anywhere. There are other ways to flourish and Detroit has some valuable resources. The events that triggered the city’s decline are well known. Large numbers of AfricanAmericans from the southern states migrated to Detroit to meet the demand for factory workers during and after the Second World War. Being mostly unskilled, they started in the worst jobs — and, even after they had acquired the skills, they stayed in low-paying jobs because of racial prejudice. Spurned by the unions and victimized by a racist police force, they eventually rioted in the summer of 1967.

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Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Planes, trains and automobiles: which provide the safest way to travel? Judging by the number of media reports about derailments lately, not trains. Seventy-eight people died and at least double that number were injured after a derailment in northwestern Spain last

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Wednesday. Leading up to France’s celebrated Bastille Day, while people travelled around the country, at least six were killed and dozens injured after a train derailed and crashed into a station outside of Paris on July 12. About 200 people were injured — nine critically — or being treated for shock. In Russia, a passenger train derailed en route from Siberia to Sochi, the site of the 2014 Olympics, on July 7. The derailment of five passenger cars left more than 70 people injured. Last month, a commuter train slammed into another in suburban Buenos Aires, Argentina, leaving three dead and

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more than 300 injured. The same line was the site of a 2012 crash that left 51 dead and more than 700 injured. Things are a little up in the air on plane travel lately as well. The now-famous Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landing at the San Francisco airport on July 6 resulted in three deaths, but only one on impact. One person died in hospital after she succumbed to injuries from being flung from the crashed plane, and the other was run over by a fire truck. More than 180 of the 307 passengers on the flight from Incheon International Airport in South Korea were injured.

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But after a quick scan of various sources on the Internet, the statistics stack up the worst against cars. Your odds of dying in a car crash are about one in 500 or 600; on an American train, odds against you are about one in a million. And the odds of dying in a plane crash are about one in 11 million. While the numbers from Transport Canada put Canadian roads at significantly safer than even their American counterparts, there are still an estimated 120,000 to 160,000 car crashes in Canada every year. Statistics Canada estimates close to 3,000 people are killed on Canadian roadways each year. While the perception

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of greater disaster in terms of loss of life and injury from a plane or train crash may be true, the perception of being more in control of your own fate when you’re behind the wheel isn’t entirely based in fact. Other drivers can impact your fate, especially on impact. While train derailments and plane crashes tend to make headlines far and wide, not all car crashes make it to the media. And although these disasters can be smaller in scale, they are still disastrous. This summer, remember that taking your time getting to where you want to go is one way to make roads safer for yourself and everyone around you.

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City of Music a Painter pities person go next year who defaced mural Dear Editor,

Dear Editor,

I’d like to thank all the people involved in organizing and funding the City of Music. There was a nice variety of entertainment for all ages to enjoy. The chamber again held its traditional street market for this year with only a few vendors who showed up. Three cheers for the brave people who showed up in this heat wave and have a great time. The overall response has been positive and the event is likely to run again next year with improvements as we all gather feedback and more good people come forward to add their skills, trades, arts, music and other ideas. We look forward to helping out again next year as we endeavour to make this a City of Music to be proud of and a great place to do business, with lots of talent and lots of exciting events yearround. There were a few people with a cacophony of dislikes, perhaps for the variety of music presented or the apparent hard $20 for regular admission, but those who did pay received a wristband to show their support for the volunteers, organizations and the City of Merritt, all working to preserve our musical heritage. I’ll be wearing my wristband at Spirit Square on the Aug. 5 to get my pancake breakfast for the Art Walk wrap-up event. Anyone else up for the challenge?

It has come to my attention that there are certain people in Merritt who think it is OK to deface and vandalize someone else’s work. I think it’s pathetic that someone can even think of doing this to someone else’s work. It shows no respect whatsoever for things that have been done to help

promote what Merritt is supposed to stand for. All I can say is I feel sorry for the person or persons doing this. You have no idea what has gone into these paintings (murals) throughout Merritt and I know, for one, it is a slap in the face to every single person who helped in the painting of these murals — a slap that we do not appreciate. Michelle

Loughery, I know firsthand, had spent many hours away from her family working on the numerous murals we have surrounding our city. People need to understand the time and effort that went into each mural and that showing a little respect goes along way. Christy Whittaker Merritt

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Brutal policing made matters worse and hundreds were killed, but the worst consequence was the fear the violence engendered. The great majority of whites just left town. I first went to Detroit a couple of months after the riots and, driving into the city, the fear was actually visible. The traffic lights are spaced far apart on Woodward Avenue and, as each light turned green, all the cars would accelerate away — and then, if the next light was still red, they would slow more and more until they were barely crawling, but dared not stop for fear of being attacked. Then, finally, the light would turn green, and they would race away through the intersection — only

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Population of Detroit concentrated in suburbs to go through the whole process again as they approached the next light. It was this unreasoning fear that caused the massive “white flight” to the suburbs and the hollowing out of Detroit. The big automobile companies also took flight and the new car plants were built elsewhere. As the jobs disappeared and the population dropped, the tax base fell even faster for most of the people left behind in the city were poor or unemployed AfricanAmericans. The city could no longer afford to provide good police or medical services, so even more people left. This vicious circle has lasted half a century, exacerbated by much corruption and maladministration. This month’s declaration of bankruptcy is a brutal

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measure, for much of the debt being repudiated is the pensions of city employees, but it may give the city’s government enough leeway to begin rebuilding public services. If they are restored, much else could follow. Let me explain what brought me to Detroit early this month. We were doing what we dubbed the “Rust Belt Art and Architecture Tour” — driving from Buffalo to Cleveland and then to Detroit, ending up in Chicago. All these cities took a beating as the industries they were built on died or moved overseas (except Chicago, which is “too big to fail”). But, three generations ago, when they were the industrial heartland of the United States, they were very rich — at just the right

time. The first decades of the 20th century were the heyday of Art Deco, the most beautiful architectural style of the modern era. That was also the period when newly rich captains of industry could scoop up bucket-loads of new European and American art, impressionist, expressionist, abstract, the lot — and they lived mostly in what are now the Rust Belt cities. They filled their homes with best of modern art and, in the end, donated most of it to the local art galleries. Even in Detroit, where so much has been lost, more than half of those buildings are still there. So is all of the art. Other cities would kill for these assets. In a post-industrial economy where people have

more choice about where they live, they are assets that can actually attract population — especially since, in Detroit’s case, the people who left didn’t go far. Most of them are still out there in the suburbs. Detroit’s population has fallen from two million to 700,000 over the past 50 years, but the metropolitan area’s population has stayed stable at around four and a half million for all of that time. The job, really, is to bridge the devastated middle ring of low-income Detroit housing and reconnect the outer suburbs with the city centre. Detroit can rise again. It just takes the right strategy. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Thefts from driveway, truck lead police briefs Inflated boat stolen Sometime between 1:30 and 9:00 a.m. on July 18, unknown persons stole an eight-foot Quicksilver Zodiac boat, Shakespeare electric motor, Nautilus Marine battery, Stihl chainsaw, Fenwich fly fishing rod with reels (in cases), a tackle box and a fishing net from a residence in the 1000 block of Houston Street. The electric motor and batteries were stolen from the owner’s truck box while the inflated Zodiac was stolen from the driveway. The total value of goods taken is estimated at $2,500.

marijuana. It was determined that his ability to operate a motor vehicle

was impaired by drug. During the investigation, a small amount of loose

leges were subsequently suspended for 24 hours and his vehicle was

marijuana was found under the passenger seat. The man’s driving privi-

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Truck break-in Sometime overnight on July 18, unknown person(s) broke into a pickup truck parked in the 2000 block of Clapperton Avenue. Entry was gained by breaking the latch on the back slider window. A Magelin GPS,, Sirius satellite radio and the face plate from the stereo were stolen. Thief goes for shampoo On July 18 at approximately 3:30 p.m., Merritt RCMP were dispatched to a report of a theft at a local business in the 1700 block of Garcia Street. A 44-year-old local female was observed stealing fresh berries and shampoo bottles and trying to exit the store without paying for the items. The woman was stopped and escorted back to the store to meet with police. All items were accounted for and returned to the store. The woman was advised that she was banned from the business for a year. Traffic stop nets high driver On July 20 at approximately 10 p.m., Merritt First Nations Police and Central Interior Traffic Services (Merritt) conducted a roadblock on Highway 8 near the Shulus Fire Hall. A 22-year-old local man approached the check stop and was found to have been smoking

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Want to Rent MATURE, clean, quiet professional working in Merritt seeking 1 bedroom, Pet friendly accommodation for 1 to 2 years. I am N/S N/P with friendly/quiet/kennel trained 2 year old black lab. Would prefer furnished/all inclusive (heat/hydro/cable/internet) rental in the price range of $600$800/month + DD. Call Jeff (250) 272-6693.

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NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of TERRY JOSEPH PATENAUDE, otherwise known as TERRELL JOSEPH PATENAUDE and TERRY J. PATENAUDE, Deceased, who died on the 16th day of March, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executrix clo Linley Welwood LLP, at #305 - 2692 Clearbrook Road, Abbotsford, BC, V2T 2Y8, before the 30th day of August 2013, after which date the Executrix will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which she has notice. IDA KATHLEEN HANCOX clo #305 - 2692 Clearbrook Road Abbotsford, BC V2T 2Y8 Tel: 604-850-6640

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The Board of Directors of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing in the Merritt Civic Centre at 1950 Mamette Avenue, Merritt, BC, to consider proposed Bylaw No. 2428, 2013. The public hearing on Bylaw No. 2428 has been delegated by the TNRD Board to the Chair and the Directors representing Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nâ&#x20AC;? and the City of Merritt. What is Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2428, 2013? It is a change to Zoning Bylaw No. 2400 to rezone lands at 4881 Merritt Princeton Hwy (legally described District Lot 913, KDYD, except Plans KAP54770 and KAP60998), more specifically the property shown in bold outline on the map below from RL-1: Rural Zone to LRT-2: Existing Lakeshore Resort Zone. This change will allow expansion of an existing resort from two to a maximum of 10 rentable units.

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SALARY: Negotiable DEADLINE: August 9, 2013 START DATE: August 26, 2013 (summer institute) Interested candidates to submit resume and cover letter to: Angie Sterling, Principal The Lower Nicola Band School 201 Horn Road, MERRITT, BC, VIK 1M8 FAX: (250) 378-6389 Email: asterling@lnib.net

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All persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by the proposed Bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing. Additionally, they may make written submissions on the matter of Bylaw 2428, 2013 (via the adjacent options) which must be received at our office prior to 4:00 p.m. on the 6th day of August, 2013. The entire content of all submissions will be made public and form a part of the public record for this matter. How do I get More Information? A copy of TNRD Board resolutions along with a copy of the proposed Bylaw and supporting information can be inspected from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday Friday (except statutory holidays) at our offices in Kamloops from July 29th, 2013 until 4 p.m. the day of the Hearing; or please contact us via any of the adjacent options. No representations will be received by the Board of Directors after the Public Hearing has been concluded. R. Sadilkova, Director of Development Services

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