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About 75 people took part in a march to raise awareness about relationship violence on Thursday organized by Merritt’s Violence Against Women in Relationships committee. For the full story on the event, see page 2. Emily Wessel/Herald

MLA responds to recall campaign threat By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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MLA Jackie Tegart says the biosolids protesters need to end their occupation of Premier Christy Clark’s West Kelowna constituency office before she meets with Friends of the Nicola Valley. About 20 protesters — including the five Nicola Valley chiefs — began a sitin at the office last Wednesday, the day after protesters marched to Tegart’s Merritt office.

Friends of the Nicola Valley, which has been leading the anti-biosolids crusade, gave Tegart a oneweek timeframe from last Tuesday to meet with them before they implement a recall campaign. “I am more than willing to meet with different people and talk about whether they have a solution, but it’s tough when you get ultimatums, also,” Tegart said. The MLA is currently in Victoria sitting in the legislature until end of May.

On Monday, Friends of the Nicola Valley spokesperson Georgia Clement told the Herald she has yet to hear from Tegart, and expects to begin the recall process. Tegart said she was disappointed to hear that people felt she hadn’t done enough regarding biosolids and continues to look for a solution to the issue. “I have taken it to every level I can think of. If there was a simple solution, we would have found it,”

Tegart said. She said she’s looking into what can be done to satisfy concerns while working within the law. The sit-in over in West Kelowna has seen protesters camp out in the office alongside RCMP and members of the legislative assembly protective services staff for about a week now. On Saturday, there was a rally outside the office that saw about 100 people — mostly from the Nicola Valley.

Lower Nicola Band Chief Aaron Sam said the chiefs had dialogue with the provincial government on Sunday, and as of the Herald’s press deadline on Monday, expected more talks to come. He said the chiefs have been seeking mediation with the province in order to move forward. “We’re still having discussions in regards to that,” Sam said. However, Sam did not wish to disclose who in gov-

ernment the chiefs are talking with. Premier Christy Clark has told reporters that the government is “working on it” when it comes to the biosolids sit-in. “It’s not an easy solution, though. That’s why it’s taken some time and I think that’s why they’re frustrated; they don’t want this to happen and they’d like to get a solution as quickly as they can,” Clark said.

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Community marches in solidarity with relationship violence victims By Emily Wessel THE HERALD

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The issue of domestic violence was brought out into the open Thursday at a relationship violence awareness event in Merritt’s Spirit Square downtown. The event was organized by Merritt’s Violence Against Women in Relationships (VAWIR) committee, which comprises representatives from several social service agencies including Victim Services, RCMP, ASK Wellness, Interior Community Services, School District 58, Scw’exmx Child and Family Services and Nicola Family Therapy. Many of the agencies set up booths with pamphlets and other informational items inside the Fireside Centre, which had its doors open to the public between 1 and 4 p.m. that day. The event was intended to raise awareness of domestic violence and the services around town that are available to help those in abusive relationships. “Sadly, the statistics here in our community indicate that 32 per cent of the calls to our local RCMP detachment are dealing with

Community members march down Garcia Street Thursday in an attempt to raise awareness of relationship violence and to demonstrate solidarity with victims who have come forward and support for those who have not. Emily Wessel/Herald

people don’t report incidents of domestic violence because they don’t feel safe or supported in doing so. “We’re here to stop the violence and allow them the safety to come forward,” Morrey said. Participants went on a march around Merritt’s downtown core to show solidarity with victims of relationship violence who have come forward and show the community support behind those who haven’t. “This march is signifying all of the support that we want to give to the victims who have come forward and those who are scared to come

Merrittonian Sue Sterling shared the story of her experience with relationship violence with the crowd of about 75 people gathered at Spirit Square for Thursday’s awareness event. Emily Wessel/Herald

domestic violence,” Interior Community Services program coordinator and VAWIR committee member Chelsea Morrey said.

“We also know that many victims fail to report and those statistics are likely higher than 32 per cent.” She said it’s likely

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forward, to show our solidarity,” Morrey said. “There is help in our community, our community is healthy and we have amazing agencies that are here to provide those supports to you.” Women at the event wore purple ribbons to show their support for the cause, while men sported white ribbons. Members of the Merritt Fire Rescue Department and RCMP led the march holding a banner proclaiming “Relationship violence ends here.” About 75 people took part in the march.

Lifelong Merrittonian and early childhood development consultant Sue Sterling shared her experience with relationship violence with the crowd. That included different types of abuse she experienced and saw around her growing up, and which carried on into her early adulthood in her romantic relationships. She said after years of being in an abusive relationship, she sought support from her family and community and has not looked back since.

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Mosquito control program underway By Emily Wessel THE HERALD

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ACT OF KINDNESS Merritt Youth and Family Resources Society girls’ group members (from left) MJ Kenoras, 10, Cassie Smith, 11, and Shaelyn Justice, 13, gave out home-made oatmeal cookies on April 15 to Merrittonians in local businesses downtown as a random act of kindness.

The girls’ group program provides its members with skill and leadershipbuilding activities, and runs until April 30. Here, the girls had just finished handing out cookies at the Royal Bank. The girls’ group split into two smaller groups to cover the downtown core to spread their kindness. Emily Wessel/Herald

Mosquito control in Merritt is off to an early start this year. The mild weather combined with the low snowpack over the winter has led to mosquito larvae early in the season, D.G. Regan and Associates’ Curtis Fediuk said. “Not surprisingly, any of the ponds that are out in the sun are nice and warm and have mosquito larvae. Things are just getting going,” he said. The company has started its mosquito monitoring and reduction program a few weeks early, applying its bacterial larvicide on the ground. The program typically starts in May and monitoring continues through August with applications depending on various weather and mosquito life

cycle factors. Fediuk said local ranchers whose properties abut rivers help in the annual mosquito control program. “They’ve been really helpful to us. They’ve given us free passes to come and go through the farmlands or the ranch lands, access to all their roads,” he said. The company uses VectoBac to control mosquitoes at the larval stage. VectoBac is a biodegradable pellet-like substance. Its key ingredient is bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), a bacterium found naturally in soils, which forms a protein crystal as it spores that is toxic only to mosquito and black fly larvae. The pellets pose no threat to wildlife or mosquito predators, Fediuk said. “It doesn’t have any impact on natural preda-

tors like wasps or dragonflies,” he said. So far, surveyors haven’t found any adult mosquitoes, but will continue monitoring, Fediuk said. Aerial applications will likely start in the coming weeks but depend on the river levels. In the meantime, Fediuk said people can do their part to help reduce the pests by removing any standing water on their property in things such as tarps, pails and even tire ruts. “Those buckets of water, the tarp over the wood pile, the boat that’s got some water sitting in the tarpaulin covering it,” he said. “Check window screens and make sure they’re in good repair.” Anyone with questions or comments about mosquito control direct them to city hall or dgra@telus. net.

Costs of violence affect wider society From Page 2 “I think we cannot express enough the importance of healthy relationships and putting a stop to domestic violence not only for women and children but for men as well,” she said. She said self-love is the key message to stopping the violence. Sterling, who also sits on the board for Nicola Family Therapy, said that agency alone provides counselling services to about 100 women affected by domestic violence each year, while

the children who witness violence program sees about 90 children a year in Merritt. The issue of relationship violence is not a private one — it affects the whole community, city councillor Diana Norgaard told the crowd. Norgaard said ending relationship violence is important to her in two capacities: as a mental health clinician for 20 years, and as a representative of the City of Merritt. “Every act of relationship violence damages individuals, families and our community and

we need to stop that,” she said. “It’s not a private issue. It’s not even solely a family issue. It’s an issue for the whole community. “Interpersonal violence costs us dearly. Some costs are obvious — the costs to our health system, our justice system, our mental health system, our child protection system, and our system for social assistance. “The human costs are, of course, alcohol and drug use, failure to attain education, loss of job opportunities, which

then of course affects us in terms of consumer power.” She said the ultimate cost is loss of vitality in the community. Norgaard also read the City of Merritt’s proclamation for Relationship Violence Awareness Week, which took place from April 12 to 18. “We’re going to work as a community to stop this and make this community healthy,” Morrey said. For help with domestic violence or to find services, call victim link at 1-800-563-0808.

Interior Community Services program co-ordinator Chelsea Morrey listens to speaker Sue Sterling at the Violence Against Women in Relationships committee’s awareness event at Spirit Square Thursday afternoon. Emily Wessel/Herald

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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: April 1951 Cancer fund reaches $574 Miss Berta Fraser, chairman of the cancer fund campaign, reports that the 1951 cancer fund canvass was concentrated in Merritt on Wednesday, April 18, and brought Merritt into the news in the spot advertising over CFJC, where we were generously accorded several “flash” reminders that this was the day to give to the cancer campaign in Merritt. This canvass resulted in $517.53 having been deposited from Merritt and all returns are not yet in. Canvassers called in some homes where there was no answer, and the committee will be pleased if those who have not been canvassed will take their donation into the Bank of Montreal. The first outside point to report so far was Brookmere, whose canvassers, turned in $51.15.

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City looking for grant for well UV reactors The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meeting agenda from April 14, 2015. Background In 2014, we were successful at obtaining a $10,000 planning grant for the feasibility assessment of UV reactors for the existing wells. The study determined that the installation of UV reactors is possible and would mitigate the risk of water-borne pathogens for Merritt’s community water system. UV reactors are a strong ultraviolet (UV) light that groundwater travels through in a short section of pipe that kills water-borne pathogens that could potentially be present in raw, untreated water. We typically undertake planning exercises in anticipation of future grant funding opportu-

nities and they serve as a great backup to the application. The Federal Gas Tax Fund Strategic Priorities Fund was announced in the fall of 2014. The SPF is an application-based program available to local governments and other recipients outside of the Greater Vancouver Regional District to support infrastructure and capacity-building projects that are either larger in scale, regional in impact or innovative and align with the program objectives of productivity and economic growth, a clean environment and strong cities and communities. The SPF program has two funding streams: capital infrastructure and capacity-building. Under the Renewed Gas Tax Agreement, eligible project categories have been expanded to the following: public transit; local roads and

bridges; community energy systems; drinking water; wastewater; solid waste; disaster mitigation; recreational infrastructure; cultural infrastructure; tourism infrastructure; sport infrastructure; local and regional airports; short-line rail; short-sea shipping; broadband connectivity; highways; brownfield redevelopment and capacitybuilding. The deadline for the first application intake is April 15, 2015. As with most grant applications these days, a formal resolution from council supporting the application must be submitted. The public works manager has been working co-operatively with the Interior Health Authority over the past several years to plan and implement upgrades to the Merritt community water system that bring it into compliance with current regulations.

That said, there is nothing wrong with our water. Interior Health’s and good water supply practice is risk-based, with past history having no bearing on future risks. The proposed upgrades will enhance the protection of the water system from further unknown future risks. Interior Health supports the project as evidenced by the attached letter of support. In late 2014, the city met with and subsequently received a letter from Interior Health updating the conditions of permit to operate the Merritt community water system. It has been known since the installation of the chlorine injectors at the well heads (2008) that the contact time (for the chlorine) was less than desirable for first-in-line consumers. Our comprehensive Water Utility Master

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Plan (2012) confirmed this. I engaged the original consultant of the UV feasibility assessment study to update it to include dealing with the chlorine contact time requirement. This has a substantial impact on the budget, but while grant funds are available, it makes sense to apply for it now. Financial risk/ implications This project is considered a capital

expense. The current draft of the five-year financial plan has $100,000 budgeted in 2015 for design from general water revenue and $1,080,000 in 2016 construction funded through debt. The grant application is for 100 per cent project funding. The updated total cost is estimated at $2.04 million, which also deals with chlorine contact time for firstin-line customers. It’s recommended that this

number be reflected in the five-year financial plan with the funding source being from grants. For clarity, this doesn’t impact taxation or utility rates. Recommendation That the grant application to the Federal Gas Tax Fund Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) for water treatment upgrades in the amount of $2.04 million be approved.

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Sit-in continues at premier’s West Kelowna office From Page 1 “The problem is there are a number of agencies in the provincial government plus the ALC [Agricultural Land Commission] involved, and the permit was issued by the regional district. There’s a lot of hands in the pot here, so it’s taking a little bit more time than I would have hoped to get it settled,” Clark said. “Mary Polak, the minister of environment, has met with them, though, and I’ve certainly met and spoken with their MLA a number of times about it because she shares lots of their concerns about it. So I hope we’ll get to a solution soon.” Polak has told reporters she has been in regular contact with the chiefs. “They know that the door is open for further dialogue to see if we can find some resolution to their concerns, but there is no question that this occupation has to end. This is a constituency office, it belongs to the community and the door is open when that occupation ends,” Polak said. Polak said the chiefs have been informed the door is open to negotiate once the sit-in ends. “Right now the priority is to move the occupants out of the office and then we’ll sit down and talk,” Tegart said. The protesters want a government-imposed moratorium on the importation of biosolids to the Nicola Valley, and will not leave until that happens, Lower Nicola Chief Aaron Sam told the Herald. Neither Polak nor Tegart have the authority to do that. Sam said BioCentral’s self-imposed moratorium on importing biosolids to its composting facility in

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tion between police and protesters has been harmonious throughout the sit-in. Whether the office’s regular operations are suspended or continuing as normal during the sit-in could not be confirmed by press time. Two members of the legislative assembly protective services staff were dispatched to the office late last week to safeguard the premise and the information contained there, clerk of committees Kate RyanLloyd said. They have been rotating shifts to ensure one staffer is in the office at all times during this protest, she said.

Lower Nicola isn’t good enough because the company can decide to lift it at its will. Sam — who has been at the premier’s constituency office since the sit-in started last Wednesday — said the protest has been a peaceful one. Cpl. Joe Duncan from the Kelowna RCMP said police will engage in consultation in an attempt to resolve the sit-in peacefully. “As it stands right now, we’re just standing by and keeping the peace, ensuring the safety of both protesters as well as the employees at the office,” Duncan said Thursday. Sam said the situa-

STANDING STRONG MSS senior girls’ rugby flanker Selena Henry battles to try and fend off a tackle from Westsyde players in the senior Panthers’ first home game of the season against the Kamloops team. The local rugby squad bulldozed through Westsyde’s defensive line time and time again to finish the game by a huge margin. See page 9 for the full story. Michael Potestio/Herald

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HERALD OPINION A habit ablaze: giving up the nicotine By Jessica Klymchuk

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The other day, someone asked me how quitting smoking was going. That day, up until that exact moment, it was going fine. Then, as I inhaled annoyingly clean air, I had the strongest urge to scream so loud dogs in Merritt would hear me. My pen somehow morphed into a cigarette before my eyes and it took all my willpower to not light the end and take a drag of the blue ink. That was day 11. Now it’s day 17. This isn’t the longest I’ve gone without smoking since I started and it’s definitely not my first kick at the can. It’s my third attempt in two years and my second time writing about it. The last time I took a figurative pen to paper to talk about the hellish task, I was three months into my first attempt and lying about how much I was cheating. I wrote about fictional characters like Tyler Durden and the Pink Ladies looking suave when they lit up, which was obviously the reason for my attraction to the habit — a pop-culture conspiracy. The second time I tried to quit, I took up “vaping.” Well, it didn’t work for me — it just made me want a cigarette. In my current (and, hopefully, last) attempt to kick the nic, I’m not relying on any aids. I want to learn to not want nicotine. I read Allen Carr’s book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Rather than discussing why we shouldn’t smoke, Carr talks about why we do and then proves all those reasons inadequate. Easy or not, what Carr is trying to do is get us back to where we were: Being a true non-smoker, who no longer sees any benefits in the habit, who pities smokers rather than envies them.

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Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Tomorrow is all about the earth. Earth Day was started by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 after he witnessed a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, Calif. the year prior. Inspired by the power of people he saw in action during student protests

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against the Vietnam War, Nelson went to work gathering information, resources and people to push the environment to the top of the political agenda in the U.S. With a staff of 85 people behind him, Nelson led the first wave of Earth Day events across America with more than 20 million people showing their support and rallying in massive demonstrations to raise the profile of air and water pollution. These events helped to re-shape the thinking around environmental issues and turned them into political ones. “Environmental issues” is, of course, a big umbrel-

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la with a huge array of subjects under it. In the 1970s, people took on anything and everything they wanted to, from power plants to factories to dumps to pesticides to habitat loss. In 1990, Earth Day went global. This was right around the time the Exxon Valdez oil spill, environmental contamination from the Chernobyl disaster and deforestation in the Amazon were making headlines worldwide. Two years later, the United Nations held its first Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero. These days, environmental topics are more

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prominent than ever. Air quality, water preservation, pesticide use and species loss are all on today’s political agenda, joined, of course, by a litany of other issues, including one very prominent one here in Merritt’s collective backyard. The theme of Earth Day this year is “It’s our turn to lead.” How appropriate as communities across the country — including Merritt — join together to support the David Suzuki Foundation Blue Dot Movement. However, the message every year is ultimately the same: make every day Earth Day.

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Even small acts of environmental responsibility every day can add up. It’s all about harm reduction. You can go as drastic as trying out the 100-mile diet — where you can only eat things grown within 100 miles of you — to keeping it simple and taking your bike to work. While Earth Day does its part to raise awareness for environmental issues, I’d argue Earth Day is growing because the number of people who are thinking about the environment and its protections is growing. Environmental issues aren’t just for hippies anymore.

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Parking issue leads council briefs Vehicles stopping in a no-stopping zone outside of McDonald’s and Tim Hortons on River Ranch Road have one Merritt resident up in arms. Ed Zimmerman told council at its regular meeting on April 14 the no-stopping signs on River Ranch Road need to be changed. “The signs have got to be moved up to the driveways,” he said. “The signs have got to be larger and they got to spell out for people that there’s no stopping here.” Zimmerman told council this has been a problem for more than a decade. Tennis club lease renewed City council unanimously approved a threeyear lease agreement of the Merritt Tennis Complex to the Merritt Tennis Club at a rate of $1 per year. The club is respon-

sible for applicable taxes and maintenance costs, and producing annual financial statements. Members of the public have free access to the facility. The new lease expires April 13, 2018. Curling club receives tax exemption An appeal from the Merritt Curling Club saw council grant it full tax exemption status at its regular meeting last Tuesday. Under the permissive tax exemption policy passed last June, the club would have paid property taxes for the portion of its facility that sells alcohol. In a letter to council, the club stated that as it is a non-profit organization, it needs the revenue from its bar to cover operating costs. Staff recommended the exemption and council approved it unanimously.

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Council approves pavement painting contract City council approved a five-year pavement line painting contract with Alpine Line Painting worth approximately $200,000. The previous contract wasn’t set to expire until 2016, but the previous contractor chose to terminate the contract during an optional year. Public works manager Sean Boven told council the line painting should be completed in about three weeks’ time. Of the four tenders received, Alpine’s $200,000 contract was the cheapest. In 2014, the City of Merritt paid approximately $30,000 for pavement line painting. This contract is for services from 2015 to 2019 and will cost about $42,000 per year.

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Facilities like Hillside Centre are still essential to mental-health care — but more needs to be done to ensure the safety of staff, said Terry Lake. The health minister for the province said the psychiatric centre just south of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has “a very tough population” of patients with extreme mental-health issues — and the potential for violent incidents. It’s why there will now be a security guard presence, out of uniform but at the site, round-the-clock after another nurse was attacked by a patient in the centre. Lake said his ministry, along with the B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) and the province’s health authorities, will be taking a hard look at the care model of psychiatric facilities to determine if they continue to fit the type of care

needed in today’s society. Speaking alongside Lake to reporters at the centre Friday, BCNU president Gayle Duteil said she was pleased with the decision because it’s essential for all nursing staff to be able to go to work, provide care and go home without having to be concerned for their safety. She said another area to be looked at will be staffing levels in

the facilities. In the past, the BCNU has raised concerns about the number of staff working at Hillside. The nursing contingent is predominantly women. The ministry and nurses union recently attended a health-care symposium that led to an agreement to look at four psychiatric facilities in B.C. to identify ways to reduce violence. Hillside is one of the four chosen

and, Lake said, the goal is to get that program started quickly. “The review into this incident will support this action plan. The plan will be complete and made public by early summer,” he said. Explaining the need for facilities like Hillside, Lake said one need only look to the U.S. to see how its prison system has “become a mental-health system.” However, he added, helping the patients regain their health and “getting them to a better place is extremely difficult.” Duteil said the nurse attacked last week was treated at RIH and is home recovering. WorkSafeBC and Interior Health Authority are conducting investigations into the incident. Hillside has had ongoing issues with violence toward nursing staff. In 2013, for example, there were 64 incidents at the 44-bed facility. Last December, one nurse was attacked twice in a week.

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Pharmacy loyalty points, tobacco sales targeted By Jeff Nagel

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The regulatory body for B.C. pharmacists hasn’t given up on its agenda to ban pharmacies from handing out loyalty reward points on drug purchases, or to eventually ban cigarette sales. A ban imposed by the College of Pharmacists of B.C. was struck down in B.C. Supreme Court last summer, but an appeal filed by the college will be heard in December. The college argued loyalty points are a powerful lure for consumers that can alter their medication buying habits and potentially harm their health. It

was fought in court by major supermarket chains. The judge in the trial ruled the ban on all loyalty incentives was “unreasonable” and concerns raised were “illogical.” College spokesman Mykle Ludvigsen wouldn’t comment on the grounds for appeal. One of the objections raised was that insured patients who don’t pay out of pocket might continue to refill a prescription after they no longer need it just to collect more points and the unneeded drugs may be abused or diverted to the illegal drug trade. Tobacco sales by pharmacies are also in

the crosshairs of the college. Ludvigsen said there is no specific timeline to impose such a ban but the college’s 2014 strategic plan calls for the board to pursue one. “We’re the only province that currently allows cigarettes to be sold in premises that contain a pharmacy,” he said. “It completely goes against the pharmacy as a health centre. To sell things we know kill you at the front of the store and to sell things that help you get better at the back of the store is a bit of a conflict.” Retail chains have warned they would challenge the college’s jurisdiction if it moves

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The Merritt Secondary School girls rugby team left the foot on the gas pedal last Wednesday, defeating the Westsyde Whundas 57-10 in their first game of the season at home. The Panthers’ offence struck right from the get-go and jumped out to an early 5-0 lead almost immediately after the game began. The floodgates opened after that. MSS went on to score seven more tries in the first half through some slick passes and lightning speed, cutting through Westsyde’s defensive line like a hot knife through butter. The only thing lacking for the Panthers in the first half was their kicking, as they failed to complete any two-point conversion kicks on their eight chances. With victory essentially assured by a 40-0 lead at the half, coach

Inside centre Kelsey-Ann Ware runs in the Panthers’ fifth try of the senior girls’ rugby game against Westsyde last Wednesday. Michael Potestio/Herald

Molly Brigden switched up her lines, moving players to positions they don’t normally play to give them a different perspective on the

game. “And to realize what their counterparts do on the field,” Brigden said by way of reasoning for switch-

ing up the girls’ positions. Merritt came out hard again in the second half, but Westsyde was able to stifle the attack for a good chunk of time before conceding a ninth straight try. That seemed to give Westsyde a boost as they marched down the field shortly after and broke the goose egg with a try of their own. The score now 45-5, Westsyde kept the play in the Panthers’ zone, leading to a second consecutive try to make it 45-10 midway through the half. But MSS responded quickly with back-to-back tries — converting on one of them — before the final whistle blew. Right out of the gate, MSS took advantage of the Whundas — a new team this year, having been absent from high school rugby for about six years, Brigden said. “We told our girls you play our rugby, not their rugby,” Brigden said, noting the team didn’t hesitate to engage in tackles.

She also lauded her team’s positioning and communication. Panthers Giulia Caccialupi and Danika Potter each scored a trio of tries in the game. Tallying her first three tries of the season, Potter said her game was better than it has been so far. Potter also said she felt her team used their mauls to their advantage in the win on Wednesday. Keisha Henry scored two tries in the game, and Alison McElveen, Kelsey-Ann Ware and Keely Weymouth each scored one of the Panthers’ other five tries. Despite the offensive explosion, MSS was an abysmal 1-11 on conversion kicks in the game, which was essentially what cost them their season opener against Valleyview. The Panthers next played host to the NorKam Saints on Monday, going into the match with a 1-1 record. The results of that game were not available by the Merritt Herald’s press deadline.

Students get feet wet in water polo introduction

Diamond Vale Grade 6 students Chase Cooke and Jade Duncan race to the ball in a scrimmage on Thursday as classmate Laura Belliveau looks on. Photos by Emily Wessel/Herald

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With plenty of splashing and passing, it was all fun and games for Collettville and Diamond Vale students on Thursday. Students in Grades 4 to 6 from the elementary schools strapped on their caps and jumped in the water for the second of two sessions intended to introduce them to water polo. The students did some dryland training in their school gyms and learned the game the day prior to jumping into the pool. Come Thursday, the

students geared up thanks to the Merritt Otters swim club, which received a $2,000 grant to purchase water polo equipment. Purchasing the equipment was the first step in establishing a water polo program in Merritt, PacificSport Interior co-ordinator Josée Warren said. Warren said the organization is looking into a coaching clinic in the summer and plans to start the local water polo program in the fall. BC Water Polo director Gabor Toth made the trip from Surrey to Merritt to help put on the clinic.

Katie Klassen was all smiles in the water.

Violet Hopkins chases the ball on a breakaway.

Jade Duncan prepares for a pass as teammate Laura Belliveau swims up behind.

Goalie Mina Martin shouts out for a teammate to pass to after making a save during the water polo scrimmage with her classmates.

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THIRD AN N U A L

Delicious Crab, Chicken or Vegetarian Dinner and Dance

AY 2

OORS

IVIC

USIC BY TICKETS AVAILABLE $50.00 EACH~ CALL: JACQUELINE WHITECROSS: 250 378 2546 OR ELIZABETH LAIRD: 250 378 4288 DROP IN TO BRAMBLES BAKERY

PROCEEDS TO SUPPORT LOCAL PROJECTS

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