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B.C. Ambassadors crowned in Merritt

By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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Cheyanne Friess couldn’t believe her ears when her name was called as one of three who were crowned B.C. Ambassadors this past Saturday in Merritt.

“I am in complete shock.

I’m still in shock. I think I’ll be on Cloud 9 for a little while,” Friess said.

The 18-year-old from Trial froze up about halfway through one of her two speeches and was unable to complete it during Friday night’s portion of the judged competition.

“I rehearsed that thing over and over, but I looked out on the crowd and I said the last word to this one sentence … and it was gone,” Friess said.

Despite the error, Friess persevered through the rest of the competition on Friday and Saturday.

“I kind of cried in the back a little bit, and then I gathered my confidence and I thought, you know what, everyone makes mistakes and I still have time to redeem myself,” she said.

Friess told the Herald there’s always a chance at a comeback.

“I hope that I can instill in other people’s minds that just because you mess up doesn’t mean it’s over.

There’s three periods in a hockey game. You can still win it,” she said.

Joining Friess as representatives of the province’s youth this year are Navjot Takhar of Kelowna and Juliana Martine of Oliver.

“It’s overwhelming. It’s an honour,” Takhar told the Herald after being crowned.

Trail’s Cheyanne Friess receives her crown from 2013 B.C. Ambassador Lauren Sherwood as fellow 2014 ambassador Juliana Martine (left) and outgoing ambassador Casey Helgason look on.

Friess was crowned the third and final B.C. Ambassador for 2014 at the crowning ceremony on Saturday at the Civic Centre.

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“It’s pretty amazing. It’s an unreal experience to be having,” Martine said with a laugh.

Six candidates competed in three events at the Civic Centre on Friday and Saturday in the 15th annual ambassadors program. Each made two speeches — a personal speech and one about the communities they hail

from — and answered an impromptu question from a randomly selected candidate.

Candidates are judged based on their knowledge of B.C., personal interviews with judges, public speaking and community presentations.

For the next year, the B.C. Ambassadors will tour the province and involve them-

selves in various functions and charities in their communities, B.C. Ambassador program co-ordinator Teresa Dares told the Herald.

This year’s event also saw about $15,000 handed out in scholarships and bursaries.

Takhar said she’s looking forward to helping encourage youth in her community to volunteer more. Mar-

tine will be continuing her education at Simon Fraser University in the fall and said she’s excited to promote the program in the Lower Mainland. Friess said she’s excited to travel to the Coast and around the Rocky Mountains and promote those areas.

Along with the smiles and tears of joy from this year’s

winners was emotion for last year’s trio, who passed on their coveted crowns on Saturday.

Former ambassadors Casey Helgason (Kamloops), Camelia Vokey (Penticton) and Lauren Sherwood (Osoyoos) were ushered to the main stage with plenty of tears as their reigns officially came to an end.

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Request for bids on free public Wi-Fi leads council briefs

By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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The City of Merritt is opening up the floor to any company that wishes to propose providing Wi-Fi services in Merritt similar to what they’ve been offered recently from Shaw.

Council heard a delegation at its July 8 meeting from a Shaw representative offering free Wi-Fi services at various locations in the city.

City of Merritt leisure services manager Larry Plotnikoff recommended issuing a request for proposals to offer Wi-Fi services in public facilities and the downtown to city council at its regular meeting on Tuesday.

Plotnikoff told council the offer from Shaw is a marketing program aimed at increasing that company’s customer base.

“It would be an open and fair process and we would not be deemed to be aiding a private business,” Plotnikoff said of issuing a request for proposals.

The request for proposal was approved unanimously by councillors at their Aug. 12 meeting. Councillors Clara Norgaard and Mike Goetz were absent.

Council approves DARE program grant At its regular meeting last Tuesday, city council approved a grant for $1,455 to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program in order to cover the remaining cost of administering last year’s program.

The program is run

by RCMP officers in local schools. Police raised some of the necessary funds, then came to council seeking any amount of money to help close

the gap.

Coun. Harry Kroeker made a motion to fund the difference, provided the city has enough money in its city initiatives account to do so. Kroeker said he believes the program is a good one, which he wouldn’t want to see lost.

Deputy financial services manager Ben Currie said while there were sufficient funds in city initiatives category ($44,310) to provide the grant, the funding should be provided from the grant-in-aid account — which had $9,862 — given the DARE Program is not an initiative to attract people to the community, which is what the city initiatives account covers.

Councillors Clara Norgaard and Mike Goetz were absent from the meeting.

City goes for single-year deal with Gold Country City council opted to renew a one-year

membership with Gold Country Communities Society instead of a proposed two-year deal at its regular meeting on Aug. 12.

Councillors voted 4-1 in favour of renewing a one-year membership, with Coun. Neil Menard in opposition. Councillors Mike Goetz and Clara Norgaard were absent from the meeting.

The agreement is for a one-year marketing and development membership for $8,000. The two-year proposal was also for $8,000 per year.

Business and economic development manager Jerry Sucharyna said maintaining the city’s agreement on a year-to-year basis encourages organizations such as Gold Country to work harder for the community’s participation each year.

“To ensure that we get the best bang for our buck, I believe in keeping organizations on their toes,” Sucharyna said.

He also said this allows the city more flexibility and control.

Gold Country Communities Society supports Merritt in tourism and economic development.

Through its membership with Gold Country Communities Society, the City of Merritt receives three pages in the Gold Country visitor’s guide, promotion of Merritt events on the Gold Country website, coverage of activities in Merritt on Facebook and Twitter, as well as promotion of Merritt as a geocaching community.

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B.C.-based country band Me and Mae brings its rising star to Sturgis

By Emily Wessel THE HERALD

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With headliners such as Burton Cummings, Jefferson Starship and Teenage Head, the upcoming Sturgis Canada festival at the old Merritt Mountain Music Festival grounds is mainly focused on rock ’n’ roll.

And while country band Me and Mae may plays a different style of music, festivalgoers can expect the atmosphere to stay light, energetic and party-like. “If you’re not a country fan, don’t let that label get in the way,� Me and Mae guitarist Shawn Meehan said. “We tend to attract a lot of fans who don’t normally like country, but who like us because we tend to bring the pop element and the bluegrass, the rock element. It’s kind of a crossover thing,� he said.

It won’t be Me and Mae’s first appearance before a classic rock crowd; the band is just coming off a couple of dates opening for Canrock classic Trooper. “It was a packed house and the response was great,� he said.

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B.C. country band Me and Mae will play at Sturgis Canada on Sunday, Aug. 24. The festival kicks off Thursday.

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derived from the last name of singer Jacky Mae, with the rest of the band comprising the “Me.� Mae became part of the band when Meehan and bass player Adam Reid were in Prince George to play with another band. A local radio station there held a contest to find a female singer

for a duet the band planned to play at their show. “They picked the winner, and we didn’t really care whether the winner could sing or not. We just wanted to have fun with it,� Meehan said. “Obviously, the winner was Jacky and she just blew us away. We [Reid and

I] looked at each other and went, ‘I think that’s our next singer.’�

That duet turned out to be the band’s first single, Love Me Leave Me Lonely, which has a back story of its own.

Meehan had written the song with pop sensation and former guitar student Carly

Rae Jepsen, whom he knew through a former manager.

After the release of that single, Me and Mae inked a deal with Victoria-based Cordova Bay Records, and in May of this year released its first full-length record Off the Rails. “We’re basically a powerpop, party-country band,�

Meehan said. “It’s got the elements of all that. Really, the CD was the show recorded. “It’s just all up-tempo, good times. We don’t take ourselves too seriously. Come out and forget about life for a couple of hours.�

After Sturgis, the band will finish up its festival circuit in B.C. and then fly to Nashville in September to play some showcase shows and perform at some American dates.

Then it’s back in the studio to record more of the songs they’ve been writing as they tour. “We’re just going to keep playing and playing. It’s what we do, it’s what we love to do and it’s what we plan to do,�

Meehan said.

Me and Mae plays the Iron Mountain Saloon at the festival grounds Sunday, Aug. 24 at 9:30 p.m.

Mine dam inspections ordered across B.C.

By Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS tfletcher@blackpress.ca

Independent engineering inspections have been ordered for Mount Polley Mine near Williams Lake and nearly 100 other mine tailings ponds with permits across the province, with reports to be complete by the end of January.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett announced the dual reviews Monday. The Mount Polley investigation is to be complete

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by B.C.’s chief inspector of mines and the environment ministry, which looks at the longer-term effects of the Aug. 4 tailings spill.

Bennett said costs will be covered by Imperial Metals for Mount Polley and by all operators of mines with permits to operate nearly 100 tailings facilities in B.C. “Certainly in the last 40 years there’s no evidence of a tailings dam breach in British

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Columbia, but rare or not, it happened, and so the public’s confidence I think is shaken,� Bennett said

at a news conference in Vancouver. “That’s why we need to get these three experts involved as quickly

as we’re getting them involved.�

The Mount Polley panel includes UBC mine engineering professor Dirk Van Zyl, U.S. consulting engineer Steven Vick, whose earlier investigations included the 2005 New Orleans levee breach that followed Hurricane Katrina, and Norbert Morgenstern, an Alberta civil engineering professor who has worked on 140 mine projects.

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Independent inspections of other mine tailings ponds must be completed Dec. 1, a change from the March 31 deadline for inspections that are required annually.

Bennett said these inspections will each have to be reviewed by an independent geotechnical engineering firm.

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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: August 1999 No cause for fire alarm Merritt citizens donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about firefighter coverage.

That was the adamant message delivered by outgoing fire chief Rich Finley and one of this longest standing fire department members Dean Finnigan.

The two were responding to publicized concerns about the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s protection coverage and rules its members have to follow when addressing the public.

Finley told the Merritt Herald during his last firefighting practice with the department, the municipal policy about members not talking to the media was simply in place because one firefighter â&#x20AC;&#x153;has a limited ability to give the complete picture of any fire properly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every fire department that I know has the same policy,â&#x20AC;? Finley explained further.

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Road, waterline work underway The city’s annual capital works program is underway.

The project consists of replacing older water and sewer mains underneath the road and repaving the road surface once they are replaced.

Choosing which projects to undertake is more of an art than a science. We look to our master infrastructure plans for guidance

and it is often what we can’t see (underground) that is driving the project, and not just the condition of the asphalt pavement.

This year we are working on Main Street, the first block of Coldwater Avenue, Douglas Street, Langstaff Place and a portion of Clapperton Avenue.

The prime contractor for the work is H&M Excavating Ltd.

based out of Penticton. If you have any concerns with respect to dust control or traffic control please feel free to contact them at (250) 493-4677 and a message can be relayed to personnel in the field.

The City of Merritt thanks you for your patience while this work is completed.

Visit merritt.ca for a map of the work areas.

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local playgrounds. The premise of the program is to bring kids back to the parks and to play traditional playground games like hopscotch and four-square that have been lost over the years. The games were well attended over the three sessions and kids enjoyed learning new (or old) games and playing with the Smart Step youth.

Smart Step will be wrapping up the summer with its annual events: Paint Our City Clean and the sports camp.

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Smart Step will continue its three long-standing summer projects: Paint Our City Clean, City Clean Up, and the sports camp.

It will also introduce a new program to help

bring the youth back in the community together with games at local parks and is modelled after Participaction’s “Bring Black Play.”

This will also serve as a means of introducing the younger age groups to the Smart Step program. Training opportunities such as first aid and coaching courses will also be offered to the senior members of Smart Step so that the summer experience is enhanced for the youth.

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SPRAY PARK RESURFACING The City of Merritt’s Spray Park located at Rotary park, will be unavailable from August 19-22nd in order to complete the spray pad resurfacing project.

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Please note that the resurfacing project dates may be subject to change as the project is weather dependent.

For more information please contact: Larry Plotnikoff Leisure Services Manager 250-378-8618 lplotnikoff@merritt.ca

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Merritt police officers took part in the newest social media sensation on Sunday: the ice bucket challenge, which aims to raise funds and awareness for the neurodegenerative disease ALS. Merritt RCMP Const. Vickie Taylor and her fellow officers were challenged by her Merritt Centennial billet Daniel Nachbaur.

The officers nominated the Merritt Fire Rescue Department and Merritt Centennials coaches Luke Pierce and Joe Martin, who had 24 hours to complete the challenge and pass along nominations or donate to the cause.

From left: Cpl. Kelly Bartch, Const. Dave Fahlman, Const. Dan Lachapelle, Const. Vickie Taylor, Sgt. Mike Pears, Const. Tracy Dunsmore, Megan Dunsmore and Const. Emmie Clements.

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Merritt’s Order of the Eastern Star is celebrating its 100th birthday.

The fraternal organization is for Masons and their female relatives, and dates back to the 1800s. A chapter popped up in the Nicola Valley in April of 1914.

The group is a nonprofit charitable organization with a focus on supporting cancer research.

Merritt Order of the Eastern Star’s secretary Lynn Marsh said the reason she felt it was important to join the Order of the Eastern Star was because her mother died of cancer.

Worldwide, the organization has more than 500,000 members, 3,220 of whom are based throughout B.C. and the Yukon.

The Merritt chapter has about 20 active members and meets once a month, with various social activities in between.

In the community, the Order of the Eastern Star conducts such charitable donations as supplying bandages to cancer patients, giving a Christmas hamper to a family in need and awarding a bursary to graduates of Merritt Secondary School.

Over the course of its century in the Nicola Valley, the group has

helped out with a wide variety of charitable initiatives.

Back in 1921— the infancy of Merritt’s Order of the Eastern Star — the group raised funds to help buy shoes for a family in need.

Also in the 1920s, the Order of the Eastern Star helped raise funds to install a waterline to the city graveyard.

To celebrate their centenary, the group held a barbecue and dance on Saturday at the Lower Nicola Community Hall.

This past June, the Eastern Star lost a piece of its history when the Masonic lodge — their meeting place since the 1940s — went up in flames when a fire broke out in between two buildings in the 2000 block of Quilchena Avenue.

Marsh said that although they lost a few items in the fire due to water damage, their minute books and ledgers were saved. She said the documents were all put inside Rubbermaid containers a few years back.

Marsh said she doesn’t know yet whether or not the Order of the Eastern Star will be able to meet at the Masonic lodge in the future.

The group now meets temporarily at the Lower Nicola Community Hall, Marsh said.

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HERALD OPINION Some illnesses can be beat and some can’t be defeated

By Dale Bass

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I was at a workshop earlier this year addressing mental health and how reporters can — and should — cover it.

The session was put on to promote MindSet: Reporting on Mental Health, a wonderful 42-page booklet created through a partnership between the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, CBC News and the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

During the session, some of the panelists referred to people who suffer from mental illness, phrasing we see used regularly in the media.

No doubt there are plenty of stories we could find now that talk about how comedian/actor Robin Williams suffered from depression.

It came time for questions and mine shot up immediately — but was beaten by another journalist who stood up and listed his health issues, which included addiction, alcoholism and depression. They are all under control, he told the group, and he doesn’t consider himself suffering from them.

As with any illness, he has managed with medical help to get them under control, put them into remission, tackle them into submission — whatever terminology one might use to describe someone who was once very sick and is now healthy and has learned to live with the illnesses inside.

That’s what depression is, a horrible illness that can spread through one’s mind the way a bacteria can take over a person’s lungs, creating pneumonia, or an aberrant cell can wreak havoc to a person’s blood or organs.

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Ferguson clashes raise ugly questions

Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Military fatigues, tear gas, SWAT teams, riot gear, rubber bullets, snipers, detained reporters: these images commonly associated with warzones are the same ones that could describe the culmination of mounting tension in Ferguson, Missouri last week as residents in the St. Louis suburb gathered in the streets to protest the fatal shooting of a teenager by a police officer.

The nightly clashes

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between Ferguson residents and their police started out with a vigil for 18-yearold Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9.

The scene escalated into looting and rioting, turning into all-out clashes last week as residents grew restless with answers they felt weren’t being provided by police as to the reason for Brown’s death and the identity of the officer who shot him.

Those two pieces of information have since been given by the police, including security camera footage allegedly showing Brown robbing a convenience store, yet the protests continue.

The police said Brown was shot following a scuffle between him, another man and a police officer. One of

the men allegedly pushed the officer into the squad car and struggled with him over his weapon. The scuffle moved to the street, which is where Brown was shot multiple times.

Whether or not Brown was the one struggling with the officer in the car is not clear.

The National Guard was sent to the scene early this week to keep the chaos in check.

Those still protesting want more answers — what will happen to the police officer who shot and killed Brown? Why was he shot multiple times?

And the most disturbing question: what role, if any, does a history of racial tension have in this death?

Though both protesters and police have contributed to the violence, it represents that the groups are at an impasse.

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Though a terrible situation, could the Ferguson chaos be a catalyst for easing racial tensions?

I don’t believe those tensions can be “resolved” in any one lifetime; after all, race-related clashes have happened periodically throughout the country’s history.

On the whole, however, I’m inclined toward the theory of social evolution, which posits that if we charted the number of racially-driven clashes against the prevalence of discriminatory attitudes on a graph, the line would be extremely squiggly, but overall, we would find slow improvement.

The problem is we are living in the here and now — not over hundreds of years.

We may never know the truth about what happened that night, and it’s likely

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people have their own truths to which they will staunchly adhere.

But the fact this shooting death was followed by another just two days later when an unarmed black man in Los Angeles was shot and killed by a police officer points to a larger problem, and one that can’t be ignored. Now protesters are taking to the streets in L.A. in opposition to the police force’s handling of the death.

This isn’t a one-off. It’s not even a two-off. It’s the real, deadly implication of racial tensions in a country that’s supposed to be the land of equal opportunity.

Now everyday people, politicians and police forces are in the uncomfortable position of having to face this racial divide headon. No longer placated and quietened, it can’t be ignored.

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YOUR OPINION More difficult to reconcile funny with depressed From Page 6 They each come with their own symptoms, create their own fears and, in some cases, bring their own blackness.

That’s a difficult abyss to get out of when it surrounds you, as it can with depression. It’s easy to get lost in the black, to see no light beckoning you, hear no voice calling you, see nothing that might be just the medicine you need to start the fight against the disease.

It doesn’t have to be a blazing light — it could be the sound of your baby crying or a loved one calling to us.

For a while last week, it felt like the only news happening on the planet was a result of Williams’ death. It led the CBC News the night he was found dead in his California home.

I think almost every one of my social media friends posted a photo, a story, a clip from their favourite Williams film, their own unbelieving shock that someone so funny could succumb to depression. We would have been shocked had he died of some other disease — like the sudden heart failure that killed John Ritter, the cancer that killed Andy Kaufman, the pneumonia that led to the death of Bernie Mac — but it wouldn’t have hurt so much.

The disconnect comes from trying to rationalize phenomenal-

ly funny and full of life with massively depressed and, ultimately, unable to recover from it.

The way to understand it and perhaps the one good that can come from the outpouring of media coverage for one person when thousands others die from the disease every year is the discussion on mental illness has taken over the news cycle for a while.

We’re hearing the statistics, we’re learning about the symptoms, we’re discovering anyone could become ill from it.

Hopefully, we’re learning mental illness is just that — a sickness.

Some of us learn to live with it. Some of us do our best to live with it but sometimes ignore doctors’ advice and think we’re cured. We stop taking the medicine.

Some of us do everything we’re told, take every medicine we’re prescribed, follow every doctor’s directions to the letter but the illness still wins in the end. We end up staring into that blackness.

If we’re lucky, there’s someone nearby who can shine a light, call out, kick in a bathroom door, do what’s needed to battle the illness back down again to help us in our fight.

And sometimes that illness is simply terminal. We can fight and fight but, in the end, it’s simply too strong. dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

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GOOD SHOW Rhythmic blues band Breaking Bad plays to a crowd of about 30 people on Friday afternoon for the chamber of commerce and city’s joint event Music in the Square. Candidates in the weekend’s BC Ambassadors program were also in the audience at Spirit Square for the lunchtime performance.

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Farm consultation a farce, industry benefits Dear Editor, Re: Farm changes a great leap forward (B.C. Views, Aug. 14).

Tom Fletcher’s opinions are not shared by any farmers I know.

The B.C. government’s post-facto “public consultation process” is farcical given that Bill 24, which amends the Agricultural Land Commission Act, was passed this May. An authentic public consultation process should have been multi-year and province-wide, not invitationonly meetings and a one-month-long token public feedback process which highlight yet again the magnitude of our democratic deficit.

Fletcher’s analogy to Mao Tse-tung’s Great Leap Forward is apt, however, given B.C.’s democratic deficit and because Mao’s vision gave rise to China’s Great Famine, resulting in tens of millions of deaths. The Great Leap Forward has been defined as “a very expensive disaster.”

British Columbians will also pay a high price for the B.C. Liberal scheme to drastically change the ALR, as our food insecurity will increase and farm land become even more polluted. The “farming” activities proposed by the B.C. Liberals will reduce the land available to grow food. Alcohol has very limited nutritional value.

The B.C. Liberals’ continued support for industrial agriculture, one of the world’s biggest causes of greenhouse gas emissions, combined with fracking, oil development and anaerobic digesters will further pollute farmland.

Manure from organic farms is worth far more as fertilizer than as fodder for anaerobic digesters; only conventional farmers would seek to use their contaminated manure to generate power.

The B.C. Liberals need to remember that we all eat, including their buddies in the petroleum and the liquor sectors.

Louise Taylor Grand Forks

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Business award nominations open, lead briefs The Merritt and District Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its business excellence awards.

Awards are handed out in 10 categories to local businesses as nominated by community members.

Nomination forms are available at several local businesses and completed forms are due back to the chamber office by Aug. 31.

The awards will be handed out at a gala in the fall.

students to date.

The extra funds will be used to expand the program to include

local employers and adult volunteers from the community.

The funds come

from Boston Pizza Future Prospects, the branch that distributes money col-

lected through various fundraising activities throughout the year, such as the sale of

heart-shaped pizzas on Valentine’s Day. Those interested in the becoming a mentor

with the program can contact Big Brothers Big Sisters at www.bbbskamloops.ca.

We’ve extended the savings.

Ice cream works miracles The local Dairy Queen restaurant raised $7,300 for BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver through its Miracle Treat Day campaign.

The campaign saw at least one dollar of every Blizzard sold on Aug. 14 donated to the cause.

The total is just under last year’s record $7,500 donation made by the local store.

In their 30 years of running the campaign, Dairy Queen restaurants across North America have raised over $100 million for Children’s Miracle Network’s 170 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.

Boston Pizza commits to mentors Boston Pizza has made a $55,000 commitment over three years to the local Big Brothers Big Sisters in-school mentoring program.

The program sees children referred from Merritt Central Elementary paired with screened and trained mentors from Merritt Secondary. Together, the children and their mentors do activities with a focus on positive relationships, staying active, social development and success in school.

The program is administered through Big Brothers Big Sisters Kamloops. This coming school year will be the program’s fifth in Merritt. It has involved 124

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Douglas Lake Ranch made it a clean sweep at the 22nd Annual O’Keefe Ranch Hand Rodeo, taking the top three places at the twoday competition held August 2 and 3 outside Vernon.

A total of 10 teams representing every major ranching community in the province took part.

The DL Portland division trio of cow boss Stan Jacobs, Curt Martindale and Gib Snider finished first, while second place went to Douglas Lake’s Chapperon division, represented by Sam Woodman, Cam Jacobs and Kaylan Eek, and third place to the DL Home Ranch team of Charlie Peasley, Travis Freiman and Adian Cox. Martindale was also chosen the Top Hand at the O’Keefe event, as voted on by his peers.

The Nicola Ranch team of Mark Elliott, Colby Stewart and Robin Coutlee also did well at the O’Keefe rodeo with Elliott and his horse, Playboy, winning the Working Ranch Horse competition.

Elliott and Playboy excelled in the long list of challenges that included reining, bridling, livestock handling and a log drag.

Judging the event was former Quilchena Ranch cowboy and respected horse trainer Miles Kingdon.

The five other events at this year’s O’Keefe Ranch Hand Rodeo were team penning, oneman doctoring, branding, trailer loading and the wild horse race.

The Nicola Valley was also represented at the O’Keefe competition by local cowgirl Haley Rutherford, who teamed up with Ricky Sealhof and Raquel Russell to make an all-girls team.

Ranch rodeos demonstrate the true skills of the working cowboy and cowgirl, and the incredible working relationship of horse and rider that has been a part of ranching in North America for close to two hundred years.

Rob Dinwoodie, one of the O’Keefe Ranch Hand Rodeo organizers, had high praise for the Douglas Lake Ranch’s involvement in this year’s event.

“They supplied the livestock (40 head of 800-pound steers) for the competition. They’re such a fine group of people, and such supporters of the ranch rodeo concept,” Dinwoodie said. “I think that there’s a real appetite for the ranch rodeo idea these days and the fact that we do have a living West.”

The ranch hand rodeo is just one part of a three-day cowboy festival at the O’Keefe ranch that includes a dinner, barn dance, stage coach rides and displays of fine art and collectibles.

TOP HANDS (Above) The Douglas Lake Portland division team of (top, left to right) Gib Snider, Stan Jacobs and Curt Martindale was the overall winner of the 22nd Annual O’Keefe Ranch Hand Rodeo on August 3. Douglas Lake swept the top three places with the Chapperon division finishing second and the Home Ranch taking third.

Martindale (left) was also chosen Top Hand at the one-day event, while Nicola Ranch’s Mark Elliott (right) won the Working Ranch Horse competition on his bay gelding Playboy. Photos courtesy of Naomi McGeachy/Sweet Iron photos and Norbert Stoll

Nicola Valley Ranch Hand Rodeo set for Sept. 13 After a one-year hiatus, the Nicola Valley will once again play host to its own ranch hand rodeo. The one-day event is scheduled for Saturday, September 13, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Collettville rodeo grounds.

Douglas Lake Ranch’s Curt Martindale, who is organizing this year’s event along with Mark

Elliott from Nicola Ranch, expects upwards of 10 teams from around the province to take part.

“There’ll be sorting, branding, doctoring wild cow milking, bronc riding and ranch horse competitions,” Martindale said.

“We’ll also be having a concession and a beer garden,” he said.

Admission to the ranch hand rodeo is free.

THE REAL DEAL Ranch hand rodeos feature real working cowboys from area ranches competing in activities that continue to be a part of day-to-day life on a cattle ranch. (Above) A pair of cowboys take part in the branding event. (Right) The saddle bronc event at any rodeo always generates a great deal of excitement. Ian Webster/Herald

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Patrick King It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Patrick King in Kelowna BC on August 12, 2014 surrounded by his loving family after a courageous battle with cancer.

Pat was born to William & Gertrude King in Southeast Placentia, Newfoundland on August 2, 1942.

He married the love of his life Geraldine on October 5, 1964 and raised two wonderful sons. He spent his lifetime Mining, working in both Labrador and B.C., retiring from Highland Valley Copper in April 2004 after 30 years. In the early years, he spent his spare time coaching minor hockey and softball. Pat’s zest for life and his sense of humor will be dearly missed.

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Left to mourn his passing, wife Geraldine of 49 years, sons John (Leslie) and Randy (Connie); his brothers William (Jean), Joe (Theresa), Don (Theresa), Mark (Mary), Gerry (Paula); his sisters Maureen (Gerald), Anne Marie (Ernie), Claire (Phil) and Kelly (Dave), sister in laws Shirley, Kathy, Ursula (Allan), Anne Marie (Al) and Stella (Tommy) and numerous nieces , nephews and friends.

Pat was predeceased by his parents William and Gertrude King, his sister Rose, his brothers Rick and Dan, father and mother in law John and Mary Anne Cochrane and bother in laws Thomas and Gerard Cochrane.

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The position is under the direct supervision of the Executive Director. Evening and weekend work as required.

RESPONSIBILITIES: r Connects and collaborates with appropriate referral sources r Conduct intakes r Conduct mental health assessments and develop assessment reports r Conduct provisional DSM diagnosis r Develop and execute treatment plans r Maintain appropriate Clinical and administrative records KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: r Awareness of First Nations culture and issues affecting First Nations families and communities r Develop and maintain working knowledge and relationships with natural partners and supports in the communities r Demonstrated expertise and knowledge in Clinical Mental Health assessment, diagnosis and treatment r Ability to conduct suicide assessments and assist with crisis interventions r Comfortable with conducting both Psycho-educational and treatment focused group sessions to various ages r Excellent interpersonal and communication skills EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: r Awareness of First Nations culture and issues affecting First Nations families and communities r Develop and maintain working knowledge and relationships with natural partners and supports in the communities r Demonstrated expertise and knowledge in Clinical Mental Health assessment, diagnosis and treatment r Ability to conduct suicide assessments and assist with crisis interventions r Comfortable with conducting both Psycho-educational and treatment focused group sessions to various ages r Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Start Date: ASAP As Needed Pay: Rate will be negotiated based on experience Deadline for submitting applications: August 29, 2014 @ 12:00 pm For Full job description contact SCFSS Apply by submitting your cover letter and resumein a sealed envelope Attn: Yvonne Hare, Executive Director Scwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;exmx Child & Family Services Society 85 Highway 8, Merritt, BC V1K 0A7 Tel: (250)378-2771 Fax: (250)378-2799 Email:executivedirector@scwexmx.com Scwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;exmx Child & Family Services Society thanks all those who apply, however, only qualiďŹ ed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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