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Highway woes Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

A massive pileup on the Coquihalla Highway on Friday afternoon kept many motorists stranded, but thanking their lucky stars there were no fatalities after a semi-truck plowed through a line of vehicles in the southbound lane of the highway.

The accident occurred near the Box Canyon chain-up area, resulting in the southbound lanes of the highway being closed for more than six hours, as motorists were being asked to detour through Highway 8 or Highway 97C to avoid the crash.

“A commercial transport vehicle traveling southbound on Highway 5 apparently was unable to stop, and collided with 13 other vehicles,” said RCMP Traffic Services spokesperson Const. Melissa Wutke in a press release.

While there were no fatalities, one person was airlifted to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries, the release went on to state.

BC Emergency Health Services responded to the crash with two helicopters and 10 ground ambulances.

Six individuals with minor injuries were transported to local hospitals.

Ministry of Transportation and Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement (CVSE) officers attended the scene of the crash to inspect the commercial vehicle.

The file remains under investigation.

Later on in the weekend, a mud slide on Highway 8 resulted in that stretch of road being closed on Sunday evening, through to the afternoon on Monday. The road was reopened at 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 8.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS MISSIONARY TRIP

Aid group ships off to Tactic, Guatemala Cole Wagner THE MERRITT HERALD

A 17-member team from the Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church (NVEFC) are on their way to Tactic, Guatemala today, donating their time, money and labour to help improve the lives of impoverished people in the area.

The group from the NVEFC will be working with Impact Ministries, an organization founded by a husband and wife team originally from Kamloops, B.C., now living in Tactic, a small municipality in Guatemala, with a population of about 27,500. The couple founded Impact Ministries in 2000, when they drove down to Guatemala from Kamloops in a Windstar van, their three children in tow, laying the foundations for the ministry, which now boasts 10 schools and over 1,500 pupils.

One of the team members travelling to Guatemala is Ashley Fulcher, a local nurse who works at the Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre. This trip will mark her eighth journey to Guatemala to work with Impact Ministries — an experience she said has helped shaped the direction of her life.

Fulcher has seen firsthand the growth of the ministry, and the people in Tactic, since her first trip to the South American country.

“It always amazes me when we go down there, It’s totally blossomed,” she said. “I’m really thankful to be going down again.

Someone asked, ‘Why do you keep going to Guatemala?’ We just love the people down there. It really does make sense what [Impact Ministries] is doing — it’s not a top-down approach. We’re not going to come in and change the world down there.

The Merritt group travelling to Tactic, Guatemala posed for a group shot outside of the Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church on Aug. 3. Cole Wagner/Herald

It’s more that we walk away the ones who have changed — it impacts our lives more.”

Fulcher is looking forward to working together with her mother and sister, who are also going on the trip this time.

The Merritt team is a mix of families, teens and people from different professional backgrounds. Some of the group have already worked in Guatemala with Impact Ministries, but some on are on the trip for the first time. The Merritt team will primarily assist with manual labour projects, and construction work on the schools and churches in Tactic. But the group has also designed programming for the children’s ministry, which will include games, bible stories, singing and puppet shows.

Thanks to fundraising from individuals

and groups in the Nicola Valley, the group will be bringing down a bevy of supplies for the Guatemalan people, including school supplies, uniforms and three fifty-pound boxes of medication from Health Partners International of Canada (worth approximately $20,000). And in true Canadian fashion, many of the supplies will be transported in hockey bags.

As a registered nurse, Fulcher is especially aware of the challenges facing the Guatemalan health care system. In addition to the medication, the Merritt team is bringing hand made quilts and baby-care packages to distribute to people in the local hospital.

“I remember one time, I went there, and there was a nurse just standing there, bag-

ging a kid — providing the kid’s breath,” explained Fulcher. “And I came home, and I thought, ‘Did I just see that? Was that for real?’ The next time I went, there was two kids being bagged. We’re very fortunate here for sure.”

A real sense of perspective is one of the most valuable things people on the trip will take away from the experience in Tactic, said Fulcher.

“I can honestly say that it’s changed my life,” she explained. “Obviously part of [Impact Ministries’] goal is to impact the Guatemalans, that’s a given. But another one of their goals is to impact the groups that do come down, and to change their individual lives. I truly think it has encouraged me to go into nursing.”

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City appoints board of variance iary constable as an example of his knowledge of city bylaws.

Of the other three applicants not chosen, one said he had experience serving on the board of variance in Princeton, one said a resume could be made A revitalized Board of Variance has been established by Merritt city counavailable on request and the other said he served on the city’s signage commitcil, but not before some debate on the credentials of the applicants. tee.

“Perhaps some of you know who they are or what their experience is in The city put a call out for applicants, but received just six letters of interest. relation to this committee, but I don’t,” said Coun. Linda “We were lucky to get six applicants,” Miles said, noting that Brown at council’s last regular council meeting back on July this was the city’s second request for members, the first of which 26. She said only two of the six letters of interest received drew a request from just one person. by council provided that information.

A board of variance is a quasi-judicial body separate from City of Merritt corporate officer Melisa Miles told councity hall that deals with appeals for minor variances where comcil that only a letter of interest was required from members pliance with the zoning bylaw would cause undue hardship. of the public who applied. No resume or other criteria was “If, for some reason, in the building permit application prorequested. cess it’s indicated that a building can’t be sited properly on a Brown suggested that more information be requested property — say they want to put a house in, but there’s huge from the six applicants. rock jutting out, so they have to build closer into the setbacks Given the concerns raised, Coun. Diana Norgaard sug— they would apply to the board of variance,” Miles told the gested council motion to defer appointing the members and Herald. direct staff to ask applicants for a more complete resume.

The board would then decide whether the application should That motion was defeated 6-1, with only councillor Brown still be permitted, and the corporate officer would determine if a in favour of it. Councillor Norgaard did not support her matter would be sent to the board of variance, Miles said. own suggested motion.

“It’s very, very rare that a board of variance is used,” she Mayor Neil Menard suggested appointing the trio of said.

Coun. Mike Goetz Ross Gregory, Graeme Beverley and Darcy Heffernan as Back in April, council directed staff to revitalize the board of Merritt city councillor the board of variance, which passed by a 6-1 vote. Only variance, which is required under the Local Government Act. Brown was opposed.

Merritt’s board of variance consists of three members of the public and “These people turned in exactly what we asked them to turn in,” Coun. the corporate service officer acting as its secretary. The members serve a Mike Goetz told his fellow councillors. “Pick the three and on we go,” he said. three-year term.

Heffernan didn’t list any credentials in his letter of interest, Gregory noted No city employees or members of an advisory planning commissioner are he is a retired railway conductor and Beverley mentioned his time as an auxil- allowed to be on a board of variance.

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PROVINCIAL NEWS

Business pushing back on CPP expansion Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS

The B.C. government is hearing objections from businesses and individuals faced with increasing Canada Pension Plan contributions in the coming years, and is the last province needed to ratify the increase.

Instead of joining other provinces in meeting the federal government’s July deadline to adopt the change, the B.C. government launched a consultation phase expected to run through August. And they are getting push-back on a plan that would increase payroll deductions and employer contributions starting in 2019.

Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, said he’s receiving hundreds of responses to his call to supporters to make their views known to the B.C. government. Most concerned are employers who would pay higher contributions for each of their employees.

Employer and employee contributions are to go up from the current 4.95 per cent of earnings to 5.95 per cent by 2023. For each employee earning $54,900, the employer contribution goes up $7 to $8 per month in each of the first five years of the phase-in.

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“Obviously, lots of people are concerned about having to pay more,” Bateman said. “But the interesting ones are the small business owners who talk about just how close to the edge they are financially.”

B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong joined other provinces in agreeing in principle to the expansion in June. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said he is concerned about the decline in workplace pension plans and wants the CPP to move from replacing one quarter of employment income to one third by 2025.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business surveyed its members nation-wide when the CPP plan was announced, and more than 80 per cent wanted consultation and a delay of implementation. Morneau has indicated he plans to table legislation this fall.

B.C.’s refusal to sign on could derail the federal plan, but it shows little intention of doing so.

“British Columbia is committed to engaging with stakeholders in advance of ratifying the agreement in principle,” said the statement from de Jong’s office announcing the conJordan Bateman sultation.

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REPORT FROM THE OLYMPICS IN MUNICH, GERMANY ‘The following is a second in a series of personal reports being forwarded to the Merritt Herald

by John Beers, a Merritt resident who is representing Canada in the high jump competitions in the Olympics: August 11 . . .

“After writing my first letter to the Herald last week.

I had another look around the Olympic site and continued to be impressed by the facilities.

There are countless numbers of tennis courts, volleyball courts, basketball courts, hockey fields, etc. all over the place.

My coach was saying that this is the best Olympic site he has ever seen (and he has been to almost every one). It’s not hard to believe since I couldn’t imagine a better set-up.

The service is excellent. Almost anything we want is provided for us or done for us.

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The City of Merritt is inviting applications for the term position of Program Instructor III – After School Program Instructor For complete details, visit City of Merritt website at: www.merritt.ca Current resumes reflecting applicants’ knowledge, skills and abilities relevant to the position and detailing education, qualifications and proof of required licenses/certificates/ degrees will be accepted prior to 4:00 p.m. Friday, August 19, 2016 by: Carole Fraser Human Resources Manager, City of Merritt PO Box 189, 2185 Voght Street Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 Or by email: cfraser@merritt.ca We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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SANITARY SEWER FLUSHING The City of Merritt Public Works Department would like to remind residents that it is that time of year again for our annual maintenance program for sewer flushing and camera work.

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advises and makes recommendations to Council on policies, priorities, new initiatives and direction to maintain and improve the social well-being of residents. This committee provides advice to the Council on the development of action plans to deal with a variety of social issues affecting the Nicola Valley community, such as youth engagement, homelessness, access to social assistance programs.

It also provides a cross disability perspective on inclusion and accessibility affecting all persons with disabilities and ensures that the committee process engages the broad community, including seniors, aboriginals, ethnic groups and others.

Individuals interested in applying, please ensure that your Letter of Interest clearly states which committee wish to sit on. To apply please forward your intention by letter prior to August 15, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. to: City of Merritt, Melisa Miles Director of Corporate Services PO Box 189 Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8 Or email to mmiles@merritt.ca

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The City of Merritt is seeking a maximum of three (3) members of the public to sit on the City’s Environment Select Committee. The Environment Select Committee develops and recommends policies to Council regarding the status and management of the air, water and land within the jurisdiction of the City of Merritt. This committee reviews all matters referred to it by Council that fall within the Committee’s scope and provides input on existing or proposed bylaws, policies and programs of the City that have the potential to have a positive or negative impact the quality and sustainability of air, water and land. The Environment Select Committee provides a perspective on services, events and capital projects related but not limited to climate change, green technology and energy efficiency.

The City of Merritt is seeking four (4) members of the public to sit on the City Social Planning Select Committee. The City Social Planning Committee

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS WILDLIFE W ILDLIFEE CONSERVATION

Burrowing owls returning to Nicola Valley Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

The first project reintroducing burrowing owls on to First Nations reserve land in B.C. is showing its first signs of success.

Back in April six of these endangered birds, which were raised in captivity, were released on the grasslands of the Upper Nicola reserve thanks to a collaborative effort between the band and the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of BC. Three males and three females were housed in artificial burrows, fed by human hand and monitored closely to aid in their transition into the wild.

The goal was to see the birds learn to survive on their own and produce young.

In the months since their release, the owls are doing just that. While still being fed, the adults are also hunting and two of the couples have already produced young.

“This is significant, because [burrowing owls] were historically in that area,” said Dawn Bodie, who is a retired member of the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of BC and consultant on this project.

Of the original six, two have since gone missing — most likely preyed upon by other animals Brodie tells the Herald.

Burrowing owls are prey for animals such as red

tail hawks.

“We’re pretty excited just having five owls survive out there. That’s a milestone,” Brodie said, noting that 100 per cent survival is rare.

Despite that loss there was a huge gain for the project as less than a month after release a wild, female burrowing owl made its way into the nest site and bred with one of the captive raised males.

Brodie described the emergence of the wild owl as a reason to celebrate the suitability of the site.

How do they know it’s wild?

The captive raised burrowing owls each receive two ID bands, one of which is coloured black and green to indicate they’re from British Columbia. This bird had no bands.

In total the owls have produced nine young — six born from one clutch born in June and another three born from another clutch back a on o July 1.

Last Friday Brodie and some members of the t Upper Nicola Band went out to the nest site s to tag the now one-month old babies.

She said the first six — already tagged — are a likely learning to fly at this point.

Hiking up the side of a grassy hill en route to t burrow number one on a sunny day, Brodie spots an adult burrowing owls take flight, pops ping p up from the yellow and green brush.

Dawn Brodie reached into a burrow and pulled out one of the burrowing owl babies that were tagged on Friday, Aug, 5.

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WESTERN DAY (Top) A curious baby burrowing owl surveys its surroundings with wide eyes, while Dawn Brodie keeps a tight grip on the bird.

(Above) A baby owl having its wings measured at one-month old. The babies are a triumph for the program, as they are the result of a union between a captive bird released into the wild, and a truly wild female.

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VIEWPOINT EDITORIAL

Something to cheer for Rio desperately needed a hero.

In the months (or maybe even years) long build up to Cole Wagner the 2016 COLE’S NOTES Summer Olympic Games, the overwhelming feeling approaching the games was that of impending disaster.

Whether it was the hysteria around the potential for a worldwide health emergency due to the Zikacarrying mosquitoes, the crumbling (or unfinished) infrastructure being built for the Games, or the fear of a total governmental collapse in Brazil, the omens ahead of these Olympics were weighing heavy on the minds of even the most ardent Olympic supporters (this editor included).

So when the opening ceremonies went off largely without a hitch last Thursday, the sporting world breathed a collective sigh of relief.

While not extravagant on the level of Bejing’s opening ceremonies in 2008, or London’s in 2012, the image of the Olympic cauldron being lit by Vanderlei de Lima — Brazil’s marathon runner who surely would have captured gold in 2004 before a spectator jumped the fence and tackled him mid-race — briefly pulled some of the attention away from the negativity on the Games.

And in that brief respite from doom and gloom that followed in the Games first days over the weekend, the Canadian athletes picked up the slack and provided us with enough incredible performances that the shadows cast over the games have all but disappeared.

When we needed something to cheer for, 16-year-old Penny Oleksiak stepped up to the plate, winning two medals in two days. We needed a hero, but nobody expected her to be a teenager. Guess that’s the Olympics.

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Scientists chicken out of mosquito havens

GWYNNE DYER The international STAGE I had malaria once, and it was extremely unpleasant. I had been working in Yemen, but I actually contracted it when I was flying home on a Dutch airline that must remain nameless. The flight made a stop in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and the plane was parked out on the runway while waiting to pick up passengers — right on the edge of a mangrove swamp on the Red Sea coast.

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The pilot turned the engines off to save fuel, and then opened the door to give us fresh air. It was night-time, and so a million mosquitoes swarmed into the plane. In five minutes everybody had been bitten multiple times. The passengers then revolted and the pilot shut the door and turned the air con back on, but it was too late.

I fell ill and collapsed a couple of weeks later, when I was at my wife’s family’s house in a small village in southern France, but I was lucky. My wife, who grew up in Africa, thought it was malaria, and the village doctor (who had served with the French army in Africa) confirmed it, so there and then he gave me a massive dose of antimalarial drugs.

By the time they got me

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to the hospital in Bayonne, they couldn’t even find any of the Plasmodium parasites in my bloodstream.

They kept me in hospital for a couple of days anyway, but it wasn’t that bad, because in French hospitals they give you wine with your meals.

Small crisis, not many hurt. But the point of the story is that none of this would have happened to me (and presumably to some of the other passengers too) if only there had been chickens on the plane.

Statistics can sometimes lead to significant medical breakthroughs. In this case a team of Ethopian and Swedish scientists did a statistical study in three villages in western Ethiopia about the feeding habits of nocturnal, malaria-carrying Anopheles arabiensis

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mosquitoes. The results were instructive.

Outdoors, the mosquitoes preferred to feed on cattle (63 percent of bites), with human beings coming next (20 percent), and goats and sheep bringing up the rear (5 percent and 2.6 percent). Indoors, people provided 69 percent of the mosquitoes’ meals, compared to cattle at 18 percent and sheep and goats coming last again.

(In this part of Ethiopia, people sometimes bring their animals indoors at night.)

There were also plenty of chickens around, both indoors and out. But in one outdoor sample, only one female mosquito out of 1,200 had chicken blood in her. In the indoor sample, none did.

MOSQUITOES DON’T BITE CHICKENS.

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Why not? Maybe evolution has taught mosquitoes to avoid chickens because chickens eat mosquitoes.

But how do mosquitoes actually spot a chicken?

Certainly not by sight: tiny compound eyes are good for spotting movement, but they do not give you much detail or any distance vision at all. So maybe by smell? That would be handy.

We can’t disguise ourselves as chickens, but we could try smelling like them.

Or at least have something that smells chickeny nearby. In one experiment, the scientists even hung cages with live chickens in them over people’s beds at night, and lo!

They had very few mosquito bites – fewer

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Interchange danger Editor: In light of the accident on Aug. 5 on the Coquihalla Highway involving a semi and a lot of cars, I feel compelled to voice my concerns about another potential crash site. The interchange of Highway 5 and Highway 97C in Merritt.

Yes, there is a brake check at the top of Hamilton Hill but that does not eliminate the problem of stopped traffic at the bottom of the hill. Coming down the hill and going to Merritt or Vancouver the traffic merges left into one lane. Trucks are going too slow for most people, so they pass on the right side in the lane marked “Kamloops Exit Only� and immediately get back into the one through lane to go to Vancouver, Merritt or the left turn lane to access bathrooms or information booth.

This is cutting the stopping distance that the driver allows for himself by at least one third.

(God help them for they know not what they do).

Traffic not stopping in Merritt or the tourist information booth area should have an exit to the right before the intersection with a ramp over the freeway and then left to merge onto the Coquihalla to go south.

Traffic coming from the south and wanting to access 97C (the connector) should have a new exit going behind the tourist information booth directly onto Highway 97C. This would cut down the congestion at the present intersection of the 2 highways.

The present configuration of the intersecting highways is an extreme safety concern for truckers and our hope is that this issue could be addressed and solved before something drastic happens there.

Thank you for your concern.

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Cheap solutions key to beating malaria From Page 6 even than people sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets.

Admittedly, this approach is a bit impractical for general use. Something more compact and less noisy would be preferable. So the scientists tried putting chicken feathers near people’s beds, and it still worked. Then they tried distilled essence of chicken odour (isobutyl butyrate, naphthalene, hexadecane and trans-limonene, if you must know), and that worked too.

Almost half the world’s population (3.2 billion

people) lives in areas where malaria-bearing mosquitoes are present. About one in fifteen of those people actually comes down with malaria each year, and almost half a million of them die of it.

Many tens of millions more spend a long, agonising time being very sick indeed.

Anything that cuts into those numbers would be most welcome, and prevention is much better than cure. CHEAP prevention is even better, and compared to insecticide-treated bed nets and various experimental vaccines, just sprinkling some “essence de poulet� (chicken fragrance) around before going to bed has got to be cheaper.

Essence de poulet probably won’t be on the

market for a while yet, but hats off to Professor Habte Tekie of the University of Addis Ababa and Professor Rickard Ignell of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, who led the EthiopianSwedish team that did the study. (Their full report is available online in the July 21 issue of Malaria Journal) Meanwhile, if you want to bring a chicken along on our next camping trip, it’s fine with me.

But don’t get the supermarket kind. They don’t work as well.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS SUMMER CAMP B.C.’s lieutenant governer Judith Guichon, along with her granddaughter, took part in a number of literacy games with campers on Friday, Aug. 5, while Nooaitch Indian Band Chief Marcel Shackelly looked on.

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a particular camp.

“We recruit and train councillors from within the community, because we don’t run the camp ourselves, we train the trainer. We teach them skills and tools to be able to run programming with literacy and reading embedded into it. So they’ll be playing games, but they’ll be learning underneath it — we kind of trick them into learning.”

Evan Hall was one of those recruits. He’s been the camp co-ordinator in Nooaitch for the last two years, and has seen first hand how kids in the community take to the program.

“It’s a three week program — last year it was only two — so it’s been extended a week [this year]. Hopefully we get it continued again next year. We had good turnout last year, and we have a good turnout this year too,” said Hall.

“We try to keep the doors wide open for anyone who wants to come and learn.”

Band essential for owls From Page 5 At the burrow, she and band field technician Loretta Holmes check to see if any of the babies are home, using what is essentially a piece of sponge tied to the end of a tube to gently push the birds to the back of the burrow where Brodie can open a hatch and scoop them out.

The first burrow turns up nothing, but as the group goes door-to-door eventually they hear something — a loud hissing noise coming from within the burrow.

Is it a snake? No, but that’s what this pint-sized bird would want you to think. Burrowing owls make hissing noises to deter predators.

At a month old, these birds have a spot-on impersonation.

Three burrows turned up an owl each, and the birds are brought to an open area to get their identification bands on their legs. The birds are also weighed and have their leg length and wingspan measured.

Unlike most birds of prey, burrowing owls are known for spending most of their time on or near the ground, taking up

residence underground in burrows abandoned by badgers or marmots.

“Grassland habitat that are part of some of the First Nations reserves are areas that they would highly favour in terms of opportunities to survive and to raise their young,” president of the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of BC, Mike Mackintosh, told the Herald when the owls were released.

When it comes to hatching their young, the male does all the hunting while the female incubates the eggs, Brodie told the Herald.

“There’s a lot riding on him.

He’s got to bring home all the groceries, and he has to be wary of predators out there,” Brodie said.

“Once the female incubates the eggs, she doesn’t even leave the burrow at all.”

Brodie said burrowing owl babies will grow from seven grams at hatching to 150 grams in a month.

Once hatched, both the female and male will both hunt.

Burrowing owls have been known to live on the Upper Nicola reserve lands, but a survey conducted by the band in 2014

found no sign of these tiny birds.

They are disappearing from Canada as a result of habitat loss and environmental threats.

“Pesticides have been implicated in some of the losses that have occurred over time,” Mike Mackintosh told the Herald said.

“The other thing about the birds in particular in British Columbia that works against them has been migration.”

In October the owls are expected begin their migration south, and the hope is they will return to the Nicola Valley.

There is interest across North America in burrowing owl recovery and strategies to reverse the current decline in populations, Brodie told the Herald. She said the addition of the Upper Nicola Band reintroduction site will aid in ensuring that burrowing owls are a part of the wildlife landscape for years.

This project is one the Upper Nicola Band has really taken under its wing.

“I’m so glad the band members are involved,” said Brodie.

“They’re keen, they’ve put a lot of investment and resources into it and it’s been a pleasure. To see success in the first year cheers everyone on.”

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When Abraham moved there had to be killed the animal. some real planning for his large household.

Abraham’s household could hear about One of the main things to consider was the creator and his love for his people, but that he was not to go somewhere where he Abraham, being a nice man, he spoke so was isolated. The real purpose of his life and other people could hear and learn to believe move was so that he would be God’s great in God. ambassador. Abraham would have to be The process of moving happened. This was where he could be seen.

God’s way of having the people in the whole, He would have to be close to a city and large area hear Him and learn to love and close to a main travel road where he could believe in Him. sell his produce. He raised cattle, sheep, Life went on . Abraham’s wife was barren goats, camels and donkeys. Abraham had and could have no children. Yet, God had told to be accessible. He also had to be where he him that in him(Abraham) the whole world be could grow crops to feed and clothes his large blessed. Jesus would come through the lineage household. of Abraham.

Where ever he went, Abraham built an altar Then Abraham and Sarah, his wife, became and observed the Sabbath. There would be a impatient and decided on a second wife so sacriÀce of a large animal. This was done in the Abraham could have a son. He took Sarah’s open where people, not only of his household, maid as his wife. Soon there was a son. could come and see and hear what went on.

Now all was answered in man’s eyes, but These on-lookers could see and hear as not God’s plan. Finally, when Sarah was “too Abraham told what the animal represented. old” to have children, God said Sarah would They would hear him as he put his hands on the have a child. She was 80 or 90. animal and confessed his sins, and those of his Is anything too hard for the Lord? household, giving them to this innocent animal.

Abraham would pray for them all before he The answer is next week.

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The visit from Guichon marked the end of the second week of the camp in Nooaitch, which is aimed at promoting a love of learning in kids between the ages of five to 12. The program was developed by Frontier College, which began running camps in Ontario in 2005. The camps have since caught on in rural and reserve communities across Canada — this is the second year that the summer learning program has been held in Nooaitch.

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The latest news from the Cents and BCHL Kehler’s WHL rights traded to Portland Winterhawks Ian Webster THE MERRITT HERALD

The Merritt Centennials have announced that the Western Hockey League’s playing rights to goaltender Cole Kehler have been traded from the Kamloops Blazers to the Portland Winterhawks. As a result, the Centennials are not expecting the 18-year-old netminder from Altona, Manitoba to return to Merritt for the 2016-17 British Columbia Hockey League season.

The six-foot, threeinch, 200-pound Kehler played 43 games for the Centennials in the 2015-16 BCHL season, finishing with a record of 18-24-1, a 3.84 goalsagainst average and a save-percentage of 0.898.

Prior to his arrival in Merritt, Kehler played 32 games over two seasons in a backup role with the WHL Blazers.

“We’d like to thank Cole for his contributions last season,” said Cents’ head coach and GM Joe Martin. “We certainly wish him all the best with Portland and in his WHL career.”

Kehler is expected to report to the Winterhawks’ training camp with the chance to win the backup netminding position behind fourthyear, 20-year-old starter Adin Hill from Calgary, Alberta.

In three previous seasons with Portland, the veteran Hill has

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played 115 games, and recorded an impressive 2.86 GAA and 0.919 SV% while picking up five shutouts.

Last season, the Winterhawks finished seventh in the WHL’s western conference with a record of 34-31-6-1.

They were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Everett Silvertips.

The Portland Winterhawks are coached by Mike Johnston. Last season was his second go-round with the club, having also filled the role of head coach and general manager from 2008 to 2014. He was also an assistant coach for the Vancouver Canucks for six seasons and the head

coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins for one year (2014-15).

The 59-year-old Johnston was the subject of a much-publicized Canadian Hockey League suspension during the 2012-13 WHL season when it was discovered that he had been offering inappropriate player benefits and committing numerous recruitment violations over a four-year period.

Johnston was forced to relinquish his coaching and general managerial duties for the remainder of the season, and the Winterhawks club forfeited the first five rounds of the 2013 WHL bantam draft, as

Two BCHL cities to host junior A Two British Columbia Hockey League communities will host important junior A championship tournaments in the near future.

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ence’s Penticton Vees have been awarded the 2017 Western Canada Cup (WCC), which will be held from April 29 to May 7 at the South Okanagan Events Centre.

Held annually since 2013, the WCC brings together the ‘best of the west’ from the B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba junior A leagues to determine what two teams will

well as their first-round picks up to 2017.

The investigation into Johnston’s improper conduct came only months after the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League were found guilt of similar player-benefit and recruitment impropriety.

With the departure of Kehler to the Winterhawks, the Merritt Centennials have one returning netminder — 18-year-old Colton Lancaster from Vernon.

In 16 starts for the Centennials last season, the six-foot, two-inch, 190-pound rookie had a record of 3-8-0-0, a 4.69 GAA and a SV% of 0.869.

The month of July saw the NCAA’s prestigious Hockey East conference announce its allacademic team honorees. A total of 21 BCHL alumni were on the list, including three former Merritt Centennials.

In order to make the grade, players needed to achieve a grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better on the four-point scale in each of the previous two semesters.

The three exCentennials were Evan Stack (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Jeff Wight (University of Connecticut) and Dylan Chanter (University of New Hampshire).

The extremely popular Stack, from Calgary, played two seasons with the Cents (2010-12), and was the captain of the team in his second year.

The gifted six-foot, one-inch, 200-pound centre played in 125 BCHL regular season and playoff games, amassing 50 goals and 56 assists for 106 points.

He was chosen the

team’s MVP in 2011-12.

Unfortunately, Stack’s NCAA Division 1 hockey career was a short one, as he never played again after sustaining a serious concussion early in his rookie season with the Minutemen.

He remained at UMass, however, and graduated this year with a degree in commerce.

Wight, from Coquitlam, has just completed his second year at UConn. The six-foot, two-inch, 195pound centre/left winger played 20 games in each of his first two seasons with the Huskies, recording one goal and five assists for six points.

In his two BCHL seasons with the Centennials (2012-14), Wight racked up 37 goals and 39 assists for 76 points in 105 games.

He won the club’s athlete-scholar award in 2012-13, and earned a bronze medal with Team Canada West at the 2013-14 World Junior A Challenge.

The six-foot, three-inch, 215pound Chanter, from

Armstrong, played two full seasons with the Centennials (2011-13) before being traded to the Vernon Vipers.

The bruising defenceman with the big shot played 123 games for Merritt, recording 13 goals and 23 assists for 36 points. He was chosen the Cents rookie of the year in 2011-12, and the team’s most promising player in 2012-13.

Prior to joining the Vipers early in 2014 and helping Vernon win a Royal Bank Cup title, Chanter played 14 games in the United States Hockey League with the Dubuque, Iowa Fighting Saints.

He made news across the continent and around the world following an on-ice seizure after falling to the ice and hitting his head during a fight. Chanter was rushed to hospital, however, CT scans were negative.

In his two seasons at New Hampshire, Chanter has played in 13 regular-season games, and picked up three assists.

championships in 2017-2018 represent the four western provinces at the Royal Bank Cup (RBC) — the national junior A championships.

The 2018 RBC Cup has been awarded to the BCHL Mainland

conference’s Chilliwack Chiefs, it was announced by Hockey Canada at the end of June.

The championship will take place at Chilliwack’s Prospera

Centre. The exact dates are still to be confirmed.

Both host teams — the Vees and the Chiefs — will receive an automatic bye into their respective tournaments.

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