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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS

Menard is Merritt’s newest councillor

By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

reporter@merrittherald.com

The people have spoken and Merritt’s newest city councillor is Neil Menard.

Menard received 225 of the 768 votes cast in the byelection.

Two other councillors finished with over 100 votes.

Mike Jolly finished second with 158 votes and Linda Baird was third with 137.

Ginny Prowal had 95 votes, Julie Van Koll accumulated 78 and Noreen Cross had 75.

Menard will be sworn in on March 11, the first council meeting that month, and serve an eight-month term before the next municipal election in November.

Menard led the voting the whole way, although it was a slim margin at some points.

After the advance polling days on Feb. 12 and 19, Menard had a six-vote lead on Jolly (54 votes to Jolly’s 48 at that time).

Menard’s lead went from six to 67 after general voting on Saturday as he posted 171 votes to Jolly’s 110.

Menard told the Herald he felt honoured to have been elected to council.

Now that the election is over, Menard said he wants to take some time to familiarize himself with all the rules and regulations of council and ensure he understands how it operates.

Merritt Mayor Susan Roline said there are a lot of projects Merritt has on the go right now, so Menard will have to get up to date quickly.

“He’ll have a lot of reading and stuff to do right away. He’ll be kept busy,” she

Newly elected Neil Menard (right) shook hands with people who gathered at city hall on Saturday for the announcement of the winner of the byelection. Michael Potestio/Herald

said.

Menard said projects such as the new BC Hydro Substation and Merritt Green Energy Project as well as the new branding and asphalt

plant debate are all topics he has just fringe knowledge of and will need to learn more about.

“And find out where all the councillors are on them,”

he said. “You hear lots of stuff, but I want to hear it from them.”

Menard told the Herald that between now and November, he wants to talk

with as many citizens as possible to see what issues they have and how he can help as a city councillor.

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Voter turnout 14% in byelection From Page 1 Low voter turnout There were about 5,500 people eligible to vote in the byelection, City of Merritt deputy clerk Carole Fraser told the Herald.

There were 125 fewer ballots cast in this byelection than there were in 2012.

About 14 per cent of eligible voters took part in

this byelection, down by two per cent compared to 2012 when approximately 16 per cent of eligible voters took part.

Menard received about 30 per cent of the votes that were cast on Saturday.

In comparison to the number of registered voters, Menard was elected with about four per cent of the vote from all eligible voters.

Menard said it’s con-

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cerning to see such low voter turnout, but also said if people want to participate and be vocal about their community, they need to vote.

“If you don’t vote then what can you say? You can’t say anything and I was disappointed, but as far as I’m concerned those that came out are concerned about the city, they want to see something happen, so those are the

ones that count,” Menard said, noting he aims to represent all of Merritt.

Coun. Kurt Christopherson said he looks forward to working with Menard.

“I think the citizens made the choice, and it’ll be exciting to have a full council for awhile,” Christopherson said.

In Merritt’s last byelection, Christopherson was elected with 399 votes,

which was about 45 per cent of the votes cast.

In comparison to the number of eligible voters, Christopherson received about seven per cent of all possible votes.

Christopherson said it’s disappointing to see a low voter turnout, but it’s not unexpected.

The results of the 2014 byelection will be unofficial for the next two weeks.

BY THE NUMBERS 2014 BYELECTION UNOFFICIAL RESULTS NEIL MENARD

225

MIKE JOLLY

158

LINDA BAIRD

137

GINNY PROWAL

95

JULIE VAN KOLL

78

NOREEN CROSS

75

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On Feb. 21 around 5:45 p.m., a male resident on Coldwater Avenue was having a 10th birthday party for one of his children at his home. The children who were playing hide and seek told their dad that a man with a gun was at his truck down the alley and had pointed the gun at them.

The father drove down the alley and noted a male standing near his pickup truck.

When he approached, the male turned and pointed a long-barrel gun with a scope at the man who then accelerated and drove off. The father then observed the suspect male from a distance walk away with the gun. He advised that the male appeared to be staggering and was possibly intoxicated.

The male was

described as being approximately 25 years old, native, skinny with some facial hair, wearing a camouflage-printed jacket with a hood that was up and carrying a rifle with a scope.

RCMP Police Dog Services and Forensic Identification Services attended the scene.

The male was not located.

No one was injured in the incident and there was no apparent damage to the vehicle.

The file is still under investigation and police are asking anyone with information to contact the RCMP or Crime Stoppers.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS SING IT LOUD, SING IT PROUD The Uganda-based Watoto Children’s Choir was in Merritt on Feb. 20 for a performance at the Crossroads Community Church. The visit was number 65 of 200 the group will make to Canadian cities. The choir landed in Vancouver about a month ago and will make their way to Montreal over the course of their six-month tour.

“Watoto” means “children” in Swahili.

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Home business task force coming together

By Michael Potestio THE HERALD

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The City of Merritt is looking for a missing link.

One more member is needed to round out a sixperson task force the city is getting together to review home-based business bylaws, City of Merritt planning and development services manager Sean O’Flaherty told the Herald.

O’Flaherty said they currently have two people who represent businesses in Merritt’s downtown, two people representing home-based businesses and one neutral member of the community on the task force.

O’Flaherty said he still needs one more neutral member of the community to be on the task force.

“I need somebody from the community that is just community-minded and doesn’t have an opinion on home-based businesses.

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That’s tough to find,” he said.

The task force needs an equal representation of people who have a particular vested interests in the matter and those who do not have a bias, he told the Herald.

He said the task force will meet about four or five times to review the city’s current regulations in the zoning bylaw for homebased businesses to see where improvements can be made.

The members of the home-based business task force are being asked to bring forward two regulations regarding home-based businesses in other cities that can be reviewed at the first meeting.

“We’ll look at ours a little bit more critically, and refine it and make it a better product,” O’Flaherty said.

Once the final member of the task force is in place,

‘We know that a high percentage of business in any community is homebased, and it’s been trending that way for years ever since the Internet.’

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a date for the first meeting of the task force will be set, he said.

Once it’s all set, the task force will make recommendations to council on how to improve the bylaw.

“We know that homebased businesses are an important part of any community. We know that a high percentage of business in any community is homebased, and it’s been trending that way for years ever since the Internet,” O’Flaherty said.

He said home-based businesses also act as a good option for people testing the

waters to see of their business is viable.

O’Flaherty said people with home-based businesses can grow their operation from home, and when they need more space, the hope is they will move into the downtown core.

Part of what the task force aims to do is define what makes a neighbourhood residential and what makes a commercial block commercial.

“And where do you draw the line?” O’Flaherty said.

A motion to establish a task force concerning home-based businesses was

approved unanimously by council in October following a report requested by former Coun. Alastair Murdoch concerning meetings and attendees per month to home-based businesses along with complaints that resulted in the discovery of parking and space restriction violations at A&M Tandem Massage on Parker Drive.

A&M Tandem Massage co-owner Nadine Jolly will be on the task force and parking will be one of the issues the task force discusses, O’Flaherty said.

Ultimately, the intention is to make a better policy, one which incentivises both home-based and downtown commerce, he said.

“We don’t want there to be any losers in this. We want everyone to have success, but not at the expense of our residential neighbourhoods,” O’Flaherty said.

There will be an information meeting on Thursday, Feb. 26 for discussing the establishing of a detoxification centre in the Nicola Valley.

The general public is invited to attend and ideas and opinions will be invited.

The Detox Centre Committee has become re-activated since the inquest jury looking into the death of a local man brought in the recommendation that a detox centre be established here as soon as possible.

Dave Miles from the Nicola Valley Counselling Service told the Herald that at the present time, there is no place to take an intoxicated person for treatment. The hospital can only accept them under limited conditions and if they are unable to be sent home to be cared for, the only alternative is jail.

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City seeks public input on economic potential The City of Merritt is seeking public input on the economic potential of the city by re-opening two surveys on the city’s website (merritt.ca).

One survey is intended for residents, while the other is intended for business owners.

The results of the surveys will be kept anonymous but posted on the city’s website.

The input will be used to help create an economic development strategy to enhance job growth and improve economic sustainability in Merritt.

The public is invited to complete one or both surveys if applicable.

The survey answers are intended to identify issues and needs of residents and businesses in Merritt for the city’s economic development strategy.

Shelter keeping busy with frigid temperatures The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meeting agenda from Feb. 25.

Community Policing Office month-end report for January 2014 Social planning Nicola Valley Shelter and Support Society: The community development co-ordinator continues to work from the CPO, evaluating housing needs as well as managing the Extreme Weather Shelter.

The shelter has been open since Nov. 1 and continues to be accessed by people requiring assistance.

Total overnight guests: November 54 December 50 January 98 Total shelter accessed: November 75 December 88 January 148 On a positive note, NVSSS and ASK Wellness have submitted a proposal to BC Housing for the purchase of an existing motel to be converted into an affordable housing

Mayor’s DROP IN SESSION TUESDAY, FEB. 25

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Community Room Downstairs at City Hall.

Come down and meet the Mayor.

This is your opportunity to bring forth ideas on how we can make Merritt a better place to live and do business, ask questions about something you don’t understand or if something has transpired that you have not received a proper resolution with.

facility with supports.

Although the message continues to be that there is no money, we are hopeful that a pocket will be found at the end of the fiscal year.

Merritt Integration Project: The CPO continues to participate with the MIP and update the group on the Extreme

Weather Shelter and NVSSS’ projects. The new public directory is in its final stages and will be published with financial assistance from the United Way Thompson-NicolaCariboo. Many members of the MIP will be participating in an upcoming strategic planning session that will focus on health and social indicators.

NOTICE OF STATUTORY RIGHT OF WAY Pursuant to section 26 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the City of Merritt intends to grant a perpetual statutory right of way to Merritt Green Energy General Partner Ltd. over a portion of the City property used for sanitary detention and infiltration ponds and legally described as Parcel Identifier: 012-986-178 That Part of District Lot 126 shown as Lot A on Plan M17853; Kamloops Division Yale District. The portion is shown on the plan below. The purpose of the right of way is to permit the installation of electrical power poles and power lines. The City will be paid $1000 a year for the permission granted.

BUSINESSES OPERATING IN NEIGHBOURHOODS? ATTENTION those who are interested in participating in the home-based business task force A series of meetings are being planned to discuss home based businesses operating in neighbourhoods and what impacts; positive or negative that exist.

We are looking for representation from those with existing home-based business, those who have businesses in commercial areas, and those that are simply interested in the matter.

If you are interested in participating in the discussion and wish to attend 4 to 5 1-hour meetings on the task force please contact Sean O’Flaherty at City Hall at 250-378-8620.

Next council meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca

Any persons interested in further information can contact: Sean O’Flaherty, Planning & Development Services Manager, City of Merritt, 2185 Voght Street, PO Box 189, Merritt, B.C. V1K 1B8.

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MSS hears inspiring speaker Living.

“Breaking Down the Walls is a metaphor for the idea of being able to treat everybody the same no matter who or where they come from, and sometimes we have an imaginary wall that exists until we know more about somebody, and then maybe we let that wall down a little,” Cabe told the Herald.

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Call for artists

Thursday is last call for art submissions to the Courthouse Art Gallery’s next exhibit.

Dance Into My Heart runs from March 1 to 29 and will feature fine art and costume design based on dance characters.

All submissions should be ready to present, with fine art framed, wired and ready for hanging.

The exhibit will be juried, with prizes for best in show in adult, youth and children’s categories.

It costs $2 to submit a piece of artwork for the show. To submit artwork, contact Courthouse Art Gallery curator Meriel Barber or Love to Dance Academy dance instructor Lizette Nel. Submissions will be accepted on Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the gallery on Nicola Avenue.

The gallery is open Thursdays from 4 to 8 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m.

NOTICE OF NOMINATION MEETING ADVANCE POLL AND ELECTION Speaker Stu Cabe travelled from Idaho to deliver and facilitate the Breaking Down the Walls program at Merritt Secondary School on Feb. 17. The high school’s leadership class has brought the program to the school every second year for the last six years. Michael Potestio/Herald

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workshops over the following three days at the Civic Centre.

The MSS leadership class helped fundraise to bring Cabe to

facilitate the program, which was developed

by California-based motivational speaker and consulting company Learning for

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Once again the program Breaking Down the Walls visited Merritt Secondary School (MSS) with a message of working hard, playing fair and being nice to one another.

Program facilitator Stu Cabe had students in stitches from the onset of his speech, opening with many lighthearted jokes when he spoke with those in Grades 10 through 12 on Feb. 17 in the gymnasium.

Primarily through humour, Cabe talked to the students about having their own names used against them as a weapon.

He also talked about the difference between doing what’s right and doing what is popular; people who are selfish and think rules don’t apply to them; and those who are more mature and understand they need to be kind to one another.

He told the students that it’s wrong to facilitate mean or hurtful texts, tweets or Facebook messages, and those who generate those messages are cowardly, pitied and not respected.

Finally he spoke

about kids being bullied at school and the need to be nice to each other.

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TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to the decision of the Coldwater Indian Band Election Appeal Board, an election has been ordered for the election of the Chief and Council of the Coldwater Indian Band for the term commencing immediately following the acclamation of a single candidate, or alternatively following the declaration of the winner(s) of the poll.

NOMINATION MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a meeting of the Electors of the Coldwater Indian Band will be held at the Coldwater Band Hall, 109 - 400th Street, Merritt, B.C. on the 31st day of March, 2014 beginning at 7:00 o’clock in the afternoon, and ending at 9:00 o’clock in the afternoon for the purposes of nominating a Chief and candidates for positions on the Band Council of the said Band for the next ensuing term. Eight (8) Councillors and one (1) Chief shall be elected. The Coldwater Indian Band Custom Election Policy requires that candidates for the office of Chief or Councillor must be present at the meeting in order to be eligible for nomination. Candidates must complete and submit to the Electoral Officer a Declaration in the form of Appendix A to the Coldwater Indian Band Custom Election Policy in order to be declared eligible for election. This form will be made available by the Electoral Officer for all candidates nominated at the nomination meeting. When the Electoral Officer announces that the meeting is prepared to accept nominations for Chief, any Elector may nominate or second a nomination of a candidate for the position of Chief.

When the Electoral Officer announces that the meeting is prepared to accept nominations for Councillor, any Elector may nominate or second a nomination of a candidate for the position of Councillor.

NOTICE OF ADVANCE POLL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN OF AN ADVANCE POLL for the election of candidates, if necessary, will be held at the Coldwater Band Hall, 109 - 400th Street, Merritt, B.C. on the 1st day of May, 2014 from the hours of 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. The votes will be counted at Merritt at the close of the poll on the 6th day of May, 2014

POLLING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the Electors of the Coldwater Indian Band that a poll will be held to elect a Chief and eight (8) Councillors on the 6th day of May, 2014 from eight o’clock (8:00) a.m. until eight o’clock (8:00) p.m. at the following location: Coldwater Indian Band Hall 109 - 400th Street, Merritt, B.C. The voters will be counted at the close of the poll, at the Coldwater Indian Band Hall on the 6th day of May, 2014.

Electors who reside outside of the Nicola Valley will be given an opportunity to vote by Mail in Ballot provided that they have informed the membership clerk of their current mailing address. It is the responsibility of each Elector to ensure the band membership clerk has their most recent and correct mailing address.

The results will be declared immediately following the count.

Given under my at the City of Kamloops this 20th day of February, 2014 Doug Springford, Electoral Officer If you have any questions, please call the Electoral Officer at (250) 374-6601.

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HERALD OPINION It’s all about abrupt climate change

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This is not how it was supposed to happen.

The standard climate-change predictions said people in the tropics and the sub-tropics would be badly hurt by global warming long before people living in the temperate zones, farther away from the equator, were feeling much pain at all.

That was unfair because it was the people of the rich countries in the temperate zone — North America, Europe and Japan, mainly — who industrialized early and started burning large amounts of fossil fuel as long as two centuries ago.

That’s how they got rich.

Their emissions of carbon dioxide over the years account for 80 per cent of the greenhouse gases of human origin that are now in the atmosphere, causing the warming — yet they get hurt least and last.

Well, what did you expect? The gods of climate are almost certainly sky gods— and sky gods are never fair.

But, they have always liked jokes, especially cruel ones, and they have come up with a great one this time.

The people of the temperate zones are going to get hurt early, after all, but not by gradual warming.

Their weather is just going to get more and more extreme: Heat waves, blizzards and flooding on an unprecedented scale.

“In 2012, we had the second wettest winter on record and this winter is a one-in-250-years event,” British opposition leader Ed Milliband told the Observer newspaper.

“If you keep throwing the dice and you keep getting sixes, then the dice are loaded. Something is going on.”

The “something” is abrupt climate change.

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Coquihalla no drive in the park Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Well, that’s it for the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia.

But even though the closing ceremonies have come and gone, there is still plenty of spirit for sport in Canada.

In the wake of some dramatic gold medal wins, including those in all-important hockey, people all over the country are feeling like champions.

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The men’s team took the gold for the third time in four Olympics. The women’s hockey team is four for four.

Bars and pubs opened early across the country to accommodate for the time change between here and Sochi — although they weren’t allowed to serve booze in B.C. until 9 a.m., five hours after the puck dropped. I guess the province’s liquor laws aren’t that relaxed yet.

The hashtag #wearewinter has really taken off, but you didn’t need to tune into any of the action in Sochi to know that.

Here in the Nicola Valley, we are caught in the midst of some weird late winter activity ourselves.

Last week, the Coquihalla Highway

was hit with nearly three metres of snow. As a result, the popular travel route revolved between closing for avalanche control, opening only to have an avalanche, and closing again for avalanche cleanup.

On Thursday afternoon, I braved the wild and wacky weather on Highway 1 instead. It took a healthy five and a half hours to arrive in downtown Vancouver.

By Saturday afternoon, the Coquihalla had reopened (it was the TransCanada’s turn to be closed because of an accident) but it was far from a lovely drive. Dense falling snow accumulated and compacted on the road, and high piles of snow made the drive feel like one through

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a tunnel carved out of snow rather than one on a wide divided highway.

It’s not just vehicles that have to contend with the wintery weather. The Centre for Avalanche Control put out a couple of warnings as well for backcountry enthusiasts.

On Thursday, a huge avalanche in Fernie was rated 4.5 on a scale of 5 for strength.

The cascading snow travelled further than previous avalanche boundaries in the area — meaning it was stronger and bigger than past avalanches in that area.

There is no shortage of avalanche survivor stories, but isn’t it unsettling that the pristine, unbroken field of snow we so eagerly want to drag our skis and snow-

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shoes through can suddenly come loose and bury us?

What a great metaphor for how humanity interacts with nature.

Few things can so quickly make people understand their insignificance faster than natural disaster.

While I was watching the Nicola Valley Film Society’s presentation of Kon-Tiki last week, I couldn’t help thinking about the power of nature to overwhelm people with ease during the film’s long shots of a group of men sitting on a hand-crafted raft on the open expanse of the Pacific Ocean.

Whether you’re on sea or snow, make sure you take care out there. When you know the danger is high, don’t rock the boat — or shake the mountain.

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YOUR OPINION Anything but attitude Medical marijuana been advertised and run consecutively in our media for ideas or suggestions which would have had young and old involved and participating in such an important decision.

Merritt has so many talented, creative people and this beautiful Nicola Valley deserves a more respectable, hopeful, positive slogan — something with some class. “Country with class,” “Country with gratitude” — anything but “attitude.”

If you are happy and satisfied with the slogan, that is your prerogative.

However, if you still would

Dear Editor, The following is an open letter to the people of Merritt regarding the new slogan “Country with attitude.”

Are you proud of or satisfied with this new slogan? Do you think it will be a good draw for visitors and tourists to come to our friendly city?

Are you satisfied and happy with the decision of a few at city hall and a task force?

Instead, could it have been done for free if it had included all of Merritt’s citizens? For example, a contest could have

like to see a different slogan and are against the new slogan “country with attitude,” we have a group against it and instead of complaining (after the final decision) we are making a stand and voicing our concern and opinion at the city council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. sharp.

If you wish, your attendance and support will be appreciated.

Let’s all work together for the future and good of Merritt for all the people.

Dolly Jackson Merritt

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pretense imaginary Dear Editor, Re: Prescription pot pretense ending, B.C. Views, Feb. 13 I am strongly against removing our Marihuana Medical Access Program. I am concerned that the cannabis that will be offered to personal-use patients from Health Canada will lack quality and it will be harder for them to access this medicine. I am strongly in favour of medical marijuana in Canada as more and more medical studies are proving it to be effective treatment for many different things. If the cannabis is harder to access, costs more, or lacks quality or strain selection, I believe this will enable criminal organizations more. I also think patients may have to rely more on more harmful treatments, such as opiates and other pain medications. Like most of Tom Fletcher’s stereotypical opinion articles, I strongly disagree. I hope to see lawyer John Conroy successful in his attempt to force the government to continue allowing patients to grow their medicine.

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Blizzards, floods, heat waves not coincidence From Page 6 In Britain, it’s an unprecedented series of great storms blowing in off the North Atlantic, dropping enormous amounts of rain and causing disastrous floods.

In the United States and Canada, it’s huge blizzards, ice-storms and record low temperatures that last much longer and reach much farther south than normal.

Welcome to the “temperate” zone of the Northern Hemisphere.

There have been extremes in the temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere, too.

Australia has just had the hottest year ever, with record-breaking heat waves and severe bush fires.

Argentina had one of

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its worst-ever heat waves in December and parts of Brazil had record rainfall, floods and landslides.

But, that is probably just the result of gradual, relentless warming.

The abrupt changes seem to be mainly in the Northern Hemisphere.

Geography may explain the differences.

There isn’t all that much land in the southern temperate zone and the vast expanses of ocean that surround it moderate land temperatures.

Moreover, the polar jet stream in the Southern Hemisphere simply circles the Antarctic continent and does not operate over land, whereas the northern polar jet stream flows right across North

straight downhill.

A slower jet stream, however, meanders like a river crossing a flood plain — and the big loops it makes extend much farther south and north than when it moves fast.

In a big southerly loop, you will have Arctic air much farther south than usual, while there will be relatively warm air from the temperate air mass in a northerly loop that extends up into the Arctic.

Moreover, the slowermoving jet stream tends to get stuck, so a given kind of weather — snow, rain or heat — will stay longer over the same area.

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That is not good news.

They start with the fact the Arctic has been warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, so the difference in temperature between the Arctic air mass and the air over the temperate zone has been shrinking.

Since that difference in temperature is what drives the jet stream that flows along the boundary between the two air masses, a lower difference means a slower jet stream.

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The extreme weather trend in North America and Europe is less than five years old, so the science that might explain exactly what is happening is still quite tentative.

The first hypothesis that sounded plausible, published in 2012 in Geophysical Letters, blamed a slowing of the Northern Hemisphere’s polar jet stream.

The paper Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes was written

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record snowfalls in Japan in 2012 and again this winter, lethal heat waves in the eastern U.S. in 2012 and floods in Britain this winter.

“They’ve been pummelled by storm after storm this winter [in Britain],” Francis said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago this month.

“It’s been amazing what’s going on and it’s because the pattern this winter has been stuck in one place ever since early December.”

There’s no particular reason to think that it will move on soon, either.

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Online privacy and security experts gathered in Victoria earlier this month to share strategies to protect computer networks they say are “under attack like never before.”

Charles Wordsworth, technology security consultant and vice president of Privacy and Access Council of Canada, said the days of teenage computer hackers making mischief have been replaced by organized crime, much of it based in Eastern Europe.

A key concern is breaking into computer networks that collect personal information. The attraction is simple, Wordsworth said. Online

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criminals work in secret, with little risk to them as they search for weaknesses.

“You don’t get shot robbing online banks,” Wordsworth said. “Unfortunately from my experience, the hackers are getting smarter. They have more money than anybody else, so therefore they can hire people who are a lot smarter than the people who develop the applications.”

B.C. and other governments increasingly use web applications for access to their programs. B.C. Auditor General Russ Jones reported last week on security deficiencies, calling on the province to require better security measures from contractors who develop websites used by government.

One recent example of a preventable breach was in Alberta, where 620,000 medical records were taken along with a laptop computer owned by a private medical clinic with 25 outlets in the province.

Sharon Polsky, CEO of Privacy and Access Council of Canada, said encryption is simple now and should be

required of all government contractors. She said protection has to be built in at the beginning, and all employees and contractors with access to personal data should be trained to protect it.

While there isn’t much the average person can do to protect against institutional data breaches, there are simple precautions everyone can take.

The conference was organized by the Vancouver and Victoria chapters of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), an independent industry group with members in 180 countries. Its website bcaware.ca has advice on mobile security, social networking privacy and dealing with cyberbullying.

Gov’t provoked teacher strike: negotiator

By Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS tfletcher@blackpress.ca

VICTORIA – The B.C. government’s negotiator admitted in court his strategy in 2012 negotiations with the B.C. Teachers’ Federation was to provoke a full-scale strike.

NDP critics launched their return to the B.C. legislature Wednesday with questions about a transcript from the most recent BCTF court challenge over control of class size and support staff. It shows

government negotiator Paul Straszak said provoking a full-scale strike was designed to move the union from its months-long ban on extra-curricular activities that started in the fall of 2011.

Asked by the BCTF lawyer if the strategy was to close schools with a full-scale walkout, which had been authorized by the Labour Relations Board to last up to a week, Straszak replied “I’ll say yes.”

Straszak described his briefing for John

Dyble, Premier Christy Clark’s deputy minister, before a cabinet meeting.

“So what we’re talking about here is cabinet is going to be in an awkward situation in the context of a low scale strike, meaning it’s going to want to put an end to it but the public won’t necessarily see the need for the legislation because the kids are still in school,” Straszak told the court.

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In the legislature Wednesday, NDP leader Adrian Dix called on Clark to explain the strategy and release cabinet documents that were tabled in court but not made public.

Attorney General Suzanne Anton said the Jan. 27 decision of B.C. Supreme Court is being appealed, and refused to comment further.

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In her ruling, Justice Susan Griffin concluded the B.C. government did not bargain in good faith with the BCTF. She struck down legislation restricting teacher bargaining of classroom conditions and imposed a $2 million penalty on the government.

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One of three XploreSportZ groups heads out on the crosscountry ski trails at Kane Valley. Ian Webster/Herald

Nathan Van Rensberg (standing) gets help with his snowshoe bindings from good friend Karson Peat. Ian Webster/Herald

Lucy Henry (left) and Darlene Rodominski from Scw’exmx Community Health Services cook up a whole mess of hot dogs over an open fire. Ian Webster/Herald

Close to 40 enthusiastic Merritt-area youngsters, ages 7 to 14, descended on the Kane Valley ski area on Friday of last week for an XploreSportZ snow camp.

The one-day event, which ran from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., was organized and run by the local branch of PacificSport Interior BC. Decked out in snow suits, gloves and tuques, the eager camp participants took advantage of the terrific weather conditions to take part in cross-country skiing and snowshoeing lessons, and just play in the ideal snow conditions. By day’s end, the vicinity of Kane Valley’s Parking Lot 2 was inundated with elaborate forts, igloos and snowmen.

“It was a huge success,” said PacificSport co-ordinator Josée Warren. “The original camp was full two weeks before the date. We had to increase the size of the camp to accommodate more kids.

“A week before the event, I was wondering if we were going to be able to pull it off because of the weather and snow situation.

But the puzzle pieces all fell into place in the last couple of days.

Conditions were perfect: lots of snow, sunshine and nice temperatures.”

Warren said that feedback from her campers was all positive.

“The kids had only good things to say.

Everyone went home happy and tired.”

In preparing for her first outdoor winter sports camp, Warren received tremendous support and assistance from the local school district and Merritt Youth and Family Resources Society.

“Both organizations were happy to loan their equipment. Thanks to a grant from PacificSport, we were also able to purchase a set of snowshoes for the camp.”

Warren also appreciated the help that she received from Nicola Nordic Ski Club volunteer instructors Murphy Shewchuk and Tom Reynolds, from the Sunshine Club for use of their van, and from VSA in prepping the Kane Valley Road for safe travel. “[VSA] even called me that morning to give me an update and ask when we were heading out. When we got to the trails, they had just finished sanding the road.”

Warren is already busy at work on her next XploreSportZ camp, scheduled for March 17 to 21 during Spring Break.

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Snow conditions were just perfect for the construction of forts and igloos by XploreSportZ campers. Kylee Bernier (above) shows off her winter abode. Ian Webster/Herald

diving — with instruction from the Rip Tech Club out of Kamloops — and kids’ yoga,” she said. “I’m looking into basketball, volleyball, gymnastics and possibly a strength and conditioning class.”

XploreSportZ camps aren’t the only avenue that Warren is using to get kids active and enjoying healthy living.

The second session of the 60MKC (60 Minutes Kids Club) is currently underway at all five area elementary schools. The last session saw Collettville Elementary School take top participation honours in the entire province.

Warren also has a Learn To Play basketball session happening until spring break, and an after-school program starting March 31.

Warren is in the early stages of introducing a Kids Can Move gymnastics program into school PE classes.

Once a month, she talks to Strong Start program parents about overall physical literacy.

For more information on PacificSport Interior BC and XploreSportZ camps, stop by the City of Merritt’s Recreation Department in the Civic Centre. You can contact Warren directly at jwarren@pacificsport.com or by phoning 250-315-1050.

Young snowshoer Koen Hales doesn’t mind a tumble into the fresh snow at all. Ian Webster/Herald

XploreSportZ camper Alyx Narjes displays great cross-country skiing form on the Kane Valley trails. Ian Webster/Herald

PacificSport Interior BC co-ordinator Josée Warren (left) serves up lunch to the hungry troops. Ian Webster/Herald

Young Abigail Bateson (left) and instructor Murphy Shewchuk of the Nicola Nordic Ski Club break trail during their snowshoeing session at Kane Valley. The snowshoes have been purchased by the local branch of PacificSport Interior BC. Ian Webster/Herald

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