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from July 22 - 2021
HITTING THE TRACK SPORTS
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The stands were full of spectators at the Merritt Speedway on July 17 and 18, the first race held at the track since BC reached Step 3 of the reopening plan on July 1.
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GOLF TALK: Merritt’s Sloan earns a T-31st finish
Jake Courtepatte NEWSROOM@MERRITTHERALD.COM
With only four events remaining in the PGA Tour season, Roger Sloan is on the outside looking in.
The Merrittonian was able to gain a few points in the FedEx Cup playoff race over last weekend, finishing tied for 31st at the Barbasol Championship in Kentucky, a secondary event to the British Open played at the same time.
The finish earned Sloan a payout of $20,475.
Sunday’s final round earned him a significant portion of that cheque, when he managed to go bogey-less on the back nine holes while also managing a pair of birdies and an eagle.
Sloan has now made three cuts in a row this month, after a 71st place finish at the John Deere Classic and a 21st place finish at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
So far, the golfer has earned a purse of just over half a million dollars through the 2021 PGA Tour season.
The top 125 point producers at the end of each PGA season punch their ticket to the FedEx Cup playoffs. Sloan currently sits in the 147th position with 293 points, 87 points away from the 125th spot.
Council approves pickle ball lease
Merritt City Council has approved a three-year lease for the Merritt Pickle Ball Club to share the lawn bowling facility.
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Pickle ball action at the Merritt Lawn Bowling facility has been approved by City Council.
A recent grant by the Thompson-Nicola Regional District of $130,000 has made the lease a possibility, sharing the facility with the lawn bowling club by constructing four pickle ball courts.
“With the dissolving of the Lawn Bowling Executive and limited play over the past couple years, this was a largely underutilized property,” said Sky McKeown, Director of Recreation & Facilities.
McKeown spoke to the remaining members of the lawn bowling club around this time last year, who expressed their desire to share the facility due to dwindling numbers and the COVID19 pandemic.
“This group has kept the building in phenomenal shape...even to this day, they are caring for that property.”
Councillor Travis Fehr expressed his gratitude to the Lawn Bowling Executive for the care that they have given the property.
“I just wanted to say thank you to them, for handing off part of it to a new and upcoming activity that will help our community...I think that there was not enough to do in Merritt, so it’s great to see new things that people enjoy being added.”
The ‘rent’ works out to $1 per year. McKeown said that it is his hope that the club will take the opportunity to sublease the property to other organizations within town for different events and things such as annual general meetings, at no or little cost.
“It is a small facility, however it has been in the past a facility that has been rented out that assisted the owning club with things like upkeep.”
The lease will put the pickle ball club in responsibility for any utility bills and the general upkeep of the building.
The pickle ball courts are expected to be completed in August of this year.
McKeown added that there are plenty of ‘avenues’ that can be taken with the new lease.
“Maybe bringing high school kids in, elementary school kids, and planting the seed early for them.
Council was all in favour of going forward with the lease.
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