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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS
Duo charged in arson investigation Male and female teenagers facing arson charges, due in court August 4 Of six suspicious fires in Merritt since June, the two are charged with only one Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
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LITTLE BRITCHES, BIG RESULTS Merritt’s Taylia McKeown, age 14, sprints for home on her sorrel quarterhorse mare Doxy during the senior girls barrel racing competition at the Little Britches rodeo on the July 18 weekend. McKeown placed second in the event, and first in both pole bending and breakaway roping to win the all-around cowgirl title on Sunday. The Herald’s Ian Webster has complete results.
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Bad weather brings weekend mayhem to the Coquihalla Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
Multiple car crashes were the result of heavy rain and hail that pounded the Coquihalla Highway on Sunday (July 26). Just before 11 a.m. that day at the Inks Lake brake check south of Kamloops, two northbound vehicles were involved in a
minor collision during an intense rainstorm that caused road conditions to deteriorate quickly. As a result of the crash, trailing vehicles had to brake rapidly and three left the road down a steep embankment, Kamloops RCMP Const. Jason Epp told the Herald. “One of the vehicles rolled several times during its decent,” Epp said.
An air ambulance and paramedics responded to the scene. Six people were taken to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops with non-life threatening injuries. Epp said the use of seatbelts is believed to have helped prevent more serious injuries.
RCMP have charged a pair of 19-yearolds — one male, one female — from Merritt with arson in relation to the suspicious barn fire behind the Spring Island Trailer Court last month. They were charged under section 434 of the criminal code with causing damage by fire or explosion to property and made an appearance in court on July 21. The two will appear in court again on August 4. Back on June 7, at about 2:30 a.m., the Merritt Fire Rescue Department responded to a barn fully engulfed in flames. MFRD extinguished the abandoned structure at 1500 Spring Street behind the trailer park in about an hour. No one was hurt, and no other properties were damaged by the flames. Police charged the two teens after receiving information from the public that the two had been seen at the barn at about the time of the fire. A subsequent investigation led to charges being laid. Const. Tracy Dunsmore said the two suspects are not residents of the trailer park, and are not being charged with any of the other suspicious fires that have occurred in town recently. “I can’t say that they’re not guilty because we don’t know who’s guilty, but at this time, these are the only charges that we are laying against them,” Dunsmore said. There have been five other suspicious fires in Merritt since June. Police are still investigating these other cases and ask that members of the public with any information regarding them contact RCMP at 250-378-4262 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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City installs webcam overlooking Merritt
Council awards RFP for parks master plan The city awarded the contract to develop the plan to Erik Lees and Associates for $54,908 before taxes. Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
Situated on the Norgaard Viewpoint trail, the camera provides an easterly view of Merritt. David Dyck/Herald Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
If you go up to where the Canadian flag overlooks Merritt behind Juniper Drive, you’ve gone too far to spot it. The City of Merritt has installed an HD webcam overlooking the city along the Norgaard Viewpoint trail in an effort to increase traffic to its webpage. It also provides a way to showcase the city’s natural beauty, said City of Merritt deputy financial services manager Ben Currie. For $20 per month, the city now has a live stream of the town, which can be used to track the weather. The webpage the camera is on also has news updates and is linked to the city’s events page. “It should flow more people through our website more often, and just like any other city, it’s important to have people going through your webpage and looking at upcoming events is good for the community,” said Currie. He said the city is also working with Castanet to have the camera linked to their webcam page and will try to get other weather websites to link to the page. He said it is common for other cities to place
cameras like this in their town squares. “You can see a lot of different municipalities have web cameras in different areas and sometimes it starts as security as well, but in this case it’s basically just a weather camera and its meant to funnel more people through our site,” he said. The City of Merritt Live HD Webcam went online last Monday and can be viewed at http://www.merritt. ca/city-merritt-live-hdwebcam.
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The City of Merritt is moving forward with its parks and recreation master plan, which it plans to have compete by next spring. At its regular meeting on July 14, city council approved awarding the contract to develop the plan to Erik Lees and Associates for $54,908 before taxes. The 2015 budget set aside $55,000 for this plan, which is to act as the guiding document for the development of any parks or recreation, cultural and parks services for the next decade. The parks and recreation plan is a new one for the City of Merritt. The city received ten bids for the master plan contract. Eight of the ten bids were between $53,200 and $54,977, while one came in below that range at $49,150 and another even lower at $32,750. City of Merritt leisure services manager Larry Plotnikoff told council $55,000 is a bit on the low end when it comes to this type of master plan for a city of Merritt’s size, but expects to get a good, quality plan out of this bid. Work on the plan will pick up considerably in the fall, with the expectation that it will be complete by April 2016.
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ROCKIN’ RIVER PREVIEWS There’s going to be quite a lineup at this weekend’s Rockin’ River Music Festival. The Herald caught up with a couple of the Canadian acts that will be on the stage. By David Dyck.
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Homegrown B.C. country music star Dallas Smith will be one of the performers at this weekend’s Rockin’ River festival, and he said he’s happy to be playing so close to home. He’d been on the road for months when the Herald caught up to him last week, and he said he was looking forward to seeing his family again. That will make his Merritt performance all that much sweeter. “It’s kind of a home show, it’s close enough for my close family to get to, but it’s far enough away
that everybody who thinks they can get free tickets it’s just too far of a drive for,” he laughed. “It’s nice.” Not always a country musician, Smith got his start in the music industry in a rock ‘n’ roll band. He toured the world, and even performed for troops overseas. But he said there was something lacking. “I’m sitting there, playing arenas and opening up for Three Days Grace, and it was just a great run, anybody would love to be in that position, but I was just miserable,” he said. “My head wasn’t in it . . . The wheels were spinning.” Rather than give up on music altogether, he decided he needed a new challenge, and got into the country scene. “It was either I was going to get out of the music business or I was going to do what I wanted,” he said. And so far it’s been working out well for him. “I feel more at home musically and creatively with anything I’ve done in the past, so I’m loving it,” he said. The atmosphere at country shows are another perk. “We did festivals all over the world with the rock stuff, and the country mark is definitely a better looking crowd,” he laughed. “In every show you’d see a fight or a scuffle, something, and it’s just aggression . . . But with the country festivals, [those are] few and far between, everyone is there just to drink beer and have a good time — it’s an escape.” Smith plays the festival on the evening of Saturday, August 1.
TEBEY Another Canadian act coming to Merritt this weekend is Tebey. Originally from Ontario, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 16 to pursue a career in country music. A country artist at heart, he has also written songs for Shawn Desman, Big & Rich, Emerson Drive, Flo Rida and One Direction. Don’t expect any pop music from him this weekend, though. “I tend to go outside the genre every once in a while, writing songs for other people, and I think that goes back to the influences growing up, and all different kind of music,” he explained. “I do write pop songs for people all the time, and they get recorded which is pretty cool, but as far as being an artist goes, I’m a country artist.” He described his own taste in music as “eclectic,” listing country acts like Kenny Chesney and Garth Brooks along with Boys II Men and Nirvana. As far as his decision to get into country, he said it was what he grew up with. “It was just was the place I wanted to be, the
genre I wanted to be in,” he said. Asked what he enjoyed more, performing or writing, Tebey said it was difficult to compare the two, though the feeling he got from performing was powerful. “Especially when you’re getting up in front of a crowd of 10 or 15 thousand, whatever it’s going to be a Rockin’ River Festival, and they’re singing the words to your songs back to you — you can’t really beat that,” he said. He said that in the past few years, Canadian country music has stepped up its game. “I think for a while — if I’m being honest — Canadians were kind of considered to be sub par to the American acts, but not any more,” he explained. “You’ve got plenty of artists in Canada who are making music that is just as good as some of the Americans, and you’re also seeing some people like Dallas Smith, a local Vancouver guy there — having success in the States at the moment, so I don’t think there’s much difference any more now.” Tebey plays the festival on the evening of Friday, July 31.
Coldstream Creek fire contained Fire centre braces for more hot weather this weekend Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
Evacuation alerts for four suspected lightningcaused fires have been rescinded as firefighters continue to make progress containing wildfires in the Kamloops Fire Centre. The Coldstream Creek wildfire burning 15 kilometres southeast of Ashcroft is now 100 per cent contained. Fire information officer Kelsey Winter said fire crews hope to have that fire mopped up by the end of the week. After ballooning to 250 hectares in one day, the fire did not grow for the rest of the week. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) lifted the evacuation alert for 24 properties near the fire thanks to the progress made in fire suppression efforts. Firefighters made significant progress over the weekend and mop-up operations continued on Monday, the Wildfire management branch noted on its website. The Central Okanagan Regional District lifted all evacuation orders and alerts issued for the Westside Road wildfire, burning west of Okanagan Lake. Discovered last Sunday, the fire grew to an estimated 560 hectares in size and is currently 75 per cent contained. The Bolean Lake wildfire burning northwest of Falkland is 75 per cent contained and the Columbia Shuswap Regional District has lifted an evacuation alert in that area. Firefighters have made progress digging containment lines around the fire, which is an estimated 350 hectares in size. The fire was discovered last Monday, and cooler temperatures combined with calmer winds and higher levels of humidity have reduced fire activity. The fire is most active on its southern flank due to the prevailing wind direction and fuel sources. Southeast of Clearwater, a 21 hectare fire is now 100 per cent contained. The Adams West fire located off the Adams West forest service road hasn’t experienced any substantial growth for the past three days and thus the TNRD has lifted an evacuation alert for six properties near Adams Lake. Despite receiving about 100 millimetres of rain over the weekend across the Kamloops Fire Centre, Winter said that precipitation was only enough to dampen the top fuel layers, meaning conditions are still dry in deeper layers. “It won’t take much for the fire danger rating to rise again,” Winter said. She said there’s rain in the forecast today, but hot and dry conditions are expected to return tomorrow and continue into the long weekend.
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LUKE PIERCE JOINS FORCES Luke Pierce was enrolled into the Canadian Forces as a regular officer training program (ROTP) candidate in Kelowna on June 19. Born and raised in Merritt, the 21-yearold left his home town on Saturday to report for basic officer training at St. Jean, Quebec. He says the enrolment ceremony in Kelowna was interesting and marked an “important beginning” to his military career. “It was a good feeling to get it kicked off and started.” Pierce, who graduated from Merritt Secondary School in 2001, has a full ride, four-year hockey scholarship with the Royal Military College of Canada (RCM) in Kingston, Ontario. Noting he hadn’t heard of RCM or ROTP before he was recruited by the hockey team, Pierce says he was just interested in keeping his hockey options open while pursuing a post-secondary education. THIS SUNDAY, AUG. 2 AN EXTRA DAY WILL BE ADDED DUE TO THE ROCKIN RIVER FESTIVAL
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Year-end financial statement presented to council The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meeting agenda for July 28, 2015 Report from the financial services manager Your worship and council members: I am pleased to present the municipality’s audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014. These
financial statements form part of the annual reporting requirements of Section 98 of the Community Charter and have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of Section 167 of the Community Charter. The municipality’s Finance Department is responsible for the preparation and presentation of the financial statements and related information in the annual report. The financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for local govern-
HELP KEEP MERRITT’S BOULEVARDS AND LANES CLEAN As spring wanes and summer arrives many of us are aware of the unusual amount of precipitation that has fallen on our City. With this rain and warmer weather comes plant growth and it does not require a lot of searching to find out-of-control grass and weeds in empty lots, alleys and boulevards. We all want Merritt and the neighborhoods we call home to look the best that they can be. A frequent question to the City bylaw department is “Who is responsible for maintenance of boulevards and lanes?” The short answer is the adjacent property owner. Just as with winter snow, the adjacent property owner is responsible for shoveling the sidewalk in front of their home, so during the rest of the year the adjacent property owner is responsible for keeping the boulevard and lane abutting their property in a neat and tidy condition. As a property owner you are responsible for the vegetative growth outside your property lines to the curb and if there is an alley you are responsible to the centre of that alley that abuts your property. We may all even want to consider some of our neighbours who for very good reasons may not be as able.
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agement present fairly the financial position of the City of Merritt and the results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2014. The financial results for 2014 were similar to that of 2013. The annual surplus was $1,600,612 which was approximately $160,000 less than the previous year. Reveneues were higher than the amounts budgeted mainly due to $244,225 received from developers. We also collected additional user fees and provincial grants when compared to budget.
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It is vital that we all understand how important water regulations are to the community. The water we use in Merritt is the single most valuable resource that we have in our community. Most residents comply with sprinkling restrictions, and the City is able to maintain the city reservoirs at reasonable levels for all users including Àre protection. With your help we can insure that this resource continues to Áow uninterrupted this year and in years to come. Of course if it’s raining, don’t water at all! There are many ways to conserve water both indoors and out. Please do your part. Sprinkling violations will result in a $50 Àne for each offense.
With this in mind Merritt’s Nuisance Abatement Bylaw provides for minimum property standards within City limits. This Bylaw allows the City to regulate and in some cases hire outside contractors to complete any work that is not done by the property owners. Unless we all do our individual part to maintain our neighbourhoods it could simply not be done. One of the pleasures of living in a smaller community like ours is that the little extra that we contribute can translate to a huge difference that will positively reflect on the City of Merritt as somewhere great to live.
ments established by the Public Sector Accounting Board of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. The municipality maintains a system of internal accounting controls designed to safeguard assets of the corporation and provide reliable financial information. The financial statements were audited by the firm KMPG LLP in accordance with the Canadian generally accepted auditing standards and they have expressed an unqualified opinion that the consolidated financial statements prepared by man-
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Multiple accidents on Sunday From Page 1 “Any time you’re travelling through the high mountain areas anticipate and expect sudden weather changes [and] adjust your speeds appropriately,” Epp said. Shortly after this incident, at about 12:30 p.m., vehicles travelling northbound on the Coquihalla Highway in the Surrey Lake Summit area were also affected by the intense rain. “They were just coming along and all of a sudden the weather conditions changed suddenly, as they do on the Coquihalla, and people that were driving along on nice, dry, clear roads approached a wall of water and flurries,” Logan Lake Const. Daniel Schenkeveld said. Five drivers lost control of their vehicles and went off the road in the same area, Schenkeveld said. Two kilometres north of
this incident a vehicle went through the median ditch and rolled upside down, landing in the southbound lane, Schenkeveld said. He said multiple people were transferred to hospital with what appeared to be mostly minor injuries. Schenkeveld said drivers lost control of their vehicles on their own or while trying to avoid other vehicles. He advised that if drivers see poor weather forming ahead of them, they need to slow down before reaching it. “It’s kind of late when you lock your breaks up in the slush. It’s game over,” Schenkeveld said. Later that day at about 4:40 p.m., there was a four-vehicle pile-up in the Surrey Summit area. RCMP Cpl. Doug Hardy said that in this incident, the vehicles were travelling southbound, and the road conditions were slushy from the intense rain
storm. One car lost control causing three others behind it to bump into each other. Two of six occupants in the four vehicles sustained minor, non-life threatening injuries, Hardy said. This type of incident is preventable, and people need to slow down and drive according to conditions, he told the Herald. Drive BC issued a travel advisory that day at about 5 p.m. due to extremely slippery sections between Merritt and Kamloops. This advisory is no longer active. Hardy said that in bad weather, people should drive at whatever speed will allow them to maintain control of their vehicle. If the rain inhibits drivers from seeing what is ahead of them, they should find a place to pull over and stop. “Just remember that posted speed limit is based on optimal driving conditions,” said Epp.
Development permit for future Crawford Avenue hotel altered Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
City council decided to alter the development permit of a new hotel being built on Crawford Avenue. At its regular meeting Tuesday (July 14), council approved a request by the developer to swap out a landscaping bond of more than $200,000 in exchange for a restrictive covenant. This restrictive covenant against the property means that instead of paying the city up front for landscaping on the property, the owner of the hotel will be prohibited from occupying and operating the building on the property until landscaping requirements have been met. The owner requested this change up because the landscaping will be done at the end of the construction process and that $200,000 would be better directed at the completion of the project as opposed to sitting in a trust account waiting to be released upon completing the landscaping work.
Robinson sentenced to two years Former Merritt RCMP Cpl. Benjamin “Monty” Robinson has been sentenced to two years minus a day after being convicted of perjury earlier this year. Robinson was one of four police officers involved in the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at
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HERALD OPINION Fourth annual accountability report It is hard to believe this will be my fourth annual accountability report as DAN ALBAS time has View from the gone by HILL quickly since being first elected in 2011. Like my previous accountability reports, this is a summary of my expenditures over the past fiscal year as the Member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla. As with previous reports, I will follow the format using information from the most recent fiscal period of April 1, 2014 up to March 31, 2015 in accordance with the Board of Internal Economy reporting periods. While some of this information is publicly available, it can be difficult to find and often exists at several different locations online or not at all. As stated in previous years, I believe it is important for citizens to have an annual summary on the activities of elected officials in public office including the related costs. Office expenses and travel are typically the most scrutinized areas of spending for elected officials at any level of government. For members of Parliament from British Columbia, our travel expenses are typically higher than those of MPs from other areas in Canada as a result of the fact that we fly further distances between B.C. and Ottawa. My personal travel expense during this time frame was just over $52,000. This is an increase of $3,000 over the $49,000 spent last year, but still down from $55,000 spent in 2013.
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Cooking for the Douglas Lake cowboys JEANETTE MCMASTER In FRIENDSHIP While I was preparing pastry to make apple pie, I was reminded of another story from the past. My friend Joan Coutlee Hoffman and I were camp cooks for the Douglas Lake cow camp. We began work early
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spring until late fall, and there were four camps, the Raspberry, Minnie Lake, Dry Farm, and Portland. There would be two big chuck-wagons, one used for pots, pans, dishes and cutlery. The bed rolls of the cowboys would be on this wagon too. The other would haul food, big bags of flour, sugar, vegetables, a hind quarter or other cuts of beef, several big sides of bacon, eggs, these were just a few of the items. The chuck wagons were loaded at the home
ranch. They were a sight to behold, each wagon was hitched to a team of workhorses, one could hear the driver holler his “gertty-up!” as he swung his long leather whip in the air. If you were close by, you could hear the whooshing sound of the whip, though he never used the whip on the horses. The drive would be from the home ranch, through the Upper Nicola reserve, then on through the mountain roads to the first cow camp. The children at
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the reserve would be waiting for the chuck-wagons. They would be sitting on the bridge or on a fence just to get a better view. They had dreams of being a cowboy, or a chuck-wagon driver when they grew up. Upon arrival at the Raspberry camp, we helped to unload the wagons, putting everything away, ready for use. There would be around 15 or more cowboys, then there was the cow boss, Mike. He made the decisions for each day. There would be around
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four hundred or more head of cattle, plus the calves. The sterilizing of the male calves were done, which was the removal of their male organs. The cowboys called these the prairie oysters. Mike the cow boss brought these to us, to pan fry for him. Branding of the calves was done, with a red hot iron, with the registered brand for Douglas Lake. One cowboy would wrestle down a calf, then another cowboy would help hold the calf down.
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YOUR OPINION Expenses for both Merritt will benefit B.C. and Ottawa from new nurse offices totalled practitioner $371,517
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From Page 6 In my case, this works out to roughly 420 hours in an airplane, the vast majority spent flying regular coach class. Total spending for my two offices here in Okanagan-Coquihalla and one in Ottawa including all staff, leases, advertising and the above mentioned travel was $371,517. Like previous years, this is within the top three lowest expenses for a B.C.-based MP. As a comparison closer to home, NDP MP Alex Atamanenko from B.C. Southern Interior has posted spending of $441,536. Sponsored travel falls into a different category as Members of Parliament are invited from time to time to travel to other destinations both within and outside of Canada for a variety of different reasons. These invitations often include airfare and accommodations being paid for by the host and not taxpayers. When Members of Parliament accept these special trips they are required to disclose and report such travel to The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. I can confirm that while I did receive invitations of this nature I did not accept any complimentary trips or travel during the last fiscal period nor have I accepted any since being elected. The information included in this week’s report is intended to provide a brief summary of some of the more commonly scrutinized expenses. If there is other information that you are interested in, please do not hesitate to contact me with your request. I can be reached via email at dan.albas@parl. gc.ca or at 1-800-665-8711. This year we have seen a number of forest fires in Okanagan-Coquihalla. These situations can be particularly demanding in interface areas for those who are evacuated as well as those that are often the last line of protection. While some fires like one we saw at Hamilton Hill near Merritt can be quickly and effectively extinguished, we must remain mindful that despite advances in technology and techniques, this work is inherently dangerous and requires amazing amounts of work, coordination and ingenuity. Many of us can only imagine the sacrifice and perseverance that it takes to contain such fires. I was glad to join Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Christy Clark with other elected officials at Shelter Cove-Westside Road fire near West Kelowna to hear firsthand the experiences of those who are courageously fighting this fire. One gentleman who led the crew spoke of his years of dedication to firefighting and sense of service that he and his crew drew upon on daily to tackle such gruelling work. It was very gratifying to hear both leaders on behalf of British Columbia and Canada respectively, publicly praise the crew and the multitudes of other Canadians who also are working to keep their communities and areas safe. I would encourage all citizens of Okanagan-Coquihalla who have the opportunity to do so to also extend their thanks. Dan Albas is the Member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla.
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Congratulations nurse practitioner Julia! — and congratulations Merritt!! Julia will be a very welcome addition to the health care resources in your community, in the same way that nurse practitioners have become highly valued health care providers in many other communities in the Interior Health region. Nurse practitioners have been providing health care services in nearby communities such as Logan Lake, Chase, Princeton, Enderby, Kamloops, Kelowna, and Sorrento, to name a just a few. In most of these communities, the original nurse practitioner is
still on the job, now going on 9 or 10 years! 2015 is the 50th year anniversary of the Nurse Practitioner profession in the United States. We have a long way to go in Canada to catch up to the over 200,000 nurse practitioners licensed to practice in the U.S. In B.C., we seem to be doing this one community at a time, so thank-you, Merritt, for supporting your new nurse practitioner!
Denise Tarlier, PhD, NP(F) Nurse Practitioner Kelowna, BC
Working with the cowboys From Page 6 A third would place the branding iron on the calf. Dust would fly as the cowboy would ride amongst the calves to throw his rope around the calf ’s neck. A good cowboy made it look easy. Sometimes Joan and I would go to the corrals to watch the cowboys do their work. When the job was done at Raspberry, we packed the chuckwagons up and got ready to move
on to the next cow camp. I have fond memories of the cowboys. My dear friend Joan and I had wonderful days there. When fall came we moved on. Joan met a guy and got married. I hope you enjoyed the story, my friends. Jeanette McMaster is an Elder and member of Upper Nicola. Psalm 103:5 “Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
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