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Survivors ride together Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
Jenny Amstutz and her daughter Aurora were in the Merritt area camping for Father’s Day this weekend when they decided to cheer on their friend and cancer survivor Matthew Acheson who rode in the Ride 2 Survive cycling fundraiser that stopped in Merritt.
Larry Hooge keeps the memory of friends and family he’s lost to cancer close to him. The four-time Ride 2 Survive participant has photographs of people who’ve had the disease attached to his bike to give him strength on the 388 kilometre ride when the going gets tough. “This is who I’m doing the ride for. These are the friends and family of my sponsors, my friends and family who have suffered from cancer,” he told the Herald. “Several of them have passed away.” Hooge, 56, from Abbotsford has had many close friends die from cancer recently, and said it’s important to him to find a way to fight back. Ride 2 Survive is the Canadian Cancer Society’s largest independent fundraising event. Every year the caravan of cyclists make their way from Kelowna to Delta with a pit stop in Merritt. Cyclists gathered at the visitor centre at the intersection of Highway 97C and Highway 5 where they were met by many cheering them on. Like Hooge, many of the participants carry symbols of their loved ones who have been afflicted by cancer. “If you look around you’ll notice a lot of the others have got names written on their legs,” Hooge said. “Everybody here’s riding for somebody.” Shannon Hooper from Squamish is one of those riders. Written on her legs in purple and green are the names of those she’s lost to cancer, and some words of encouragement. Matthew Acheson from Port Coquitlam is one of Saturday’s participants who know first hand what it’s like to battle cancer. The 49-year-old had testicular cancer when he was in his 20s, which he said was at a time when a cancer diagnosis didn’t seem to come with much hope of survival. “The people that I knew that had cancer, it looked like they got cancer, they got treatment, and a few years later they died a horrible death,” Acheson said. He said even after his cancer treatment, he was convinced that this would be his fate too. “In my 30s I was a mess,” he said adding that some of his friends helped him get back on his feet. “[They] told me to pay back the world for saving my miserable hide,” he said with a laugh. This led to Acheson participating in The Ride to Conquer Cancer and then Ride 2 Survive.
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Sailors searching for home City sailors are no closer to finding a home after failing to come to terms with the new property owner at Nicola Lake. The Douglas Lake Cattle Company purchased neighbouring Quilchena Ranch in January 2015, taking over its extensive acreage as well as the historic hotel, golf course and RV park. That included the waterfront property leased by the Kamloops Sailing Association for more than two decades — a legacy of the 1993 Canada Summer Games. Nicola Lake is just north of Merritt along Highway 5A. John Drayton, a longtime member of the Kamloops Sailing Association, calling the remaining members “a transient group. “We’re down to our Lasers,” he said of the popular racing dinghy. While members are trailering to local lakes for racing, the club has placed its own boats into storage. Drayton said it is rotating to local lakes within about an hour of the city, including Mamette Lake, Stump Lake and Kamloops Lake at Tobiano. The annual regatta is on hiatus. With no obvious replacement, Drayton said the club will remain without a home for the foreseeable future. The Douglas Lake Cattle Company filed an application ear-
lier this year to move a proposed addition to the Quilchena RV park near the waterfront and build a small marina at the former sailing site. Barb Jackson, a planner with the ThompsonNicola Regional District, said the company must gain approval from the Agricultural Land Commission and TNRD board. The land commission has not rendered its decision. The project would include a permanent clubhouse, replacing the trailers once used by the club. Submitted drawings show a marina with 25 boat slips. Jackson said a gas bar is no longer part of Douglas Lake’s plans after a number of people objected to the idea. The regional district designates Nicola Lake water quality as “critical.” It is marred by artificial nutrients and high algae counts. Drayton said the sailing club has not ruled out returning to its old site on new terms once Douglas Lake has established its plans.
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Another day, another week, month, year… My how time goes by. I guess that is not so bad. We have enough to eat, clothes to wear, a place to live, but do we ever stop to think where all of these things come from?
family. So, in the plan there had to be soil, water, Áat lands and warmth. In this place there would be mountains, rivers, lakes, and plains. Every place had to have access to water for the whole year.
Do we ever think of, let’s say, where our clothes come from? If we did we would Ànd that 97% of our clothing is imported. Where do they get their supplies? It still has to come from somewhere. In the Word of God we are told of where it all comes from and how it began, so there had to be a plan.
When I think about the state of Washington, God needed to create a river to provide water. Where would it come from? In His plan there was a mountain range in eastern B.C. A small river started in the east and ran along the east side of the range of mountains. It would be fed by the water from the snow in the hills. It would run for several hundred miles north and keep growing.
I have built a number of houses. There always had to be a plan before I started. First the proposal, then a detailed plan of the house, then a permit from the city before anything can be started. The plan had to include the kind of material intended to go into the project before the plan could be approved. Then, before the building starts the foundation has to be dug and set. God had in mind another family. He needed a home for them so He had to make a plan. The Word says that He spoke and it was done, but He needed to have a plan before he spoke the words. In the plan there would be another world. It had to provide nourishment and happiness for His
As the water comes from the mountains it would get bigger. This river would get a good increase from the Kicking Horse river on the Alberta side. There, the mountain range would end and the river would run around the north end of the mountain and back south picking up more water from the other side of the mountain. The road along the river from B.C. to Alberta would be called the Big Bend. Today it is 192 miles of road. The river runs south into Washington state and builds a bigger river. God’s plan….more coming.
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ernment’s effort towards consulting with First Nations groups as “insufficient,� thus far. Citing articles from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a charter recently endorsed by the federal government, the letter makes the case that Canada is failing to fulfil its international responsibilities to have meaningful consultation regarding the Trans Mountain project with indigenous groups. Also suggested by the groups is the creation of an “indigenous-led independent safety and environmental oversight body, with participation from all Nations affected by the existing pipeline and the [Trans Mountain expansion project].� A response from the federal and provincial governments is requested by July 29.
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twinned pipeline would cross seven opening of the letter reads. reserve territories in B.C., three of The groups are also calling on which are utilized both levels of by the Lower Nicola government to Indian Band. pay restitution for The National the construction Energy Board recently of the original recommended the Trans Mountain project be approved by pipeline, which the federal government, began operations after a review process in 1953. that lasted almost two The letter years. alleges that the However, B.C. construction of Supreme Court ruled the original pipein March the project line was done would have to undergo without consultaan environmental tion or consent assessment at the proof First Nations vincial level. Peoples at the Despite the new protime. Chief Aaron Sam vincial review, the letter The proposed Lower Nicola Indian Band described the B.C. govroute of the
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The Lower Nicola Indian Band has united their voice with more than 50 First Nations leaders, calling on the provincial and federal governments to meet with them regarding the potential Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The open letter, addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and premiers Christy Clark and Rachel Notley, details “grave concerns� that the groups have with the consultation process to date. “We are writing to advise you that engagement of our Nations with respect to [Trans Mountain Expansion] has been woefully inadequate, and not in line with your respective government’s constitutional and international obligations,� the
Riding for a cure From Page 6 He said this year was his second year taking partin Ride 2 Survive as a cyclist. “It took me a long time to concede that I wasn’t one of the ones who was going to die,� he said. “Not many people get to survive, especially 22 years ago hardly anybody got to survive,� Acheson said adding that survival rates have gone up dramatically since then. “I got to be alive, I got to have a wife, Riders descend down the highway into town on June 18, part of a 388 kilometre ride to raise I got to have three money for the Canadian Cancer Society. Michael Potestio/Herald children because snapshot of the struggle someone with cancer people believed cancer research was real and that [cancer] could be goes through, Hooge said. “It’s not meant to be easy,� he said. beaten,� he said. Sunday’s trip began at about 3:30 a.m. on Hooper described the ride as phenomenal. Sunday and took about 12 hours to reach the “It’s exhausting, it’s intense, there’s a lot of Lower Mainland. doubt, but when you’re on it, when you’re doing As of Saturday, she said the ride has raised it there’s so many moments that are just like this more than $500,000 this year, said ride orgais living and I can do it,� she said. nizer Carly Towne. Ride 2 Survive is intended to give people a ORIES D-DAY MEM3 PAGE
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GAUTHIER PITCHES THRILLER One of the best ball games to be seen in Merritt of recent years was played here Sunday. The weather was ideal for good ball and a bang-up crowd turned out to see the Merritt team at its best. Up until Sunday the Penticton team had been undefeated but now Merritt and Penticton are tied for first with 5 wins and 1 loss. Phil really was pitching hot ball to have 13 strike-outs to his credit compared to 5 for the opposing pitcher. Although out-hit 8 to 6 Merritt had theirs paying at the right time Collett was the big gun at the bat for Merritt having 3 for 4 and hit well above any one on either team; Porsey, Fairley and Qillis were the only other players on the local team to collect a hit. Johnson and Burgart were the leading hitters for Penticton each batting 2 for 4.
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The City of Merritt is inviting applications for the position of Casual On-Call Cashier in the Leisure Services Department. This is a casual, on call position providing cashiering services as needed, at the City’s recreational facilities. Shifts may occur on short notice, and may include evening, weekend and weekday shifts. For complete details, please visit www.merritt.ca Applications containing a cover letter with attached resume will be accepted until 4:00pm, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Applications must be addressed to: Carole Fraser Human Resources Manager/Deputy Clerk 2185 Voght Street, P.O. Box 189 Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 cfraser@merritt.ca Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. We thank you in advance for your interest in this position. Date Posted: June 09, 2016 Posting Expires: June 22, 2016
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The City of Merritt is inviting applications for the position of a regular full time Engineering Technologist. 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. Wednesday, June 27, 2016 by: Sasha Bird, AScT Director of Engineering and Development City of Merritt PO Box 189, 2185 Voght Street Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 Or by email: sbird@merritt.ca We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Date Posted: June 06, 2016 Posting Expires: June 27, 2016
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Mobile medical unit provides training Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
Even veteran nurses need to shake the rust off every now and then, and when it comes to saving lives, it’s best to be as prepared as possible. B.C.’s Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) was in Merritt this past week providing simulation training to local clinicians. “It’s very valuable, you can always learn something new,” said registered nurse Leah Fraser who has worked at the Nicola Valley Hospital for 10 years. Thursday (June 16) was a day of education that included training of staff from the local hospital and paramedics. MMU clinical educator Jesse Sheridan told the Herald they ran through four different simulations at the request of the hospital — trauma, sepsis, anaphylaxis, and a cardiac-related scenario. Fraser said these types of scenarios were the focus because they are life threatening and cases come in from time to time. “You have to know what to do instantly,” she said. While she’s had plenty of training like this before, Fraser said it’s still valuable to take part because as a nurse, it reinforces what you know.
Simulated scenarios were conducted on both pediatric and adult high-fidelity training dolls, which Fraser noted as being best to prepare for the real thing. “Practice on a dummy so that when the real person comes in you know what to do,” Meti-Man, the high-fidelity training dummy at the mobile medical unit, who talks, cries, and blinks. (Inset) The unit is packed with training resources. Michael Potestio/Herald she said. However, the high fidelity medical doll, was new to the MMU’s deployment to he does talk, he blinks, he cries, he does all which is known as Meti-Man, is no one’s Merritt this year. that,” said Sheridan. dummy. The MMU is a state-of-the-art mobile “The nice thing about this is that as cliniThis doll has a variety of interactive feacians they can stay focused on the education medical facility owned by the Provincial tures such as a pulse. If you shine a light in Health Services Authority in partnership around the patient and as an operator we his eyes his pupils even dilate. with the regional health authorities. can actually stand back and be out of the “If this were a real person, they would be picture, which is ideal in an education situaIt is always ready to be called upon in able to see and assess what’s going on, but the event of a natural disaster or other tion,” he said. in the case of Meti-Man we can simulate emergency and to provide education and The exercises, known as the Interior a lot of these operations. He does breathe, outreach. Health Rural Mobile Simulation Program,
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As Canadians across the country prepare to celebrate Aboriginal Day on June 21, it is timely that we reflect on the considerable progress being made in indigenous education. Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and across Canada are recognizing the need to work in partnership with First Nations, Metis, Inuit, and aboriginal organizations in order to develop and offer programs that meet the needs of Canada’s indigenous peoples. With support from both provincial and federal governments, as well as the commitment of post-secondary leaders, many institutions now have staff dedicated specifically to indigenous education, elders who provide wisdom and support, and campus facilities such as aboriginal gathering places that help celebrate and create a welcoming environment for aboriginal students. Nationally, and with the support of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICAN) has taken a leadership role by developing a National Indigenous Protocol that allows its membership an opportunity to demonstrate that indigenous education is a priority. Post-secondary institutions who sign onto this national protocol are declaring that they are committed to providing an environment that addresses the learning and training needs of indigenous students. This commitment further strengthens and supports indigenous peoples’ self-determination and their socioeconomic development in their communities. The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT) is British Columbia’s aboriginal public postsecondary institution. Founded by the five First Nations bands in the Nicola Valley in 1983, their vision was to create a post-secondary institution where aboriginal students can learn and
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Brexit: the long, loud silence GWYNNE DYER The international STAGE Parliament met in London Monday, so that MPs of every party could express their horror and disgust at the murder last Thursday of their colleague Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire. And on Monday everybody did, including the leaders of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. But here’s the odd thing: up to that point, the Brexit
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leaders had said nothing about it. Nothing. Not a word, for more than three days. The political campaign for the referendum next Thursday on Britain’s continued membership in the European Union was immediately suspended for two days after Cox’s murder, but other politicians didn’t go to ground like Johson, Gove and their friends. Cameron, Corbyn and many other senior politicians went on TV to condemn what had happened, but Johnson, Gove and their rather embarrassing ally Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), did not (and you may be sure that they were asked to — that’s what journalists do). They sim-
ply vanished from public view, without so much as a ritual statement that their “thoughts and prayers” were with Jo Cox’s family. There are only two possible explanations for this curious non-event. One is that space aliens abducted Johnson, Gove and Farage on Thursday for their usual nefarious purposes, and returned them to Earth on Sunday with their memories wiped clean of anal probes (for otherwise they would surely have mentioned it). The other is that their media advisers told them that the only safe course was to say nothing. The Brexiteers were in a difficult position, because Jo Cox was a high-profile campaigner for Remain, the campaign urging Britons to stay in the EU, and the man who
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killed her, Tommy Mair, was clearly of the opposite persuasion. As he shot and stabbed her, according to eyewitnesses, he was shouting “Britain first” or “Put Britain first.” His motive became even clearer on Saturday, when he was brought before a judge to be charged. Asked to state his name, he replied that it is “Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain.” The second half of this slogan is, of course, at the heart of the “Leave” campaign’s argument for Brexit. Obviously Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage knew nothing about Mair’s intentions, nor approved of them in any way. But people could reasonably argue that the increasingly nasty tone of the “Leave” cam-
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paign may have served as a trigger for Mair’s crime. In the early stages of the campaign the debate was mostly about the relative economic advantages of leaving or staying in the EU, but the “Leave” side clearly lost that argument, and shifted the debate instead onto the hot-button topic of immigration. This involved a good deal of lying, like the ridiculous Leave claim that Turkey was shortly going to become an EU member, giving 70 million Turks the right to move to Britain. (Turkey has no realistic chance of becoming an EU member in the foreseeable future, and if it ever did fulfill the entrance requirements Britain could simply veto it.)
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From Page 6 succeed. In 1995, with approval from the founding bands, NVIT was appointed as a member of the public post-secondary system by becoming a provincial institute. In 2015/16, NVIT served over 1,400 students at their campuses in Merritt and Burnaby, and in Aboriginal communities across B.C. and Canada. NVIT’s student body is approximately 80 per cent Aboriginal and represents approximately 60 per cent of the 203 First Nations bands in the province of B.C. With support from the Ministry of Advanced Education, NVIT recently announced two exciting initiatives for the 2016/17 academic year. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC), NVIT will be offering a Master’s of Educational Indigenous Leadership and Administration with the goal of enhancing the educational qualifications of NVIT employees, and employees from other indigenous post-secondary institutions across B.C. The opportunity to receive a Master’s degree from UBC, with an indigenous focus, in the small community of Merritt is unprecedented and represents a significant advancement for indigenous education in B.C. With the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations, a number of which directly relate to post-secondary education, NVIT will be co-hosting a conference in October that will bring together all of B.C.s universities, colleges and provincial institutes to discuss a coordinated provincial approach on how B.C.’s institutions of higher learning will respond to the commission’s recommendations. Scheduled for October in Vancouver, it is anticipated that this conference will represent a solid demonstration of the commitment of B.C.’s post-secondary institutions regarding Indigenous Education.
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Zootopia The promotion and success of indigenous education over the past two decades has been remarkable. While significant work remains — considering the alarming statistic that only one in every two aboriginal children will graduate with a Grade 12 certificate — there is no denying that the post-secondary system has ensured that the learning needs of aboriginal students is a national priority. NVIT, with a specific aboriginal mandate, has played a major role in the progress to date. Let’s celebrate our past successes, and more importantly, let’s continue to move forward in partnership. While NVIT has a provincial mandate, delivering programs across B.C., its roots remain in the
Nicola Valley and its five founding bands. Meeting regularly with the chiefs, and ensuring that the elders council has representatives from each founding community, the original purpose for NVIT will never be forgotten. NVIT will continue to operate as a student-centered institution that is firmly grounded in aboriginal culture, tradition, and indigenous knowledge. It’s about the student. It has always been about the student. Ken Tourand is a 21 year employee of NVIT and has served as its president since 2010.
Leave campaign marred by racism From Page 6 The dog-whistle racism of Leave’s anti-immigration campaign was at its worst in a poster that UKIP’s Nigel Farage unveiled just two hours before Cox was murdered, showing an endless column of young men of Middle Eastern appearance marching into Europe and captioned “Breaking Point”. In other words, quit the EU or Britain too will be drowned in a sea of Muslim fake refugees. The poster was immediately condemned even by Farage’s allies (Michael Gove said he “shuddered” when he saw it) — but Gove did NOT go on to say that Middle Eastern refugees who are let in by other EU countries do not gain the right to enter Britain. To admit that would undermine the whole anti-immigrant strategy of the Leave campaign. That’s something Gove didn’t want to be questioned on. All the more did
he not want to be questioned on possible causal links between the Leave campaign’s general strategy of claiming that the British people are enslaved by faceless “EU bureaucrats in Brussels” and Mair’s cry of “Freedom for Britain.” Neither did any of his Leave colleagues. So the Brexit leaders took their media managers’ advice and hid themselves away after the assassination of Jo Cox. When Tommy Mair gave his name as “Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain” in court on Saturday, they hid for another day, fearing guilt by association. Now they are back out in the open, hoping nobody noticed their absence. And maybe they didn’t, because the British media certainly abstained from comment on it. But it is also possible that quite a few ordinary voters did notice it, and drew their own conclusions from it. We’ll find out on Friday. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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2016 Merritt Country Run Complete Results 5 km 1. Tristan Sandhu 2. Jagar Read 3. Ethan Gregg 4. Takumi Irie 5. Ucne Chibueze 6. Aidan Dunsmore 7. Loretto Peralta 8. Isaac Asselstine 9. Evan Hales 10. Shaun Hales 11. Iggy Connolly 12. Lisa Nelson-Smith 13. Daxson Storey 14. Lynne McIntyre 15. Jennifer Whitecross 16. Angela Basaraba 17. Colleen Mullin 18. Koen Hales 19. Matthew Parr 20. Jill Slywka 21. Dylan Richardson 22. Sara Lawrence 23. Yuko Irie 24. Carmen Swanson 25. Kristi Morrison 26. Charlie Ware 27. Carrie Ware 28. Parker Storey 29. Clayton Storey 30. Gabbuy Zabek 31. Gurmel Chattha 32. Alix Legouffe 33. Kristy Braun 34. Stacey Krajci 35. Ella McKeown 36. Sky McKeown 37. Dawn Nash 38. Erika Doyen 39. Holly MacDonald 40. Sydney Willson 41. Cathy Willson 42. David Martens 43. Danielle Martens 44. Kayla Phillips 45. Graeme Asselstine 46. Bernice Assewlstine 47. Hardip Chattha 48. David Marple 49. Kamdyn Marple 50. Diana Lepine-Thor 51. Dorene Jules 52. Ashley Munro 53. Natasha Fountain 54. Cheyanne Shackelly 55. Darlene Rodominski 56. Angela Fountain 57. Margarida Carvalho 58. Dimas Carvalho
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Otters open summer swim season in Salmon Arm Ian Webster THE MERRITT HERALD
Twelve members of the Merritt Otters Swim Club travelled to Salmon Arm on the June 11and 12 weekend for the first Interior competition of the 2016 season. At the helm was the Otters’ new head coach, Gabriel Lee. Leading the way for the Merritt team was 13-year-old Bianca Cavaliere, who placed in the top six in all of her division 4 events and picked up a trio of second-place finishes.
Most notable was her 33.82-second time in the 50-metre butterfly event — a new Otters’ club record (eclipsing the 34.79 time set by Janis Irving in 1989. Koren Lefebvre also placed in the top six in her half dozen division 8 events, while Lee was a first-place finisher in both the Div. 8 events he entered. In total, Otters recorded an impressive 23 top-six finishes, and accumulated 780.5 points to place seventh overall in the team competition.
“I thought that everyone performed very well for the first meet of the season, given that we’re doing a lot of hard training right now,” said coach Lee. “I knew that there were going to be a lot of best times, but some of the kids really surprised me with what they pulled out. “Bianca is in her first year in division 4, and is the fastest swimmer the club has ever seen straight out of the gates. Kendra Marklund really surprised me. When she
started swimming, I saw that she was a real animal in the pool swimming back and forth. “I really want to commend our older swimmers on how they supported the younger ones, and acted as real team leaders, and the younger swimmers on following those leaders and cheering on their teammates while they were swimming.” This past weekend, the Otters were in Lumby for a competition. Look for the results of that meet in this Thursday’s paper.
TOP NOTCH Merritt Otters’ swimmers Bianca Cavaliere, 13, (above) and Kendra Marklund, 11, (right) were two of a dozen local swimmers who performed impressively in the club’s first competition of the season in Salmon Arm on the June 11 and 12 weekend. Herald file photos
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LICENSED AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN Automotive Repair Shop in Vernon, B.C. is looking for a F/T Licensed Automotive Technician, all makes & models, 3 or 4 year Apprentices will be considered. Please submit resumes to Box 2, Vernon Morning Star, 4407 25 Ave, Vernon, B.C. V1T 1P5 or email resume: class1@vernonmorningstar.com
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CATERING OPPORTUNITY For June 29, 2016 for 20-65 persons, at Conayt Friendship Society, 1964 Quilchena Avenue, Merritt, B.C Submit bids to: Executive Director, “Catering Bid�. Provide menu that includes appetizers, main course (diabetic options), drinks (non sugar options), and dessert (diabetic options). Include cost per plate. Dinner is at 7:30 p.m. (set up 6:45 p.m.). CFS will provide plates, cups, napkins, utilities, salt, pepper, creamer, sugar.
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We would like to thank the following Utilities, Trades & Suppliers for their timely, cost effective involvement in helping turn this project into a reality for Emcon Services Inc. BC Hydro, Fortis BC, Hub Electric, Sunshine Valley Mechanical, Mussell Cranes, Brytex Buildings, Three S Steel Erectors, Anchor Doors, Jonathan Beech Contracting, Norgaard Concrete, Action Concrete Pumping, Joe’s Concrete, K Rod Steel, Alpha Design, Don Pitman Drywall, Swiftsure Painting, Tibar Construction, exp Services & Underhill & Underhill.
on your Truck Build Facility for Turn Key Snow Plow Builds
A Special Thank You goes out to; Pat McCormack at Merritt Machine Works for his patience, understanding and going out of his way to accommodate the construction of this facility. Also to Jeff McGregor for his as usual excellent project management skills and Steve Dunn, his right hand man.
At McGregor’s Designs in Steel, we take pride in providing the best service and satisfying our customer’s needs first with “Quality being our goal.’ Our trained professional ironworkers will have your building up for you and it will be done right the first time, Guaranteed!
BC Including Vancouver Island
1-877-875-7267
Al McGregor: al.w.mds@gmail.com
“Quality is our Commitment”
Alberta and Saskatchewan
1-844-775-7257
jimmy.mdsbuildings@gmail.com