Merritt Herald August 15, 2019

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CLIMATE CHANGE CITY LIMITS

Therequest Chief ofof the By the Lower TNRD, Nicola Merritt’s Indian Band is bringing a wealth city council is exploring the of experience to a provincial possibility of expanding the city’s panel on climate change. boundaries to include the music festival grounds.

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HAPPY DROUGHT HALLOWEEN

COLDWATER RIVER The City of Merritt enacted more watering restrictions this week, as dry conditions continueprizes, to persist on the Coldwater Riverhouse basin,and which been —among A SPOOKY GOOD TIME There were games, cool costumes, a haunted — ofhas course a the driest river in the provinceThe during monthhad of August. /PAGE 5 whole lot of candy at the well attended City ofsystems Merritt Spooktacular. 2017theedition the bestSTORY attendance on record with 1,100 people taking part in the annual Halloween event held on Oct. 20. Michael Potestio/Herald

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SHELTER OPENING The Nicola Valley Shelter Society is ready to open the doors to a newly-designated winter shelter on Nicola Avenue.

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