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SHOWSTOPPERS Snowflake dancers perform for a full house at the old Coquihalla Middle School for the Nicola-Canford Elementary School Christmas concert. The middle school building is temporarily home to the elementary students while their school is reconstructed at its site in Lower Nicola. The Christmas concert, titled “Jack Frost and the Music of Christmas,” featured the snowflake dancers (from Grades 4, 5, and 6) and the snow sprites on Dec. 12. Submitted
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The ball is now in the parent graduation committee’s court to decide if the Merritt Secondary School gymnasium will be used for the upcoming class of 2014 prom. School District 58 developed a universal set of guidelines for using its facilities after referring this issue to the building committee, SD58 superintendent Bob Peacock told the Herald. School trustees approved the new guidelines at the school board meeting in Princeton on Dec. 11, he said.
If the graduation committee complies with the guidelines, the group will be able to use the MSS gym for the graduation dance. Peacock said the school district met with their building committee and parents, looked at their guidelines for the use of their facilities, and made changes to those guidelines. Any group that wants to use an SD58 facility will have to meet those guidelines. MSS principal Bill Lawrence said he’s happy with he new guidelines and if adhered to, they will protect the newly renovated MSS gym. Some of the guidelines include
limitations on decorations and liability insurance. Peacock said decorations cannot be hung above the 10-foot mark, nor can they be hung on sprinkler systems. “No longer can they hang decorations from the top [of the] ceiling down, and that’s basically because of the safety factor of getting them up there,” Peacock said. User groups decorating a gym must also provide a plan to the school principal to be approved before they buy decorations, Peacock said. Peacock also said groups that are not covered under a liability
insurance policy will need to have one in order to use a facility. “Liability insurance is probably a big one that we didn’t have in place that we’ve now put in place,” Peacock said. The revised guidelines also include an update to the rules on footwear. Peacock said dress shoes such as high heels will not be permitted in any gym-hosted dances. However, people can remove their shoes and use indoor running shoes inside the gym as an alternative. At the school board meeting last month, student trustee Emily Maloney told the Herald the
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upcoming graduates are willing to take off their shoes in order to use the MSS gym for their prom. “If they have their indoor gym shoes, that would be appropriate for them to be in the gym and be able to dance,” Peacock said, noting heels and outdoor running shoes wouldn’t be permitted. “Whether it’s the grad group or whether it’s another group who’d like to go in and use that facility or any of the facilities, the guidelines are there and they need to go through them and then decide on their own whether they want to stick to those guidelines or find someplace else to go,” Peacock said.
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Bill C-559 intended to “increase democracy� Very few bills have generated as much discussion, debate and feedback as Bill C-559. This is quite remarkable given that this private member’s bill was only tabled into the House late last week and has yet to be deemed votable or to reach second reading. You may ask, “What
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exactly is Bill C-559?� It is called the Reform Act of 2013 and was introduced recently by my colleague, MP Michael Chong. Depending on who you ask, the reactions to this bill have ranged from it being viewed as the salvation of our parliamentary democracy
to declarations that the bill is an all-out assault on the democratic principles which have helped shape our great country. Media pundits, academics, retired politicians, interest groups and most importantly, citizens have all taken the time to comment on this bill with a passion
and a level of interest rarely observed, at least from my limited time as a member of Parliament. I view this level of engagement as very encouraging and to date, the majority of the input I have heard locally is supportive of this bill. There is also something which extends
beyond this bill that I believe is worthy of note. In the days prior to Bill C-559 being introduced into the House of Commons, an advocacy organization began a lobbying campaign with local MPs, calling on them to support this democratic reform private member’s bill. I
mention this because the actual provisions of the bill at that point were unknown with many openly supporting the bill based on what they believed to be the contents and objective – in this case, an “increase� in democracy.
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There’s a new voice on the airwaves in town: the Voice of Adventist Radio (VOAR). VOAR is a noncommercial, multi-faith station originally broadcast out of Newfoundland, and Merritt is its latest rebroadcast town. The local Seventh Day Adventist church made the rebroadcast possible and officially launched VOAR 95.9 on Nov. 26. Project manager Jim Bradford said it took three or four years to get various permits, licences, and industry checks to get the 50-watt FM station up and running. While some technical bugs are still being worked out, reception of the station has been positive so far, Bradford said. “The few people who have heard it have been really excited about it,” Bradford
said. The station has a range of about five kilometres, and Bradford is working on ironing out a few bugs to make sure it radiates out properly. It’s also available online for anyone who’s out of the signal’s range. VOAR started in St. John’s, Nfld. in 1929 and has since set up rebroadcast stations across the country, including over a dozen in B.C. The station plays a wide variety of music and programs, from contemporary Christian music to sermons. The programs are all connected by their Christian messages. Karel Samek, pastor at the Seventh Day Adventist church, said there is something for everyone on the station. “It’s multi-faith, which means there’s a variety of groups and churches on it, with a broad variety of programs. A lot of music, contemporary music,
Seventh Day Adventist pastor Karel Samek (left) and project manager Jim Bradford spent close to four years getting a rebroadcast of the Newfoundland-based radio station Voice of Adventist Radio on air in Merritt. The station hit the airwaves on Nov. 26. Emily Wessel/Herald
gospel music, oldfashioned music, it’s for every age group.” There’s a program called Unshackelled that deals with addiction, which Samek said makes for interesting listening. “It’s a dramatization of real people’s life stories,” Samek said. There’s another program called Focus on the Family that deals with all manner of family matters. “I think it’s nondenominational. They deal with relational things like partnership,
dating, raising children, difficult children, discipline... everything that deals with relations within the family and resolving conflicts and so forth,” Samek said. However, being based across the country, the station does include news and weather forecasts from Newfoundland. “Please don’t be alarmed: that’s not our weather forecast,” Bradford laughed. Bradford and Samek started organizing the rebroadcast after learning that Lytton
and Spences Bridge both have the VOAR rebroadcast. “We got excited that we could also have such a thing here in Merritt because there’s nothing like it in Merritt. It’s unique and it’ll probably approach different people who don’t typically listen to the radio,” Bradford said. Samek said the two established the rebroadcast in goodwill for the community. “Basically, the messages that are on it are in the general public interest and we
thought, why not make it a service to the community?” The non-profit radio station will continue to cost to rebroadcast, but both Samek and Bradford said the station is not intended to compete with commercial radio stations. “There’s no monetary gain for us, that’s for sure,” Bradford said. “We are not competing for anything, we’re just giving an alternative,” Samek added. The station has been approved and licensed by the City of Merritt, the Canadian RadioTelevision Telecommunications Commission and Industry Canada, Bradford said. The project organizers are hosting a dedication for the launch of the station on Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. at the church on Granite Avenue. “I think it’s extremely exciting. It’s probably one of the most purposeful things I’ve done,” Bradford said.
Content of bill will determine democratic impact From Page 2 The challenge for legislators is that the actual content of what is proposed in a bill is of equal, if not more, importance than the intent. Does Bill C-559 increase democracy? One of the proposals of this bill is to end a requirement that a locally elected candidate who intends to run for a political party is formally endorsed by the leader of the party in question. What is interesting on this point is that it was actually a Liberal government in the 1970s that introduced this requirement in large part to ensure that special interest groups could not
unduly influence the candidate selection process at the local level. In many respects, the requirement for formal endorsement by a party leader has acted as a disincentive in attempting to influence a candidate selection process as the results can be nullified by a party leader if desired. Bill C-559 proposes to eliminate this safeguard. Another proposal in the Reform Act allows for 15 per cent of a party caucus to initiate a leadership review process and ultimately the majority of caucus MPs attending a leadership review meeting could, in effect, remove a democratically elected prime minister and in turn could install a new
prime minister solely based on a majority caucus decision with no democratic participation from Canadians. A similar clause is also proposed in the democratic reform bill with respect to how an MP can be removed from or re-instated to caucus. If 15 per cent of the caucus membership requests a review and a majority of caucus members in attendance at the review in question vote for the removal or re-instatement of another MP (within caucus), that majority vote would stand regardless of the intentions of the prime minister. The intent of these proposals is to increase the power of indi-
vidual MPs and to decrease the ability of the prime minister to unilaterally make decisions with respect to caucus composition. In other words, the prime minister would be more susceptible to the demands of individual members of Parliament or smaller groups of MPs as opposed to the consensus of caucus or ‘team’ approach that has emerged over the past few decades. One other point of interest is that should Bill C-559 be adopted, the implementation date would be seven days after the next election. This would mean that some provisions around candidate selection would not actually be implemented until pos-
sibly the year 2019. Will these proposed changes increase democracy? To date, I have read the bill and dozens of opinion editorials both for and against the Reform Act that offer different but valid points. I would still like to hear from more citizens on this bill once the actual contents are better known. I believe almost everyone supports increased democracy in our electoral process. However, the details of how that is best achieved (otherwise known as the fine print) should not be overlooked. For the record, I support increasing democracy, transparency and accountability in our political process.
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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: December, 1986 Unemployment up in November The Kamloops region, which includes Merritt, had the highest unemployment rate in all of B.C. for the month of November. Statistics Canada figures revealed that 17.8 per cent of the labour force is without work, up considerably from the rate for October, which was around 16.5 per cent. Employment Center Manager Tom Newell attributed the increase to the impact of the recently-settled IWA strike. “It’s not only the woodworkers and the loggers, but people who are indirectly affected by the strike such as stores and businesses,” he said. And, based on past figures, the picture won’t improve much during December, according to Newell. “December has always been our lowest month for placements.”
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“We are not blind and I don’t think we are stupid,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in response to fierce Israeli criticism after the first round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program last month failed to reach a deal. Now the deal is done and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is even harsher in his condemnation of Kerry’s handiwork. “Israel has many friends and allies,” Netanyahu said. “But, when they’re mistaken, it’s my duty to speak out . . . “What was achieved last night [Nov. 24] in Geneva is not a historic agreement. It was a historic mistake. “Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world took a significant step towards obtaining the world’s most dangerous weapon.” What he meant was the interim agreement implicitly recognizes Iran’s right to enrich uranium for peaceful uses. However, that right is already enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed, and nobody ever thought Iran was really going to renounce it. What was at issue was whether Iran would enrich its uranium to “weapons grade” — 90 percent pure — and make nuclear bombs. The “Plan of Action” signed by Iran, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany and the European Union ensures it will not, at least for the next six months. All uranium enrichment above five per cent is to be halted and Iran’s entire stockpile of 20 per cent enriched material — the potential feedstock for a dash to weapons-grade material — is to be diluted or converted to a form not suitable for further enrichment.
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Canada Post cuts service over jobs Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS A new development in the Canada Post quest to stay afloat came last week with the announcement the Crown corporation will phase out home delivery in urban centres over the next five years. The one-third of Canadian households this change is expected to
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impact will be switched to community mailboxes. This change won’t affect rural areas, but with so much scrutiny on the Crown corporation, people across the country will be waiting to see which cities will be in the first round of delivery cuts to be announced in the second half of 2014. It’s one change in a series the postal service is trying to make to avoid bankruptcy. Other changes include raising the price of stamps, an overhaul of Canada Post’s pension plan, and of course, potentially downsizing its retail outlets. Critics of the changes
say service cuts and pricier stamps aren’t the way to go to keep this sinking ship afloat. It’s hard not to wonder about what types of changes, if any, are being considered for management and executives. Axing jobs is one other option — but not a very attractive one. Short of firing people (which in all likelihood would likely skip the executive and fall on front-line workers) the options seem to be adapt or go bankrupt. The Crown corporation is not really sustainable at its current level. The Conference Board of Canada, a Toronto-
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a fee to receive a paper bill. The ease of access of iPhone apps to track your bills and messages and all other things you look forward to in the mail is another facet of the Internet taking over where the paper trail left off. In today’s world of electronic bills, email and courier services, what other options does the Crown corporation have? Canada Post is hanging on, changing with times that refuse to stop changing. Certainly, the changes may annoy and inconvenience many people — maybe even Canada Post executives.
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School District 58 amended its policy against smoking to include smokeless tobacco products or electronic cigarettes at its board meeting on Dec. 11. Superintendent Bob Peacock said the school district wanted to ensure it was clear that those products are in addition to regular cigarettes, which are not allowed on school property. “The intent of that policy hadn’t changed, we just added [electronic] cigarettes to the wording,” Peacock said.
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U.S. caught in tug-of-war between Iran, Israel From Page 4 Iran is not to install any more centrifuges (the machines used to enrich material) and large numbers of the existing banks of centrifuges are to be left inoperable. Even Iran’s stockpile of 3.5 per cent enriched uranium (for use in nuclear power reactors) is to remain the same between now and the end of the six-month period. And there will be no further work done on the Arak reactor, which might give Iran plutonium and thus a second route to a nuclear bomb. Iran will also allow more intrusive inspections by International Atomic Energy Agency officials, including daily access to the key enrichment sites at Natanz and Fordow. All it gets in return is $7 billion worth of relief (about
$100 per Iranian) on the sanctions that are crippling its economy. All main sanctions will stay in place until a final agreement has been signed — if it is — six months from now. Iran can, therefore, make no further progress toward nuclear weapons while the detailed negotiations continue, if that is actually what Tehran ever had in mind. Yet Israeli officials are talking as if the United States has been both blind and stupid. Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said “Israel cannot participate in the international celebration, which is based on Iranian deception and the world’s self-delusion.” And Naftali Bennett, Israel’s minister of trade and industry, warned: “If, in five years, a nuclear suitcase explodes in New York or Madrid, it will be because of
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they used to listen to us in the past.” But, the game is not over yet. Israel’s influence in the U.S. Congress is still immense and its congressional allies are already talking about heaping more sanctions on Iran (in order to kill the deal, though they don’t admit that). U.S. President Barack Obama could veto those new sanctions, of course, but he will find it a lot harder to get Congress to revoke the existing sanctions if the final deal is done six months from now. That’s why Iran gets so little relief from sanctions now in return for its concessions: Obama needs more time to work on Congress. But, Israel may still win this tug-of-war.
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New chair, vice-chair elected for TNRD board The ThompsonNicola Regional District Board of Directors has elected Barriere Mayor Bill Humphreys as its new chair. Humphreys is replacing Randy Murray as TNRD chair. Murray had held the position since 2011. “There is a lot of strength on the board
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work to harness that power,” Humphreys stated in a press release. Electoral Area B director Willow MacDonald was elected as vice-chair. She will replace Ashcroft director Andy Anderson, who served in that role since 2011 as well. MacDonald said
she appreciates the confidence the TNRD board has in her. “I’m looking forward to continuing to bring the electoral areas and the municipalities together at the TNRD level,” MacDonald stated in the press release. Outgoing chair of the board Randy Murray told the Herald
Willow is a good pick, noting her involvement with the Yellowhead Highway Association and promotion of tourism in the North Thompson area. “She’s very engaged. She’ll do a great job as well,” Murray said. Elections of chair and vice-chair of the TNRD board occur every year.
lack of availability for the time commitment involved as chair. He will remain Area M director until his term is up next November. Murray said Humphreys is an excellent candidate for the job as chairman. “It [the board] is in good hands with Bill,” Murray said. Murray also said
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The advent and affect of humility NARAYAN MITRA You Gotta Have FAITH One forgotten territory in the Christmas story usually is the birth of humility in the person of the Christ Child. Apostle Paul speaks of Jesus humbling himself to the extent of taking the form of a servant on his way to the cross. But the same humility was evident at the root of the incarnation story – God being willing to take up human form, thus subjecting Himself to human ministrations. A spiritual person will always be ready to humble himself. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. If we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, He will exalt us at the proper time (1 Pet. 5:5,6). Henry Suso was a godly single man who lived in Germany. He prayed often that the Lord would make him broken and humble like Jesus himself was. One day Suso heard a knock at his door. When he opened the door, he saw a strange woman standing with a baby in her arms. He had never seen her before. The woman wanted to get rid of the newborn baby and had decided that the best person to dump it on
was Suso. In a voice loud enough for everyone in the street to hear she said, “Here is the fruit of your sin,” and left the baby in Suso’s arms. Suso was stunned. His reputation in the town had been shattered. He took the baby, knelt down, and told the Lord, “You know I’m innocent. What must I do now?” Having heard the Lord say, “Do what I did. Suffer for the sins of others,” he brought up that child as his own. He was content that God knew the truth and he was willing to be misunderstood by others. Years later, the
woman was convicted of her sin and returned to proclaim to Suso’s neighbours that he was innocent and that she had lied. But what had happened in the intervening years? Suso’s prayer had been answered. He had become broken and humble like his Master. God had been able to accomplish a work of sanctification in Suso’s life, freeing him of man’s opinion so that God’s opinion alone mattered to him thereafter. Are we willing to pay such a price in order to become like Jesus? Or do we seek the honour of men? God often breaks us by allowing us to be misunderstood, mis-
judged, falsely accused and publicly humiliated. It is best to leave such matters with God. He knows what He is doing and He’s got everything under His control. He is chiseling away at the rock to sculpture the likeness of Jesus in his people. Some parts of the rock may be very hard, wherein He has to use persecution and false accusations to bring out the ‘shine.’ No one who waits upon God will ever be disappointed or be put to shame (Isaiah 49:23). Let us follow in Jesus’ footsteps. If we honour God, He will honour us one day. If we are serious about following the Lord, we will find that
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God takes us through many painful experiences. But His purpose in all of them is to free us from the opinions of men and from the chains that tie us down to earth, so that we can “mount up with wings like eagles” (Isaiah 40:31). God will order our circumstances to so humble us before men that we get to the place where we finally care only for His opinion of us. Our spiritual authority would then be exceedingly powerful. Narayan Mitra is the pastor of the Merritt Baptist Church narayanmitra@hotmail.com
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For two Merritt-area youngsters, their first season of playing field lacrosse will be a memorable one indeed. The pair — 15-yearold Dakota GrismerVoght and 13-year-old Fred Ware — got to participate in the Space Needle Shootout in Seattle, Wash. on the Dec. 6-8 weekend. The international event is the largest lacrosse tournament in the Pacific Northwest. This year’s 10th anniversary edition of the Shootout attracted over 72 teams and 1,400 players from throughout Washington State, Idaho, Oregon and the province of B.C. “It was amazing and so organized,” said Denise Ware, Fred’s mother. “There were always games going on [at the Starfire Sports Complex in suburban Tukwila].” Grismer-Voght and Ware were members of a Kamloops Rattlers field lacrosse team that competed in the U-16 division at the Shootout against some elite squads from both side of the border. The undermanned Rattlers (only 14 players) were in tough against
some pretty elite sides, but had a great time just the same. “It was pretty cool,” said Fred Ware. “There were lots of great players there. The kids were big and fast and had lots of skill. You had to be at your very best.” Playing on artificial turf and under the lights for the first time ever, the Rattlers fell 15-2 to the eventual U-16 champions, the Coquitlam Adanacs, on the first day of the tournament. On Saturday, Kamloops was edged 7-3 and 5-3 by a pair of Washington teams. Sunday, the Rattlers closed out their tournament with a 12-1 loss to the Oregon Outlaws. Both Grismer-Voght and Ware scored goals for their team over the course of the weekend. “I think they did pretty well considering they only had 14 players,” said Denise. “Most teams had 20 or more. And three of the Rattlers’ players, like Fred, were call-ups from their U-14 team.” Ware and GrismerVoght are two of four Nicola Valley Thunder box lacrosse players who decided to give the field game a try for the first time this fall. The other two are Fred’s 12-yearold brother, Gordon, and Dakota’s 13-year-old
SHOOTING STARS Merritt’s Fred Ware (left) and Dakota Grismer-Voght suited up for the Kamloops Rattlers U-16 field lacrosse team in Seattle. Photo submitted
sister, Xni. “We probably played 15-20 games, plus tournaments” said Fred. “The regular field season runs from the second week in September until the third week of November,” added
Denise. “Practices were on Mondays and Wednesdays. Games were always held on a Sunday.” Kamloops was part of a four-team Okanagan league that included teams from Kelowna,
Penticton and the North Okanagan. Sundays usually saw all teams from all divisions meet at one venue for a day of tournament-style games. “Some of the early games on a Sunday were a bit tough,” said
Denise of the travel commitments, “like having to be in Vernon at seven in the morning. But I truly loved that everything took place on one day. That left us Saturday to be a family. We have other things in our garage that we like to do.” Jaime Grismer-Voght, Dakota and Xni’s mother, was much of the same opinion. She said both of her children are keen to play next year. “It was a good experience for them,” said Jaime. “They both steadily improved over the course of the season. Dakota was usually good for a goal a game, while Xni scored her very first goal in the play-off semifinals, and even got to play in goal for one game and was fantastic.” The transition from box to field lacrosse had its challenges, according to Fred. “I found it quite hard at first. I wasn’t used to carrying the stick with one hand and using your
other arm as a guard. In box, you’re always taught to keep two hands on the stick.” Ware said that he learned quickly to shoot more from the outside at the much larger nets rather than try and work to get inside and up close. He also said that you really have to keep your head up and your eyes open anytime you’re around the ball. “In field, when the ball’s on the ground [loose], you’re allowed to bodycheck any opposing player if they’re within six feet of the ball. That’s very different from box lacrosse.” All four Merritt lacrosse players were warmly accepted by their Kamloops teammates said Denise Ware. “We didn’t have any issues,” said Denise. “Our boys have travelled and played with Kamloops teams before, even in box. We’ve gone to Calgary with them, and to Edmonton. It’s really open door.”
Field lacrosse: Canada’s national summer sport goes back centuries The sport of field lacrosse is a traditional Native American game dating back hundreds of years. According to Native American beliefs, playing lacrosse was a spiritual act used for healing and giving thanks to the Creator. The game was also played to resolve minor conflicts between tribes that were not worth going to war over. In the early days, these outdoor lacrosse games could last several days and involve anywhere from 100 to 1,000 players from opposing villages. The games would be played on
open fields or plains with goals ranging from 500 metres to several kilometres apart. The first Europeans to witness lacrosse being played in North America were French Jesuit missionaries in the St. Lawrence Valley in the 1630s. The name lacrosse comes from their reports, which described the players’ sticks as being like a bishop’s crosier — la crosse in French. The Native American name for the sport varied with the region. In the Onondaga language, it was called dehuntshigwa’es
“Ball players” (painted by George Catlin) illustrates various Native Americans playing lacrosse.
(men hit a rounded object), while the Eastern Cherokee referred to it as da-nahwah’uwsdi (little war) and
the Ojibwe used the name baggataway (to hit with something). Europeans in Canada
began playing field lacrosse around 1840, and the first lacrosse organization, the Olympic Club, was founded in 1842 in Montreal. The first set of rules for the sport were codified in 1867 by George Beers, who is often called the “father of lacrosse.” They included the limiting of the number of players on a team to 12, and the replacement of a stuffed deerskin ball with one made of hard rubber. In 1867, the National Lacrosse Association was formed, and shortly thereafter the sport was introduced in the United States,
England, Ireland, Australia and South Africa. Lacrosse was included in the Summer Olympic Games in 1904 and 1908, and was a demonstration sport at the 1928, 1932 and 1948 Olympics. World championships for field lacrosse have been held since 1967. Women’s world championships were held from 1969 to 1982. A variation of field lacrosse, called box lacrosse, was introduced in Canada in 1930. Sources: Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica
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