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PADDLE SONG Cheryl McLeod Jr. (right) leads dancers from NicolaCanford Elementary in a traditional First Nations paddle song at School District 58’s Welcome Dinner last Tuesday at Merritt Secondary School. The event showcased dancers and drummers from other schools as well. SD58 Principal of Aboriginal Education Shelley Oppenheim-Lacerte said they’ve had a variety of First Nations activities and events held at the school district level, but this school year they’d like to shift that work to the classroom level in various subject areas. She said an example of this would be connecting the local First Nations bands and elders with social studies classes. Michael Potestio/Herald
Experts weigh in on air pollution and health number of inquiries about the impact of air pollution on health from people in the Merritt area. Ministry of Environment air pollution meteorologist Ralph Adams said the main air pollution issue in Merritt is particulate matter. Adams said the two types of particulate matter that are of concern in Merritt are fine particles produced by burning and other industrial activities, and larger particles produced by industrial sites. “If you see it on
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If you can see it, it’s probably not the kind of dust that’s very harmful to your health. That’s the message a panel of health and environmental experts told a crowd of about 15 people gathered at the Civic Centre for a forum on air pollution and public health on October 17. BC Lung Association programs manager Dr. Menn Biagtan said the forum was brought on by a ORIES D-DAY MEM3 PAGE
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your car or your lawn furniture or your window sill, that’s the very largest kind of particle,� Adams said. He said air pollution monitoring in Merritt is on hold until January, when the ministry’s monitoring technician returns. Adams also sits on the city’s air quality committee and, by way of his work with the ministry, is involved in industry permitting. He said the two new plants in Merritt — the Diacarbon pellet plant and the Merritt Green Energy Project — are not
miologist Dr. Sarah Henderson said the nature of air quality is complex as it involves pollution from countless sources. “Air pollution comes from a lot of different sources,� Henderson said. “When you think of your own community, you’re very aware of wind-blown dust, [and] wood chips you get from the mills. There’s also all the vehicles in the community, there’s also the fact that you’re heating your homes with natural gas or oil or wood. “What’s really hard
for us to know, when we take the complex mixture, [is] how much is contributed by any given source,� she said. “Portioning out the mixture to different sources is a really challenging thing to do.� The panellists began the forum with a presentation, which included a diagram to illustrate the size of particulate matter in comparison to a human hair. While large particles of dust such as fugitive dust kicked up from road shoulders and from sawmills is
taken care of in the upper respiratory system, it’s the smaller particulate matter which can get into people’s lungs that poses a bigger health risk. PM2.5 is about one-thirtieth of the width of a human hair. “Inside the human body, the larger the particles are, the less deeply they can penetrate into your lungs,� Henderson said. Even PM10 is largely taken care of in the upper respiratory tract, the panellists said.
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QR codes coming to Walk of Stars By Michael Potestio
This QR code plaque atop a Walk of Stars handprint along Voght Street is one of 50 currently being set up to allow users mobile access to the Canadian Country Music Heritage Society website. Michael Potestio/Herald
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Merritt’s Walk of Stars is saddling up for a digital upgrade. The Canadian Country Music Heritage Society (CCMHS) is adding QR code plaques to the wood frames of the Walk of Stars handprints located around the downtown core. A QR code is a machine-readable code that consists of black and white squares, most commonly used for storing URLs or information that can be read using the camera of a smartphone. People can now scan their phone over these codes to connect to the Country Music Hall of Fame’s website. The technology provides users with immediate, web-based access to information about the Hall of Fame facility, as well as artists and events. CCMHS president, Ron Sanders told the Herald that the QR code technology will eventually be used to give users links to other websites such as Michelle Loughery’s
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Sanders said the intention is to give people mobile access to their website, where they can learn more about an artist, and eventually link to the artist’s website as well. The installation of the QR code plaques on the Walk of Stars is currently underway. Sanders said there will be about 50 of these code plaques set up around town, and some have already been put in place. Sanders said the QR codes will be implemented with artist
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MP recounts attack on Parliament Hill By Michael Potestio THE HERALD
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Dan Albas heard the storm of bullets that echoed through the halls of Canada’s Parliament Wednesday morning when a gunman entered the building after killing a soldier at the Canadian War Memorial. The OkanaganCoquihalla MP and his colleagues were in a caucus meeting at the time when the shooter entered the Centre Block of the Parliament building. The gunman came through the Rotunda and the Hall of Honour, and came close to where members of Parliament were meeting. “If he had taken a left turn he would’ve been right into the
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middle of our caucus meeting,” Albas said. “The shots that I heard were very close,” he said. Albas said security performed admirably, and immediately moved in to stop the threat. “And I’m grateful for that. I know these people each and every day, but I certainly saw a different side of them today [Wednesday],” he said. Speaking on the phone with the Herald Wednesday evening
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from Ottawa after the shooting, Albas said he was under lockdown for about 10 hours. “We were escorted by security and law enforcement personnel away from Parliament Hill, but they had to do it under the right conditions to make sure it was safe, and then after being dropped at another secure location, I was able to leave,” Albas said. The soldier was shot and killed while providing a ceremonial honour guard at
the Canadian War Memorial. He was identified as 24-yearold reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo from Hamilton. His apparent killer was identified as Canadian Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who was shot and killed by Parliament’s sergeantat-arms Kevin Vickers during an exchange of gunfire in the Hall of Honour. Albas said they’re all indebted to Vickers and his team for their efforts in stopping the gunman. MPs were locked down inside the buildings as police searched for any other gunmen involved in the attack. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in the caucus meeting at the time of the shooting and was
safely removed from Parliament Hill. The attack on Parliament Hill took place two days after two soldiers in Quebec were intentionally run down in a car driven by 25-year-old Martin Couture-Rouleau, who was one of 90 suspected extremists being watched by the RCMP. Couture-Rouleau led police on a chase and was shot and killed when he emerged from his crashed vehicle with a knife in his hand. One soldier was killed and the other solider was injured. Following the attack on Parliament Hill the Prime Minister addressed the nation. He said this week’s events are a reminder that this country is not
immune to terrorist attacks like those seen around the world. “But let their be no misunderstanding: we will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated,” Harper said. Members of Parliament were back at work on Thursday. “I think we always should remember that today [Wednesday] we saw a barbaric act of violence, not only against our institutions, but against a young man, a reservist — Cpl. Nathan Cirillo — who was senselessly taken away from us,” Albas told the Herald. “Certainly, we will learn from this event, and I expect changes will be implemented to make sure that this never happens again,” Albas said.
Cleaner air generates health benefits From Page 1 UBC professor in the school of population and public health Dr. Michael Brauer said though the health hazards of air pollution are comparatively a much smaller risk
than other health risks — such as drug or alcohol use — it’s an important component of the overall picture of health as it affects virtually everyone. Air pollution can contribute to heart and circulatory system
issues as well as the hardening of arteries. “It’s more than just irritation and having a cough,” he said. Brauer said while it’s unknown above what threshold particulate matter becomes dangerous to human
health, it is known that a reduction in air pollution is associated with health benefits. “What makes air pollution a good target, however, is that it’s a very efficient way to actually improve our health,” he said.
“Because everybody breathes air, if we actually lower the level of pollution in the air, everybody benefits.” However, Brauer said it’s not all bad news. “In British Columbia, we’re very
fortunate to have some of the cleanest air in the world,” he said. Rounding out the panel was Interior Health air quality specialist Greg Baytalan. The forum was hosted by the BC Lung Association.
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REMEMBER WHEN? From the Herald archives: October, 1987 Cents dump Summerland twice in a row The Merritt Centennials played true to form and brought their league record ever higher by defeating the Summerland Buckaroos twice in a row on the weekend. Both games were won by a score of 7-5, once in Summerland and once before the largest crowd so far this season in the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena.
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Animal control results encouraging in Merritt The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meeting agenda Oct. 28, 2014 In the month of September, the city impounded seven dogs. Six were returned to their respective owners and one was adopted out by the City of Merritt. Dog and animal related issues continue to be a priority for the bylaw office and the results achieved in our community are encouraging. Animal-related complaints are down significantly from the same time in 2012, and dramatically over the same time in 2011. Pet owners continue to be respectful of others
and off-leash dogs have been reduced significantly. It’s rare when bylaw finds an owner walking a dog without a leash. The fact remains: in Merritt, dogs must be leashed and licensed. That message is getting out to the public. Feral cat related problems and complaints are at low levels for September; however, the problems will continue and no section of our city is unaffected. Bylaw will do its best to mitigate problems and complaints as they arise. Our dog licensing program continues its surge this year with 508 licenses sold. This continues to represent a significant increase over the same time in 2013, and a dramatic increase over 2012.
Despite steady progress, there are still far more unlicensed dogs in Merritt and we will continue to educate people as to the value of purchasing a dog license, and that it’s a requirement.
Complaints continue to arise concerning a feral bird known as the Eurasian Collard Dove. Dove complaints tend to be noise related and at this point there is little this office can do to mitigate this issue.
LOCAL ELECTION 2014 ELECTION WORKERS REQUIRED
Are you interested in working at the polls on Election Day Saturday, November 15, 2014? This is an opportunity to serve your community and to be involved in the election process. Poll clerks are needed to work from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. If you wish to work at the election, application forms are available at City Hall and on the City website at www. merritt.ca. The deadline for submission is 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 30, 2014. Preference will be given to persons with previous local government election work experience. Polling Clerks will be paid $15.00 per hour. All Polling Clerks will be required to attend a training session. For further information, please contact Chief Election Officer, Carole Fraser at 378-8614 or by e-mail at cfraser@ merritt.ca
NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTING PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the City of Merritt that an election by voting is necessary to elect one (1) Mayor, six (6) Councillors and three (3) School Trustees, and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are: Mayor – One (1) to be elected Surname
Usual Names
Jurisdiction of Residence
JOLLY
Mike
City of Merritt
MENARD
Neil
City of Merritt
ROLINE
Susan
City of Merritt
Surname
Usual Names
Jurisdiction of Residence
BAKER
Dave
City of Merritt
BROWN
Linda A.
City of Merritt
CHRISTOPHERSON
Kurt
City of Merritt
GOETZ
Mike
City of Merritt
KROEKER
Harry
City of Merritt
McMURCHY
Bruce
Lower Nicola
NORGAARD
Diana
City of Merritt
PROWAL
Ginny
City of Merritt
Councillor – Six (6) to be elected
School Trustee – Three (3) to be elected Surname
Usual Names
Jurisdiction of Residence
KROEKER
Tim
Nicola Lake
SWAN
Gordon
City of Merritt
JEPSEN
Brian
City of Merritt
PERRIE
Joyce
City of Merritt
HOISINGTON
Everett
Lower Nicola
NOTICE NOTICE OF ADVANCE VOTING OPPORTUNITY
The next general local government election is November 15, 2014. Advanced Polls will be conducted on Wednesday, November 05, 2014 and Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at City Hall, 2185 Voght Street from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Special Voting opportunities will be conducted on Thursday, November 13, 2014 for those residents at the Florentine, Nicola Meadows, Gillis House and the Nicola Valley Hospital. You can vote in the election in Merritt if you: • Are a Canadian citizen * • Are 18 years of age or older on general voting day • Have lived in B.C. for at least six (6) months immediately before day of registration. (Since May 05, 2014) • Have lived in Merritt for at least thirty (30) days immediately before day of registration. (Since Oct 05, 2014) • Are not disqualified by law from voting All Merritt residents who meet these requirements can vote. It does not matter whether you rent or own your home. If you own property in Merritt but live somewhere else in BC, you can also vote in Merritt elections. This is called being a “non-resident property elector.” As such, you can vote, as long as you: • Are a Canadian citizen* • Are 18 years of age or older on general voting day • Have lived in B.C. for at least six (6) months immediately before day of registration. (Since May 05, 2014) • Have owned real estate in Merritt, registered in your name, for at least thirty (30) days immediately before day of registration. (Since Oct 05, 2014) • Are not disqualified by law from voting Non-resident property electors can vote only once, regardless of the number of properties they own. If there is more than one registered owner of a property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the other owners, register as a non-resident property elector. *Landed immigrants who are not yet Canadian citizens are not permitted to vote in civic elections. *Corporations are not entitled to vote. You are required to produce two (2) pieces of identification (at least one must provide a signature) in order to prove residency and identity.
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MLA talks LNG business opportunity By Michael Potestio THE HERALD
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The time to invest in liquefied natural gas projects in B.C. is now, and that’s exactly the message MLA Mike Bernier came to Merritt to share. The Peace River South MLA was at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Merritt October 16 to speak about the province’s LNG-Buy B.C. program and how local businesses can capitalize on LNG projects in Northern B.C. Bernier said his message to
businesses is to be entrepreneurial and creative when it comes to finding business opportunities with LNG projects. His presentation involved explaining what projects are taking place and to help local businesses figure out how they may fit into LNG projects, and connect businesses with the LNG-Buy B.C. website and LNG proponents. Bernier said through this website, companies can register their businesses and bring awareness to what they can offer these
projects. He said billions of dollars have already been invested in Northern B.C. thanks to LNG projects. “The big message that I’m trying to get out to people is don’t wait,” Bernier said, “because once these final investment decisions come, that’s when it’s going to ramp up exponentially over what’s already occurring.” Bernier said that with these projects, every tradesperson imaginable from welders to even chefs for worker camps is needed. He said building
relationships with subcontractors is an option for businesses to consider with LNG projects in B.C. “You don’t have to be at ground zero to be part of it,” Bernier said of LNG business opportunities. There are 18 proposed LNG projects in B.C. “What we’re trying very hard to do as a government is to encourage all the proponents for LNG to look to buy from British Columbians,” Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart said.
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Leave the phone alone These distractions can be costly. This is the week where fiddling with your cellphone while driving will cost you dearly. The province’s new distracteddriving penalties are now in effect. Anybody caught talking on a cellphone (or operating a hand-held audio player, such as an iPod or MP3 player, or programming a GPS) will be subject to three penalty points and a $167 fine. While many who have already been caught for distracted driving will grumble about the heavy hand of government and yet more fines, it is worth noting that distracted driving is the second-leading contributing factor in vehicle fatalities in B.C., according to authorities who compile such statistics. There was a time when drinking and driving was not considered the social taboo it is today, but heightened awareness led by government, police and private groups, along with far more serious consequences, has made pariahs of those who decide to imbibe and drive. Perhaps those who insist on driving and texting or driving while talking into a cellphone attached to the side of their head will one day be viewed as intoxicated drivers are today. Whether or not you agree with the new punishment, consider the penalties before you next decide to use that device while behind the wheel: • Drivers that accrue more than three points must pay an ICBC driver penalty-point premium that starts at $175 and will escalate if they receive more points. • A driver who receives two distracted-driving tickets in a year would pay $634, which is the cost of two fines and a $300 penalty for six points. • As points build on a person’s driving record, the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles may also identify a driver as high-risk and monitor or prohibit him or her under the Driver Improvement Program. -Kamloops This Week
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When it comes to columns, this one’s for the birds Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS Earlier in October, I attended the monthly meeting of the Nicola Naturalist Society at NVIT. Those meetings always begin with a slideshow of members’ pictures of nature and wildlife sightings in and around the area. That evening’s slideshow included some impressive shots of the
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recent blood moon and animals of all shapes and sizes in and around the Nicola Valley. One member-submitted picture was particularly striking. It featured a hawk taking a starling as its prey. There the hawk stood in an amazing candid shot, wings spread, talons firmly clamped on the bird at its feet, eyes staring wide at the camera. A snapshot of a bird of prey in action like that is really something, and it got me thinking about birds in all their quirky and impressive glory. The Nicola Valley is home to over 200 species of birds, including different varieties of hawks and songbirds, hummingbirds, cranes and eagles. It’s also
on the migratory path of pelicans and loads of other bird species. In Canada, we might think of the Canada goose as a symbol of our nation, but really, each province and territory has an official bird. In B.C., the official bird is the Stellar’s jay, the blackheaded, prominently crested, blue-bodied relative of the blue jay. The national bird of Australia is the ever-comical emu. The aviary representative of the Bahamas is the Caribbean flamingo, while Belize lays claim to the vibrant keel-billed toucan. Peru’s national bird is the Andean cock-of-therock, a mid-size perching bird species whose male
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members have dark bodies and strikingly bright orange heads. Besides the stunning and colourful plumage birds can wear, one of the things I find most interesting about some species is their ability to mimic others. Parrots and parakeets are well known for this ability, and it’s believed it helps them identify as part of a flock. However, a man in Mexico might want to consider getting a nonmimicking bird as part of his flock the next time he’s in the market for a pet after his parakeet squawked on him to police. In January, the man was pulled into an alcohol checkpoint in Mexico City
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when his bird chirped, “He’s drunk, he’s drunk.” Sure enough, police gave him a breathalyzer and he failed, spending the night in jail with his feathered fink. A British man living in California recently got the surprise reunion of a lifetime when his grey African parrot, Nigel, came home — four years after he flew the coop. Nigel was discovered by a Spanish-speaking person in another part of California and returned to his owner largely unchanged, except for one noticeable difference. Gone was his British accent. Instead, he chattered away in Spanish.
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From Page 5 Tegart said that figuring out how businesses here in Fraser-Nicola can fit into LNG projects is one of her challenges as the riding’s MLA. She said the LNG-Buy BC is a strategy developed to offer business opportunities. LNG has been
extracted in B.C. for over 50 years. It is natural gas that is chilled so that it is converted into a liquefied form, and is extracted through drilling underground by way of hydraulic fracturing. LNG is transported in its liquid form and converted back into gas for use to heat
homes and businesses, generate electricity or fuel vehicles. Currently, B.C. sells its natural gas in Canada and the U.S., but is looking to new markets in Asia. As part of its BC Jobs Plan, the provincial government set a goal to have three LNG facilities up and running by 2020.
Our feathered friends are more than pets From Page 6 Pet birds can be lifelong companions, especially parrots: African grey parrots can live as long as 60 years, so Nigel’s world travels were just a flash in the pan for that adventurous parrot. Humans aren’t just drawn to birds for their pretty plumage or their sassy companionship; people have even found uses for
bird by-products. Bird droppings are specifically what led to the U.S. staking claim to a network of islands in the remote Pacific in the mid-19th century. The Guano Islands are so named for the guano — bird-created fertilizer — that hordes of sea birds leave on them. The sun exposure on the islands was thought to create ideal
conditions for drying out the droppings and making good quality fertilizer. Prior to the invention of synthetic fertilizers, guano was a potent and valuable fertilizer for farmers’ fields. Each island can host hundreds of thousands of seabirds who nest there, and others migrate there for winter. That’s a lot of guano.
(Guano has also been used as a facial treatment, but I digress.) The U.S. fought with Britain, Venezuela and Peru over the Guano Islands, and eventually staked out five areas as its own. As it turns out, those areas weren’t great for producing the fertilizer after all. One island received too much rain, so the
guano never dried; one was too low-lying, so guano could wash away in the sea. Seeing that attempt to secure guano as a bust, the U.S. government abandoned that idea, but kept the islands under its watch. In 2009, it declared the string of islands and the waters around them a national monument. Recently, the U.S. expanded the
area covered by that national monument to 490,000 square miles — six times its previous size. Claiming those unproductive islands was perhaps a birdbrained scheme, but their current designation as a national monument helps protect those seabirds and the waters around their islands, preserving the fish species the birds depend on.
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VICTORIA – Extra security is in place at the B.C. legislature, part of the response to shootings at Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday morning. Premier Christy Clark told reporters Wednesday there was a review of legislature security after an attempted plot to place homemade bombs on the legislature grounds before Canada Day celebrations in July 2013. That resulted in tighter security measures that will be reviewed again after the Ottawa shootings, Clark said. B.C. Liberal house leader Mike de Jong said legislature security staff have recommended installation of a security scanner for visitors, and he and NDP house leader Mike Farnworth have endorsed the plan. In the legislature, Clark called for the tradition of open democracy to be maintained. “Out of these tragedies today, we must all remember, first, to be grateful for those who work for us every day to keep us safe; second, to be grateful for the institutions we have built that have made Canada a model of democracy around the world; third, to move forward into the future and continue to make the decisions that Canada needs — unafraid to do what we need to do to stand up for this country, to ensure that citizens in Canada continue to have access to their public institutions, and unafraid to defend democracy and the institutions that have defined Canada for generations,” Clark said. NDP leader John Horgan echoed that sentiment. “As important as security measures will be over the next number of hours and days and weeks, not just here and in Ottawa but in every legislature
in this country, we have to always keep in the forefront of our mind, in the forefront of the decisions that we make
around security, that this institution belongs to the people of British Columbia — not to the 85 of us, but to
everyone who lives in this province,” Horgan said. “They need to have access to those institutions if we’re
going to continue to be defiant in the face of the insanity that happened today in Ottawa.”
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THE 2014-15 MERRITT CENTENNIALS TEAM (Back row, from left) Trainer Kim Penner, assistant coach Joe Martin, Tyrell Buckley, Brandon Duhaime, Devin Oakes, assistant captain Diego Cuglietta, captain Sam Johnson, Gavin Gould, Josh Teves, John Schiavo, assistant captain Shane Poulsen, Jake Clifford, Daniel Nachbaur, Jonah Imoo, Rhett Willcox, Malik Kaila, Michael Ederer, assistant coach Josh Yurkowski, head coach Luke Pierce, (front row) affiliate player Lawrence Langan, Matt Foley, Anthony Pupplo, Nick Fidanza, Braden Fuller, Adam Tracey, Colin Grannery, James Neil, Cole Arcuri. Ian Webster/Herald
ALL IN THE FAMILY (Above) Merritt Centennials captain Sam Johnson (left), his parents Doug and Therese, along with West Kelowna Warriors captain Adam Osczevski, performed a ceremonial puck drop at the Friday night game on the Ice Breaker weekend. (Left) Parents of Centennials players travelled to Merritt from all parts of North America to take in the events, activities and hockey games that were all part of the annual Ice Breaker and Parents Weekend celebrations. Ian Webster/Herald
Local elementary school students once again embrace 60MKC By Ian Webster THE HERALD
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The Heart & Stroke Foundation’s 60 Minutes Kids’ Club is in its second year in Merritt and thriving. The healthy and active living initiative is being embraced by youngsters from the ages of five to thirteen at all five local elementary schools. Originally introduced to SD 58 students by the Merritt branch of
PacificSport BC in the fall of 2013, the program is in its third session and growing in leaps and bounds. According to PacificSport BC development co-ordinator Josée Warren, over 160 students from Bench, Central, Collettville, Diamond Vale and Nicola Canford schools
are currently participating in the 2014 fall challenge which runs for 60 days in October and November. During the 60-day period, each youngster monitors and records his or her daily healthy activities according to five trackers: activity, nutrition, screen time, hydration and sleep.
All the information is stored online. The data is used to determine the activity rates of individual students, as well as that of classes, schools and districts across the country that have enrolled in the program.
Since SD 58 schools first jumped on board with the 60MKC, they have been excelling nationally. In the fall of 2013, Collettville Elementary placed first in their own district, first in the prov-
ince of B.C. (out of 35 participating schools), and third in the nation (out of 78 schools). This past spring, it was Diamond Vale Elementary School’s turn to lead the way locally. They also finished sixth in the province out of 78 schools, and 20th in Canada out of 211 schools. At the halfway mark of this fall’s 60MKC Challenge, it is Central School that is leading the way locally, with
Diamond Vale second, Nicola Canford third, Collettville fourth and Bench fifth. Provincially, all five schools are in the top-10 rankings for the fall session. Both Central and Diamond Vale are also in the top-10 in Canada. “The 60MKC Challenge gets kids thinking about their healthy choices on a daily basis,” Warren said, “so that it becomes a habit — a habit they will carry with them as they get older.”
The Heart & Stroke Foundation’s 60 Minutes Kids’ Club (60MKC) Challenge is a fun and engaging program designed to get children from Kindergarten to Grade 8 excited about making the right healthy choices. It also supports meeting federal guidelines for 60 minutes of daily activity. Kids are empowered and enabled, through movement, to be healthy, happy and connected to their communities.
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