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WEEKEND WARRIOR Sharon Foster from Kelowna shows off a page she put together at the Weekend scrapbooking event held this past Friday through Sunday at the Civic Centre. Thirty-eight people from around the region came to take part in the event, which featured a pot luck dinner, card-making, digital scrapbooking and classes.
The Rockin’ River Music Festival announced Monday that Nashville-based country superstar Dierks Bentley will headline its 2015 festival in Merritt. Bentley is a Country Music Association Award-winning and Grammy-nominated musician with at least a dozen No. 1 hits on the country charts to his name. The country music festival is relocating to the Merritt festival grounds next summer after steadily growing in Mission for the past six years. It runs from July 30 to Aug. 2, 2015.
Crop weekends are held once a month in Merritt (with a break in December) and are a City of Merritt leisure program hosted by Valley Scrapbooking. Foster said she was working on finishing some albums before her children, who are all grown up, come home for the holidays. Michael Potestio/Herald
Grand opening for new $6-million elementary By Michael Potestio
Comeau said the fact the district had funds to put toward the project helped make it a reality. In total, School District 58 contributed approximately $1.4 million to the project, while the Ministry of Education put in the lion’s share of the funding at $4.8 million. “There was no way that we were going to be able to do it without the ministry’s support,� SD58 superintendent Steve McNiven said. SD58 is one of four school districts in the province using the pilot modular school program. Prince George, Nechako and Nisga’a also received funding. The project for SD58 is the largest one under the program. The school now has an open concept with shared project spaces branching off the halls between the
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It’s a project that’s been a long time coming, and on Thursday, the new NicolaCanford Elementary School opened its doors to members of the community. “We’ve wanted to replace Nicola-Canford for probably eight years,� School District 58 secretary-treasurer Kevin Black told the Herald. Community members toured the new school, which is part of the Ministry of Education’s $10-million modular school pilot program to renew aging infrastructure in rural B.C. New modular classrooms were built off-site and then reconstructed in Lower Nicola to replace the old school. SD58 chairman Gordon ORIES D-DAY MEM3 PAGE
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classrooms where students can work. “It allows for a lot more flexibility in how you run your classroom,� NicolaCanford Elementary School principal Burt Bergmann said. Bergmann told the Herald the school has about nine classrooms for its 145 students. One classroom was split in two to accom-
familiar sights at NicolaCanford, however, as the gym, kindergarten room and the library were left intact — albeit with some modifications. Renovation of the gym is expected in the spring. The building housing StrongStart, a school-based early learning program for children five and under, is now attached to the school. Before the renovation, the program operated out of a detached room. Comeau said this school allows for physical expansion of the building with more modulars in case there is an influx of students and additional rooms are needed. “It does allow for flexibility, whereas [with] bricks and mortar, you might say, you really can’t. What you have is what you have,� Comeau said.
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modate special education and the First Nations rooms. This new facility doesn’t have a computer room, but rather laptop carts. The previous school had 11 classrooms, Bergmann said. However, most of the rooms in the new school are larger than the old ones, he said. The school has large
windows that let in more natural light, Bergmann said. Also new to the school are meeting rooms, which come equipped with dimmer switches that remember brightness settings. He said these rooms are used by a variety of school functions such as learning assistance, or by the school’s counsellors. Bergmann said having these meeting rooms was a huge priority for the school. The bathroom sinks are also located outside the restrooms, something Bergmann said allows staff to check and see that students are washing their hands. He said this concept is employed in schools in the Lower Mainland, and can help reduce bullying in bathrooms. There are still some
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City council is looking for middle ground with some Collettville residents who are unhappy that the city has blocked vehicle access on an unpaved service road in their neighbourhood. Pine Street residents contested the locking of a gate prohibiting access to their backyards through a portion of Centennial Park, which is mainly used as a service road by city staff. City workers use the service road to access and regularly inspect a liquid waste pump house — also known as a lift station. The locked gate ensures city employees can access the lift station without the concern of traffic congestion. At last Tuesday’s regular council meeting, Collettville resident Mike Sasges spoke on behalf of a handful of homeowners to contest the locked gate. The lock on the gate was installed on Sept. 24. A letter to city council on the matter states the residents want the lock removed or to be given keys to unlock the gate and use the lane. In his delegation to council, Sasges said the city should remove the gate altogether, and that the bylaws presented in the report to council do not prohibit access through the park, and thus permit it. City of Merritt Planning and Development Services
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manager Sean O’Flaherty recommended council uphold the vehicle access restrictions through Centennial Park and direct staff to use discretion on a caseby-case basis to allow some access to the service road for residents trying to access their backyards from the park. O’Flaherty also said there should be no reason for vehicles to use the road as the houses are designed to be accessed from Pine Street. He said firefighting access is also designed to be from Pine Street. However, council decided to take a different approach than what was recommended.
Coun. Mike Goetz made a motion to uphold vehicle access restrictions through the park, and have city staff and residents of the affected homes work together to organize a system where the residents are given keys to lock the gate when they’re done using it. “I think the city needs to bend a little bit,” Goetz said. Council approved the motion Goetz proposed. Sasges said he felt the decision was a “wonderful compromise,” but it rejected his submission to council that unrestricted access is permitted. “Without showing me where the law says you can
restrict it, this compromise remains wrong — although appreciated,” Sasges said. The report to council stated the only legal access these homeowners have to those homes is from Pine Street, and not from or through Centennial Park. O’Flaherty said there are no dedicated highways such as roads, lanes, alleys, or highways themselves in Centennial Park. “What does exist is an access road for public works use for the access to the lift station,” O’Flaherty told council. Included in the council report was a copy of Merritt’s Parks Regulation Bylaw
2054, which states no person can travel on park property in a way that obstructs traffic travelling lawfully on that same property, or obstruct park property itself without council permission. Sasges told council that he thinks this bylaw doesn’t prohibit members of the public from travelling along the service road. The report to city council stated the public works department needs uninterrupted access to the lift station at all times for operational and emergency access purposes, and the concern was that public use of the service road may result in a form of blockage.
Conayt looks for slam dunk in fundraiser The Harlem Ambassadors basketball team will face some stiff competition from the Conayt Friendship Society Thursday when the two face off at MSS. However, it’ll be a friendly rivalry as the two teams are working together to raise money for the society off the court. The Conayt Friendship Society is hosting the flamboyant “Har-
lem-style” team on Nov. 27 at the Merritt Secondary School gym. The family-oriented basketball show involves hoops and hijinks, including dancing, comedy, music, games, and of course, professional basketball complete with slam dunks and ball-handling tricks to impress the masses. It might not be regulation play, exactly, but that’s not the goal of
an Ambassadors show. Proceeds from the event will go toward Conayt’s programs, which include helping feed the community’s hungry and helping children access sporting equipment. Local basketball players and team coaches for the Conayt All Native Junior boys and girls’ teams Jen Narcisse and Buzz Manuel will play on the Conayt
side. The Harlem Ambassadors is one of several “Harlem-style” exhibition basketball teams. The Ambassadors started in 1998 and have performed over 300 shows in their 16 years of playing charity games for the young and youngat-heart. The fun kicks off at 7 p.m. at MSS on Thursday.
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Centennials’ slump broken with 5-3 win over Revelstoke The Merritt Centennials recently suffered their worst slump of the season, losing three games out of their last four. They broke their losing streak last Sunday night with a 5-3 win over the visiting Revelstoke Bruins. This past week, the Centennials lost an 8-5 decision to the Bellingham Blazers last Thursday night, then lost last Friday night in Penticton against the Vees 5-2. Their record for the season to date is 18 points. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Bellingham Blazers visited Merritt for the first and only time this season. Merritt started the game strong, jumping into a 2-0 lead on goals by Randy Will and Rich Norberg. Bellingham then stormed to the attack, scoring four goals in eight minutes.
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Cemetery Master Plan in works The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meeting agenda from Nov. 18, 2014. The Pine Ridge Cemetery will soon be reaching capacity for full burials and it is necessary to make plans for the expansion of the burial area for the cemetery. The first step in the planning process is to prepare a Cemetery Master Plan that will look at all aspects of
our cemetery and provide a plan for the management and operation of the cemetery, including some options for interments that we currently do not offer. This plan will also provide us with some direction on how we can improve and beautify the cemetery for the future. We included the Cemetery Master Plan in our budget for 2014 and issued a request for proposal to solicit a consultant to pre-
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School District 58 is takings its first steps on its five-year strategic plan by trying to boost students’ well-being in Merritt and Princeton. Wellness is one of four goal areas identified in the five-year plan, which was completed in the spring. Each school in the district will outline its own goals pertaining to wellness by January. Six SD58 schools have already set down their goals. Once the goals are identified, each school is in charge of drawing up a plan to reach them. SD58 superintendent Steve McNiven told school trustees at their regular meeting on Nov. 19 that he expects those goals to be outlined by the end of the month. McNiven said though each school has its own piece to the improvement puzzle, the strategic plan is the baseline document from which they all work. “We need to have a system view of this work,” he said. “School autonomy has its value, but it has to be balanced off with systems and consistency across schools so that schools can work with schools,
and districts can work with districts.” The goals depend on an interplay of wellness factors that were identified by Health Promoting Schools co-ordinator Terry Strande in a presentation to the school board. Strande said she met with social agencies in the area and took an informal survey of wellness areas they feel need to be addressed for healthy and thriving students. Among those needs were communications and problem-solving skills; emotional selfregulation; and access to good sexual health information. Strande said many factors, including socioeconomic ones, come into play in the school setting and end up impacting academic achievement. “Buckets of research are starting to suggest that unless we have those wellness pieces in place and some of that emotional understanding, emotional language, some of that self-regulation stuff, the rest of it becomes very, very challenging,” she said. “That’s not saying one’s more important than the other, but one cannot happen without the other.”
Trustee Gordon Swan asked Strande about digging deeper in the inter-agency findings to address the effects of Merritt’s socioeconomics. He said things such as the district’s high rate of children in care and kids in families on income assistance impact the district’s graduation rate, and suggested the district look at the situational factors around students who drop out. Strande said identifying wellness goals is a starting point for schools and the research will continue. The other three goal areas identified in the school district’s five-year strategic plan are learning, organizational excellence and community. Student trustees chosen The school district has finalized its student trustees for Merritt and Princeton. School District 58 is one of only a handful of school districts across the province that runs a student trustee program. The intent of the program is to keep trustees informed of what students feel the challenges and opportunities at the ground level are.
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HERALD OPINION Where have all the moustaches gone? By Jessica Wallace
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I have been waiting to see some facial hair. I anticipated the first inkling of a perv ’stache. I sought the outline of a freshly grown duster. But, three weeks into the famed Moustache month, I have yet to see a single lip hair out of the ordinary. It has me wondering — what happened to Movember? The movement was born in Australia more than a decade ago and remains “committed to changing the face of men’s health.” The annual campaign takes place each November in order to raise funds and awareness for causes like prostate cancer research. Mo Bros and Mo Sistas — as they are called — have celebrated fuzzy lips everywhere in recent years, all in the name of a good cause. Photographs in Novembers past have shown all sorts of ’staches, no matter the ability to grow them. I have always taken notice when a faint shadow appears on someone’s lip during this time of the year. I once painted on my own mustache to join the effort. What can I say, I’m serious about men’s health. But, this year, I noticed the campaign not for the moustaches on people who don’t regularly grow them, but for a different reason — a lack of participation. The website dedicated to the hairy endeavour suggests it’s all still going strong, but I haven’t seen a single moustache for the cause this year.
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Typos: a necessary, demoniacal evil Emily Wessel Merritt MUSINGS As a slave to print media, I’ve had more experiences than I care to think about committing the foulest of fouls: typos. Just last Tuesday, our front page was missing its sports header and instead went to print with a row of three neat capital “X”s, mocking me with their infinite irreversibility, where instead I should have typed a phrase hinting at what’s
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in the sports section. Sure, sending placeholder text to print isn’t the worst mistake one can make in the print world, but it sure does stink when it happens — especially given how much time and effort we spend on the little details. The sheer quantity of information from which we build a story is sometimes astounding. Then there’s the process of actually weighing what can go in, and what must go on the chopping block. That’s a process everyone and their dog has an opinion on. All that information must be sorted quickly as we are always on deadline. With only a handful of people at the helm of this twice-weekly paper, it’s simply inevitable that some
mistakes will make it to print. Several months ago, the Merritt Herald (OK, OK, it was I) mistakenly called the city’s Directional Signage Committee the “sinage” committee, which is extremely misleading. Contrary to what the misnomer may suggest, the committee does not direct people on matters of sin. Last week, I discovered I am the victim of a typo in a Merritt Herald publication. In the Connector phone directory, my name appears on the very first page as Wessle. The horror! Many of us have been victims or inflictors of typos, and it’s not particularly fun on either side of the keyboard. It could be worse, though, and sometimes
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sourcing helpful examples of exactly how it could be worse is reassuring. From Australia’s Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, a correction ran that clarified the number of pigs floating in the Dawson River. As it turns out, the reporter must have misheard her or his source as saying “30,000 pigs” when really the person said “30 sows and pigs.” Sure enough, the mistaken number of pigs floating in the river was the version that made it to print. How about this example from the Australian, which learned the power of punctuation the hard way: there’s a difference between quoting someone as saying “It’s not like 25 years ago. I was killing everybody” and “It’s not
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like 25 years ago I was killing everybody.” It’s subtle, but it’s important. Sometimes, even banal corrections could use some clarification. The New York Times must have been having a rough week in March, because it had to print a correction for its correction. The original correction mistakenly attributed the incorrect information to a story which ran in the March 10 edition of that paper. However, in the next edition, it was corrected again to apologize for the mistake in the original story that ran on March 11. As much as they torture me, typos are a necessary evil. After all, without them, this space would be blank.
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YOUR OPINION Highlights from MP’s third accountability report As a result of positive feedback on what were my first and second accountability reports, I have made the commitment to submit annually to the citizens of Okanagan-Coquihalla a summary of fiscal expenditures over the past year (April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014). Office expenses and travel are typically the most scrutinized areas of spending for elected officials at any level of government. For members of Parliament from British Columbia, our travel expenses are higher than those of MPs from other areas in Canada as a result of the fact that we fly the farthest distances between B.C. and Ottawa. My personal travel expense during this time frame was just over $49,000; this is down slightly from $55,000 that was spent in last year’s fiscal period. In my case, this works out to roughly 420 hours in an airplane and I would estimate over 95 per cent was regular coach class – I didn’t fly first class before being elected as an MP and I continue to make every effort to fly economy class where possible as an MP. Total spending for my two offices here in Okanagan-Coquihalla and one in Ottawa including all staff, leases, advertising and the above mentioned travel was just over $355,746. This is also a decrease from the $394,289 that was spent in last year’s fiscal period. This amount is within the top three lowest expenses for a B.C.-based
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Merritt café up for provincial award A local business is nominated for a provincial small business award. Kekuli Cafe, which opened in Merritt about three months ago, has been nominated for two 2015 Small Business BC Awards: the Premier’s People’s Choice and Best Concept award. The province has run the Small Business BC
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out if any of my friends were still participating in the cause. I now know of two. One has been a registered Movember participant for four years. He’s still going strong, collecting pledges this year while grooming a fine handlebar moustache. The other is part of a group of amateur hockey officials from across the country trying to outgrow what they hauled in last year for their collective facial hair — $65,000. These are no small commitments to the cause, and I commend these
guys for not only raising awareness, but for raising actual money. The reality of it all, however, is that Movember is a marketing campaign that may be on its way out. As we saw with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that filled our social media feeds over the summer and raised millions of dollars while chilling everyone from the everyday Joe to the famed and powerful — these things tend to go viral and then fade away. Maybe the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is to blame.
Could it have consumed our public-statement-for-charity mojo? Maybe it’s the increasing popularity of the full-on beard among the lumbersexual population. Maybe time just weaned out those who participated because everyone else was — and not for the actual cause. If the moustache is truly on its way out, I wonder what will come next? Jessica Wallace is a reporter for Kamloops This Week.
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FUN FOR ALL A small but enthusiastic group of adults and youngsters took part in the activities put on by the Merritt branch of PacificSport Interior BC and the City of Merritt Leisure Services Deptartment to celebrate Sports Day in Canada on Sunday. The fun began at the curling rink where members of the local curling association provided instruction for all willing participants. Then it was underwater hockey, synchronized swimming, water polo and boating safety at the Aquatic Centre. The big windup was at the Civic Centre with relays and a giant tug oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; war contest. Ian Webster/Herald
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