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SUBSTANCE ABUSE ASK Wellness has been awarded a contract to place six support recovery beds in Merritt.

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ELECTION DAY Members of the Lower Nicola Band head to the polls Oct. 1 to cast their vote for the next chief and council.

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GARLIC & GRIT Last weekend was a busy one in Merritt. Check out some of our best shots from Garlic Fest and the Logger’s Sports Show.

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The Tolko lumber mill will permanently close on Dec. 16 of this year, leaving 203 employees without jobs. While the economic impact is sure to be devastating, it’s unclear at this point just how hard Merritt will be hit. / Page 3

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AARON SAM Visions for our Community:

“We support Aaron Sam as our Chief. Aaron comes from a lineage of traditional families and strong leadership.

He is grounded in our traditional values and is able to lead us through current issues facing our people today.“ — Archie & Edna Blankinship & family “Aaron is the right leader for our community moving forward. He has a vision for the future!“

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Impact of Tolko closure still up in the air Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

Stephanie Schultz couldn’t believe it when she heard the Tolko mill in Merritt will be closing in December.

“Then I checked the various news sites and they were all saying it, so it must be true, right?” said the 22-year-old.

Last Thursday (Sept. 22) afternoon, Tolko announced the company plans to shut down its lumber mill in Merritt leaving 203 workers without jobs.

The reason was said to be due to a lack of timber supply given the recent reduction to the allowable annual cut (AAC) by B.C’s chief forester.

Schultz works as a casual worker at Tolko two days per week cleaning the machines when they are shut down, and assisting welders by watching for sparks.

“This was my sole source of income,” she said. “As a union position, I made as much working there in two days per week as I would five days flipping burgers.”

The job was one Schultz was hoping would be able to support her living expenses as she plans to go back to school to become a welder. “[What] it comes down to is how am I going to support myself going back to school?” she said.

While other union workers will receive severance packages, Schultz said she was initially told that as a casual worker she wouldn’t receive severance, but has recently been assured from a union representative that they are trying to get the company to provide some form of severance.

Facing unemployment in just a couple months, Schultz said she feels shock

and anger, especially since it was believed that the mill would be OK after 29 employees were laid off last November and Tolko eliminated it’s small log manufacturing.

Schultz said that now she’s exploring options with Work BC and may take out students loans to enable her to go back to school.

She said that the plan was always to come back to Merritt to work, but given the closure of the mill and the impacts it will likely have on other businesses, she questions whether there will be a lot of work opportunities for her to return to.

City of Merritt economic development manager Will George said that he thinks it will take at least six months to a year to truly get a sense of the economic impact the closure will have on the town.

He said that over the next few months, the city will be working with the government and Tolko to determine more concrete numbers of who the mill closure has affected.

“How many people will be staying in Merritt? How many other businesses will [the closure] affect? How many individuals from the mill will be looking at

retiring or moving into another industry in the area for similar work?”

George gave as some examples of questions that still needed to be answered.

DON’T SOUND THE ALARM BELLS Forester and former Venture Kamloops chairman Chris Ortner said Tolko’s closure was predictable and likely on the books for a decade.

“Our harvest levels are down 30 to 40 per cent, and Merritt’s even more pine-dependent than Kamloops,” Ortner said, noting Tolko and other forest companies analyze wood flow and timber inventories to make decisions on where to invest major capital to make upgrades and improve efficiency.

Ortner told the Herald he thinks Merritt will be OK as, in his opinion, Merritt has a diversified economy.

“The logging jobs and the trucking jobs are not going to go away because Tolko hasn’t let go of that wood,” Ortner said. “In fact, there will probably be more trucking jobs because they’re going to have to take the wood further.”

Of the 203 workers at

the mill, about 30 carry out administrative jobs.

Ortner says they will have opportunities to have other jobs, as will the mill workers themselves, especially those with a trade under their belt.

“Some of them may have to move, but I would be surprised if anymore than say 40 or 50 left town. From what I’ve seen in the past with mill closures, it’s always surprising how quickly those people get picked up by others because they’re good workers, otherwise Tolko wouldn’t have kept them.”

“I don’t think Merritt has much to worry about,” Ortner said, adding that the closure should make the Aspen Planers mill a stronger operation.

“You remember when Weyhaeuser shut down and Aspen stepped in and took over their planer.

That was just a natural thing for Aspen to do — as soon as there was room, they expanded,” he said.

Ormer said he could see more cause for doom and gloom if Merritt was a one mill town.

According to the City of Merritt’s 2014 investment-ready community profile for the city and surrounding area, five of the 10 largest

employers are in the lumber manufacturing business. These numbers are compiled from Stats Canada data from 2011 and list the former Ardew Wood Products plant, recently taken over by Aspen Planers, as one of those five.

Broken down by industry, manufacturing, forestry and logging totalled 545 jobs out of 3,140 — which is about 17 per cent of the town’s workforce.

George said he’s been taking calls from businesses looking to come to Merritt and letting them know that Merritt’s economy is diverse and the town is not going anywhere.

City of Merritt director of finance Sheila Thiessen said the closure of the mill won’t impact taxes for 2017, but will for 2018.

What that impact looks like, however, is yet to be determined.

“It’s hard to say what the net impact will be, but there definitely will be a loss, unless we have another big, industrial customer come in and take over that property,” Thiessen said.

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PLANS TO HELP Members of Merritt’s city council are in Victoria this week for the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) conference, and the number one topic of discussion is the mill closure.

Council has had meetings with Minister of Jobs Shirely Bond and Minister of Forests Steve Thomson as of Tuesday, and have a meeting planned with Premier Christy Clark.

Coun. Mike Goetz said they discussed funding and support options to take care of those out of work

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ASK Wellness in Merritt receiving 5IBOL :PV six support recovery beds Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

ASK Wellness in Merritt has received one of five contracts awarded by the Interior Health Authority (IHA) for the creation of support recovery beds.

The new beds are an important step in ensuring people with drug addictions receive needed support, said ASK Wellness co-director of operations Stacy Wormell-Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that everybody is really concerned about the health care crisis going on in the Interior, but specifically here in Merritt we have a significant lack of medical resources,â&#x20AC;? said

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ASK isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t literally receiving beds. Rather they have received funds to rent housing in a substance-free setting for people dealing with drug addictions awaiting residential treatment, returning from treatment or transitioning to a more stable lifestyle.

Wormell-Street said they are currently looking for housing sites scattered throughout Merritt where clients will reside. She said ASK has pinpointed a few spaces in town to place these clients, but the specific addresses are confidential.

In addition to the housing, clients must also agree to participate in a drug treat-

ment program, and a life skills worker along with a housing support worker will connect with the participants throughout the week to ensure they are participating in the local wellness programming.

These new spaces are meant to enhance mental health and substance-use services throughout the B.C. Interior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More beds means more people can get their lives back,â&#x20AC;? said Health Minister Terry Lake in a press release.

These are the first five of ten eventual contracts to provide 57 new beds to communities throughout the IHA. The first wave, altogether, creates 26 new bed in the IHA. These 57 support

recovery beds are part of the IHAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment back in April to create 73 new substance-use treatment beds including 16 for withdrawal management.

The majority of the 57 support recovery beds will be completed and open by December 2016.

Wormell-Street said they expect to have the housing in place

by December.

The Kamloops Society for Alcohol and Drug Services, East Kootenay Addiction Services Society, Ktunaxa Nation Council Society and Round Lake Treatment Centre are the other four other organizations receiving beds.

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VIEWPOINT EDITORIAL

Residential schools legacy unresolved From the year 1880 to 1996, the Canadian government sponsored a racist policy of Cole Wagner taking First COLE’S NOTES Nations children from their families, and shipping them off to schools in which they were isolated from their families, their culture and their spiritual beliefs.

The residential school system, billed at the time as a way to “kill the indian in the child,” is undoubtedly one of this country’s worst shames — as countless First Nations children suffered physical, sexual and mental abuse at the hands of the authority figures at the schools.

Today, Canadian children learn about the horrors of the residential school system in Socials’ classes, but the grim reality is that we don’t yet truly grasp the extent of the damage done to First Nations people from one hundred years of institutionalized racism and abuse.

For Sondra Tom, the legacy of the residential schools is inescapable. Though she did not attend a residential school, her mother did.

So did her father. Her grandparents, too, were forced into a residential school — as were all of her aunts and uncles, on both sides of the family.

“I don’t like to use it as an excuse, but it is apparent that it has caused struggles — to have your grandparents and parents go through that,” she told me. “You hear a lot of people say, ‘That was in the past, why don’t you guys all forget about it and move on?’ But it has had a big impact on me, as a child of a survivor.”

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The next UN Secretary-General: no charisma required GWYNNE DYER The international STAGE It’s not an election, it’s a selection. And although all the countries in the United Nations General Assembly have equal rights, some are more equal than others.

Ban Ki-moon retires at the end of this year, and it’s time for the United Nations to choose a new secretary-general. By the time this year’s session of the General Assembly ends in early October, we

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will know who it is. Which raises two questions: how do they make the choice, and why should anybody care?

The secretary-general of the United Nations is, in some senses, the highest official on the planet, but the selection process is hardly democratic. In fact, it has traditionally been a process as shrouded in as much secrecy as a papal conclave.

It is the Security Council’s fifteen members who pick the candidate, although all 192 members of the General Assembly then get to vote on their choice. And even on the Security Council, it’s only the views of the five permanent members (the P5) that really count, because each of the five great powers has a veto and the oth-

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ers don’t.

This is why people with strong opinions and a record of taking decisive action don’t get the job.

That sort of person would be bound to annoy one of the P5 great powers — Russia, Britain, China, France and the United States — or even all of them one after the other, so the entire system is

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designed to prevent a maverick with big ideas from slipping through.

The secretary-general must never come from one of the great powers (that might give him access to enough resources to make a nuisance of himself), and the successful candidate should not be charismatic.

The final choice is usually a “safe pair of hands”, some blameless diplomat from a middle or smaller power like the incumbent — a career diplomat from South Korea who ranks 32nd on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People.

Candidates therefore tend to be relative unknowns. If you look through the current list of candidates, for example, the only two names you might recognise, even if

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you are a political junkie, are former New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark, now Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and Antonio Guterres, former prime minister of Portugal and later UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

But who is Irina Bokova, Natalia Gherman, or Igor Luksic? They are, in that order, a former acting foreign minister of Bulgaria, the current foreign minister of Moldova, and a former foreign minister of Montenegro. Well, all right, Bokova is also the current director-general of UNESCO, but you still didn’t know her name, did you?

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OPINION YOUR COMMENTS

There is some progress...half of this year’s candidates are female From Page 6 Why so many Eastern Europeans (eight of the twelve candidates come from that region)? Because it’s Eastern Europe’s “turn” this time.

That region always missed out until the end of the Cold War, because the countries of Eastern Europe were effectively under Soviet control and therefore contravened the unwritten “no sec-gen from a great power” rule.

You might also ask why Eastern Europe is a whole separate region at all, given that its total population from Poland to Bulgaria is less than the population of Bangladesh, Brazil, Indonesia or Pakistan. Same reason: it used to be seen as a separate region because it was occupied by Soviet troops and most of its governments were ultimately controlled from Moscow. History looms very large at the UN. There is some progress. Half of this year’s candidates are female, and there is a strong feeling around the UN that it is high time for a woman to become secretary-general. There is also an attempt this time to make the process more “transparent”, but it is otherwise unchanged. The Security Council still comes up with a single candidate who doesn’t offend any of the great powers, and the General Assembly then rubber-stamps its

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I hope more services to help those that live on the fringe find their way to Merritt soon. Ask Wellness does as good a job as they can with the resources they’re provided with, but the harm reduction methadose/suboxone maintenance clinic in town has a three-week wait period just to get help.

On the coast you walk into a clinic, they test your urine, ask you a ton of questions, supply you your first days dose and tell you to come back the next day for your others (as in the beginning all doses are supposed to be supervised), and they send you with a requisition for to get blood work.

In Merritt they want you to get every test, including the blood work, done first, and by the time the three-week period is over (and sometimes even longer) they give you the medicine. The way addicts think (usually having to keep up with their habit to avoid losing function and possibly having seizures and risking death by going cold turkey), when they decide to get clean, it is a very small window of opportunity, and the office in town just creates more barriers — in my personal opinion and the research I’ve done.

There’s a doctor from the coast that intends to bring a clinic to Merritt and Kamloops that will offer immediate same-day services to help people get off of street drugs and work towards living a clean life, but he is still wading through Interior Health red tape. Hopefully he comes here soon and makes a difference in this fringe community before it becomes the epidemic we see happening everywhere else.

Fentanyl and the people pushing it needs to be stopped every way possible and every chance possible before more innocent people pass away. Also, a lot more time needs to be invested in figuring ways to engage the youth in Merritt and educate them at as young an age as appropriate about the dangers of drug use. Honesty is the key.

Money needs to be invested, and a lot more time put into ways to healthily engage the youth. The people operating the sports organizations in town like the youth soccer my son has played going on three years and youth basketball are a great start, but simply not enough.

choice.

It’s basically a civil service job, suitable for persons of cautious disposition. How could it be otherwise?

You only get what you pay for, and no great power is yet ready to pay the price in terms of its own sovereignty of having a powerful independent leader at the United Nations.

What would be the point of choosing such a leader anyway, so long as the UN has no military forces or financial resources of its own? It would only lead to frustration: the secretary-general can’t act independently of the will of the great powers because they designed it that way.

The job is still worth doing, and there is never a shortage of applicants. The secretary-general can speak out as the conscience of the world when there are massive violations of human rights, and once in a while he/she can actually organise a peace-keeping mission to stop the horrors (if all the great powers agree).

And they become, by virtue of their position, the most striking symbol of that more cooperative, less violent world that most politicians, diplomats and ordinary citizens actually aspire to. But we are still a very long way from the promised land.

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Some things are lost in the slides and textbooks we provide to our kids in Socials class. Horrible acts of physical and mental abuse have a way of sticking with you, long after the lesson is over — but it is the more insidious forms of abuse which have a way of working themselves down, from survivor to child and through multiple generations of a family.

“My parents not knowing how to parent, because they never had parents — it was institutionalized parenting for them,” said Tom. “It didn’t show them how to love, it didn’t show them how to guide us properly.”

Today’s Canada envisions itself

as a bastion of progressivism in the world, and with the smiling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and thousands of Syrian refugees pouring into the country, it’s easy to get caught up in the narrative that our country has moved past its troubled history of institutionalized racism.

But to talk with Tom, or Phyllis Edward, or any other survivor of residential schools — to see the pain that still lingers in their eyes when they discuss the loss of their culture, language and family — is a poignant reminder that the trauma is far from over.

On Sept. 30, the pain, trauma, and memories of the residential school system will be forefront on this

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community’s radar, as people don orange shirts to show support for the survivors and their families.

Wearing an orange shirt for one day of the year will not fix the century of systemic abuse — but it is important to remember, said Edward, and that alone makes Orange Shirt Day a worthwhile endeavour.

“When you hear the stories, it’s just so hard to believe those kinds of things can happen,” said Edward.

“You can see it in the communities — you don’t have the good family structure… It will continue because you have to know where you come from. You have to have that bonding feeling, and when it’s missing, you look for it but you look for it in the

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For more than 100 years, First Nations children in residential schools suffered without the acknowledgement of the “rest” of Canada.

The pain that results from those years will not be erased in a few short decades. It will not be erased by an apology from our former Prime Minister in 2008. It will not be fixed by wearing an orange shirt on Sept.

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But at the very least, wearing a loud orange shirt will be tacit acknowledgement of our failings as a country — and highlight the need for us to remember, and to strive to be better together.

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Some B.C. towns not high on pot stores mended.

Port Alberni went the regulatory route, requiring dispensaries

to stay 1,000 metres apart, outside the main tourist area, and at least 300 metres from

any school. When one violated the limit, it was ticketed and the owners challenged the

ticket in court, said Coun. Ron Paulson.

Two days after a judge upheld the Port

Alberni bylaw, police executed a search warrant on that store and the owner’s house,

where a sawed-off shotgun was among items seized.

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In Nelson there are now a half a dozen marijuana stores — one next to a taco restaurant and another conveniently located beside an auto body shop.

Nelson city manager Kevin Cormack got laughs from his audience with his description of the long-standing acceptance of pot use in the laid-back Kootenay community of 10,000 people. He spoke to a forum at this week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Victoria, describing a downtown with more bead shops than bars.

But not everyone was laughing.

Merritt city manager Shawn Boven outlined council’s response when a selfproclaimed medical pot dispensary opened its doors this summer, its owners saying they don’t need a business licence for a “compassion club.”

Merritt’s bylaw officer started issuing daily $100 violation tickets, and municipal staff called a meeting with the local RCMP to see what they would do. Five officers turned out and said they would need a couple of weeks to investigate.

They would also need legal advice, although everyone agrees retail pot sales remain illegal until next year when the Justin Trudeau government has promised to legalize and regulate it.

Merritt council isn’t engaged in a moral crusade, Boven said.

They just want laws evenly enforced, and on Sept. 7 they were.

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Spence Coutlee is a Lower Nicola Band member who works in the mining and engineering

Arthur Dick is a current member of council for the LNIB and has served as chief in the past for 10 years. He said he chose to run for chief this election because there was concern regarding the current strength of the leadership from some of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s membership. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I agreed that I would [run] given that I have the experience in terms of not just legal aspects, but onthe-ground experience in the forestry industry, agriculture and mining,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding that he has accumulated a network of government contacts at the provincial and federal levels.

Dick said that, if elected, he wants to focus on title and rights issues and land claims with the federal and provincial governments. He mentioned that most of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history has never been written down, and believes the band needs to recruit more people to record that history in the event it needs to be brought forward in court.

Dick said that the band has been growing steadily into the 21st century and that needs to be factored into how the band plans for the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In terms of developments, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the membership in terms of how they want to develop our land and generate revenues for our future generations to cover off their needs for education, health, economic development and other investments they wish to pursue,â&#x20AC;? Dick said.

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The father of two currently residents in Kamloops and decided to run for chief because, as a man with a mind for business, he believes he can bring about positive change and wealth for his fellow members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think where we might be short from an administrative point of view is our understanding on how to really maximize the use of some of the benefits and opportunities that we have,â&#x20AC;? Coutlee said.

He said the band is involved in many businesses and ongoing negotiations within its traditional territory that come with the potential to create wealth, which once-realized can be applied to housing needs and social assistance.

Coutlee said that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see himself as campaigning against the current chief, but believes that his success in the business world is an asset that the band can use in building a better future.

He said the main focus of his campaign is creating wealth for band members through transparency, accountability and inclusion of said members in ongoing business negotiations the band deals with.

Coutlee said despite being a proud membership, the Lower Nicola Indian Band is one that suffers from poverty, unemployment and housing structures that need fixing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have an ongoing weight on our shoulders that needs to be lifted,â&#x20AC;? Coutlee said.

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He said it gives the band the ability to address longstanding internal land disputes.

2067 Quilchena Avenue, Merritt, B.C. Sam also noted that providing services to elders and extra curricular activities for children and youth are areas of success he and the current council achieved this past term. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I definitely believe we can continue providing services to our elders,â&#x20AC;? Sam said, adding that health services need to be better for members.

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Police monitor bears spotted near MSS Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

A bear sighting near Merritt Secondary School (MSS) ended without incident yesterday (Sept.

26).

RCMP Const. Tracy Dunsmore told the Herald that police responded to a call of shots fired at the high school at about noon, which turned out to be a nearby resident using firecrackers to scare a mother bear and her two cubs out of his yard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bear was up a tree with the two cubs just half a block away

from the high school, so we just set up a barricade there and kept people away,â&#x20AC;? Dunsmore said.

City workers blocked off the nearby river pedestrian trail as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The school had just gotten out for lunch probably five minutes before,â&#x20AC;? Dunsmore said, adding that police monitored the bears in the tree until they came down and wandered off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was well after lunchtime when they came down,â&#x20AC;?

Dunsmore said.

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School was notified of the bear sighting and students werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed to go into the large field near the river during lunch, Dunsmore said.

Conservation officers were also called, but they were in the Princeton area at the time, so they advised police to keep people out of the area, monitor the bears and allow them to leave on their own if possible.

MSS principal Bruce Bidney said students were warned of the bears, and asked to use caution and avoid the trail along the river.

Known car thief caught in makeshift sting Some brotherly advice and deception helped police nab a known car thief earlier this month.

Merritt police arrested a 33-year-old Alberta man the morning of Sept. 18 at the Florentine after receiving a tip from the brother of a man who had his truck stolen the night before in Chilliwack, RCMP Const. Tracy Dunsmore told the Herald.

Dunsmore said that the brother got word that the man who took the vehicle was trying to sell it. He somehow got his contact information and had been texting the man to set up a meeting place to purchase the truck. Instead he notified police.

Dunsmore said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not sure how the brother knew the truck was being sold, or if the men knew each other.

Merritt police were advised at about 11:20 a.m. on Sept. 18 that the vehicle would be at the retirement centre located off Belshaw Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Members attended and they did find a vehicle,

ran [its] plate, and it was the stolen vehicle out of Chilliwack,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Dunsmore said there was a man sitting in the vehicle at the time and he was arrested.

She said police found two baseball bats and a gun that turned out to be an imitation in the vehicle.

The man also has outstanding warrants for possession of stolen vehicles from Calgary and the Lower Mainland, Dunsmore said.

He was shipped back to Chilliwack where he will face multiple charges, including possession of stolen property, and possession of stolen property for the purposes of trafficking.

Dunsmore said police appreciate the fact that the man organized the set up, but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show up to confront the man. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend people do that because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re facing, and in this case he had an imitation firearm,â&#x20AC;? Dunsmore said.

Scam prompts police warning An email scam has Merritt police reminding the public to be careful after a man had his bank account hacked.

RCMP Const. Tracy Dunsmore said police received word Sept. 16 that a man had several hundred dollars stolen from him after opening an email he thought was from his bank.

Dunsmore said the email, which the man received about two weeks ago, asked him to log into his account. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice any money was missing until recently when he checked his finances and saw some

transactions that he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make, Dunsmore told the Herald.

She said the man did all the right things by notifying police and the bank, which froze his account. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another one of these online [scams]. You think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re following all the right rules and they come up with a new one, so always be cautious if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing any online banking or ordering anything online.â&#x20AC;?

Dunsmore said if you bank online, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to go through your transactions on a regular basis to make sure they are all correct.

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The people came out in the morning. They they left Egypt, and He provided through His saw this food all over the ground. It looked like people. hoarfrost and the people called it manna.

These people were moving through the They picked it up and prepared it and it desert. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay in one place for long. became their food. There was nothing lacking What would they do with the building when in this manna to leave them unhealthy. All they they packed up and carried on? Would they really needed for good health was in the food have enough supplies to build again?

God provided. God knows what we need to Well, God had a plan. They built the be healthy. sanctuary in sections so it could be easily taken So, this big group of people, along with all of their needed belongings, moved through the desert. One day God said to Moses, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.â&#x20AC;?

apart, moved and put back together. God instructed them to build it according to the plan given them, designed after the sanctuary in Heaven. In the book of Hebrews, it says, there is a sanctuary in Heaven and the Earthly one was built after, but of course, not nearly as big.

The sanctuary was a building that would God gave one man special knowledge to always remind people that God was not absent, but present. Where would they get the build it. For this was not an ordinary building, materials to build the sanctuary out there in but was nicely and beautifully done, as God the desert? Well, if God asks anything of us, He does not do things half way. provides the way for us to carry out His request.

The building went in processes. The people How and why? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. But, there gave of what they had for this project. Women were men who had many wagons and oxen to embroidered and weaved and made what pull them. These wagons were not empty, but they could. The people had what they needed were loaded with all kinds of things, including for God had the plan before they left Egypt.

He put it into their minds so they asked to take building materials. easels and looms. At the time, not fully knowing Again, God had this situation in mind when why.

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the message chartered accountant Chris Kelley delivered to the school trustees regarding the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2015-16 audited financial statements at the school board meeting on Wednesday (Sept. 21). â&#x20AC;&#x153;On an overall basis, the school district is in sound financial position, demonstrated good fiscal responsibility with respect to the funding provided by the Ministry of Education and other funding agencies, and the results of operations are reasonable and consistent with prior years,â&#x20AC;? Kelley told the school board.

According to the financial statements, SD58 had an operating surplus of a little more than $5,640,000 at the end of the 2015-16 fiscal year, down from AN opening surplus of $6,437,000.

Of that $5.6 million, about $2.58 million has been restricted to fund various expenditures in 2016-17.

Kelley described the remaining $3 million operating surplus as a buffer for unforeseen expenditures or losses of revenues in future years. He said SD58 is in good position to weather changes in government policies and downloading of costs or could add other programs as trustees see fit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Given] the current funding model used by the province for funding K to 12 education, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reasonable to conclude that the district can continue to operate for the foreseeable future,â&#x20AC;? said Kelley.

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Government, union weighing options for mill worker assistance on how to get people together and discuss what impact the job losses will have on local small businesses.

“The third priority will be economic development,” Tegart said noting that there are government funds available.

United Steelworkers Local 1417 president Marty Gibbons said he wants to hire mental health counsellors and have skills assessments done for the mill workers.

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Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart said that, moving ahead, there are three priorities for Merritt.

“The first priority is support to workers and families, and we will have people on the ground talking to the appropriate people,” Tegart said.

“Second priority is community impact,” she said adding that she’s had discussions with Minister of Small Business, Coral Oakes,

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SPENCE For

U v COUTLEE Chief Election Platform:

A few of my main objectives: Will apply to all government, administration and businesses of the LNIB “Business, Jobs, Education

Transparency Accountability Inclusion Outreach

With current events, such as the Tolko shutdown and the pending HVC collective agreement, our members employment and contracting needs couldn’t be more important. We will utilize sound and progressive business practices using our political leverage to heavily support ALL our members employment and business needs; My experience in business, employment and training will be a great asset for our membership to use in these times.

Create new “Wealth” for members

Increase amounts, processes and types of social assistance that our band provides to our most in need, which will include increases in funding, traditional sustenance support.

Hunting and Fishing

Re-addressing our dependency on government funding in respect to provisionally awarding away our hunting and fishing rights. Budgets will be created for us to engage meaningfully with government to ensure proper management of our lands are done with our consultation.

Create new “Traditional Territory Referral Process” policy and procedure

If elected, I plan to aggressively lead our band forward in business, not fumbling and tripping through the business world as we do now (trying but not yielding any great results). Rather, I plan to utilizing my business background to deliver a clean, crisp and well oiled machine that will support our members needs for generations to come… and I will do so in supporting, using and maximizing “OUR MEMBERS FIRST”.

Contact Me:

Spence Coutlee Facebook @spence.coutlee spencecoutlee@gmail.com Phone: 250-525-0006

Create a new department designed specifically to engage within our referral process and further to actively seek out projects that may be damaging to our lands.

Create new “Outreach” & “Member” programs

Create a “Youth in Sports” outreach program that will be focused on engaging our youth and providing costs, access and mentorship to sport for youths… ideas will include activity teams (ski, board, skidoo, mountain biking, white-water kayak, hockey, indoor sports….)

Create a “LNIB Transparency” policy and procedure

Eliminate “Behind Camera” or “No Access” meetings of any sort to the membership.

Create a “LNIB Accountability” policy and procedure

Projects, people, processes, project tracking, attendances, follow up procedures, follow ups, events and document will be posted via the “LIVE INFORMATION PORTAL” including all government and/or personnel working on such files.

Create a “LNIB Inclusion” policy and procedure

Will include non-discrimination policies and procedure to ensure no band controlled event, agreement and/or business will affect any characteristically different persons and/or groups.

Begin “Land Title Actions” and “Border Protection”

Will engage with infringing proponents and where un-cooperative will engage in court actions against them.

Major Development Projects:

- Joeyaska Development - Forestry - Energy and Mining

“I want to meet you, hear from you and make your voice be heard!”

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We need to balance ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to be grounded and balance. Less we forget our identity, our culture, our traditional teachings, ceremonies, language and songs. The Elders have this knowledge which was passed down to their generations and for this we say all our relations.

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NICOLA VALLEY ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROGRAM

In Honour of Residential School Survivors “Every Child Matters” BOX 819, 1918 VOGHT ST, MERRITT, BC V1K 1B8 TEL:250-378-5010 FX:250-378-5014

“Success for all learners today and tomorrow” School District No. 58 (Nicola-Similkameen)

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Lytton Aboriginal Restorative Justice, Prevention & Education Programs

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Assembly of First Nations Marks Orange Shirt Day and Maintains that All Children Matter

September 30 (Ottawa, ON) – In 2014 Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Ghislain Picard encouraged people across the country to mark Orange Shirt Day on September 30, a day to recognize the experience of former students of Indian Residential Schools and affirm a collective commitment to ensure that every child matters.

“On September 30th, he encourages everyone in Canada to wear an orange shirt to commemorate and remember the experience of the thousands of children who were taken from their families and placed in Indian residential schools and to show a commitment to work towards reconciliation,” said National Chief Picard. “September 30th is a day to engage in discussions with one another – First Nations and non-Indigenous Canadians and commit to a future where every child matters. Please join us in calling on the Government of Canada to officially designate September 30 as Orange Shirt Day, a day for all of us come together in the spirit of reconciliation, respect and partnership.”

Orange Shirt Day is an outcome of the St. Joseph Mission Residential School Commemoration Project and Reunion events that took place in Williams Lake, BC in May 2013. It stems from a story told by former residential school student, Phyllis Webstad, who had her new orange shirt, bought by her grandmother, taken from her as a six-year old girl. She spoke powerfully of how it seemed to her that nobody cared and, in this personal way, it speaks to the many harms experienced by children in the residential schools.

Upper Nicola Band honors all Survivors of the residential school as we work towards our vision for the future.

Upper Nicola Band’s Vision: A strong, flourishing community in harmony with our Tmixw

“Every human being deserves to be treated with respect and dignity.”

Aboriginal children were taken from their homes and families and put into residential schools.

Many never made it home but for those who did we are now nurturing our families and communities, surviving and living.

Cooks Ferry Indian Band PO Box 130 • 3691 Deer Lane Spences Bridge, BC V0K 2L0 250-458-2224

“the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

250-378-9241

“In Honor of Residential School Survivors and In Memory of Those Who Did Not.”

Harry Lali Consulting Harry S. Lali

Government & Stakeholder Consultant www.harrylalihlc.com harrylalihlc@gmail.com 250-280-4338

1999 Voght Street, (next to the Credit Union) PO Box 3090, Merritt, BC V1K 1B8

Call: 250-378-5877

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Merritt up to $200,000 132911 76-2776 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 132252 35-254 HIGHWAY 8 134794 61-2776 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 132046 71-2776 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 133031 2302 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 135761 1138 HOUSTON STREET 137097 2375 COUTLEE AVENUE 133848 1876 COLDWATER AVENUE 130290 17-2760 VOGHT STREET 131450 #5-2760 VOGHT STREET 134983 4-2760 VOGHT STREET 133626 443 MORGAN AVENUE LN 136024 1320 VOGHT STREET 133041 2326 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 133662 206-1701 MENZIES STREET 131538 104-2799 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 132661 203-1701 MENZIES STREET 133851 2651 JACKSON AVENUE 136104 1425 CANFORD AVENUE 131428 2501 JACKSON AVENUE 137098 1326 DOUGLAS STREET 136702 1730 HILL STREET 130825 3008 PONDEROSA AVENUE 134860 2552 CORKLE STREET 133972 1701 ORME STREET Merritt $200,000 to $300,000 133629 1751 GRANITE AVENUE 133846 2664 QUILCHENA AVENUE 137056 1864 COLDWATER AVENUE 134544 2556 CORKLE STREET 135558 2202 CLEASBY STREET 134248 2113 BLACKWELL AVENUE 135332 1890 QUILCHENA AVENUE 136052 2614 COLDWATER AVENUE 136578 2102 MAMETTE AVE 134789 2571 COLDWATER AVENUE 132638 1599 COLDWATER AVENUE 136921 2702 LANGSTAFF PLACE 133309 2621 CLAPPERTON AVENUE 130128 419 DODDING AVENUE 137057 2387 REID AVENUE 136992 2462 SMITH STREET Merritt $300,000+ 136535 1364 VOGHT STREET 131637 2950 MCLEAN PLACE 136483 1973 SAGE PLACE 135175 1376 DOUGLAS STREET 137029 1620 BANN STREET 135767 1563 COLDWATER AVENUE 127816 2930 MCLEAN PLACE 137073 #3-2502 SPRINGBANK AVENUE 136557 3051 HILTON DRIVE 131067 2326 GARCIA STREET 136103 357 TURNER AVENUE SOLD 134753 3350 PANORAMA PLACE 136388 2201-2237 NICOLA AVENUE 133925 2465 PAIGE STREET LN 135092 1849 PINERIDGE DRIVE 135113 3358 PANORAMA PLACE

PRICE 42,500 58,000 79,950 84,500 89,500 94,990 99,000 135,000 135,000 140,000 145,000 149,000 149,900 150,000 155,000 159,000 159,000 165,000 174,900 178,000 180,000 178,900 189,000 195,000 198,000 215,000 219,900 229,000 234,900 239,000 245,000 245,000 247,500 248,000 249,000 258,000 259,000 269,000 279,000 289,900 289,900 310,000 315,000 324,500 325,000 329,000 329,900 329,900 339,000 353,000 358,000 399,000 415,000 418,700 419,000 469,000 480,000

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PRICE 569,000 1,486,000 1,595,000 177,000 279,000 299,000 385,000 449,000 485,000 485,000 499,000 515,000 599,000 675,000 725,900 779,000 799,900 845,000 1,175,000 1,486,000 1,560,000 1,595,000 39,900 44,900 65,000 65,000 65,000 70,000 79,900 80,000 98,000 98,000 115,000 119,000 189,000 195,000 225,000 245,000 450,000 899,000 1,300,000 89,500 150,000 160,000 220,000 310,000 395,000 499,000 62,500 64,000 69,900

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Well maintained 4 bedroom, 3 bath family home in great neighbourhood. Lovely renovated kitchen with updated counter tops, appliances, white subway tile backsplash, paint and light fixtures and access door to private back deck. Open dining/living room area with updated laminate floor, gas fireplace and a beautiful feature bay window offering stunning mountain views. Spacious master bedroom has walk in closet and 3 piece ensuite. Main bath has updated vanity, flooring and tile tub surround. Level entry basement has a nicely decorated entrance, den, large family/rec room with patio doors leading to a cozy covered deck and private back yard, utility, laundry, 1 bedroom and 3 piece bath. Easy entrance to crawl provides ample storage space. Central air, central vac, 2 bay garage, lots of parking.

MLS# 136483

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GARLIC

The Nicola Valley hosts the 4th Annual Garlic Festival in Lower Nicola

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& GRIT and celebrates National Forestry Week at Central Park

All photos by Ian Webster and Michael Potestio/Herald

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Garage sale helps kick off Operation Christmas Child Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD

Grace Bergmann held her 5th annual garage sale fundraiser on Saturday, Sept 24, raising a total of $1,073.

As in past years, this garage sale/bake sale acted as the kickoff of her fall shoebox collection for Operation Christmas Child.

The campaign is held each year by Samaritan’s Purse Canada (1-800-3031269), which provides emergency relief programs to people affected by war, disease,

natural disaster and famine.

People wishing to participate can pick up their shoeboxes at local dollar stores, churches and the Greyhound bus station, or contact Grace herself by calling 250-3781305.

Grace will use the funds raised at her fundraiser to purchase items and assemble shoeboxes. Any excess dollars will be sent to Samaritan’s Purse for shipping the boxes.

Last year, Bergmann’s fundraiser brought in $948.

Notice of AGM TUESDAY, OCT. 11 AT 7:30PM at NVIT, ROOM U011 For more info call 250-378-8885

“I go on board to make sure the tanker conforms with international safety guidelines.”

– Captain Robert Scott, Loading Master, Kinder Morgan Canada

Tankers calling at Trans Mountain’s loading dock must comply with internationally accepted oil-handling safety protocols and best practices. If the expansion is approved, enhanced measures will make sure that risks to our waterways from Trans Mountain tanker traffic will remain extremely low. We have been committed to safety for over 60 years – and we intend to keep it that way.

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Tankers calling at Westridge Marine Terminal are held to strict, internationally accepted construction and operating standards.

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All vessels must go through rigid pre-screening and physical inspection.

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Only double hulled tankers are allowed.

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Two expert local pilots are on board loaded tankers to Victoria. In future, pilots will disembark at Race Rocks, extending the piloted distance.

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An expanded tug escort regime will cover the entire tanker route – from Burnaby past the North Shore, through the Strait of Georgia and the Juan de Fuca Strait.

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Transport Canada’s certified marine-based spill response organization, Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC), is on call 24/7.

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More than $150 million will be invested in WCMRC to create new response bases, fund new equipment and employ 100 new people. This will double the spill response capabilities and cut mandated response times in half.

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To support the ‘polluter pay principle’ enshrined in Canada’s spill response regime, there is a $1.4 billion industry fund available for response cost and compensation in the unlikely event of a marine spill.

For more information, go to TransMountain.com/marine Email: info@transmountain.com · Phone: 1-866-514-6700 Committed to safety since 1953.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS THREE-WAY PACT

Lower Nicola Indian Band, Highland Valley Copper and provincial goverment sign agreements Cole Wagner THE MERRITT HERALD

Members of the Lower Nicola Indian Band (LNIB) will be celebrating, after Chief Aaron Sam signed two long-awaited agreements with the provincial government and Highland Valley Copper (HVC) in a ceremony held on Sept. 22.

The pair of agreements represent the culmination of a process which has stretched on for more than five years as the LNIB negotiated with both the provincial government and Teck, the company which represents the Highland Valley Copper mine.

Both agreements will see a portion of the mine’s profits flowing back to the Lower Nicola Indian Band, as part of a recognition that the mine has operated on the band’s traditional territory for more than 50 years.

“This is real progress for our nation. It makes sure we share in the revenue from Highland Valley Copper, but also means we are more closely involved in

contracting and hiring and in environmental planning and control,” said LNIB Chief Aaron Sam in a press release on Sept. 22. “It’s an important part of building a strong future for the Lower Nicola Indian Band.”

The relationship agreement signed with Highland Valley Copper ensures the band has a larger say in the mine’s operations, as the agreement outlines the creation of an environmental working group comprised of LNIB band members and HVC representatives.

“It’s called a relationship agreement because it really defines many aspects of a relationship.

It’s how we collaborate, how we work together, how we get the local community input and feedback in our planning process,” said Greg Brouwer, general manager of the Highland Valley Copper mine.

Implementation of the agreement will see HVC create annual and long term employment plans to have more band members working at the mine. The company will

also pay into a training fund, administered

by LNIB, to support employment and training initiatives for band members, and create a preferential hiring process to guarantee job interviews for qualified LNIB members.

“We are operating on their traditional territory, and it’s important that they have a voice and that they can contribute

to planning what our future looks like, and share in the benefits,” said Brouwer.

While the relationship agreement with HVC is comprehensive, the revenue sharing agreement between the provincial government and the LNIB is a more straightforward financial transaction.

The province will make an initial pay-

ment of $557,000 to the LNIB, and the band will receive an annual share of the provincial mineral tax collected from the mine’s operations.

Lower Nicola is the last band in the Nlaka’pamux Nation to sign a revenue sharing agreement to benefit from the mine’s operations. In total, 15 Nlaka’pamux bands have now signed revenue shar-

ing agreements related to the copper mine.

“I think there is a challenge that has happened between the province and nations over the years. There has a been a challenge of being able to build trust,” explained John Rustad, B.C. minister of aboriginal relations and reconciliation. “It’s been a slow process of going back and forth, discussing what this means,

and how this will help develop our relationships.

We’re able to cross the bridge here and enter into this agreement, and I think this will be a stepping stone for us to continue to build relationships.”

LNIB can opt-out of both agreement if the band feels like the deal isn’t working.

The Future is Growing Weyerhaeuser Ltd. will be hosting a Career Day for all Tolko Nicola Employees in operations, maintenance, admin, and forestlands.

When:

Nicola Valley Metis Annual General Meeting The Metis of Merritt and the Nicola Valley are having their Annual General Meeting and Elections

Friday, October 14, 2016 4:00 pm at Shulus Hall Come out and make your voice heard.

Meeting and potluck supper.

Prizes to be won!

Let your feet tap to some jigging music.

For more information call Betty Ann @ 250-378-5015

 Friday October 14th Salary Group Meet and Greet 10:00AM – 12:00 PM  Friday October 14th Hourly Operations/Trades Meet and Greet 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where:  Merritt Civic Centre, 1950 Mamette Ave, Merritt, BC V1K 1R6 Weyerhaeuser Ltd. has a number of operations across Canada including;    

Sawmill and Forestlands Operations in Princeton BC, Grande Prairie, AB and Drayton Valley AB Parallam Plant Delta (Annacis Island), BC OSB and Forestlands Operations in Edson, AB , and Hudson Bay, SK Timberstrand Plant and Forestlands Operations in Kenora, ON

Interested Candidates are requested to bring a copy of a current resume to the specific session that applies to them above. Please indicate on your resume location preferences. We look forward to meeting you!

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BULL RIDING

Pozzobon heads to Abbotsford leading the nation Ian Webster THE MERRITT HERALD

There’s sure to be a good turnout of rodeo fans from the Nicola Valley at the Abbotsford Centre on Saturday night, as Merritt’s own bull riding star Ty Pozzobon makes a rare appearance close to his hometown.

The event is the fifth stop on PBR Canada’s Monster Energy Tour, and will feature many of the world’s best bull riders from across North America.

There’s none better in the sport right now than the 24-year-old Pozzobon, who sits in first place in the PBR Canada standings with 2,332.5 points and earnings in excess of $30,120.

Pozzobon heads to Abbotsford following a pair of second-place finishes at Monster Energy stops in Winnipeg and Calgary in recent weeks.

On Sept. 17, in Manitoba’s capital city, the 24-year-old rode Wild Hoggs’ King Pin to a score of 86 points and the runner-up spot behind Matt Werries of

Jacksonville, Illinois.

One week later, in Alberta, Pozzobon totaled 164.5 points for his two rides to finish just back of Brady Sims of Holt, Montana.

Pozzobon was also a winner of the longgo at a PBR event in Pendleton, Oregon on the weekend. He was bucked off in the final, and paid a bit of a price.

“I tore a ligament in the thumb of my right hand,” said Pozzobon.

“Fortunately, it’s my free hand, so I can still compete. I just can’t hold a cup of coffee. I’ll have to have surgery on it at the end of the season.”

Merritt bull rider Ty Pozzobon rides Wild Hoggs’ bull Sworn Enemy to a score of 83.5 in the second round of the Monster Energy Tour stop in Calgary on the weekend. Pozzobon will be in action in Abbotsford this Saturday. Photo courtesy of PBR/Covy Moore

Pozzobon was scheduled to compete in Memphis, Tenn. on Tuesday of this week before heading to Abbotsford, but slept through his alarm and missed his flight. The extra rest is a blessing, said Pozzobon.

“I’m pretty banged up as usual. It just comes with the territory.

This gives me a couple

of days around home to heal and get some things done.”

Pozzobon’s original plan this season was to lie low a bit, and fully recover from a major leg injury suffered last fall that sidelined him for months. He took a leave of absence from the premier PBR Built Ford Tough series and focused on PBR Canada

events and the newlyformed ERA circuit.

Things have changed somewhat, as a result of Pozzobon’s success in 2016. Despite not participating in any BFTS stops to date, the Merritt cowboy is currently ranked 34th in the world — just one place behind his good buddy, Chase Outlaw, the two-time winner

of the Ty Pozzobon Invitational bull riding event here in the Nicola Valley.

Instead of shutting things down following the Monster Energy Canada tour in mid-October and just resting up for the ERA finals from Nov. 11-13, Pozzobon plans to push on and do some Built Ford Tough events and guarantee

himself a spot at the PBR world championships at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas from Nov. 2 to 6.

“I didn’t realize until August how I was sitting in the world [standings],” Pozzobon told PBR reporter Covy Moore last week. “They just kind of snuck up on me with how the summer in Canada was going.”

First things first — Pozzobon wants to do well in Abbotsford and increase his lead atop the PBR Canada standings.

This Saturday’s event kicks off with a corral party at 6 p.m. at the Abbotsford Centre. Competition gets underway at 7:30 p.m. The championship showdown will feature 25 bull riders, with the top 10 advancing to the final round at the end of the night.

Tickets for Saturday’s spectacle can be purchased online by going to PBR Canada and clicking on Schedule and Monster Energy Tour, or by contacting ticketmaster.ca directly.

JUNIOR HOCKEY BCHL STANDINGS to Sept. 27 INTERIOR DIVISION Team

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Penticton 6 5 1 0 0 West Kelowna 6 4 2 0 0 Vernon 6 4 2 0 0 Merritt 6 3 2 1 0 Salmon Arm 6 2 4 0 0 Trail 6 2 4 0 0 MAINLAND DIVISION Team

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10 8 8 7 4 4

Ian Webster THE MERRITT HERALD

The newest member of the Merritt Centennials made his first game in the British Columbia Hockey League one to remember.

Just two days after touching down in Canada, 18-year-old

forward Zach Risteau from Lakeville, Minn. scored once and added two assists to help his new team defeat the reigning RBC-champion West Kelowna

Cents over Warriors Warriors 5-1 on Tuesday night.

The Merritt victory at Royal LePage Place in West Kelowna ended a minislump the Centennials

went through on the weekend, losing both games at the 5th Annual BCHL Bauer Showcase by scores of 7-2 against the Prince George Spruce Kings, and 4-2 at the hands of the Cowichan Valley Capitals.

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T OTL PTS

Wenatchee 5 4 0 0 Chilliwack 5 3 2 0 Langley 5 2 2 1 Coquitlam 6 2 4 0 Prince George 7 1 5 1 Surrey 6 0 6 0 ISLAND DIVISION

1 0 0 0 0 0

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7 6 6 6 7

1 1 2 3 4

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9 6 5 4 3 0

Team

4 4 3 3 3

Rookie Risteau leads

10 9 7 6 6

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Cowichan Valley Capitals 7:00 pm Saturday, Oct. 1 at N.V. Memorial Arena

Special guest Shaylynn McCauley will be skating during intermission

For the month of October bring in a non-perishable food item or cash donation for the food bank to any home game for your chance to win SEASON TICKETS - compliments of Murray GM. Draw will be October 23

NICOLA VALLEY MEMORIAL ARENA

2075 Mamette Ave., Merritt

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SPORTS RALLY RACING

39th Annual Pacific Forest Rally this weekend Ian Webster THE MERRITT HERALD

Rally car racing enthusiasts will descend upon the Nicola Valley this weekend for the 39th Annual Pacific Forest Rally — the fifth stop on this year’s Canadian Rally Championship series.

Once again this year, the Pacific Forest Rally is poised to be the potential game-breaker as driving teams battle for the 2016 CRC title. With just two more stops in the series — in Bancroft.

Ont. in November and at Kelowna’s Big White in December — a win could all but seal the deal for one of the leading contenders.

As of Wednesday of this week, a record 36

entries from across North America were registered to compete in the Pacific Forest Rally, including the top two car-anddriver combinations in this year’s CRC. Currently in first place in the standings with 49 points is Quebec driver Maxime Labrie and his current co-driver Philippe Poirier in their 2002 Subaru WRX. Holding down second with 36 points is the driving team of Wim van der Poel and Bryan Lord, both from Edmonton, in their 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8.

Winner of the seasonopening Rallye PierceNeige in Maniwaki, Que. back in February, Labrie has managed to

keep his vehicle on the road, while all around him, drivers and cars have been crashing and breaking down.

One of the notable casualties of bad luck is eight-time PFR winner and defending champion Antoine L’Estage from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. Normally the runaway leader in the points standings by the time the CRC comes to the Nicola Valley, the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductee finds himself presently in sixth place and a mathematical long shot to capture yet another national rally car title.

From a spectators perspective, action begins on Friday with the service area at the Wagon

West Plaza open to the public beginning at 1 p.m. The cars and their drivers will assemble downtown on Granite Avenue at 4:30 p.m. for a meet and greet prior to the ceremonial start adjacent to the post office at 5:30 p.m.

The ten stages of this year’s Pacific Forest Rally take place in the Helmer and Mab Lakes region (off Exit 315 of Highway 5 North and the Dillard area (off the Loon Lake exit of Highway 97C) Those wishing to see the stage racing firsthand can refer to the maps below for directions or get themselves a Pacific Forest Rally program (available at outlets throughout town and the Wagon West Plaza).

Quebec driver Maxime Labrie and his 2002 Subaru WRX, shown above in action earlier this season, come to the Nicola Valley for the Pacific Forest Rally as the current leaders of the 2016 Canadian Rally Championship. Labrie’s co-driver at the PFR event will be Philippe Poirier. Photo courtesy of Maxime Poirier/CRC

2016 CANADIAN RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP CURRENT LEADERS (after 4 rounds) Driver/Co-Driver 1. Maxime Labrie/Philippe Poirier

49 pts.

2. Wim Van der Poel/Bryan Lord

36

3. Simon Losier/Eric Losier

31

4. Simon Vincent/Hubert Gaudreau

30

Boris Djordjevic/Cameron Tunstall

30

6. Antoine L’Estage/Darren Garrod

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7. Joel Levac/Stephanie Lewis

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Marc Bourassa/Daniel Paquette

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The Merritt Jr. Centennials peewee rep team, sponsored by Ramada Inn, has picked up right where it left off last season. The 2015-16 provincial champions have won all four of their exhibition games so far. This past Saturday, the peewee reps edged Kamloops 4-1, then overpowered Kelowna 11-7 on Sunday. Merritt netminder Manjot Panghli (above) allowed just one goal in Saturday’s win. Leading Merritt scorers on the weekend were Max Graham (7 goals, 4 assists) and Lucas Schmid (3 goals, 5 assists). Meanwhile, the Tracker Sportswear midget reps avenged a loss to Winfield a week ago by beating the Bruins 5-3 in Winfield on Saturday. Liam Kelly had two goals in the victory. Max Stead picked up the win in net. Ian Webster/Herald

Four teams took to the courts for the Merritt & District Tennis Club’s annual mixed doubles championships on Saturday. Emerging as champions was the pairing of Neelam Sahota and Bhavinder Bansi (above), who were victorious over the duo of Diane Quinn and Balwant Bains.

Also competing were Jean Belleau and Barb Scapinello, as well as Harbans Sandhu and Cindy Lawrence. The local tennis club is currently making plans to move indoors starting in the month of October. Ian Webster/Herald

IT’S CROSS-COUNTRY SEASON Elementary school runners were out in force on Wednesday for the first cro--scountry run of the season at Collettville School.

Future runs are planned for Bench and Centrtal Schools. Ian Webster/Herald

Centennials play Silverbacks and Capitals this weekend From Page 24 The Cents took a little while to get going versus the Warriors, getting outshot 11-1 by the midpoint of the first period. If it hadn’t been for starting Merritt netminder Jake Berger, in a marvelous bounce-back game after being pulled on the weekend, this week-night match-up could have been over early.

Against the run of play, 19-year-old Chase Bell put Merritt on the board first with his team’s first of four powerplay goals on the night. Assists went to Ryan Roseboom and Tyrell Buckley.

The Warriors evened the score at 1-1 a short while later, with

their own powerplay marker from Connor Sodergren, arguably West Kelowna’s best player on the night. The first period ended with the shots 16-7 in the Warriors’ favour.

The turning point came early in the second period when West Kelowna lost their top two blueliners, Nicholas Rutigliano and Stephen Kleysen, to the sin bin just 46 seconds apart. Merritt made the Warriors pay dearly, scoring twice with the man advantage. First, Tyler Ward tallied his third of the season from Michael Regush and Cade Gleekel. Shortly thereafter, it was Gleekel with his first BCHL goal from Risteau and Zach Metsa.

The Centennials took three of the next four penalties in the middle stanza, but managed to kill them off successfully. After 40 minutes, the scoreboard read Merritt 3 West Kelowna 1. The total shots still favoured the homeside, 27-17.

Both teams had a series of

good scoring chances as the third period got underway, but it wasn’t until the 6:38 mark that Merritt’s Tyler Pietrowski extended his team’s lead to three goals with his third of the season from Gleekel and Risteau.

With 2:02 remaining in regulation, and the game becoming rather chippy (no surprise between these two teams), Risteau closed out the scoring with a memorable 200 feet of two-way hockey. After clearing the puck off his own goal line, he joined Pietrowski on an end-to-end rush and fired the puck home past a frustrated Xavier Burghart in the West Kelowna net.

Risteau and Gleekel, both from Minnesota and high school line-

mates last season at Benilde-St. Margaret’s School, combined for six points (two goals, four assists) in their first game together in the BCHL. Interestingly, the third member of their highly-successful prep school line, Auggie Moore, is also in the BCHL this season with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

Berger, as mentioned earlier, had an outstanding game, stopping 38 of 39 shots.

Sitting out Tuesday’s game for the Cents were defenceman Michael Faulkner and forwards Nick Wicks and Henry Cleghorn.

Next up for the Centennials are games Friday in Salmon against the Silverbacks and on Saturday at home versus Cowichan Valley.

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CONTAIN-IT

Contact us today!

BOARD Merritt Senior Curling

Mondays and Tuesday’s at 1:00 p.m.. New members welcome. Contact George Mitchell at 250-378-6779

Nicola Valley Film Society

presents “Dark Horse” Rated 14A on Monday, Oct. 17th at 7:00 p.m. at the NVIT Lecture Theatre. For more information phone 250-378-5190.

baillie house

Baillie House fall garage sale is now open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.? The sale will continue until about the end of Oct. For more information call 250-378-0349.

Big brothers/Big Sisters

Volunteers are needed for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

BBBS offers a full range of programs in Merritt-from our Community Based Big Brother/Big Sister programs to In-School Mentoring and Group Programs.

If you are interested or know someone who is interested in volunteering in Merritt contact Terry at the BBBS Merritt office at 250-280-9959 or terry.baker@bigbrothersbigsisters.ca

want to improve the lives of children?

Volunteer and help build skills and confidence in young readers. Literacy Merritt and Nicola Valley Society is seeking French and English speaking volunteers for the One to One children’s literacy program in local elementary schools. Volunteer 1.5 hrs/wk for 12 wks. 2016-17 sessions run Oct. to Feb. and Feb. to May. Attend a 2-3 hr training session and school orientation early Oct. Contact Kelly Reid, Literacy Outreach Coordinator at literacymerritt@gmail.com or call 250-378-7844.

Merritt senior centre

Weekly schedule is as follows: Monday: senior exercises 10:30 a.m., cribbage and whist 2:30 p.m. Tuesday: bingo 1 p.m., doors open at 10:30 a.m. duplicate bridge 7 p.m. Wednesday: carpet bowling 1:30 p.m., court whist 7 p.m. Thursday: floor curling 1 p.m., floor curling (physically challenged) 10 a.m. second and fourth Thursday. Friday: rummoli and games 7 p.m. Last Friday of the month: pot luck supper 5:30 p.m. for more information phone 250-378-4407.

Merritt Pickleball

Anyone interested in playing Pickleball, or just trying it out, please come to the Central Park Sports Box on Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 8:30 a.m. until noon or Tuesday/Thursday from 6:30 p.m. until dusk to give it a try. Demo paddles are available for use. An easy sport to play and great fun and exercise. For more information call Brian at 250-378-7452.

Elks Bingo

STORAGE

MESSY CHURCH

First Thursday of month, 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Trinity United Church. For parents or guardians and children to share fun activities, crafts, games, songs, celebration and sitdown dinner with your family. For more information or to register 250-378-5735 or email tucc@telus.net

Nicola Valley Explorers

The Nicola Valley Explorers Society’s primary aims are to promote hiking cycling, snow shoeing, cross country skiing and other non-motorized trail use in the Nicola Valley. We also work to assist in the development and maintenance of recreational trails. Membership is open to anyone interested in non-motorized outdoor recreation in the Nicola Valley. For more information please contact Terry at 250-378-5190.

LIVING WITH LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

The Living with Loss drop-in support group will be meeting the first and third Wednesday of every month from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at 2025 Granite Avenue, Room 12. 250280-4040.

Mianly Sunny Cloudy w/Showers

High: High: 20˚C 9C Low: 6C 8˚C Low:

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High: 10C 18˚C High: Low: 9˚C Low: 4C

Chance of Showers Variable Clouds

High: High: 15˚C 8C Low: 5˚C Low: 4C

N.V. Farmers Market

Merritt Baptist Church

2499 Coutlee Ave. (Corner of Coutlee and Orme) • 250-378-2464 Service Time/ Sunday School: Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Merritt Lutheran Fellowship

in St. Michael's Anglican Hall • 250-378-9899 Service Time: 3rd Sunday each month 1:00 p.m.

Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church 1950 Maxwell St. • 250-378-9502 Service Time: Sundays 10:00 a.m.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Corner of Jackson & Blair • 250-378-2919 Mass Time: Sundays 9:00 a.m.

Seventh Day Adventist Church

2190 Granite Ave. • 250-378-2339 Bible Study: 9:30 • Service Time: Saturdays 11:00 a.m.

1990 Chapman St. • 250-378-3772 Service Time: Sundays 10:00 a.m.

Trinity United Church

Corner of Quilchena & Chapman • 250-378-5735 Service Time/ Sunday School (age 4 - 8 yrs) - 10 am

Join the N.V. Farmers Market every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. In parking lot beside Baillie House from May 21 to Oct 8. Locally grown and handmade items. For more information phone Jean Arnason, market manager 250-378-6256

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Nicola Valley Cruisers Car Club

September 19, 2016

Are you interested in cars, cruising and joining in activities related to cars? Nicola Valley Cruisers car club would welcome you as a member. Meetings are monthly on the first Wednesday of the month at the Ramada at 7:00 p.m. For mor info call Russ or Charlotte at 250-378-2290 .

The Merritt Chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada

Invites all persons interested in restoring and enjoying vintage vehicles to join us at our monthly meeting held at the Anglican Church Hall, 1990 Chapman Street, at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month.

Vintage car ownership is not required. Call Jack Cross 250-378-2662 or Kim Jurriet 250-378-2672 for more information.

1988 Quilchena Ave.

3 bdrm apartment. $850 plus utilities 3 bdrm duplex. $950 plus utilities.

3 bdrm townhouse. $950 plus utilities.

3 bdrm duplex. $950 plus utilities.

4 bdrm Upper floor of house. $1400 plus utilities.

Conayt Bingo

Join Conayt Friendship Society every Thursday for bingo.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and bingo starts at 6 p.m.

Everyone welcome to come and play! 2164 Quilchena Ave.

5 bdrm house. $2000 plus utilities.

2 bdrm bsmt suite. $750 inc utilities

High: High: 15˚C 6C Low: 4˚C Low: 2C

Sale of New and Used storage containers

St. Michael’s Anglican Church

Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 8:30 a.m. to noon, 2164 Quilchena Avenue. All Elders welcome — just come out and visit! For information call 250-378-5107.

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Merritt real eState SerViCeS Property Manager: Lynda Etchart

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Douglas Irwin Neustaeter

Oct. 29, 1945 - Sept. 21, 2016 Douglas Irwin Neustaeter died suddenly on September 21, 2016 at the Merritt hospital at 70 years of age.

Doug is deeply mourned by his friend and soulmate Sandra, and their children Sunshine (Clayton) and their children Chloe, Corwin, Philippa and Paul of Chilliwack; Aaron (Jessica) and their children Layne and Leo of Lower Nicola; and Timothy (Kimberly) of Kamloops. He is survived by his brothers Ron and Jim and his sister Noreen; predeceased by his parents Ernie and Helen Neustaeter.

Doug was born in Gladstone, Manitoba on October 29, 1945. He asked Jesus into his heart at the age of 23 and went on to Briercrest Bible School graduating with a Pastoral Major. Doug worked for the Credit Union for 34 years starting in Yorkton, SK. and then Ituna, SK. In 1981 he moved to BC to be the assistant manager and then manager of the Merritt CU and then Ànally Ashcroft.

Doug had a very soft heart and was a family man who adored his children and grand babies dearly. He coached the kids’ T-ball and played slowpitch, coached the boys’ hockey, was involved in the Evangelical Free Church in Merritt, curled, and was a member of Gideons placing Bibles in hotels and schools. He treasured being retired so he could spend time with family, and enjoyed planning and going on cruises with Sandra travelling to Alaska three times, China, Russia and Japan, as well as Costa Rica for Aaron and Jessica’s wedding, and Halifax in 2003 for the Brier. Doug enjoyed watching sports including hockey, curling, NASCAR and baseball. He also had a great passion for cars - over the course of his life, he owned 25 cars including a 1982 Porsche 911 SC and a 2002 Corvette Convertible. He loved driving and enjoyed road trips immensely, especially to the prairies.

Doug’s favourite Bible verse was Joshua 1:8-9 “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Sandra and the family would like to thank Dr. Fenrich and staff at Merritt hospital for their loving care over Doug and his family. Thank you also to Dave McCauley, Doug’s best friend.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, September 30, 2016 at 1:00 pm at the Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church in Merritt, with a luncheon to follow.

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Stella Martin March 22, 1948 – Sept 18, 2016

Stella was born on March 22, 1948 in Merritt BC to Helen and Earle Martin. She passed away at Overlander Residential Care in Kamloops, BC on September 18, 2016 at the age of 68 years.

Stella was pre deceased by her parents Helen and Earle, and is survived by her brother Tom (Audrey), her two nieces, Jennifer (Paige, Ava) and Katherine (Rob, Claire, Mia) and her nephew, Gregory, all of Calgary.

Stella received her teaching certificate from the University of Victoria in 1967 and started her teaching career in Spences Bridge that same year. The following year, she moved to Clinton where she taught elementary school for more than forty years.

During this time, she also established, taught and mentored a baton twirling group in the town of Clinton, which was successful in participating in events such as: The Calgary Stampede, PNE parades, as well as many other festive events. A number of her majorettes went on to successfully participate in Provincial and National competitions.

Stella was very proud and devoted to this group and considered them as her family.

The family would like to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to Dr. Wynne and Dr. Rolehauser and the entire staff at Overlander, who cared for Stella over the last several years. She was treated with respect and compassion and considered her caregivers as part of her family.

A Memorial Service will be held:

Saturday, October 01, 2016 at 11:00 am in the Trinity United Church 1899 Quilchena Ave., Merritt BC with interment to follow at Pine Ridge Cemetery in Merritt, where she will be laid to rest with her mother and father.

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PAY NO TAX

$1498/ PAIR

This SALE is so big we had to extend it!

by donation.

DOOR CRASHER

DOOR CRASHER

$498 $798

Centennials Booster Club Fundraiser from 12 - 3 PM, hot dog sale

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2: NOON - 2 PM We will be closed Saturday, Oct. 1 to prepare for the sale

CHAIR

Merritt

40” SMART LED TV

NOON TO 2 PM Line up early.... Doors will lock at 2 pm Arrive before 2 pm and you can shop til you drop!

4 Only

on final clearance items.

$398

DOOR CRASHER

SAVE UP TO

70%

SALE

40TH ANNIVERSARY 835 Evolution coil, comfort top, silk, air cool memory gel foam.

ONLY 2 LEFT!

Double Unit

SALE

$748

ONLY 4 LEFT!

SALE ONLY 1 LEFT!

SALE

Queen Unit

$798 King Unit

$1198

* See store for details

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2: NOON - 2 PM MAIN LOCATION: 2025 Coutlee Ave., Merritt • Ph: 250-378-2332 CLEARANCE LOCATION: 2088 Quilchena Ave., Merritt