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April 21, 2015 edition of the Merritt HeraldTRANSCRIPT
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MLA Jackie Tegart says the biosolids protesters need to end their occupation of Premier Christy Clark’s West Kelowna constituency office before she meets with Friends of the Nicola Valley.
About 20 protesters — including the five Nicola Valley chiefs — began a sit-in at the office last Wednes-day, the day after protesters marched to Tegart’s Merritt office.
Friends of the Nicola Valley, which has been leading the anti-biosolids crusade, gave Tegart a one-week timeframe from last Tuesday to meet with them before they implement a recall campaign.
“I am more than willing to meet with different peo-ple and talk about whether they have a solution, but it’s tough when you get ultima-tums, also,” Tegart said.
The MLA is currently in Victoria sitting in the legisla-ture until end of May.
On Monday, Friends of the Nicola Valley spokes-person Georgia Clement told the Herald she has yet to hear from Tegart, and expects to begin the recall process.
Tegart said she was disappointed to hear that people felt she hadn’t done enough regarding biosolids and continues to look for a solution to the issue.
“I have taken it to every level I can think of. If there was a simple solution, we would have found it,”
Tegart said.She said she’s looking
into what can be done to satisfy concerns while work-ing within the law.
The sit-in over in West Kelowna has seen protest-ers camp out in the office alongside RCMP and mem-bers of the legislative assem-bly protective services staff for about a week now.
On Saturday, there was a rally outside the office that saw about 100 people — mostly from the Nicola Valley.
Lower Nicola Band Chief Aaron Sam said the chiefs had dialogue with the provincial government on Sunday, and as of the Her-ald’s press deadline on Mon-day, expected more talks to come.
He said the chiefs have been seeking mediation with the province in order to move forward.
“We’re still having discus-sions in regards to that,” Sam said.
However, Sam did not wish to disclose who in gov-
ernment the chiefs are talk-ing with.
Premier Christy Clark has told reporters that the government is “working on it” when it comes to the bio-solids sit-in.
“It’s not an easy solu-tion, though. That’s why it’s taken some time and I think that’s why they’re frustrated; they don’t want this to hap-pen and they’d like to get a solution as quickly as they can,” Clark said.
MLA responds to recall campaign threatBy Michael Potestio
See ‘Sit-in’ Page 5
SHOW OF SUPPORT
About 75 people took part in a march to raise awareness about relationship violence on Thursday organized by Merritt’s Violence Against Women in Relationships committee.
For the full story on the event, see page 2. Emily Wessel/Herald
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The issue of domes-tic violence was brought out into the open Thursday at a relation-ship violence awareness event in Merritt’s Spirit Square downtown.
The event was orga-nized by Merritt’s Vio-lence Against Women in Relationships (VAWIR) committee, which comprises repre-sentatives from several social service agencies including Victim Ser-vices, RCMP, ASK Wellness, Interior Com-munity Services, School District 58, Scw’exmx Child and Family Ser-vices and Nicola Family Therapy.
Many of the agen-cies set up booths with pamphlets and other informational items inside the Fireside Cen-tre, which had its doors open to the public between 1 and 4 p.m. that day.
The event was intended to raise aware-ness of domestic vio-lence and the services around town that are available to help those in abusive relationships.
“Sadly, the statistics here in our community indicate that 32 per cent of the calls to our local RCMP detach-ment are dealing with
domestic violence,” Interior Community Services program co-ordinator and VAWIR committee member Chelsea Morrey said.
“We also know that many victims fail to report and those sta-tistics are likely higher than 32 per cent.”
She said it’s likely
people don’t report inci-dents of domestic vio-lence because they don’t feel safe or supported in doing so.
“We’re here to stop the violence and allow them the safety to come forward,” Morrey said.
Participants went on a march around Mer-ritt’s downtown core to show solidarity with victims of relation-ship violence who have come forward and show the community sup-port behind those who haven’t.
“This march is signi-fying all of the support that we want to give to the victims who have come forward and those who are scared to come
forward, to show our solidarity,” Morrey said. “There is help in our community, our com-munity is healthy and we have amazing agen-cies that are here to provide those supports to you.”
Women at the event wore purple ribbons to show their support for the cause, while men sported white ribbons.
Members of the Merritt Fire Rescue Department and RCMP led the march holding a banner pro-claiming “Relationship violence ends here.”
About 75 people took part in the march.
Lifelong Merritton-ian and early childhood development consultant Sue Sterling shared her experience with rela-tionship violence with the crowd.
That included differ-ent types of abuse she experienced and saw around her growing up, and which carried on into her early adulthood in her romantic rela-tionships.
She said after years of being in an abusive relationship, she sought support from her family and community and has not looked back since.
By Emily WesselTHE HERALD
Community marches in solidarity with relationship violence victims
See ‘Costs’ Page 3
Community members march down Garcia Street Thursday in an attempt to raise awareness of relationship violence and to demonstrate solidarity with victims who have come forward and support for those who have not. Emily Wessel/Herald
Merrittonian Sue Sterling shared the story of her experience with relationship violence with the crowd of about 75 people gath-ered at Spirit Square for Thursday’s awareness event. Emily Wessel/Herald
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“I think we cannot express enough the importance of healthy relationships and put-ting a stop to domestic violence not only for women and children but for men as well,” she said.
She said self-love is the key message to stop-ping the violence.
Sterling, who also sits on the board for Nicola Family Therapy, said that agency alone pro-vides counselling services to about 100 women affected by domestic violence each year, while
the children who witness violence program sees about 90 children a year in Merritt.
The issue of relation-ship violence is not a pri-vate one — it affects the whole community, city councillor Diana Nor-gaard told the crowd.
Norgaard said end-ing relationship violence is important to her in two capacities: as a men-tal health clinician for 20 years, and as a repre-sentative of the City of Merritt.
“Every act of rela-tionship violence dam-ages individuals, families and our community and
we need to stop that,” she said.
“It’s not a private issue. It’s not even solely a family issue. It’s an issue for the whole com-munity.
“Interpersonal vio-lence costs us dearly. Some costs are obvi-ous — the costs to our health system, our jus-tice system, our mental health system, our child protection system, and our system for social assistance.
“The human costs are, of course, alcohol and drug use, failure to attain education, loss of job opportunities, which
then of course affects us in terms of consumer power.”
She said the ultimate cost is loss of vitality in the community.
Norgaard also read the City of Mer-ritt’s proclamation for Relationship Violence Awareness Week, which took place from April 12 to 18.
“We’re going to work as a community to stop this and make this com-munity healthy,” Morrey said.
For help with domes-tic violence or to find services, call victim link at 1-800-563-0808.
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Cancer fund reaches $574
Miss Berta Fraser, chairman of the cancer fund campaign, reports that the 1951 can-cer fund canvass was concentrated in Merritt on Wednesday, April 18, and brought Merritt into the news in the spot advertising over CFJC, where we were generously accorded several “flash” reminders that this was the day to give to the cancer campaign in Merritt. This canvass resulted in $517.53 having been deposited from Merritt and all returns are not yet in. Canvass-ers called in some homes where there was no answer, and the committee will be pleased if those who have not been canvassed will take their donation into the Bank of Mon-treal.
The first outside point to report so far was Brookmere, whose canvassers, turned in $51.15.
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Interior Community Services program co-ordinator Chelsea Morrey listens to speaker Sue Sterling at the Violence Against Women in Relationships committee’s awareness event at Spirit Square Thursday afternoon. Emily Wessel/Herald
Costs of violence affect wider society
Mosquito control program underway
Mosquito control in Merritt is off to an early start this year.
The mild weather combined with the low snowpack over the winter has led to mosquito larvae early in the season, D.G. Regan and Associates’ Curtis Fediuk said.
“Not surprisingly, any of the ponds that are out in the sun are nice and warm and have mosquito larvae. Things are just get-ting going,” he said.
The company has start-ed its mosquito monitoring and reduction program a few weeks early, applying its bacterial larvicide on the ground.
The program typically starts in May and moni-toring continues through August with applications depending on various weather and mosquito life
cycle factors.Fediuk said local ranch-
ers whose properties abut rivers help in the annual mosquito control program.
“They’ve been really helpful to us. They’ve given us free passes to come and go through the farmlands or the ranch lands, access to all their roads,” he said.
The company uses VectoBac to control mos-quitoes at the larval stage. VectoBac is a biodegrad-able pellet-like substance.
Its key ingredient is bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), a bacte-rium found naturally in soils, which forms a pro-tein crystal as it spores that is toxic only to mosquito and black fly larvae.
The pellets pose no threat to wildlife or mos-quito predators, Fediuk said.
“It doesn’t have any impact on natural preda-
tors like wasps or dragon-flies,” he said.
So far, surveyors haven’t found any adult mosqui-toes, but will continue monitoring, Fediuk said.
Aerial applications will likely start in the coming weeks but depend on the river levels.
In the meantime, Fediuk said people can do their part to help reduce the pests by removing any standing water on their property in things such as tarps, pails and even tire ruts.
“Those buckets of water, the tarp over the wood pile, the boat that’s got some water sitting in the tarpaulin covering it,” he said. “Check window screens and make sure they’re in good repair.”
Anyone with questions or comments about mos-quito control direct them to city hall or [email protected].
By Emily WesselTHE HERALD
The girls’ group program provides its members with skill and leadership-building activities, and runs until April 30. Here, the girls had just finished handing out cookies at the Royal Bank. The girls’ group split into two smaller groups to cover the downtown core to spread their kindness.
Emily Wessel/Herald
ACT OF KINDNESS
Merritt Youth and Family Resources Society girls’ group members (from left) MJ Kenoras, 10, Cassie Smith, 11, and Shaelyn Justice, 13, gave out home-made oatmeal cookies on April 15 to Merrittonians in local businesses downtown as a random act of kindness.
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The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regu-lar council meeting agenda from April 14, 2015.
Background
In 2014, we were successful at obtaining a $10,000 planning grant for the feasibility assess-ment of UV reactors for the existing wells. The study determined that the installation of UV reactors is possible and would mitigate the risk of water-borne pathogens for Merritt’s community water sys-tem. UV reactors are a strong ultraviolet (UV) light that groundwater travels through in a short section of pipe that kills water-borne pathogens that could potentially be present in raw, untreated water.
We typically under-take planning exercises in anticipation of future grant funding opportu-
nities and they serve as a great backup to the application. The Federal Gas Tax Fund Strate-gic Priorities Fund was announced in the fall of 2014.
The SPF is an application-based pro-gram available to local governments and other recipients outside of the Greater Vancouver Regional District to support infrastructure and capacity-building projects that are either larger in scale, regional in impact or innovative and align with the pro-gram objectives of pro-ductivity and economic growth, a clean environ-ment and strong cities and communities.
The SPF program has two funding streams: capital infrastructure and capacity-building.
Under the Renewed Gas Tax Agreement, eligible project catego-ries have been expanded to the following: public transit; local roads and
bridges; community energy systems; drink-ing water; wastewater; solid waste; disaster mitigation; recreational infrastructure; cultural infrastructure; tourism infrastructure; sport infrastructure; local and regional airports; short-line rail; short-sea shipping; broadband connectivity; highways; brownfield redevelop-ment and capacity-building.
The deadline for the first application intake is April 15, 2015. As with most grant applications these days, a formal resolution from council supporting the applica-tion must be submitted.
The public works manager has been work-ing co-operatively with the Interior Health Authority over the past several years to plan and implement upgrades to the Merritt community water system that bring it into compliance with current regulations.
That said, there is noth-ing wrong with our water. Interior Health’s and good water supply practice is risk-based, with past history having no bearing on future risks. The proposed upgrades will enhance the protection of the water system from fur-ther unknown future risks. Interior Health supports the project as evidenced by the attached letter of sup-port.
In late 2014, the city met with and subse-quently received a letter from Interior Health updating the conditions of permit to operate the Merritt commu-nity water system. It has been known since the installation of the chlorine injectors at the well heads (2008) that the contact time (for the chlorine) was less than desirable for first-in-line consumers.
Our comprehensive Water Utility Master
Plan (2012) confirmed this. I engaged the original consultant of the UV feasibility assess-ment study to update it to include dealing with the chlorine contact time requirement.
This has a substantial impact on the budget, but while grant funds are available, it makes sense to apply for it now.
Financial risk/implications
This project is considered a capital
expense. The current draft of the five-year financial plan has $100,000 budgeted in 2015 for design from general water revenue and $1,080,000 in 2016 construction funded through debt.
The grant applica-tion is for 100 per cent project funding.
The updated total cost is estimated at $2.04 million, which also deals with chlorine contact time for first-in-line customers. It’s recommended that this
number be reflected in the five-year financial plan with the fund-ing source being from grants.
For clarity, this doesn’t impact taxation or utility rates.
Recommendation
That the grant appli-cation to the Federal Gas Tax Fund Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) for water treatment upgrades in the amount of $2.04 million be approved.
City looking for grant for well UV reactors
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“The problem is there are a number of agencies in the provincial gov-ernment plus the ALC [Agricultural Land Com-mission] involved, and the permit was issued by the regional district. There’s a lot of hands in the pot here, so it’s taking a little bit more time than I would have hoped to get it settled,” Clark said.
“Mary Polak, the min-ister of environment, has met with them, though, and I’ve certainly met and spoken with their MLA a number of times about it because she shares lots of their con-cerns about it. So I hope we’ll get to a solution soon.”
Polak has told report-ers she has been in regular contact with the chiefs.
“They know that the door is open for further dialogue to see if we can find some resolution to their concerns, but there is no question that this occupation has to end. This is a constituency office, it belongs to the community and the door is open when that occu-pation ends,” Polak said.
Polak said the chiefs have been informed the door is open to negotiate once the sit-in ends.
“Right now the prior-ity is to move the occu-pants out of the office and then we’ll sit down and talk,” Tegart said.
The protesters want a government-imposed moratorium on the importation of biosolids to the Nicola Valley, and will not leave until that happens, Lower Nicola Chief Aaron Sam told the Herald.
Neither Polak nor Tegart have the authority to do that.
Sam said BioCentral’s self-imposed moratorium on importing biosolids to its composting facility in
Lower Nicola isn’t good enough because the com-pany can decide to lift it at its will.
Sam — who has been at the premier’s constitu-ency office since the sit-in started last Wednesday — said the protest has been a peaceful one.
Cpl. Joe Duncan from the Kelowna RCMP said police will engage in con-sultation in an attempt to resolve the sit-in peace-fully.
“As it stands right now, we’re just stand-ing by and keeping the peace, ensuring the safety of both protesters as well as the employees at the office,” Duncan said Thursday.
Sam said the situa-
tion between police and protesters has been har-monious throughout the sit-in.
Whether the office’s regular operations are suspended or continu-ing as normal during the sit-in could not be con-firmed by press time.
Two members of the legislative assembly protective services staff were dispatched to the office late last week to safeguard the premise and the information contained there, clerk of committees Kate Ryan-Lloyd said.
They have been rotat-ing shifts to ensure one staffer is in the office at all times during this pro-test, she said.
From Page 1 ‘‘‘Right now the priority is to move the occupants out of the offi ce and then we’ll sit down and talk.’
— FRASER-NICOLA MLA JACKIE TEGART
Sit-in continues at premier’s West Kelowna offi ce
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HERALD OPINION
A habit ablaze: giving up the nicotine
The other day, someone asked me how quitting smoking was going.
That day, up until that exact moment, it was going fine.
Then, as I inhaled annoyingly clean air, I had the strongest urge to scream so loud dogs in Merritt would hear me.
My pen somehow morphed into a cigarette before my eyes and it took all my willpower to not light the end and take a drag of the blue ink.
That was day 11. Now it’s day 17.This isn’t the longest I’ve gone
without smoking since I started and it’s definitely not my first kick at the can.
It’s my third attempt in two years and my second time writing about it.
The last time I took a figurative pen to paper to talk about the hellish task, I was three months into my first attempt and lying about how much I was cheating.
I wrote about fictional characters like Tyler Durden and the Pink Ladies looking suave when they lit up, which was obviously the reason for my attraction to the habit — a pop-culture conspiracy.
The second time I tried to quit, I took up “vaping.”
Well, it didn’t work for me — it just made me want a cigarette.
In my current (and, hopefully, last) attempt to kick the nic, I’m not relying on any aids.
I want to learn to not want nico-tine.
I read Allen Carr’s book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Rather than dis-cussing why we shouldn’t smoke, Carr talks about why we do and then proves all those reasons inadequate.
Easy or not, what Carr is trying to do is get us back to where we were: Being a true non-smoker, who no lon-ger sees any benefits in the habit, who pities smokers rather than envies them.
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Environmental issues not just for hippies
Tomorrow is all about the earth.
Earth Day was started by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 after he witnessed a mas-sive oil spill in Santa Bar-bara, Calif. the year prior.
Inspired by the power of people he saw in action during student protests
against the Vietnam War, Nelson went to work gathering information, resources and people to push the environment to the top of the political agenda in the U.S.
With a staff of 85 people behind him, Nel-son led the first wave of Earth Day events across America with more than 20 million people showing their support and rallying in massive demonstrations to raise the profile of air and water pollution.
These events helped to re-shape the thinking around environmental issues and turned them into political ones.
“Environmental issues” is, of course, a big umbrel-
la with a huge array of subjects under it.
In the 1970s, people took on anything and everything they wanted to, from power plants to factories to dumps to pes-ticides to habitat loss.
In 1990, Earth Day went global.
This was right around the time the Exxon Valdez oil spill, environmental contamination from the Chernobyl disaster and deforestation in the Ama-zon were making head-lines worldwide.
Two years later, the United Nations held its first Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero.
These days, environ-mental topics are more
prominent than ever. Air quality, water
preservation, pesticide use and species loss are all on today’s political agenda, joined, of course, by a litany of other issues, including one very promi-nent one here in Merritt’s collective backyard.
The theme of Earth Day this year is “It’s our turn to lead.”
How appropriate as communities across the country — including Mer-ritt — join together to support the David Suzuki Foundation Blue Dot Movement.
However, the message every year is ultimately the same: make every day Earth Day.
Even small acts of envi-ronmental responsibility every day can add up.
It’s all about harm reduction. You can go as drastic as trying out the 100-mile diet — where you can only eat things grown within 100 miles of you — to keeping it simple and taking your bike to work.
While Earth Day does its part to raise awareness for environmental issues, I’d argue Earth Day is growing because the num-ber of people who are thinking about the envi-ronment and its protec-tions is growing.
Environmental issues aren’t just for hippies any-more.
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Facilities like Hillside Centre are still essential to mental-health care — but more needs to be done to ensure the safety of staff, said Terry Lake.
The health minister for the prov-ince said the psychiatric centre just south of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has “a very tough popu-lation” of patients with extreme mental-health issues — and the potential for violent incidents.
It’s why there will now be a secu-rity guard presence, out of uniform but at the site, round-the-clock after another nurse was attacked by a patient in the centre.
Lake said his ministry, along with the B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) and the province’s health authorities, will be taking a hard look at the care model of psychi-atric facilities to determine if they continue to fit the type of care
needed in today’s society. Speaking alongside Lake to
reporters at the centre Friday, BCNU president Gayle Duteil said she was pleased with the decision because it’s essential for all nurs-ing staff to be able to go to work, provide care and go home without having to be concerned for their safety.
She said another area to be looked at will be staffing levels in
the facilities. In the past, the BCNU has raised concerns about the num-ber of staff working at Hillside.
The nursing contingent is pre-dominantly women.
The ministry and nurses union recently attended a health-care symposium that led to an agree-ment to look at four psychiatric facilities in B.C. to identify ways to reduce violence.
Hillside is one of the four chosen
and, Lake said, the goal is to get that program started quickly.
“The review into this incident will support this action plan. The plan will be complete and made public by early summer,” he said.
Explaining the need for facilities like Hillside, Lake said one need only look to the U.S. to see how its prison system has “become a mental-health system.”
However, he added, helping the patients regain their health and “getting them to a better place is extremely difficult.”
Duteil said the nurse attacked last week was treated at RIH and is home recovering.
WorkSafeBC and Interior Health Authority are conducting investigations into the incident.
Hillside has had ongoing issues with violence toward nursing staff.
In 2013, for example, there were 64 incidents at the 44-bed facility.
Last December, one nurse was attacked twice in a week.
Security guards planned for Hillside CentreBy Dale Bass
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Vehicles stopping in a no-stopping zone outside of McDonald’s and Tim Hortons on River Ranch Road have one Merritt resident up in arms.
Ed Zimmerman told council at its regular meeting on April 14 the no-stopping signs on River Ranch Road need to be changed.
“The signs have got to be moved up to the driveways,” he said. “The signs have got to be larger and they got to spell out for people that there’s no stopping here.”
Zimmerman told council this has been a problem for more than a decade.
Tennis club lease
renewed
City council unani-mously approved a three-year lease agreement of the Merritt Tennis Com-plex to the Merritt Tennis Club at a rate of $1 per year. The club is respon-
sible for applicable taxes and maintenance costs, and producing annual financial statements.
Members of the public have free access to the facility.
The new lease expires April 13, 2018.
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tax exemption
An appeal from the Merritt Curling Club saw council grant it full tax exemption status at its regular meeting last Tuesday.
Under the permis-sive tax exemption policy passed last June, the club would have paid property taxes for the portion of its facility that sells alcohol.
In a letter to council, the club stated that as it is a non-profit organization, it needs the revenue from its bar to cover operating costs.
Staff recommended the exemption and council approved it unanimously.
Parking issue leads council briefsCouncil approves
pavement painting contract
City council approved a five-year pavement line painting contract with Alpine Line Paint-ing worth approximately $200,000.
The previous con-tract wasn’t set to expire until 2016, but the pre-vious contractor chose to terminate the con-tract during an optional year.
Public works man-ager Sean Boven told council the line painting should be completed in about three weeks’ time.
Of the four ten-ders received, Alpine’s $200,000 contract was the cheapest.
In 2014, the City of Merritt paid approxi-mately $30,000 for pave-ment line painting.
This contract is for services from 2015 to 2019 and will cost about $42,000 per year.
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The regulatory body for B.C. pharmacists hasn’t given up on its agenda to ban pharma-cies from handing out loyalty reward points on drug purchases, or to eventually ban cigarette sales.
A ban imposed by the College of Pharma-cists of B.C. was struck down in B.C. Supreme Court last summer, but an appeal filed by the college will be heard in December.
The college argued loyalty points are a powerful lure for con-sumers that can alter their medication buying habits and potentially harm their health. It
was fought in court by major supermarket chains.
The judge in the trial ruled the ban on all loyalty incentives was “unreasonable” and concerns raised were “illogical.”
College spokes-man Mykle Ludvigsen wouldn’t comment on the grounds for appeal.
One of the objec-tions raised was that insured patients who don’t pay out of pocket might continue to refill a prescription after they no longer need it just to collect more points and the unneeded drugs may be abused or diverted to the illegal drug trade.
Tobacco sales by pharmacies are also in
the crosshairs of the college.
Ludvigsen said there is no specific timeline to impose such a ban but the college’s 2014 stra-tegic plan calls for the board to pursue one.
“We’re the only province that currently allows cigarettes to be sold in premises that contain a pharmacy,” he said.
“It completely goes against the pharmacy as a health centre. To sell things we know kill you at the front of the store and to sell things that help you get better at the back of the store is a bit of a conflict.”
Retail chains have warned they would challenge the college’s jurisdiction if it moves
to impose a tobacco ban and would also sue the college and its directors for lost sales that would result if their stores can’t sell cigarettes.
“The law does not take a positive view of activities which rep-resent unwarranted restraint of trade,” says a letter to the col-lege sent last fall by executives from London Drugs, Overwaitea Food Group, Safeway, Rexall, Sobey’s and Thrifty Foods.
Pharmacy loyalty points, tobacco sales targetedBy Jeff NagelBLACK [email protected]
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Students get feet wet in water polo introduction
Goalie Mina Martin shouts out for a teammate to pass to after making a save during the water polo scrimmage with her classmates.
Diamond Vale Grade 6 students Chase Cooke and Jade Duncan race to the ball in a scrimmage on Thursday as classmate Laura Belliveau looks on. Photos by Emily Wessel/Herald
Katie Klassen was all smiles in the water.
Violet Hopkins chases the ball on a breakaway.
With plenty of splashing and passing, it was all fun and games for Collettville and Diamond Vale students on Thursday.
Students in Grades 4 to 6 from the elementary schools strapped on their caps and jumped in the water for the second of two sessions intended to introduce them to water polo.
The students did some dryland training in their school gyms and learned the game the day prior to jump-ing into the pool.
Come Thursday, the
students geared up thanks to the Merritt Otters swim club, which received a $2,000 grant to purchase water polo equipment.
Purchasing the equip-ment was the first step in establishing a water polo program in Merritt, Pacific-Sport Interior co-ordinator Josée Warren said.
Warren said the orga-nization is looking into a coaching clinic in the sum-mer and plans to start the local water polo program in the fall.
BC Water Polo director Gabor Toth made the trip from Surrey to Merritt to help put on the clinic.
By Emily WesselTHE HERALD
Jade Duncan prepares for a pass as teammate Laura Belliveau swims up behind.
The Merritt Secondary School girls rugby team left the foot on the gas pedal last Wednesday, defeat-ing the Westsyde Whundas 57-10 in their first game of the season at home.
The Panthers’ offence struck right from the get-go and jumped out to an early 5-0 lead almost immediately after the game began.
The floodgates opened after that.
MSS went on to score seven more tries in the first half through some slick passes and lightning speed, cutting through Westsyde’s defensive line like a hot knife through butter.
The only thing lacking for the Panthers in the first half was their kicking, as they failed to complete any two-point conversion kicks on their eight chances.
With victory essentially assured by a 40-0 lead at the half, coach
Molly Brigden switched up her lines, moving players to positions they don’t normally play to give them a different perspective on the
game.“And to realize what their coun-
terparts do on the field,” Brigden said by way of reasoning for switch-
ing up the girls’ positions.Merritt came out hard again in
the second half, but Westsyde was able to stifle the attack for a good chunk of time before conceding a ninth straight try.
That seemed to give Westsyde a boost as they marched down the field shortly after and broke the goose egg with a try of their own.
The score now 45-5, Westsyde kept the play in the Panthers’ zone, leading to a second consecutive try to make it 45-10 midway through the half.
But MSS responded quickly with back-to-back tries — converting on one of them — before the final whistle blew.
Right out of the gate, MSS took advantage of the Whundas — a new team this year, having been absent from high school rugby for about six years, Brigden said.
“We told our girls you play our rugby, not their rugby,” Brigden said, noting the team didn’t hesitate to engage in tackles.
She also lauded her team’s posi-tioning and communication.
Panthers Giulia Caccialupi and Danika Potter each scored a trio of tries in the game.
Tallying her first three tries of the season, Potter said her game was better than it has been so far.
Potter also said she felt her team used their mauls to their advantage in the win on Wednesday.
Keisha Henry scored two tries in the game, and Alison McElveen, Kelsey-Ann Ware and Keely Wey-mouth each scored one of the Pan-thers’ other five tries.
Despite the offensive explosion, MSS was an abysmal 1-11 on con-version kicks in the game, which was essentially what cost them their season opener against Valleyview.
The Panthers next played host to the NorKam Saints on Monday, going into the match with a 1-1 record.
The results of that game were not available by the Merritt Herald’s press deadline.
Panthers maul Westsyde in blowout gameBy Michael Potestio
Inside centre Kelsey-Ann Ware runs in the Panthers’ fifth try of the senior girls’ rugby game against Westsyde last Wednesday. Michael Potestio/Herald
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Reporting to the Education Department Manager, the Education Coordinator’s primary role will be to assist in the planning, developing and administrating the affairs of the Lower Nicola Indian Band (LNIB) Education programs and services.DUTIES AND TASKS:
Perform all duties and responsibilities in accordance with the Lower Nicola Band policies, regulations and procedures and as directed by the Education Manager;Assist in providing support services to the Lower Nicola Indian Band students, Parents and Teachers in the Public School system; Assist in processing Post Secondary Education Applications for education assistance;Assist in providing academic advising to post-secondary students;Maintain and update the confidential Education filing system;In consultation with the Education Department Manager and the Director of Human Services, develop and amend as appropriate a short term and long term education plan for LNIB;Liaises with students, parents and Public School Teachers; Preparation of reports to the Department of Indian Affairs and funding agencies in consultation with the Education Manager;Maintain a database of the training and education of the Lower Nicola Indian Band Community.
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