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Sixty-six wildland firefighting recruits from around the province tested their mettle last week during the second of three week-long bootcamps run out of Merritt’s Provincial Wildfire Training Centre.
Nearly 200 new recruits who will work as wildland firefighters around B.C. will graduate from the bootcamps
this month.Each week-long training session
begins with a rigorous fitness test, which determines admissibility to the rest of the week.
It also sets the tone for the physi-cally and mentally challenging week ahead.
Although 24-year-old recruit Holly Stewart worked as a wildland firefight-er twice before, she said preparing to work in the field each season is tough.
“Mentally and physically, it’s demanding,” she said.
She said one of the biggest chal-lenges is “seeing how hard you can work and pushing a little bit beyond that.”
But with hard work comes reward, and Stewart said the rewarding aspect of doing such a tough job keeps her coming back each summer.
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“I just thought it seemed like a really interesting and chal-lenging job and I’m sort of interested in forestry and it’s a great way to work outdoors and challenge yourself,” she said.
In general, each day of bootcamp is about 12 hours, beginning with fitness training from 6 to 7 a.m.
“It’s been everything from running as fast as you can to carrying lots of gear around to just strength training exer-cises,” Stewart said.
After that, recruits do classroom training for most of the day. Subjects covered in the classroom include fire behaviour, fire weather and fuel types.
For Stewart, that classroom training has shed light on the differ-ences between fighting forest fires in B.C. and in Alberta.
“The terrain is a lot different from the majority of Alberta, so that’s been really excit-ing for me, at least, to learn about different terrain and different fuel types and different tree identification,” she said.
Recruits do field exercises in the late afternoon or evening, depending on the day’s work.
Halfway through the bootcamp, training was a day-long field exercise that involved laying hoses (which weigh an estimated 80 pounds), navigation challenges and hand-digging fireguards in a relay course.
“It was just as much stuff as you can do probably in like nine
hours of just running around a forest,” she said, adding that was her favourite part of training so far.
Perhaps the most vital lesson the new recruits learn in boot-camp is the importance of effective communi-cation and teamwork in the field, with nearly every exercise involving working with a strike team of five, and work-ing with other teams on group exercises.
“We’ve just gradu-ally gotten better and better at working together and better at being efficient with tasks and everyone knows what they’re doing right off the bat,” Stewart said. “We’ve been really good about trading off leadership roles and also learning opportunities, making sure if someone is a little bit weaker in one
area they get to really work on that and prac-tise, whether it’s setting up the pumps or navi-gating.”
A Fernie ski patroller in the winter, Stewart said she’s impressed with the calibre of the week-long camp in pre-paring new recruits for the summer ahead.
“I don’t know who’s been working harder — the students or the instructors,” she said.
New recruit boot-camp chair Ryan Chapman has run the camp for the last 15 years, and said each year’s exercises are designed to bring out the recruits’ teamwork.
“We’ve done a lot of leadership and group dynamics exercises,” Stewart said.
As far as the biggest reward: “Just finishing the day, having com-pleted something with a
good group of people.”Stewart said the
instructors were fantas-tic and she felt well pre-pared to head into the field for the summer.
“It’s amazing how quickly you get to know your group of five people,” she said.
They practised look-ing for smouldering fires that could come back up, extinguishing a small fire.
“Good communica-tion is really important because you want to know what everybody else is doing around you,” she said.
The final bootcamp for this forest fire season wraps up this week. After their final exam, the recruits are placed in stations around the province, including in Merritt.
The $4 million Provincial Wildfire Training Centre on
Airport Road is in its second year of opera-tions.
“It’s been positive and really good. It’s been a lot of new stuff to learn and working with new people and working hard. It’s defi-nitely been a busy, hec-tic week but it’s been really fun.”
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From the Herald archives: May, 1980
Police man-
power request not approved
A request for additional man-power by the Merritt RCMP was not approved by the city council Thursday night in its regular meet-ing. The council instructed the RCMP to first have the request endorsed by divi-sional headquar-ters.
The Merritt RCMP has eight rural men and eight municipal men. In some cities, the two forces are split. But in Merritt, they both spend much of their time in the city where the crime rate is higher.
Since the rural crime rate has dropped, Merritt lost one of its rural officers, even though he patrolled in the town. Merritt Staff Sergeant Don Walker requested the council to replace the rural man the town lost.
“Our budget doesn’t get that larger every year and every time there’s an addi-tional man, it cre-ates quite a burden on the revenue over the year,” said Mayor Bob Baird. “I have no reason why we do not need another man, but the question is pay-ing for it.”
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Higher than normal expense totals for some city employees highlight the City of Merritt’s recently released annual Statement of Financial Information.
The document lists the salaries and expenses for employees who earn more than $75,000 as well as all members of council for the year.
Jerry Sucharyna, the economic development manager who parted ways with the city a few months ago, was paid nearly $83,000 in 2014.
Sucharyna, however,
incurred approximately $15,000 in expenses — more than twice as much as the next high-est city manager on the list, which was planning and development man-ager Sean O’Flaherty with $6,241 expensed.
The city’s financial services manager Ken Ostraat said most of that $15,000 stems from a trip to Forth Worth, Texas, that Sucharyna took to attend an inter-national economic development confer-ence.
Chief administrative officer Allan Chabot said the trip was justi-fied as a training and networking opportunity
with the hope of iden-tifying some economic opportunities for the City of Merritt.
“He attended a number of conferences, seminars [and] training events,” Chabot said of Sucharyna’s expenses.
These conferences are usually attended to learn better ways to attract new business to one’s community, Ostraat said.
Going to a confer-ence or class must be justified and cleared by the CAO, he added.
“He also travelled a great deal while he was here representing the city to neighbouring jurisdictions,” Chabot
said.Merritt’s previous
economic develop-ment manager, James Umpherson, had a salary of $78,175 in 2012 with $4,780 in expenses.
“I think they had dif-ferent focuses, different approaches to economic development,” Chabot said.
He said the expenses were within reason.
“[It was] not incon-sistent with what the budgeted amount would have been — maybe slightly over,” Chabot said.
Travel expenses for the economic develop-ment office in 2014
were budgeted at $13,500, Ostraat said.
Chabot’s salary was about $79,400 last year, and he incurred more than $20,400 in expenses.
About $15,000 of that was incurred from the fact the city reimbursed him for relocating from Fernie — where he last worked — to Merritt when he was hired.
Ostraat said Chabot paid commission on the sale of his house in Fernie, something that can cost more than $10,000.
In 2012, then-CAO Matt Noble earned about $126,251 with
expenses of $5,872. The CAO position
sat vacant for a portion of 2013.
Ostraat said he expects Chabot’s 2015 expenses to be similar to the 2012 amounts.
The Statement of Financial Information is a requirement of the Financial Information Act, and must be approved by council before being filed with the provincial govern-ment.
It includes informa-tion such as expense reimbursements for attending the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities confer-ence.
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Aspen Planers closed for two weeks
About 150 mill employees are out of work at Aspen Planers as the company has shut down production at its two Merritt sites for the immediate future.
The mill ceased sawmill and planer operations May 4 and the company intends to have it remain that way for two weeks, reopen-ing May 18.
However, the closure could extend past that, said Aspen Planers vice president Bruce Rose.
“We’re monitoring what the situation [is] in terms of both log supply and [what] the lumber markets are on a weekly basis,” Rose said.
How many of the 150 workers will see their jobs again when the mill does reopen depends on whether or not operations restart at the same levels they were before the closure.
“If we go back to operation at the same scale, we would need
the same employees back at work. I guess it depends on what the operational plan is when we come back,” Rose said.
Aspen Planers hasn’t determined that yet as it will depend on what the market looks like and their log supply.
The closure was brought on by con-strained timber supply in the region and a poor lumber market, Rose said.
“Lumber pricing is down about 25, 26 per cent from what it was at the beginning of the year,” Rose said.
He said that as of May 5, the benchmark price was $252 U.S. per thousand board-feet.
Rose said there’s a variety of perspectives as to why prices are down, such as increased supply in North Amer-ica and bad weather in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2015 that restricted demand.
“Those are some of the issues that have really weakened the price and the returns
from the market on our products,” Rose said.
Another hindrance Rose pointed out is a likely increase in export taxes from five to 10 per cent in June, a conse-quence of lumber prices falling below a certain number as stated in the Softwood Lumber Agreement with the U.S.
Rose said the Chi-nese market for lumber
has been down as well. The 150 people out
of work isn’t inclusive of logging contractors, whose operations have also been affected by the closure, but not completely halted.
“We can’t keep bringing in [logs] at the pace we were bringing it in, obviously, so it’s curtailed significantly, but there is still some movement of logs,”
Rose said.Some employees
remain at Aspen Plan-ers in Merritt doing miscellaneous work, Rose said.
The Tolko mill in town is still operational for now, but a represen-tative said they’re also watching the market closely..
“We don’t expect this to be the crash we saw in 2008/2009,” said
Tolko plant manager Clayton Storey.
“If things do contin-ue to slide, lumber mar-kets may not support the continued operation at some locations at cur-rent capacity levels.”
He added that Tolko has curtailed operations at one of their mills in Quesnel. “We do our best to try to keep the future of our business in mind,” he said.
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2015 fi rst quarter policing activity reportThe following is
an excerpt from the City of Merritt regu-lar council meeting agenda from May 12, 2015.
Merritt detachment policing activity report, first quarter: January to March,
2015
This format is being implemented by the Merritt detachment to provide a quarterly update to mayor and council. Our goal is to provide an overview of some of the projects we have been working on and some of the types of investigations that we have been involved in.
This quarterly report reflects just a represen-tative sampling of our policing activities for the first quarter of 2015.
General dutyDuring the first
quarter of 2015, general duty responded to 1,345 calls for service.
Regular patrols are being made in the downtown area, which have resulted in the arrests of intoxicated persons and the seizure of significant amounts of alcohol. This trend is consistent during spe-cific dates throughout the month.
During this quarter, Merritt detachment
members have processed 176 prisoners.
Of note, we have received 89, 911 emer-gency calls. All 911 calls are investigated to deter-mine if an emergency exists. In this quarter 85 of those calls were determined to be false.
Merritt officers continue to be busy investigating impaired driving offences. In this quarter, 23 drivers had their driving privileges suspended for either 24 hours, three days, seven
days, 30 days, or 90 days.
Nineteen of these investigations were con-ducted within the City of Merritt while four investigations were con-ducted outside the city limits.
Of the 23 investiga-tions: 12 local people were charged while the other 11 were not from Merritt.
Some examples are: Lower Nicola, Kamloops, Delta, Cherry Creek, Fort
St. John, Mamit Lake, Penticton, Abbotsford, Lillooet, and Surrey.
Central Interior Traffic Services also processed 22 drivers for impaired driving investi-gations.
Eleven of these investigations occurred within the city limits of Merritt while the other 18 were drivers from around the province.
There are a total of 24 RCMP members filling 24 available posi-tions.
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DANCE OFF Brigham Young University was in Merritt last Monday to perform Living Legends, a show that celebrates Latin American, Native American, and Polynesian song and dance, as performed by descendants of these cultures.(Pictured) Students perform the New Zealand Te Wa o Tumatauenga, He Korero Riri. Michael Potestio/Herald
The Merritt Library was filled with about 30 people last Thursday evening for an information session on the cycle of our city’s potable water.
It was mentioned more than once during the evening that the reason there was such a high level of interest in this aspect of public works was the recent biosolids controversy.
However the host, superintendent of public works Darrell Finnigan, made it clear early on in the meeting that controversy wasn’t the purpose of the presentation.
“When I was called by the library to do this presentation, they approached me on doing biosolids, and I was like ‘heck no,’” he laughed. “We know nothing about what’s going on and we don’t want to touch on that.”
Instead, he gave an overview of the city’s water system, from where it comes from to where it ends up, and all the stops along the way.
One of the stats that surprised many
of the audience members was the amount of water that Merrittonians use as compared with the national average.
Where the average Merritt resident uses 230 gallons of water per day, the average Canadian uses only 149 gallons.
Finnigan attributed that primarily to water sprinkler systems, which create a literal drain on the system.
Asked if he had one wish that Merritt
residents could grant him, Finnigan said it would be to decrease their water usage. “Every little bit helps,” he said.
Finnigan also underlined the fact that all of Merritt’s water is groundwater, and the only thing added is chlorine, as mandated by the Interior Health Authority.
As far as the waste treatment goes, he said that Merritt was unusually lucky that it does not have any organic or metal manufacturing in the area that makes wastewater more difficult to process.
Attendees said they were thankful for the information session.
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[email protected] if he had one wish that Merritt residents could grant
him, Finnigan said it would be to decrease their water usage.
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So there’s a new party in Alberta. After forty-plus years of the Progressive Conservatives in power, the NDP did what even the Wildrose Party could not. Please indulge an ex-
Albertan’s musings on this topic.
A lot of people are shocked, and for good reason. This is an accom-plishment that, until last week, was thought to be impossible, and the media, particularly the CBC, was not shy about reporting this with more than a little exu-berant flair.
But if you look at how Alberta typically votes, it really isn’t that crazy. Here’s what did not hap-pen: Alberta did not all of a sudden turn from a conservatively-minded
province to a liberally-minded one. If you look at the popular vote, those numbers tell a much less interesting story than a sudden Albertan change of heart.
Centre-left parties like the Liberals and New Democrats have done fairly well in Alberta, historically, getting around thirty to forty per cent of the vote in almost every election over the past several years.
The combined centre-left vote in last week’s election was an admittedly high but not particularly
remarkable 44 per cent. Unremarkable except that the NDP, led by the strangely-competent Rachel Notley, got a whop-ping 40 per cent of that, leaving the Liberals with a miniscule four per cent.
On the other side of the political spectrum, the cen-tre-left parties of Wildrose and PC fought over a pret-ty much equal share of the majority vote. Don’t worry, it’s the same old Alberta we all know and love, it’s just that they aren’t all rallying behind one conservative party, and the NDP took
advantage of that.Also at play here is
that the popular vote does not equate to number of seats won in the legisla-ture, skewing the results in favour of the NDP.
The problem with that rather simple explanation is that it doesn’t make for great headlines. Just know that when the CBC glee-fully tells its audience that this has been “50 years in the making” or whatever weird, obtuse, anti-West, subjective headline they have leading this story, raise an eyebrow.
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VIC-TORIA – Albertans have always laughed about their long-standing reputation as a reckless, immature society.
The clas-sic bumper sticker, now available as a T-shirt or coffee cup in several varia-tions, states: “Please God, give us one more oil boom, we promise not to p--- it away this time.”
Now they’ve thrown out the govern-ment that finally tried to stop blowing money like a roughneck fresh out of the bush. Jim Prentice had the gall to propose raising income taxes for high wage earners, doing away with former Alberta treasurer Stockwell Day’s sig-nature flat tax.
In response, voters have abruptly replaced the 44-year Progressive Con-servative dynasty with an upstart NDP that wants to tax the rich and corpora-tions even more. Facing an oil slump, layoffs and a huge structural deficit in Alberta’s lavish public service, NDP premier-elect Rachel Notley is com-mitted to a 50-per-cent increase in the minimum wage and another “review” of resource royalties.
One headline in a national paper summed it up: “Go home, Alberta. You’re drunk.”
In the sober days after the election, a few truths emerge. Alberta hasn’t been a fiscally conservative, small-government place for a long time. Among other things, it has ratcheted up teacher and nurse wages across the country.
Alberta is broke, again, and even the NDP is afraid to resort to a sales tax.
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Dear Editor,
Tom Fletcher’s “B.C. Views” about the BCTF are mainly flights of fancy. He has shown contempt for the BCTF in his columns over the years, including his latest attack, without solid foundation.
Jim Iker, presi-dent of the BCTF, looked like nothing had changed because nothing has changed. The B.C. Liberal gov-ernment continues to underfund education and funds students
$1,000 less per student than the national aver-age.
Mr. Fletcher feels vindicated in his con-tinued attacks against the BCTF because the B.C. Court of Appeal made a ruling Mr. Fletcher agreed with. However, Mr. Fletcher didn’t point out that the ruling was not unanimous and that one judge sided very strongly with the BCTF position.
Mr. Fletcher is wrong when he asserts that the BCTF wants a trip back in time. The
BCTF already got that trip back in time when the B.C. Supreme Court ruled in 2011, and the government did not appeal, that Bill 28 from 2002 was unconstitutional.
The Liberal gov-ernment agreed to pay out $105 million to teachers because the government had acted under an illegal law for nine years until the law was ruled unconstitutional. This is hardly a “baseless grievance.”
His assertion about how special needs stu-
dents are assisted in schools is both callous and uninformed.
Somehow, Mr. Fletcher knows more about running schools than teachers, school administrators, and district administrators, all of whom agree that mainstreaming stu-dents is good for spe-cial needs students.
Mr. Fletcher’s flights of fancy really take off though when he tries to relive the bargaining and strike of last year. Money was not a key issue. The key issue was spe-
cial needs support.Sadly, the deal
BCTF did agree to for student support has been twisted by many districts around the province so that the money suppos-edly going to sup-port special needs is being dumped into their general budgets without so much as a whimper from the B.C. Liberal govern-ment.
The BCTF is, in part, a social justice union. Teachers walk into classrooms where children have come
from all over the world, where some children come to school hungry, ques-tioning their sexual identity, abused, suf-fering from drug or alcohol abuse, or so abandoned that the only adult they can talk to without fear is their teacher. In that “real world,” that Mr. Fletcher is not part of, it would be irrespon-sible of the BCTF not to be involved in social justice.
Peter VogtMerritt
Fletcher’s fl ights of fancy get the BCTF and teachers all wrong
The minimum wage hike is a pet policy of Canada’s labour federa-tions, which somehow remain convinced that poverty can be elimi-nated by state order.
On the positive side, Notley has promised to end corporate and union donations to political parties, as has already been done federally. B.C. should be next, but the gravy train of business donations is too tempting for our nominally Lib-eral government.
Here at the B.C. legislature, an NDP staffer passed out cans of Orange Crush to cel-
ebrate. NDP leader John Horgan pronounced himself “ecstatic,” and hastened to assure reporters that Notley is “as competent as she sounds.”
Notley now has to sort through a caucus that includes typical NDP place-holders, college students and union staff running in faint-hope constituencies. Soon after the result,
the party pulled down its website platform and candidate biographies, as Notley began phon-ing energy companies to reassure them Alberta will be “A-OK” on her watch.
Horgan likes to describe the “capital flight” from new NDP governments as if it’s just a show put on by big business.
Plummeting stock
prices and relocation of corporate offices are all staged, according to the party line, nothing to do with actual investment conditions created by NDP policies. This fic-tion is all Horgan dares to say publicly, because it’s what his party base devoutly believes.
Besides, they’re only branch offices of multi-national oil companies like Shell, Horgan said.
He used his favourite Tommy Douglas quote, about the bad news of a big oil company leaving. “The good news is, the oil is staying here.”
B.C.’s natural gas might be staying here too. Horgan insists he supports a natural gas export industry, but his party seems more con-cerned with an ascend-ing Green Party, and an urban base that believes
you can run a resource economy on windmills and solar panels.
Notley supports twin-ning the TransMountain pipeline, while Horgan continues to insist he has no opinion on the project Adrian Dix so memorably opposed.
The Alberta NDP has a steep learning curve ahead. The B.C. NDP has a couple of years to see if the appearance of a like-minded Alberta government is a boost for them, or a cautionary tale for voters.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]
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Now that Hillary Clinton has publicly announced her intention to stand as a Demo-cratic presidential can-didate, many political pundits would dive into her chances.
Of some relevance in the quizzing process by party bosses could be the baggage that her husband carried, while president, by his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
While Mr. Clinton’s fall from grace seemed sudden, it was perhaps developed over time.
The whole White House situation was a tremendous embarrass-ment for then-President Clinton.
He was later sus-pected of perjury, for denying the details and extent of the relation-ship, and became only the second president to be impeached.
At a cost of mil-lions of dollars, he was investigated and tried. Though he was ultimately acquitted of the charges, the whole scandal tarnished his reputation, and possi-bly had adverse effects later on vice-president Al Gore’s failed presi-dential run.
Adultery is the breaking of the Seventh commandment and as such, it is sin in God’s sight.
We don’t hear a lot about sin these days. This does not mean it has diminished or ceased to exist as the transgression of God’s holy law. It’s just that we don’t hear the word much.
I am not suggest-ing we should focus on guilt and condemna-tion. Even the biblical teaching about sad con-sequences of sinning should be presented in the context of God’s
love.We should warn
people heading for hell only with tears in our eyes.
We have tried to minimize sin by giving it new names: “Fornica-tion” has been replaced by “making love” or “having fun.” Adultery is now reclassified as “fling” or “affair.”
But do we pause to see sin to be the serious matter it is in the eyes of God?
Sin is rebellion. It breaks relationships and fellowship with God and man.
Sin mars and scars the creative beauty of God that He intended for us to enjoy. Sin is bad and tragic. As such, we should hate sin and abhor evil.
There has been a rapid change of climate in the way adultery is viewed in our time.
Those who commit adultery are no longer considered to be in any way morally bankrupt.
There is a sense that we are entitled to a good life, that “we only go around once,” that life is hard and that we should grab all the gusto we can get before kicking the bucket.
Some think that the Bible is anti-sex. This is a warped view.
The Bible prohibits sexual relationships outside marriage but celebrates God’s good gift within marriage between a husband and a wife.
Sex is more than a physical thing. It binds two people into a close psychological and spiri-tual unity.
By prohibiting extramarital sex, God has protected our most intimate human rela-tionship.
Marriage relation-ships and our relation-ship with God are exclusive relationships.
We can have only one God, as we can have only one spouse in one’s lifetime. In the Bible, a broken rela-tionship with God is compared to a broken marriage.
The first two com-mandments and the Seventh Commandment have a special relation-ship.
Idolatry – worship-ping any god other than the Lord God – is spiri-tual adultery.
It is not surprising that, in the context of the Second Command-ment, God describes Himself as a “jealous God.”
In the same way, when people break the Seventh Command-ment, they sin against God and are also break-ing the first two com-mandments.
God wants the best for His people and He knows we don’t always understand what that is. Sin hasn’t changed regardless of our euphemisms.
The consequences of sin have not changed in spite of our accom-modating attitude. Let’s not rationalize or justify our failures.
Let’s be honest enough to acknowledge the truth, courageous enough to face the facts, and spiritually tender to repent.
If we pretend we are righteous when our hearts are not pure, we condemn ourselves, but if we confess our sin, God forgives us.
The Gospels affirm that, even in most high-profile public celebrity cases, redemption is possible.
King David in the Old Testament is often cited as an example in this regard.
Divine forgiveness does not mean the con-sequences of betrayal would immediately
go away. David was forgiven, but it cost the life of his infant son.
Finally, it is possible to withstand the subtle sexual temptations that people in high places in society face.
Joseph, in the court
of Pharaoh, encour-ages us to believe that sexual temptations can be overcome.
God knows what is best and what is best is that sex be reserved within marriage – the relationship of an
exclusive commitment.
Narayan Mitra is the pastor of Merritt Bap-tist [email protected]
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Sin mars and scars the creative beauty of God that He intended for us to enjoy. Sin is bad and tragic.
As such, we should hate sin and abhor evil.
The views expressed in
this column don’t necessarily reflect those of the Merritt Herald and its staff. The Herald welcomes qualified writers with views on this or other faiths to submit their work to [email protected], to be considered for publication.
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Merritt runners tame the BMO Vancouver Half MarathonBy Ian WebsterTHE [email protected]
The weather condi-tions were perfect and the scenery breathtak-ing for the three Nicola Valley runners who took on the BMO Vancouver Half Marathon on May 3.
Merritt’s Mark Nendick, Colleen Mullin and Stacey Krajci were all suc-cessful finishers of the challenging 21-kilometre event that attracted a total of 7,850 partici-pants.
Competing in the men’s 35-39 age group, Nendick finished the half-marathon distance in one hour, 30 minutes and 24 seconds — good for 177th place overall, and 29th in his category.
It was Nendick’s sec-ond BMO Vancouver Half Marathon. Last year, he completed the event in 1:29:47.
“This year’s race went well,” Nendick said. “I was a little bit excited at the beginning and took off a bit fast. I paid for it later on, and had to grind out the last
part of the race.”Nendick went
through the halfway point (10.5 km) in a blistering 42:49, suitable for a 1:25 half-marathon finish. His second half time was 47:35.
“I did the first mile in 6:06, when I should have been running at 6:40 pace,” Nendick said with a laugh. “I learned a bit of a les-son.”
Scheduled to run with Nendick was his regular training partner and fellow Merrittonian, Kevin Black. Unfortu-nately, Black was sidelined a month ago by a nasty foot injury incurred on a trail run the two were doing as part of their build-up for the BMO half.
“It was definitely more challenging to keep at it without Kevin,” Nendick said. “Six days a week is tough. But it is what is. No excuses.”
When Black returns to full health, the two-some are considering trying to qualify for the prestigious 2016 or 2017 Boston Marathon.
“We’ve floated the idea around quite a bit,” Nendick said. “It’s a pretty big commitment. We’ve got to talk it over with our families.”
In the meantime, Nendick is definitely planning to take part in this year’s Merritt Country Run. The win-ner of last’s year’s 10K event, Nendick is look-ing to bump up to the half-marathon distance this time around.
“I’ll try to run my game plan from the BMO in Vancouver,” he said.
Training partners Mullin and Krajci are also planning to do the MCR in June following their recent success in Vancouver.
Competing in the women’s 35-39 age cat-egory, Mullin finished 776th overall and 31st in her division in a time of one hour and 44 minutes.
“It was a good race,” she said. “There was a lot of great energy with the crowds.”
Mullin has been doing half-marathons for more than 10 years,
and only now feels like she knows her pace.
“Three years ago, I broke my watch in a race and had no idea of my pace. It was com-plete panic. Since then, I’ve been doing a lot of runs without a watch and learning to feel my pace and trust myself. It takes a long time.”
Kracji, who didn’t take up running until she hit the age of 40, finished the Vancouver run in 2:32:52. She was quite pleased with her effort, given that she’d never done a spring race before.
“This is the earliest I’ve ever begun train-ing,” she said. “I didn’t put much pressure on myself for time. I just wanted to go out there and enjoy things.”
Mullin, Krajci and good friend Lisa Cavaliere from Merritt all have their sights set on the Whistler Half Marathon on June 6. The setting for that race is at about the same alti-tude as Merritt, and the course is quite flat.
“It’ll be our first time there,” said Krajci.
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It’s going to be a fantastic 2015 Merritt Country Run! So says event spokesperson Colleen Mullin.
“Things are looking great! We have our first title sponsor, a steady stream of volunteers signing up, and lots of individuals and teams registered already.”
This year’s Merritt Country Run takes place on June 14 at Voght Park. The run/jog/walk extravaganza includes a Twice Around The Track event for the wee ones, a 5K run, a 10K and a full-fledged half marathon (21K).
Last year, over 350 participants of all ages took part in the Merritt Country Run.
“We’re thrilled to have Merritt Printing come on board as our premier title sponsor,” Mullin said. “They’ve always been so support-ive.
“The new manager at Canadian Tire and his wife have also been a huge addition, along with their Jumpstart program in support of youth.
“The City of Merritt is looking at partnering
with us in a larger capac-ity next year.
“We’re getting a new wave of volunteers,” Mullin said. “Right now, we’re about halfway to our goal of 100 helpers.”
Anyone interested in lending a hand on June 14 is asked to email [email protected].
Mullin is also excited about this year’s Lifestyle Expo, which will take place on June 13 at the Civic Centre — the same location for race package pickup.
“It’ll run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,” Mullin said. “Runners Sole from Kamloops will be there, along with a whole bunch of fitness vendors.”
Mullin is reminding all groups that the dead-line for registration is this Friday if they’re wanting their team shirts made up by the organizing committee.
“Otherwise, they can just go ahead and arrange for their own shirts,” she said.
Regular registration continues right up until the final week of the race.
Anyone wanting more information about the Merritt Country Run or wishing to register can go to the MRC website: www.merrittcountryrun.ca.
V FOR VICTORY Merritt’s Mark Nendick gives the sign that all is well during the late stages of the BMO Half Marathon in Vancouver on May 3. Nendick was one of three Nicola Valley run-ners who tackled and completed the 21-kilometre event. Photo courtesy of marathonphotos.com
DAT’S A BIG DOG! Diesel, a five-year-old Alaskan malamute took his owner, Merrittonian Lindsay Chenier, out for a run on the weekend. Ian Webster/Herald
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Merchandise for Sale
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A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated con-tainers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT fork-lift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com
Misc. for Sale4 Snow Tires : IT245/75r16, 6bolt for a 1988 to 98 Chev Truck $200 for set. 20’ 5th Wheel Travel Air $3,000.
(250)378-3663 Ask for Roy
SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.
Misc. WantedPrivate Collector Looking toBuy Coin Collections, Silver,Antique Native Art, Estates +Chad: 778-281-0030 in town.
Real Estate
Homes WantedSml log cabin on sml. Acreage west of town/upper nic. Rent
or lease to own. No amenities reqd. Call 604-783-7914 or email [email protected]
Real Estate
LotsFully serviced, fl at city lot in great location. Build or bring
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Rentals
Homes for Rent2000’sqft rancher, 2 bdrm +
den, 1 1/2 bath, w/d incl., private courtyard, pool, n/s, no pets, $1200/mon. Avail June 1st. 250-378-5519
4 Bedroom House W/D, F/S,N/S. $1,300/mth. Move in
ready (250) 378 - 9660
Rentals
Room & BoardRooms to rent and/or room & board. $400/mon. for room.
Room & board negotiable. Seniors or working person pre-ferred. Contact Doug or Donna at 250-378-5688 or [email protected]. No alcohol or
drugs. No Parties
Suites, UpperFor Rent: 3bedrm Upstairs,
Newly Renovated house. $1,000/mth 604-454-4731
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