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The Lower Nicola Indian Band (LNIB) is still far from deciding if it will allow the Kinder Morgan TransMountain oil pipeline expansion through its territory.

LNIB Chief Aaron Sam said the band is waiting to see how things shake out at the federal level, as one of prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau’s campaign promises was to overhaul the National Energy Board’s approval process for new pipelines.

“At this point we’re just waiting for the federal government to get in place completely,” Sam said.

Trudeau will officially become Canada’s 23rd prime minister tomorrow (Nov. 4), the same day he is expected to announce his cabinet.

Last Tuesday the LNIB hosted a two-day First Nations summit regarding the pipeline with senior officials from Kinder Morgan. President Ian Anderson, was in attendance along with several hundred First Nations representatives.

Sam said he greeted Anderson, but didn’t have any substantive discussions with him at the summit.

He said the band has yet to have any in-depth conversations with Kinder Morgan regarding their environmental concerns.

“We’ve had discussions with Kinder Morgan and we need to continue having those discussions,” Sam said.

LNIB undecided on pipeline, waiting for Trudeau government

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Halloween House The residents at 1920 Hill Street once again decked out their home with all sorts of ghoulish decorations for Halloween. Many trick-or-treaters braved the spooky-looking home to retrieve some candy. Resident Susan Dufault estimates about 230 people came to the door. Michael Potestio/Herald

Public input sought on parks planThe development

of the city’s first parks, recreation and cultural master plan is in its infant stages as contractor Lees and Associates collects feedback from the public and city council.

Lees and Associates president Erik Lees made

a presentation to council at a committee of the whole meeting last Wednesday, (Oct.28), showing them Merritt has a fair amount of sport and recreational facilities compared to similar sized communities in B.C.

“However, there are a number of places where the

system could be improved and that’s the exciting part of a plan like this,” Lees told reporters outside the meeting at the civic centre.

Lees also asked what the councillors would like to see this plan address.

Coun. Dave Baker said he’d like to see the plan address accessibility for

seniors, and coun. Mike Goetz said it should also address trends in sport participation and preference.

“At one time rugby was the thing here. Rugby [was] everywhere, and now it’s deader than a doornail,” Goetz said.

Earlier in his presentation, Lees

said that there is a healthy compliment of parks within a 10 minute walk in the north end of town, but a lack of parks in the south-east portion of Merritt.

Coun. Diana Norgaard said she’d like to see a more even distribution of park space.


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God the Word, the World

In last week’s article we learned that the baby boys had been killed, and the wise men and baby Jesus escaped and were both gone without a trace.

I wonder what the priests thought when the baby and all were gone? What had happened to the prophecy?We learn that the king died a few years later. The angel came to Joseph in Egypt and told him to go back as there was no more danger. They went back to Nazareth, not Jerusalem or Bethlehem.

Time went on and no one knew anything of the Messiah, of whom they had such hope for. Jesus grew up quietly in Nazareth with His mother and father.

God’s purpose knows no change or delay. When and where the 69th week of the prophecy came to a close, Jesus walked out to the Jordan river.

Here John the baptist was teaching and baptizing. Jesus asked to be baptized. As He had not sinned. He did not need to be baptized. Jesus did it as an example for you and me who have sinned.

As Jesus came out of the water, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, came and

sat down on Jesus’ head. A voice from Heaven, the Father, spoke, saying, “You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Jesus then began His works to show the world the character of God and His love, mercy, kindness and power.Jesus went about teaching people and healing all who were sick. It did not matter what problems they had, He xed them all.

People loved Jesus, because He loved them. This made the priests and rulers angry for they held a lot of power over the people. The priests dressed, talked and acted so as to make people respect them.

Now they, the rulers, had somebody on Jesus’ track all the time hoping to catch Him saying something against the Romans. Then the priests would report Him so the Romans could put Jesus to death.

People and the disciples still believed, and hoped, that Jesus would drive out the Romans then make them rich, powerful and respected instead. But, that was not God’s plan.

More next week. I pray God be with you.

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Second open house planned for spring of 2016

Coun. Kurt Christopherson said he’d like to see a long-term plan to develop trails along the city’s rivers and preservation riparian areas.

Mayor Neil Menard said the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena could use improvement, noting it is old and the ice surface is not regulation size.

Coun. Ginny Prowal said she’d like to see more trail development in Collettville and Diamond Vale.

On Thursday it was the public’s turn to give the company feedback on the parks plan at an open house.

Lees said he heard members of the public call for increases and improvements to

playing fields and more walking and biking trails.

The information-gathering process is continuing as Lees and Associates is currently conducting a phone survey, as well as offering one online at merritt.ca.

Lees said the company will analyze the information it has gathered from the community and combine it with their own personal judgement to develop pragmatic and affordable recommendations that council can implement over the next few years.

There will be another open house

sometime in February or March where Lees and Associates will present their recommendations.

A finished plan is expected to be presented to council sometime in the spring of 2016, and will highlight potential project ideas, cost estimates and priorities.

“It is not a commitment to spend,” Lees said.

City council awarded the contract to develop the parks plan to Erik Lees and Associates for $54,908 before taxes. The 2015 budget set aside $55,000 for this guiding document.

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Estimated $300,000 required to upgrade airport

It will cost an estimated $300,000 to upgrade Merritt’s airstrip to standards pro-posed by Town Council.

The estimate covers the cost of extending the runway by 600 feet to 3,500 feet, and widening it from 75 feet to 100 feet, resurfacing the present airstrip and paving the additions and park-ing apron.

The cost esti-mate was con-tained in one of a number of recommenda-tions presented to Town Council at the meeting on Thursday, October 26, by the town’s airport committee.

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The Nicola Valley Theatre Society hopes to attract 1,000 members to its ranks in order to acquire government or corporate grants for the movie theatre and performing arts centre it wants to erect downtown.

“When we’re applying for grants that’s one of the big questions they always ask is how many members do you have?” society member Kurt Christopherson said, adding that groups with few members aren’t taken very seriously.

The society’s goal may seem daunting, but the society currently has sold nearly 400 memberships.

He said the society was made up of just a board of 12 directors until last Wednesday (Oct.28) when the society held a public meeting, which

showcased what has been achieved so far thanks to the community’s support.

In a short time,

the society has raised approximately $500,000 for the project, Christopherson said.

Last year the theatre society purchased a piece of property to build the theatre thanks to a

$200,000 loan from the Norgaard family. Recently, the society had some blueprints of the potential building drawn up from an architectural company based in Penticton.

However, there is still a lot of work left to do if the theatre is to become a reality.

The next step for this project is raising $3.2 million to construct the building.

In their fundraising efforts, however, the society is currently facing an inability to offer tax receipts to donors because it is not yet a charity although it is in the process of trying to obtain charitable status, Christopherson said.

Christopherson – who is a city councillor – said the City of Merritt is offering a supportive role in the project in the form of assistance in finding grant opportunities and writing letters

of support for said grants, but is not contributing taxpayer dollars.

In order to attract dollars from corporations, the society is trying to gain enough support and fundraising from residents to prove the project’s worth.

“They want to know that you’re serious, and I think our community is demonstrating that they really want to have this thing,” Christopherson said.

He said the society has kept track of the money it’s received and would make a commitment to refund donations if possible, in the event the project were to never get off the ground.

About 110 people attended the meeting.

Potential user groups currently have about three weeks to submit any feedback they may have regarding revisions to the building blueprints.

Theatre Society closing gap on membership goalMichael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD

(Above) Concept designs for the Nicola Valley Theatre Society presented at a public meeting last Wednesday (Oct. 28). Submitted/Landform Architecture(Below) Members of the public got to peruse some of the designs. Michael Potestio/Herald

The BC Ambassador Program co-ordinator Teresa Dares submitted a letter to council asking for free rental of the civic centre for the program’s week-long competition as incentive to keep

it from moving to Princeton in 2016.

Dares suggested the cost be covered through a grant-in-aid and a contract be in place to solidify the program’s future in Merritt.

The BC Ambassador Program has called Merritt home since its inception in 1999.

Chamber of

commerce manager Etelka Gillespie spoke on Dares’ behalf to council at its regular meeting Tuesday.

She said the program provides a variety of financial benefits to local businesses, estimating that approximately $70,000 is spent in town during that week by the visitors

the event brings in.Coun. Mike Goetz

said he’d like to see financial statements from the program and find out how much it would cost to cover their rent for that week.

He also pointed out that the program had threatened to move away from Merritt in the past.

“A letter with a

threat in it doesn’t work so well, so I would suggest that we don’t do that in the future,” Goetz said.

“I don’t work very good with a gun to my head,” said Merritt Mayor Neil Menard, adding that he understands the threat of leaving can be just a negotiation tactic.

Menard, Goetz and Coun. Prowal suggested this request go through the application process for a grant-in-aid, indicating they’d like to see the program continue in Merritt.

The deadline to apply for a grant-in-aid is the end of November.

Council wants BC Ambassador Program to stay


Unphased by letter from the program co-ordinator, council suggests a grant-in-aid application


Next council meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca

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CPO submits September report to council

The Community Policing Office (CPO)submitted its month-end report for September to city council at it’s last reg-ular meeting in October. The report includes sum-mary updates of the pro-grams the CPO operates.

Speed Watch

Speed Watch had a busy month with both the “Back to School” and “Distracted Driving” campaigns in full swing. Speed Watch set up deployments in four out of five of Merritt’s school zones, in addition to deployments in two areas to specifically monitor distracted drivers. Speed Watch is now using the ‘Speedwatch” app used by many Speed Watch groups in the Lower Mainland. This app enables the Speed Watch group to more easily record the speeds of driv-ers who drive through their deployment.

Foot Patrol

Foot Patrol continues to patrol the downtown core on a weekly basis. Through the summer and when weather allows, patrols are done on bicycle. This fall, we have added a second foot patrol team. We are also

beginning to use the “iPa-trol” app which is used by the Vancouver Police Department to monitor various events such as graffiti, open alcohol/drug consumption, aban-doned vehicles, garbage dumping and others.

Block Watch

Several of our Block Watch groups have held their annual “get-togeth-er” for the participants on their Watch. We have had the privilege of attending these meetings (and even one BBQ) to update groups on cur-rent scams and crimes in Merritt, along with tips on crime prevention and internet safety. Many of our Block Watch groups originally formed to address specific issues in their neighbourhoods that have now been resolved; however, these groups continue to look out for each other and keep the Block Watch active.

Crime Stoppers

Crime Stoppers met this month after breaking for the summer. More Crime Stoppers signs will be placed in high-traffic areas in an effort to encourage the public to send in tips. More work needs to be done to inform the public that Crime Stoppers is a char-itable organization and is not run by the RCMP.

Smart Step

Although Smart Step has wrapped up for the season, the Smart Step board held its AGM this month. This was an excellent year for those who participated in Smart Step (about 20 youth). The community events were well attended with a record number of children attending the Kids’ Sports Camp. Smart Step will begin meeting again in the New Year to gear up for another season.

Nicola Valley Shelter and Support Society

Preparation for the extreme weather shelter is fully underway. Shift captains have been hired and volunteers have been contacted to begin another busy season. The shelter will open its doors on November 1, and is now accepting donations of blankets, socks, gloves, hats and pre-packaged food items, which can be dropped off at the CPO until the shelter opens on November 1.

Literacy Merritt and Nicola Valley Society

Donations of books continue to come in on a regular basis for The Bright Red Bookshelf. The CPO office has hun-dreds of books that have been cleaned, labelled and then sent out to one of the 30 bookshelves in the community.

The following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meet-ing agenda from Oct. 27, 2015.

IT’S A DOG’S LIFE Local residents Mike Desjarlais and Jessica Bott give their dogs (left to right) Stella, Bear and Captain a run in the City of Merritt’s designated dog park, located on Main St. behind the recycling station and adjacent to the public work’s yard . Ian Webster/Herald


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In 2014, Sam wrote a letter to Stephen Harper saying the band wouldn’t support the pipeline until the Harper government made meaningful strides in the area of climate change.

“We are hopeful that with the new Liberal government and Trudeau as the prime minister that we’ll be able to engage in some dialogue with the federal government to be able to address some of the issues and concerns that I’ve mentioned previously in relation

to the environment, climate change and resource extraction,” Sam said.

Last week’s summit meetings focused specifically on the proposed twinning, and the economic opportunities for First Nations that flow from it.

Sam said the main reason his band hosted the summit was to bring First Nations from all along the proposed pipeline route together to hear their concerns with the proposed project.

“The summit was really just a first step,” Sam said, adding that he wants his band to

continue to have a dialogue with these First Nations to see if there are common concerns they can work collaboratively on to ensure they are addressed by Kinder Morgan or the federal government.

He said the age of Kinder Morgan’s existing pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby and climate change were common concerns he heard from other First Nations at the summit.

“There’s a commitment by many of the First Nations to continue having a dialogue into the future to make sure our voice is heard,” Sam said.

Sam wants dialogue with First Nations along the pipeline’s route

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Coun. Dave Baker had some questions regarding changes being made to the City of Merritt’s wood burning appliance bylaw at last Tuesday’s council meeting.

The city is changing the bylaw to include the power to issue tickets for offenses under the wood burning appliance bylaw that does not currently exist. The wording of the bylaw is also being strengthened and clarified to hold up in court. The

bylaw currently isn’t clear on when a person has committed an infraction, a city council report stated.

Baker asked planning and development manager Sean O’Flaherty what has changed in this bylaw to allow it to better withstand a legal challenge.

O’Flaherty said that the wording has been changed by the city’s solicitors to make it more enforceable.

“That’s why we have lawyers. They’re experts at figuring out language

and semantics and sometimes it’s the smallest details that make the biggest difference in the effectiveness and enforceability of a bylaw,” O’Flaherty said.

Baker also asked for clarity regarding whether or not wood burning appliances would be prohibited in outbuildings under the changes, to which O’Flaherty replied that certified appliances are still permitted in shops and garages.

The bylaw will now move to the adoption phase.

Councillor gets answers on wood burning appliance bylawMichael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD


“You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time...”, begins Abraham Lincoln’s famous aphorism about democracy – but in a multi-party democratic system, that

is usually enough. In a parliamentary system like Turkey’s, 49 per cent of the popular vote gives you a comfortable majority of seats, and so Recep Tayyib Erdogan will rule Turkey for another four years. If it lasts that long.

There will still be a Turkey of some sort in four years’ time, of course, but it may no longer be a democracy, and it may not even have its present borders. In last Sunday’s vote Erdogan won back the majority he lost in the June election, but the tactics he employed have totally

alienated an important section of the population.

Kurds make up a fifth of Turkey’s 78 million people. Most Kurds are pious, socially conservative Sunni Muslims, so they usually voted for Erdogan’s Justice and Development (AK) Party – which consequently won three successive elections (2003, 2007, 2011) with increasing majorities.

Then the Kurds stopped voting for Erdogan, which is why he lost last June’s election. In this month’s election he managed to replace those lost votes with nationalist

voters who are frightened of a Kurdish secession and simple souls who just want stability and peace – but he had to start a war to win them over.

Erdogan threw Turkey’s support firmly behind the rebels when the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, mainly because as a devout Sunni Muslim he detested Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite-dominated regime. He kept Turkey’s border with Syria open to facilitate the flow of volunteers, weapons and money to the Islamist groups fighting Assad, including

the Nusra Front and ISIS (which eventually became Islamic State).

He even backed Islamic State when it attacked the territory that had been liberated by the Kurds of northern Syria. That territory extends along the whole eastern half of Turkey’s border with Syria, and in the end, despite Erdogan’s best efforts, the Syrian Kurds managed to repel ISIS’s attacks. But this was the issue that cost Erdogan the support of Turkish Kurds.

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The silence of the email servers

Premier Christy Clark’s government has been steadily backed into a corner on its apparent deletion of emails involving sensitive government topics.

A week-long barrage of accusations by the NDP opposition peaked with their most damning evidence of a cover-up, in the long-running case of eight health

researchers suspended or fired from drug approval studies.

Most have been paid settlements or reinstated after the biggest personnel management blunder in memory. One committed suicide.

We are now into a second independent review of this tragic case, after an independent lawyer was unable to determine what went wrong, because she couldn’t compel testimony or demand records. It is now in the hands of B.C.’s new Ombudsperson, Jay Chalke, who has that authority.

Everyone agrees that the deputy health minister of the day, Graham Whitmarsh, was legally responsible for the decisions and records. Yet somehow the only record released to the NDP for the two-year period of the firings and subsequent investigation was a heavily blanked-out update from his successor, Stephen Brown, to the premier’s deputy, John Dyble.

It refers to an “update on litigation resolution from investigation,” the substance of which is blanked out, and offers to discuss the situation by phone.

Here’s an exchange between NDP MLA Adrian Dix and Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk:

Turkey: Next stop civil war?

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Turkey is becoming a Middle East country

His solution was to restart the war against the PKK, the armed separatist movement that is based in the Kurdish-speaking northern provinces of Iraq. A ceasefire had stopped the fighting between the Turkish government and the PKK for the past four years, but Erdogan now needed a patriotic war against wicked Kurdish separatists in order to lure the nationalists and the naive into backing his party.

The pay-off came on Sunday, when the votes of Turks who fear Kurdish separatism replaced the Kurdish votes that the AK Party lost last June. The problem is that the election is now over but the war will continue.

Indeed it will get worse. The Turkish army is already shelling the Syrian Kurds, and warning that it may invade if the Syrian Kurdish proto-state (known as Rojava) tries to push further west and shut down the last border-crossing point that links Turkey to Islamic State.

The people who loathe Erdogan because he is destroying Turkey’s free media, perverting its criminal justice system and robbing the state blind – he and his AK colleagues have been enthusiastically feathering their nests

– will not turn to violence. The poor will not turn to violence either, even though the economic boom is over and jobs are disappearing.

But some of the Turkish Kurds will fight, and they will have the support of the Syrian Kurds just across the border. That will probably draw the Turkish army into invading northern Syria to crush the Kurds there – and once Turkey is fully involved in the Syrian civil war, all of southeastern Turkey (where Kurds are the majority) also becomes part of the combat zone.

When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk rescued a Turkish republic from the wreckage of the Ottoman empire after the First World War, he was determined to make it a European state. It was a fairly oppressive state at first, but over the decades it gradually turned into a democracy that operated under the rule of law.

That’s over now. It took Erdogan a dozen years in power to demolish that European-style democracy, but the job is done. As one despairing Turk put it recently, Turkey is becoming a Middle Eastern country.

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Larger issue at hand is how FOI legislation should work

Dix: “Can the minister explain why the Office of the Premier, the Deputy Minister to the Premier, has no records and why the successive Deputy Minister of Health had one record over two years?”

Virk: “The suggestion from the member opposite that there are no documents is false…. There are more documents now that the Ombudsperson has conduct of the matter and is undertaking a comprehensive review. I fully expect that he will do a comprehensive review and will consent to the release of more documents.”

There will be more

sound and fury over this, but only Chalke’s report can provide new information. And even then, the damage is done, settlements and non-disclosure deals have been signed, and Clark and Health Minister Terry Lake have formally apologized.

The larger issue is how freedom of information legislation should work. Should the opposition be able to second-guess decisions of bureaucrats by going through their emails?

The traditional answer is no. Elected officials are responsible, even if they had no actual role, as should always be the case in hiring and firing ministry staff and awarding government work contracts. The buck

stops with Lake and Clark, not their deputies.

There are sound reasons for this. Consider another sensitive decision, to shoot wolves from the air in a last-ditch effort to preserve dwindling mountain caribou herds.

Protesters, pop stars and politicians can sound off as they like, but these hard decisions are made and carried out by wildlife experts working for or consulted by the province. The minister, in this case Forests Minister Steve Thomson, authorizes the use of helicopters and rifles and takes the political consequences.

One can imagine the agonizing discussion that goes

on behind the scenes, as provincial and First Nations wildlife experts watch caribou herds dwindle despite widespread habitat protection efforts. They not only make the technical call, they have to pull the trigger.

Would wildlife biologists be able to provide frank advice for or against this decision if they knew their names and opinions could later be used in a political battle in the legislature and in the streets?

No. And can you run a public service if everyone is subjected to the scrutiny that only politicians choose to endure? No.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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New provincial seats will be created in Surrey and Richmond-New Westminster for the next B.C. election, bringing the number of MLAs in the legislature to 87.

Justice Minister Suzanne Anton tabled legislation Thursday to adopt the recommendations of the latest B.C. Electoral Boundaries Commission and create the two new constituencies to reflect high-growth areas of provincial population.

The commission recommended changes to boundaries to 48 existing constituencies, after public hearings since it proposed the changes this spring to balance population. It was restricted by a law that prevents the elimination of electoral districts in areas outside the urban southwest.

The latest boundaries leave a wide range of populations to be represented by a single MLA. The lowest populations are Stikine with 20,616 and North Coast with 22,382. At the other end of the scale are Vernon-Monashee, Vancouver-Fraserview and Vancouver-Kingsway, all with more than 62,000 people.

The hearings were dominated by

conflicting views on changes to four areas:

• Severing Hope from Chilliwack and adding it to the Fraser-Nicola constituency, which extends into the Interior to include Merritt. Princeton is added to the Boundary-Similkameen district.

• Rearranging boundaries in central Vancouver Island to create a new electoral district of Mid Island-Pacific Rim, anchored by Cumberland.

• Adding a new Surrey South district, bringing the total number of seats in Surrey to nine.

• Adding a new Richmond-Queensborough district, taking in part of New Westminster.

The last review in 2008 recommended

that an urban population shift should result in a reduction of one seat in the Cariboo-Thompson region and one in northern B.C. The government intervened keep those seats and increase the total constituencies from 83 to 85.

The B.C. Liberals and NDP agreed then that northern constituencies could not get any larger and still be represented by a single MLA.

The 2008 review added seats in the Okanagan, Fraser Valley, Surrey, Burnaby-Tri-Cities and downtown Vancouver.

The commission’s report and maps are available on its website at bc-ebc.ca/reports.

Tom FletcherBLACK PRESS

(Above) The redrawn boundaries of the Fraser Nicola riding.(Below) After the 2017 election, two more seats will be added to the legislature. Submitted/Herald


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The latest XploreSportZ session, run by the Merritt branch of PacificSport Interior, took place on October 23. It included kayaking at the Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre. Instruction and equipment were provid-ed by members of the Purple Hayes Kayaking School out of Chilliwack. (Above) Thirteen-year-old Liam Warren demonstrates great paddling technique. (Left) Purple Hayes lead instructor Kay-Uwe Konojacki. (Right) Twins Cameron and Graycin Nicholls enjoy testing each others balance in a kayak. Ian Webster/Herald

XploreSportZ takes to the waterXploreSportZ takes to the water

With over 60 participants from Grades 4 to 7, the Merritt Youth Basketball Association is enjoy-ing a tremendous fall season. The association’s 10-week session is at the halfway mark, having begun the third week of September and continuing through until the end of November. Grade 4 and 5 boys and girls convene on Tuesdays and Grade 6 and 7 youngsters on Thursdays. The sessions run at the former Coquihalla Middle School from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on each of those nights. Instruction is provided by trained and knowledgable basketball coaches, with assistance from senior basketball players from Merritt Secondary School. Each weekly session begins with the teaching and practising of specific skills and the running of drills. That is followed by about 30 minutes of scrimmaging. Upon signing up, every participant is given a reversible basketball jersey and a basketball as part of the registration fee. The official sponsors of the MYBA pro-grams are McDonalds, Blacks Pharmacy and NMV Lumber, while generous financial support has also come from the Jump Start program and Murray GM. “It’s our goal to develop a basketball culture with the youth of Merritt,” MYBA spokesperson Dave Andersen said. “We want youngsters to grow up loving the game. Initially, we were nervous about moving our second session from the spring season to the fall, but there has been a terrific response.”

(Above) Coach and new Collettville School principal René Aubin (middle) leads a Thursday night group in a dribbling drill. (Left) Alexandra Van Rossum work on her bounce pass. (Right) Delbert Black practises his set shot under the watchful eye of MYBA coach Dan Rogers. Ian Webster/Herald

Merritt Youth Basketball Association’s second season going greatMerritt Youth Basketball Association’s second season going great


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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Dennis Campbell of Merritt, BC, on October 22nd, 2015, at 68 years of age. Dennis is survived by his lov-ing wife, Ryna, children Stacey (Scott) Webber, of Merritt, and Leola Campbell of New Westminster. Dennis doted on his 2 granddaughters, Madi and Ali. He spent many Saturday mornings watching his girls playing soccer, rain or shine. The youngest of twelve children, he is survived by his brothers, Bud, Bruce, Keith and Lyle, and his sisters Nola, Merle, Barbara and Diane. Dennis is predeceased by his parents Henry and Stella Campbell, two sisters, Sandra and Margaret, and baby brother Warren.

Dennis was born September 2nd, 1947. He lived in Agassiz for a time, but eventually moved to Chilliwack. That is where his love for hockey be-gan. He joined his brothers and worked in heavy duty construction for many years all over BC. He met and married his wife, Ryna, and shortly after, they moved to Campbell River, where their daugh-ter Stacey was born. Later they moved to Salmon Arm where Leola was born. Then in 1981 he got called to work at Highland Valley Copper, so they made their new home in Merritt. He worked on building all 3 extensions of the Coquihalla High-way, and in 1986 joined the road maintenance crew and worked up there until he was forced to retire last February because of cancer. Dennis was a quiet, easy going man who worked hard all his life to provide for his family.

He fought a brave battle with the cancer, and never complained. “It is what it is,” he said. He lost his battle October 22nd, and left behind some big shoes to ll, and a hole in everyone’s hearts who knew and loved him.

The family wishes to extend a special thank you to the staff at the N.V.G.H. and all the staff at Co-quihalla Gillis House, palliative care. In lieu of ow-ers, donations in Dennis’ memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

A Celebration of Dennis’ Life will take place at 1:00 pm on Saturday, November 7th, 2015 at the Merritt Civic Centre.

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