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Merrittonians mark 100 years since Great WarIt was standing room only
at the library on Saturday evening as over 100 Merrit-tonians gathered for an event to commemorate the cente-nary of the First World War.
The event began with the Merritt Community Choir performing a few songs pop-ular during the war years.
“It seems most of the popular World War One songs were not really what we’d call war-like songs because they didn’t talk about glorious deeds and a lot of fighting,” choir director Ellen Nast told the audience. “Rather, a lot of them had a focus on longing for home.”
The focus on the home front was prominent in It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a reference to the songwriter’s grandparents’ home in Ireland, and Keep the Home Fires Burning, the choir’s next number.
Nast also read out lines from verses of the Canadian song The Call of the Mother-land.
“From the blue Pacific waters to the fair Atlantic coast; from the mountains and the prairies of the west, all Canada is stirring in a vast and mighty host, prepared to offer England of her best,” she read.
The event also doubled as a book launch for From the West Coast to the Western Front, a collection of stories about soldiers from British Colum-bia during the Great War.
The book was co-au-thored by Mark Forsythe, host of the CBC Radio One show B.C. Almanac, and histo-rian Greg Dickson.
It was through Forsythe’s show that he and Dickson sourced many stories, letters and images that would come together to form their book.
During the First World War, British Columbia had the highest enlistment rate per capita of any of the Canadian provinces, the authors said.
The authors said West-erners made good soldiers because they could ride horses and throw ropes, were good with guns, and their experience in ranching, log-ging and mining made them skilled workers.
More than 6,000 of the 56,000 British Columbians who went overseas during that war didn’t make it back.
Dickson said he approached Forsythe with the idea for the book — one they felt was a mighty but worthy undertaking — and a year and a half later, the 264-page book is complete, though the authors acknowledged there are far more wartime stories out there.
Dickson said on a stop in at the Quilchena Hotel bar, he saw a poster seeking hors-es for the First World War.
“If that World War One story could be found even at the bar at the Quilchena Hotel, there must be some-thing here,” Dickson said of the idea for the book. “That was really part of the inspira-tion.”
Both authors had family members involved in the First World War, and both have made pilgrimages to Vimy Ridge to see where their rela-tives are buried.
Many of the stories fea-tured in the book involve the famous battle at Vimy Ridge,
the seven-kilometre ridge providing sweeping views of the battlegrounds below, which Canadians seized from enemy soldiers in April 1917.
The victory came at a terrible price — over 7,000 Canadian soldiers were killed.
“That’s like wiping out one of our British Columbia towns,” Forsythe said.
Dickson and Forsythe noted the strong local con-nection to the Great War, including contributions to the battle by Kamloopsian George McLean.
McLean enlisted in the Armed Forces at age 44 in 1916 and was sent to Europe. At Vimy Ridge, McLean led a solo attack on enemy troops, single-handedly taking
19 prisoners in the process.The changing role of
women during wartime also featured in the presentation, with the co-authors noting hundreds of British Columbi-an women signed up to serve as nurses overseas, while women left at home main-tained families and farms, and entered the workforce in wartime industries.
Forsythe said although young and able-bodied, many professional hockey players were not allowed to enlist in the Armed Forces.
“They had an important job to do here — entertain-ing those at home,” he said. “Many of them did [enlist], though.”
Dickson noted the high rate of aboriginal people who
enlisted to serve in the war for Canada — more than 4,000 soldiers.
That was an impressively high number of soldiers given the severely limited civil rights First Nations people had in their own country at that time. It would be anoth-er 42 years — well after the Second World War — until First Nations people would get the right to vote in federal elections with no conditions attached.
Many members of eth-nic groups treated uncon-stitutionally by today’s standards also enlisted and put on Canadian uniforms, including Sikhs, a group of whom were denied entry to Canada in 1914 aboard the Komagata Maru, and Chi-
nese labourers. Many soldiers who
enlisted in British Columbia’s Interior were sent to Vernon to train.
The training camp in Vernon was used to train thousands of soldiers for both world wars, and stands as a monument to their contribu-tions. Today, it is still used as a training facility for Cana-da’s army cadets.
At Saturday’s standing-room-only event, every per-son who was able was on his or her feet by the end of the evening as the crowd sung along with the choir to God Save the King.
The event was co-spon-sored by the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives and the Merritt library.
By Emily WesselTHE HERALD
Greg Dickson (left) and Mark Forsythe present the book they co-authored From the West Coast to the Western Front to over 100 people at Merritt’s library on Nov. 8. The book launch also commemorated the centenary of the First World War. Emily Wessel/Herald
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Merritt resident for over 27 yearsMarried for 28 years with three adult children and three grandchildrenCurrently serving as Board Chair at the NV Evangelical Free ChurchEmployed as a manager at the Ministry of Transportation and InfrastructureFormer Merritt School Trustee for two consecutive terms, 1999-2005 Former owner of Hillside Petro-CanadaHave served as a volunteer in Merritt over the years in many capacities including:- Merritt and District Minor Hockey (Ice Ambassador for 3 years)- Youth leader for over 20 years- Merritt Parks and Recreation Commission- Merritt Centennials Booster Club- Active PAC member at Bench, CMS, and MSS when my children attended
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Merrittonian protests local gas prices
The issue of high gas prices in Merritt has reared its head once more in the Nicola Valley.
A few enthusiastic honks rang out from cars and trucks that passed by Callie Lan-glois on Thursday afternoon as she stood on the side of the road in the area known as Gasoline Alley with a pink sign calling for drivers to “honk for lower gas prices.”
Vehicles whizzed by, some honked immediately, others kept their hands off their horns, while some gave a delayed response — honking, sometimes frantically, after they had driven past her.
This is the second time in two years Lan-glois has held a pro-test against high gas prices.
Langlois said after her last protest in 2012, the price of gas in Merritt went down. She said she felt it was time for another because gas prices in town seem to be get-ting higher and higher.
Her protest this time around was one she conducted by herself, but Langlois said she’s trying to not allow the lack of phys-ical support deter her.
She said she plans to hold another protest in the near future.
“If you keep pro-testing, then maybe the prices will go down,” she said.
That day, gas prices in Merritt were around the 123.9 cents per litre mark — about four cents higher than in Kamloops, where gas prices were set at about 119.9 cents per litre according to bcgasprices.com. On Friday, the price of gas in Kamloops dropped to about 117.9 cents per litre while gas prices in Merritt stayed the same.
Langlois said she hopes her latest protest
will bring about a fair price for everyone who
fills up at the pumps.She also said many
people leave Merritt for cheaper gas prices
in neighbouring Kam-loops.
“We don’t want to leave if we don’t have to,” Langlois said, noting she’d like to be
able to purchase 99 per cent of her goods locally.
As another car honked while driv-ing past her, Langlois
said she hopes drivers agree with her mes-sage and know that while prices go up, wages don’t always follow.
By Michael PotestioTHE [email protected]
Lone protester Callie Langlois was looking for supportive honks at Merritt’s Gasoline Alley Thursday. Michael Potestio/Herald
Objects to difference in price between Merritt and Kamloops
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On Oct. 29, the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology hosted a panel of experts who discussed the now-historic Tsilhqot’in deci-sion.
Grand Chief of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Stewart Phillip, along with aboriginal rights lawyer Roshan Danesh, interim direc-tor of the Centre for Pre-Confederation and Reconciliation at Vancouver Island University Douglas White and NVIT faculty member and title protector at the Nlaka’pamux tribal
council Matthew Pasco, discussed the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision that granted the Tsilhqot’in First Nation title to 1,700 square kilome-tres of land outside its reserve.
The four panellists discussed some of the history surrounding the Tsilhqot’in land title and the significance of the decision, as it marked the first time an aboriginal title has been recognized.
Danesh said that while the decision is for a specific area, it calls into question the entire approach Canadian governments have taken in making decisions
regarding land.White said the deci-
sion shows the courts are tired of waiting for governments to recon-cile land title issues. He said the implications of the decision are profound as this court ruling indicates that a large portion of Crown land is likely aboriginal title land.
Phillip said there are enormous challenges ahead in terms of the provincial and federal governments coming to terms with this court decision. He said all British Columbians can benefit from this deci-sion as it brings clarity to issues of indigenous land rights.
Pasco talked to the crowd about how to implement the Tsilhqot’in land title decision. Doing so
involves recognition of aboriginal title, consent-based decision making with First Nations and changing provincial
mandates in areas such as forestry and mining, he said. He said this needs to be done in a collaborative way.
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From the Herald archives: November 1978
Thieves weren’t clowning around
While the Harlem Clowns were playing ball last Thursday, someone was play-ing thief with their belongings.
Someone got into the girls’ locker room, where the Clowns’ property was, and stole a wal-let.
Lloyd Charney, Merritt Secondary physical education co-ordinator, said it probably happened some time around 9 p.m. or before. The discovery of the theft was made at half-time.
“The players were pretty upset,” he said, “and said they would never come to town again.”
The wallet con-tained five dollars and was recovered, but without the money. Charney said there was not much money because the Clowns do a lot of travelling and charge items. The identification, licence and credit cards were left in the wallet.
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Members of Merritt’s Air Quality Committee have started testing their homes for levels of a radio-active gas the BC Lung Association says is the sec-ond leading cause of lung cancer behind smoking.
It’s called radon, and it’s an odourless, colourless and tasteless gas that occurs naturally in the ground when uranium in rocks and soil decays.
When released into the air, this gas dissipates and is harmless.
However, when it seeps into enclosed areas such as basements, it can accu-mulate to a high level and become a health risk.
Exposure to high levels of radon in enclosed areas can increase one’s risk of developing lung cancer.
From November through February, members of the committee will use radon test kits to test their homes for any levels of radon, committee member Richie
Gage said.Gage said radon gas usu-
ally appears in its highest levels in the winter months.
Radon enters a house because the air pressure inside is usually lower than the air pressure in the soil surrounding its foundation. The difference in air pres-sure draws gases such as radon into a home from the surrounding soil. Radon can seep in through openings such as small cracks in floor slabs and foundation walls, and around pipes, drains and wall cavities.
The Canadian guideline for indoor radon exposure is 200 becquerels per cubic metre, while the World Health Organization recom-mends a level of no more than 100 becquerels per cubic metre. In the U.S., the action level on radon is 148 becquerels per cubic metre.
Radon is found across Canada, particularly where uranium levels are high, according to the BC Lung Association. Levels of radon also vary from one building to the next.
Air quality commit-tee member and Inte-rior Health environmental health specialist Greg Bay-talan said everyone in the B.C. Interior should have their house, basement suite, townhouse or workplace checked for radon levels.
Baytalan also said dirt crawl spaces are prime sites for radon to enter a home.
He told the Herald radon is a global issue, with some areas being more prone to it than others.
“Radon doesn’t know borders,” he said.
Baytalan said he’s only aware of six radon samples that have been taken in Merritt, all of which were below the Canadian guide-line.
To mitigate radon levels, a homeowner can run a pipe from the gravel below a home’s concrete slab foundation, up through the house to the roof, drawing the gas through the pipe to disperse into the air. This is called a passive sub-slab ventilation system.
The pipe can include a
fan to help move the radon through the pipe and out of a home. This setup is known as an active sub-slab depressurization system. The fan acts as a vacuum, sucking radon up through the pipe and venting it into the atmosphere.
Come Dec. 19, changes to the BC Building Code will require new homes to have a radon vent pipe extend through a home and out through its roof. The present building code calls for a capped pipe to be installed inside the building to simplify connection of a full radon mitigation system.
Baytalan said the flaw with the current require-ment is that if a homeowner needs a mitigation system, it’s difficult to install the pipe upwards in a fully built house. The new code would have the pipes installed dur-ing the framing stage, and if an active system were needed, only a fan would have to be added.
Gage said anyone who wishes to test their home for radon can order a test kit
for $30 by calling the BC Lung Association at 1-800-665-5864.
The detector should be placed in the lowest room in a home that’s occupied for more than four hours a day.
After letting the device take readings for about four months over the winter, tes-ters can mail their devices to an instructed address to have them analyzed for results.
Gage said he expects the results of the committee’s radon testing in the spring.
He said the health experts at the air quality forum held on Oct. 17 said finding small amounts of radon in one’s home doesn’t mean they will get sick.
“Is everybody going to die? No. Is everybody going to get cancer? No,” Gage said, noting the health concerns are raised from prolonged exposure to high levels of radon.
Baytalan said now is the ideal time to test for radon and he’s available at 250-868-7853 to answer any questions people may have.
Air Quality Committee testing for radonBy Michael Potestio
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip talks to a full crowd at a presentation as part of the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology’s speaker series on Oct. 29 as fellow panellists Roshan Danesh, Doug White and Matthew Pasco look on. Michael Potestio/Herald
Experts talk Tsilhqot’in decision at NVITBy Michael Potestio
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The City of Merritt is look-ing to capitalize on a UBCM Age-Friendly Action Plan Grant.
Council unanimously approved submitting an application and contribut-ing $10,000 towards an age-friendly action plan for the community at its regular meet-ing on Oct. 28.
If the application is success-ful, the city would receive one of 25 grants totalling $20,000 for 2015 community planning initiatives or community proj-ects.
The $10,000 that will go toward the plan could come from the $25,000 the city has budgeted for council contin-gency, City of Merritt financial services manager Ken Ostraat told council at the meeting.
He said in all likelihood, the city won’t find out if they received the $20,000 grant until early 2015, and thus the $10,000 would be part of the 2015 budget.
The goal of an age-friendly action plan is to develop rec-ommendations that the city can take action on which
address the needs of older adults both now and in the future.
A review of Merritt’s most recent population data indicates the number of seniors living in city limits has the potential to increase significantly, City of Merritt planning and development manager Sean O’Flaherty told council.
He said the City of Merritt should consider these demo-graphic changes and respond to them by developing an age-friendly plan.
City approves funds, application for age-friendly action plan
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A few days ago I received an email from an animal rights activ-ist. It’s not the first time and like the ones before, mostly contains the kind of language that cannot be printed in a publication such as this. The thing that baffles me time and again is how these people can put “love”, “respect” and “compassion” in the same sentence with wishes “… that you will die a gruesome death.” And to add emphasis to their universal hatred for hunters: “people like you should all be rounded up and summarily shot.”
Make no mistake, I am a great supporter of animal welfare organi-zations and have even volunteered my time for such. My faithful dog Gazu came from an animal shelter and the hard work volunteers do there every single day earns my deepest respect. But I deplore the slew of animal rights
organizations that raise vast sums of money, most of which disap-pears into the pockets of their board members. These groups resort to lies and fabrications that are designed to tug on the heartstrings of chil-dren and city folks to get them to donate money.
While PETA claims that they do not endorse violence against people to intimidate others, a little research about that organization shows that it does support radical and militant animal rights terrorists such as the Animal Liberation Front, which sometimes blows up or sets fire to farms and other animal husbandry systems. This is the organization that the FBI and the US gov-ernment called a domes-tic terror threat.
How far this hatred can go became evident a few weeks ago. A father posted a picture on his Facebook page of his son with the first deer he shot. It took all of 24 hours to get over 150 comments from animal rights activists. Most of the comments, in some form or another, voiced not only displeasure about the image but also a violent death to the child.
I followed some of the protester’s profile
links and, to my horror, learned that these com-ments were made by adults — most of whom appeared to be parents, too. It begs the question of how low can some-one sink in his political views that he wishes someone would inflict harm on or kill a child?
The father of the boy felt the need to contact the police and seek pro-tection for his son from these radicals. This is by no means an isolated case. There are thou-sands of cases on social media where hunters are threatened.
How are animal rights activists even made aware of hunters on social media? From organizations like PETA, which posts 24-7 “alerts” on their sites with the urging of “take action against this atrocity.” With that, these organi-zations openly engage in the spread of hatred.
The fact animal rights folks overlook, and purposely so, is that all life on this planet is sustained by end-ing another life. Even vegetarians and vegans — some of whom are some of the most hate-ful, ignorant and violent among the animal rights crowd — have blood on their hands. The crop fields, fruit and vegetable
plantations were at one time wildlife habitat, and so are the towns and cities vegetarians live in and the roads they drive on with their cars. Pesticides used to pro-tect crops kill billions of insects — insects which are the food source of songbirds, mice and other animals.
The animals that called these places home did not just yield willing-ly, they were displaced or killed. Vegetarians and animal rights activ-ists wear shoes that are made from the skins of slaughtered cattle. Nutritional supplements like iron and vitamin B12 that vegans need to supplement their diets are, for the most part, derived from animal byproducts.
Everybody dreams of a fantasy world where the lion sleeps with the lamb. But that is not how nature works. Nature works on the principle of eat and
be eaten. Every living thing on this earth, even plants, prospers because something else died. It’s an endless cycle of cre-ating life through death. It has been so since life first took hold on this earth and no animal rights terrorist agenda is going to change that.
When I kill an animal, I do not gloat about it. I am proud of the fact that, as a hunter, I am able to provide healthy, organic and nutritious meat for our dinner table. Unlike animal rights activists, I have not lost touch with the real world around us and the part we play in it. I realized a long time ago that death must occur to sustain life. The difference is that some people can accept that fact and are stronger for it while others prefer to ignore the facts of life and choose to commit violent acts to support their radical political agendas.
OTHMAR VOHRINGERThe OUTDOORSMAN
An email from an anti-hunter
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It’s a constant struggle of living in a capitalist society: sometimes we feel we have too much stuff, and my other times, not enough.
In tandem, we seem to rarely ever feel both ways about money. I don’t think I’ve ever felt I had a surplus of that stuff.
However, every now and then, I do find myself with a bit of extra change lying around, and I’m sure
I’m not the only one. While I like to empty
out my wallet of those ever-cumbersome coins, I like to hoard my hard-earned but easily spent change in a mason jar with a slice in its lid.
It serves me better in there than in the 25-cent candy machines at work, that’s for sure.
I’d advise people who don’t care for carrying their change around to get back to their old-fashioned piggy bank roots and see how quickly that spare silver can add up.
Once you’ve filled up your jar, maybe you’ll even decide that since you didn’t miss toting around the money when it was in your possession, you could drop it in the donation jar at a local business for one of a slew of charities.
Or maybe you’d like
to roll up those coins, take them to the bank and exchange them for a cheque of equal value addressed to your favourite charity. There is no short-age of causes, both local and further flung, that could benefit from dona-tions of any size.
If you’re not in the busi-ness of giving your money away, perhaps you’re in the market to make more of it.
Enter yard sales.If you’re like me, you
feel overwhelmed when you actually look at everything you own. Nothing reminds you of how much stuff you have like packing it all up and moving house.
So go ahead, gather up some of that unused stuff and slap some price tags on it, and get planning for a yard sale.
However, if you don’t have enough stuff for an
entire yard sale — or if you don’t have a yard to sell in — you can always keep an eye out for the city’s community yard sales, which they do every so often, where you can rent a table for $5 and set up shop for a morning at the Civic Centre.
You could also get together with neighbours or buddies also looking to make the great house-hold item purge and band together to make your wares now made available to the masses.
If you’ve got an item that has run its course, you could always try to recycle or repurpose it. At the last community yard sale, I met a woman who planned to turn a blanket into a sweater.
The citizens of McAl-len, Texas — a city of about 136,000 near the
border with Mexico — repurposed something on a much grander scale in 2011.
When the town’s Wal-mart store moved to a larger building down the street, the city bought the old structure and spent over $20 million fixing it up and turning it into a mas-sive 123,000-square-foot public library.
Oh, and having so much floor space can hold more than the library’s col-lection of 356,000 items: it also boasts 16 public meeting spaces, 14 study rooms, and well over 100 computers for members of the public to use.
The library in Ithica, N.Y. had a similar revival from an abandoned Wool-worths department store in 2000.
HERALD OPINION editorial
Give peace a makeover
Peace is often viewed as a utopic state; an empire where no one will ever live. It is perceived as an unattain-able ideal and those who talk about it are often told they are not real-ists. The idea that peace is a place to arrive at needs to be crushed, thereby dissolving this unattainable illusion.
Hyper-stereotyped images are often used in visual representations about peace.
White doves soar to softly playing instrumental music; tie-dyed shirt-wearing, bell-bottom adorning hippies dance in the patchouli and herb-in-fused air, unified in a worthy protest of some kind. Daisy-painted Volkswagen vans encircle the group, some members of which make a peace “v” with their fingers. Despite the many great move-ments of the era associated with this imagery, these definitions are unequivo-cally antiquated and in need of a face lift.
The world has always been infected with direct violence because of tragic, violent epidemics.
War is the product of the reproduc-tion of incessant violence and destruc-tion that continually plagues our world. Structural violence prevents people from meeting their basic human needs through social structures. There is also cultural violence, which helps to legiti-mize acts of direct and structural vio-lence by governing parties or extremist groups. Creating peace is about elimi-nating these types of violence.
These callous atrocities warrant a new idea of peace — more than just a ceasefire in the shooting, and eradicat-ing the ‘bad guy.’
Every action towards helping anoth-er is what peace is all about.
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A former elemen-tary school in Kansas City that closed down due to declining enrolment was sold for the purpose of being renovated into a 44-unit seniors resi-dence in 2013.
Here in Merritt, a new tenant has
recently taken up resi-dence in the formerly vacant Coquihalla Middle School build-ing.
With the infra-structure already in place to serve many different groups of people and families at the same time, it seems to be a great fit for Interior Com-
munity Services and other service agencies which offer programs to Nicola Valley resi-dents.
It’s also a perfect way to discourage the building from being vandalized or falling into disrepair, and it certainly brings some new life to the former school.
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Merritt dancers received a vari-ety of medals at the Love to Dance Academy’s medal tests on Oct. 26.
The tests, which normally take place in June, were delayed this year because of immigration issues for the dance teacher.
The medal tests came as the members of the local dance school prepare for the community concert on Nov. 26 at the Civic Centre to kick off Country Christmas.
In all, 24 students completed 37 tests in disciplines including ballet, modern jazz and Spanish dancing.
Five dancers also received tro-phies for outstanding achievement: most improved dancer went to Megan Voigt; best achievement (ages four to seven) went to Madison Fleu-ry; best achievement between eight and 11 went to Chantalle Anderson; best achievement for 12 and over to Hailee Harkies; and the trophy for
her own choreography went to Miya Kandola.
Approximately 110 people attend-ed the awards.
Dancers test their mettle at medal tests
Peace means participat-ing in a series of influential actions which, when are all tallied up, make significant differences in our world.
When someone volun-teers their time to some-thing, they are providing peace. When another writes a letter to their member of
Parliament about an issue affecting their region, this is contributing to peace. When a group of people go overseas to tend to Ebola patients, this is peace through peacemaking. The examples are vast and should not be overlooked.
Furthermore, there are personal benefits to con-tributing to peace. Studies
show that people who con-tribute to something outside of themselves are often happier, gain satisfaction through interconnectedness, and become more grateful. Participatory engagement helps people be more than passive travellers and, as the saying goes, be part of the solution.
Peace is not merely the
absence of violence. What it is, rather, is something to work for and something that is all around us.
It is in the life work of many and the daily actions of many more. It is about meeting basic human needs, creating harmony in a multicultural society and promoting opportunities for people, families, societies,
cultures and countries to succeed. It is peace for all; not a quarantine peace. It is made up of many different pieces and we all have a role to play in promoting this new version of peace.
Lyndsey Rosevear is a human rights advocate with a master’s degree in peace and conflict reso-lution.
Dance students anxiously await entrance to the examination room.
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Medals and trophies were handed out to 24 local dance students at their examinations in late October. Photo submitted by Herman Nel
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Last month’s attacks on Canadian soldiers in Ottawa and Montreal have prompted the RCMP to arm officers who appear in public in red serge and to take extra steps to protect aux-iliary constables who volunteer unarmed in the community.
The new require-ment for direct super-vision is expected to mean more armed regular RCMP offi-cers accompanying unarmed auxiliaries at major public events than in the past, according to Assis-tant Commissioner Dan Malo, the Lower Mainland District Commander for the RCMP.
“Our real-ity changed after the events of Ottawa,” Malo said, referring to the killing of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as he guarded the National War Memorial on Par-liament Hill.
He predicted the main impact will be on police staffing of major summer festi-vals.
“It’s a shift in our cultural thinking on how we deploy police officers or anybody that is identifiable with law enforcement.”
Operational deci-sions on exactly how those events are staffed will be up to the local commander based on their assessment of potential threats and other factors.
Malo was not able to say whether the changes will increase costs to cities or decrease the number of officers on duty to respond to other calls, but added policing costs will likely rise for some festivals.
That prospect has alarmed Coquitlam
city council, which voted to write to RCMP national head-quarters to protest the change.
The letter warns the new policy direc-tive threatens cost-effective policing and will impact a broad range of community programs in schools and parks that are staffed by Coquitlam’s 49 auxiliaries.
“Such a change will also have a signifi-cant financial impact if sworn officers are required to provide direct supervision of all activities performed by our auxiliary con-stables,” the letter states. “Our existing complement of regu-lar members will no longer be freed up to attend to other sched-uled duties.”
More than 1,100 auxiliaries assist with policing across B.C. and Malo said it’s appropriate to be more careful than in the past, depending on the circumstances.
“I consider them community heroes,” Malo said. “They’re volunteers who volun-teer hundreds if not thousands of hours to wear an RCMP uni-form and serve their community. We have to make sure these local heroes are pro-tected.”
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appearing in the com-munity in red serge often were not armed in the past.
That has changed and those officers will
now carry firearms, including at Remem-brance Day ceremo-nies.
“At things like funerals it’s very tra-
ditional we were not armed,” Malo said. “Now you will see when we are identifi-able, we are always armed.”
Officers in red serge to be armedBy Jeff NagelBLACk [email protected] ‘‘‘It’s a shift in
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Merritt Secondary gym comes under Air AttackMSS Grade 8 and junior girls volleyball teams play host to Princeton and Vernon
HAVING A BALL (Above) Members of the MSS Grade 8 and junior girls volleyball teams (back row, from left) Simran Panghli, Sierra Moyes, Takarah Kubo, Chloe Stockwell, Cassidy Sheena, Jenna Kane, Courtney Christy, Taylia McKeown, Emily Whitecross, Logan Moorhead, Chloe Murphy, (front row) Olivia Edward, Haley Zabek, Cassidy Rodie, Harvir Natt, Sara Yasunaga, Kierra Willey, Amber Lorette. (Below left, clockwise) Takarah Kubo and Cassidy Sheena put up an impressive block against Vernon; Logan Moorhead knuckles the ball over the net; referees Dave Finch and Karlie Sloan; teammates Amber Lorette, Cassidy Rodie and Cassidy Sheena look on as Olivia Edward makes a heady forearm pass (a.k.a. bump); scorekeepers Montana Leverre, Ashley Evdokimoff and Renée Stockwell; Haley Zabek cheers as Taylia McKeown puts everything into her attack hit. Ian Webster/Herald
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The newly-reno-vated gym at Merritt Secondary School was resonating with sound on Friday afternoon as the homeside Panthers played host to their only volleyball tournament of the season — the Air Attack Invitational.
The MSS Grade 8 girls and junior girls volleyball squads were joined by a Grade 8 team from Vernon and a junior side from Princeton.
A packed gym, with audience members jam-ming the stage area, was treated to some great volleyball action, high-lighted by a three-set thriller between the two hosting teams. When the last ball had hit the floor, it was coach Dwayne Suzuki’s Grade 8s with a narrow 2-1 victory over Shelly Moorhead’s junior squad — the final and deciding set ending at 15-13.
While the Merritt Secondary Grade 8 team is competing on a weekly basis in the
Kamloops district Grade 8 league, this year’s MSS junior squad is only taking part in exhi-bition and tournament play.
Five junior play-ers are also playing up on the Merritt Secondary senior girls volleyball team, which recently qualified for the Okanagan cham-pionships this coming weekend.
The MSS senior girls side, which features just four Grade 12 players and two Grade 11s, is coached by Mike Russo.
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