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Law enforcement hockey tourney raises $7,000
UPLIFTING PERFORMANCE The Fountainview Academy orchestra and choir were in Merritt Saturday at the Crossroads Community Church to play a concert titled Lift Him Up. The Lillooet-based musical group consists of Christian school students aged 14 to 18 who come from around North America and the world. They travel to various cities around B.C. and the U.S. to perform and share their Christian message. Michael Potestio/Herald
Charity began at the rink for police who paid it forward with a fund-raising effort for the BC Children’s Hospital.
Mounties from Mer-ritt and Kamloops, along with sheriffs and conservation officers, participated in a five-team hockey tourna-ment at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena from Feb. 27 to March 1 and raised approxi-mately $7,000 in the process.
The Law Enforce-ment Charity Hockey Challenge generated a $2,000 increase in funds collected over last year’s total.
Organizer and Merritt RCMP Const. Derrick Francis said
the funds were raised through commu-nity donations, raffles, a silent auction and a beer garden.
Francis said the BC Children’s Hospital was the charity of choice to support because many of those playing in the tournament had been impacted in some way by the hospital.
The fundraiser hits close to home for Merritt RCMP officer Brodie Ferris, whose six-year-old daughter Kaydence has been making trips to the BC Children’s Hospital since birth.
Kaydence was born with a hole in her heart and has had four surger-ies to date for repairs.
She went under the knife for the first time when she was only a
month old, and had a pacemaker implanted at just a year old.
Kaydence is doing well, but still requires a fifth surgery to replace one of her heart valves.
Francis said people in law enforcement are community-minded individuals who want to help out — a reason that parallels their deci-sion to enter the policing field.
Over its two years, the hockey tournament has raised $12,000 for the hospital.
Kaydence’s mother, Vida Ferris, said it’s nice to see people come out to play hockey for a cause, and noted from her experience with her daughter that the costs associated with attend-ing the children’s hospi-tal are high.
By Michael PotestioTHE HERALD
Law enforcement officers from Merritt made up two of the five teams that participated in the Law Enforcement Hockey Challenge that took place from Feb. 27 to March 1. Submitted
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An Enderby woman with dementia found dead near Mer-ritt last Wednesday likely suc-cumbed to hypothermia after leaving her vehicle, which was stuck in the snow on a logging road near Douglas Lake Road.
The body of Barbra Dere-nowski was discovered along the side of a logging road that after-noon by several people who were in the Salmon Lake area to fish.
The discovery was reported to Merritt RCMP, who located the body.
The 73-year-old went miss-
ing from her home on March 2 at about 2:30 p.m. after her care worker dropped her off there.
Derenowski lived alone and it appears that she got into her 1998 Ford pickup and drove away.
She ended up driving along a logging road off of Douglas Lake Road and police believe she exited her vehicle and walked away after getting her pickup stuck in snow.
Police found her footprints, and she was located 17 kilometres away from her vehicle.
“She had been walking for a while,” RCMP Staff Sgt. Sheila White said.
Derenowski was likely unfamil-iar with the area as it appeared as though she had been trying to turn the truck around when she got it stuck, White told the Herald.
Derenowski had been walking back the way she came before it’s believed she collapsed on the roadway where she was found, White said.
She was wearing a light sweat-er and sneakers at the time of her death.
She didn’t have a valid driver’s licence.
Derenowski had family liv-ing in the Lower Mainland and Salmon Arm who have been noti-fied, White said.
By Michael PotestioTHE HERALD
Freezing likely cause of death of woman near Merritt
NVIT celebrating Social Work WeekNVIT’s social work
class is celebrating Social Work Week (March 8 to 14) by holding a career fair in conjunction with area agencies involved in social work.
The idea is to show people who drop by the college between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. tomor-row (Wednesday, Feb. 11) that there’s more to being a social worker than child apprehen-sion.
Other careers a social work degree can prepare people for are
in health care, mental health, drug and alco-hol counselling, and even probation services.
“You can work in long-term care as a social worker, [in] victim services,” social work department head Elaine Herbert said. “It’s such a generalist degree. A [bachelor of social work] gives you a good foundation to go into other fields.”
Fourth-year student Effie Wilson said she’d like to work in the pre-vention side of social work once she gradu-ates.
The career fair reflects Social Work
Week’s national theme, which is professional choice.
Herbert said the job fair is a collaborative effort in order to raise the school of social work’s profile in NVIT and the community.
This year, 63 stu-dents are enrolled in NVIT’s social work program full time between its two cam-puses in Merritt and Burnaby. Another five students are taking classes on a part-time basis.
The program is accredited through the Canadian Association of Social Work Educa-
tors.Herbert said NVIT’s
social work curricu-lum is integrated with critical race theory and aboriginal knowl-edge, which equips students to handle a diverse range of situa-tions upon entering the workforce.
The department is also hosting a panel discussion called “Cre-ating safe spaces: chal-lenging sexual harass-ment” on March 12, in which a panel will discuss topics related to violence against women.
The panel will be comprised of NVIT
instructor Sharon McIvor, who’s done plenty of work around missing and murdered indigenous women; RCMP officer and community liaison Tracy Dunsmore, who will define sexual harassment in terms of the law; and elder Amelia Washington, who will present on healthy relationships.
The panel discussion is one piece of many that fits into commu-nity or family violence, and all relates to social work, Herbert said.
“It’s a prevalent social situation that we all find ourselves work-
ing in at some point in our lives,” Herbert said. “It’s really community violence.”
While that forum is only open to NVIT staff, students and faculty, it is potentially the first in a series of forums on topics sur-
rounding community violence, Herbert said.
“Part of social work is community involve-ment, community collaboration and work-ing with community because that’s how you create change,” she said.
By Emily WesselTHE HERALD
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From the Herald archives: March 1951
St. John Ambu-lance Association Lectures
A series of lec-tures in St. John A. A. First Aid to the Injured is now avail-able to the adult public under the sponsorship of the Merritt Board of Trade.
A candidate is required to pay a fee of $2 when enroll-ing, which covers the cost of the text-book, bandages, and examination by a doctor for an award if he or she success-fully passes the final test.
R. Wiehle and H.A. Smitheram will be in charge of lectures and instruc-tion.
There have been many changes in the St. John A. A. methods of render-ing first aid and in order to keep pace with the changing times, those who have previously held certificates should enrol for a refresh-er course on the revised edition of St. John A. A. First Aid to the Injured.
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Workshop promotes understanding
Students from through-out School District 58 got an education on Canadian residential schools and their impacts last week in a series of workshops presented by the Indian Residential Schools Survivor Society.
The presentations took place from Monday to Thursday with one session each morning for high school students and one afternoon session each day for Grade 6 and 7 students.
The aim of the presenta-tions was to educate students and create awareness about this piece of Canadian his-tory.
“When you think about residential school, you may think it was 100 years ago or 200 years ago, but it wasn’t,” IRSSS executive director Cindy Tom-Lindley told Grade 10 students from Merritt and Princeton on Thursday morning. “It’s not really that far back in our history and it is an important part of Canadian history that is overlooked because it’s maybe too shameful to think that we treated other human beings like that.”
Tom-Lindley, who attend-ed the Kamloops Indian Residential School, said she was surprised to learn resi-dential school is not a topic that’s mandatory throughout B.C.’s curriculum. It is only mandatory in Grade 11 social studies.
That’s changing, she said, noting the work of develop-ing a curriculum on the topic has been started by the pro-vincial First Nations Educa-tion Steering Committee.
However, there is still plenty of work to do in sort-ing through the educational piece and implementing that in the school system, SD58 aboriginal superintendent Shelley Oppenheim-Lacerte said.
Oppenheim-Lacerte said
it’s important to teach about residential schools at differ-ent grade levels throughout a student’s school career because the history’s impact on people affects all aspects of their lives.
Tom-Lindley said throughout the week, the workshop presenters and school staff members heard feedback from students com-ing to realize something about how their own family histories had been affected
by residential schools.She said a lot of students
also asked how they could go so long without knowing about residential schools.
“We want to say here’s our history, here’s what happened to our people,” Tom-Lindley said. “We’re still here, and we’ve got some healing, some educating and all of that to do. People have no idea of what First Nations people have been through to be here.”
Tom-Lindley said her road from residential school to where she is now has been hard, but building under-standing is one of the ways people can support survivors and their healing.
The IRSSS, which sup-ports residential school survi-vors during their compensa-tion hearings, advocates for survivors and spreads aware-ness, will celebrate its 20th anniversary this week.
Oppenheim-Lacerte said the workshop was a learn-ing opportunity not only for students but for teachers and school staff as well.
She said the schools, staff and district are largely sup-portive of providing this his-tory in schools.
It also ties into the school district’s Aboriginal Educa-tion Enhancement Agree-ments, which focus on devel-oping students’ health and well-being, academic success, self-worth and culture.
With those goal areas so inter-connected, it’s impor-tant students learn about who they are and how this history may have touched their families, she said.
“Having this opportunity has been exciting in that it’s been a long time coming,” she said.
By Emily WesselTHE HERALD
Grade 10 students from Merritt Secondary School and Princeton Secondary School write acts of kindness and positive thoughts on a poster in MSS’ multi-purpose room to end the Indian Residential Schools Survivor Society presentation on Thursday morning. Emily Wessel/Herald
Indian Residential Schools Survivor Society workshop facilitator Angela White organizes student volunteers to illustrate how a family structure was changed when indigenous children were taken away to residential schools. Emily Wessel/Herald
MSS students given crash course in residential schools
See ‘Awareness’ Page 5
EDUCATION THE FOUNDATION FOR
HEALING: IRSSS
For workshop facilitator Angela White, it was ques-tions about her own family history that inspired her to do her undergraduate degree in history.
She shared the history of residential schools through her studies with the stu-dents, beginning with the first contact between Euro-peans and First Nations people in the 1700s through the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which established treaty rights, and the estab-lishment of the Indian act in 1876.
Various pieces of legisla-tion throughout those years slowly built the foundation on which residential schools would be established in the 1840s.
In 1879, the government adopted its aggressive assim-ilation policy at residential schools in order to “civilize” indigenous Canadians.
Canada’s residential school system was modelled on a similar system of insti-tutions in the U.S.
Though it’s history, resi-dential schools weren’t that long ago, White said.
B.C.’s first residential school, St. Mary’s resi-dential school in Mission, opened in the 1860s and didn’t close until 1984. The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996.
White organized 16 stu-dent volunteers into a family structure radiating out from a circle of four, who rep-resented the children in an indigenous family.
The children were gath-ered around papers with words written on them related to what children learn from their caregivers: culture, language, traditions, values, the right of way of doing things, and so on.
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Next council meeting: Tuesday, March 10, 2015Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca
City of Merritt ★ 2185 Voght Street, Box 189Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 ★ Phone: 250-378-4224
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Position:The City of Merritt is inviting applications for the position of a part time Bylaw Enforcement Officer.
Current resumes reflecting applicants’ knowledge, skills and abilities relevant to the position and detailing education, qualifications and proof of required licenses/certificates/degrees will be accepted prior to 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 20th by:
Carole Fraser,Human Resources Manager
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Position:The City of Merritt is inviting applications for the position of a permanent full time Clerk Typist to be stationed at the Merritt RCMP Detachment to provide clerical duties at the Merritt RCMP Detachment.
Current resumes reflecting applicants’ knowledge, skills and abilities relevant to the position and detailing education, qualifications and proof of required licenses/certificates/degrees will be accepted prior to 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 27th by:
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City of MerrittPO Box 189, 2185 Voght Street
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For complete details, visit City of Merritt website atwww.merritt.ca
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Notice is hereby given that the City of Merritt intends to dispose of an interest in land, being the entering into of a lease for the Merritt Curling Facility (Lot 2, Plan 22544, District Lot 174, Kamloops Division, PID #006-810-853), with the Merritt Curling Club for a term of (5) five years commencing on March 25, 2015. The consideration to be received by the City for the proposed Lease is the initial sum of $1.00 plus applicable taxes.
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This notice was given on February 27, 2015 in accordance with Section 94 of the Community Charter.
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AS WITH ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF THIS SORT, YOU CAN EXPECT SOME DUST, NOISE AND VIBRATION. RESIDENTS WHO BORDER THE PROJECT SHOULD BE AWARE THAT ANY FRAGILE OR VALUABLE ITEMS THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE DAMAGED DUE TO VIBRATION SHOULD BE TAKEN DOWN OR SECURED FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT AND THAT THEY STAY CLEAR OF THE EQUIPMENT.
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THE PURPOSE OF THIS NOTICE IS TO INFORM YOU OF THE TYPICAL NUISANCES INVOLVED WITH A PROJECT OF THIS TYPE -- MAINLY ACCESS TO YOUR PROPERTY. THE CONSTRUCTION ENTAILS INSTALLATION OF SANITARY SEWER MAINS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROADWAY ALONG COLDWATER AVE. THE STREET WILL BE SINGLE LANE TRAFFIC SOME OF THE TIME, AND THERE WILL BE TIMES THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE VEHICULAR ACCESS TO YOUR PROPERTY. WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO NOTIFY YOU IN ADVANCE AND TO KEEP THESE INTERRUPTIONS AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE.
AS WITH ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF THIS SORT, YOU CAN EXPECT SOME DUST, NOISE AND VIBRATION. RESIDENTS WHO BORDER THE PROJECT SHOULD BE AWARE THAT ANY FRAGILE OR VALUABLE ITEMS THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE DAMAGED DUE TO VIBRATION SHOULD BE TAKEN DOWN OR SECURED FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT AND THAT THEY STAY CLEAR OF THE EQUIPMENT.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE. HOWEVER, WE ASK THAT YOU BE PATIENT THROUGH THE DURATION OF THIS UPGRADE PROJECT. IF YOU REQUIRE ANY ASSISTANCE OR HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE PHONE OUR SITE SUPERINTENDANT, GEOFF PRESTON, AT 493-4677 (OFFICE) OR 250-809-2405 (CELL).
ROADS AND SOLID WASTE SUPERVISOR
Applications are invited for the position of a Roads and Solid Waste Supervisor for the Public Works Department in the City of Merritt.
For complete details, visit City of Merritt website at www.merritt.ca
Detailed resumes attached with a cover letter will be accepted until 4:00 p.m., Friday, March 20, 2015 and should be addressed to:
Carole FraserHuman Resources ManagerP.O. Box 189, 2185 Voght St.
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We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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The B.C. government is tightening its regu-lations to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors and use of the smoking substitute in workplaces, restaurants and other indoor public spaces.
Health Minister Terry Lake said changes he introduced in the B.C. legislature Thursday will treat the battery-powered devices like tobacco products, meaning they may not be displayed in stores or used in enclosed spaces where others are present. That will include private vehicles with children inside.
Lake said he expects the new regulations to be in effect within a year, after consulting with the industry and giving sellers time to adjust to the new rules.
“This doesn’t ban e-cigarettes,” Lake said. “This means that children are protected from the sale and from being exposed to e-cigarettes, and those who don’t want to be subjected to the vapours from e-cigarettes are protected as well.
“Essentially the same conditions that now apply to tobacco will apply to e-cigarettes, so in public places, indoor workplaces, school grounds and now health authorities as well.”
Lake said e-cigarettes may have potential as a quit-smoking aid, but they are currently unregulated and the liquid used in them may contain nicotine or other chemi-cals with health risks. The federal government has banned the sale of so-called “e-juice” con-taining nico-tine, but it remains legal in the U.S. and Health Canada has received numerous reports that it is sold north of the border as well.
NDP health critic Judy Darcy said she sup-ports the restriction on e-cigarettes, but the lack of measures to prohibit flavoured tobacco prod-ucts is “a gaping hole” in the government’s bill.
Lake said he has been assured by federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose that federal reg-ulations are in the works to deal with flavoured tobacco.
“When you’re talking about the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, it’s better to do that at a federal level, because obviously they’re not made in each individual province,” Lake said.
By Tom FletcherBLACK PRESStfl [email protected]
B.C. moves to restrict e-cigarettes
Then, another student volunteer came in and took the children away, repre-senting their removal by the Canadian government to church-run residential schools.
“As soon as they were taken, their identity ceased to exist. Their name was replaced by a number,” White said.
After the students rep-resenting children were returned to the family struc-ture near the end of the
workshop, all the students were invited to contribute a positive thought to the “Acts of kindness” board at the front of the multi-purpose room.
“Be respectful to others,” read one message; another: “Smile at a stranger.”
“At the end of the day, it’s about you remembering how you can make a difference in somebody else’s life. No judgement, no stereotypes, understanding why people are the way they are based on the history we learned today,” White said.
E-cigarettes can be disposable like this one costing about $10, or more expensive refill-able and rechargeable units. Black Press
From Page 3
Awareness central to workshopA student contributes her act of kindness to the board in the MSS multi-purpose room on Thursday morning following a residential school workshop. Her message was about helping people in need regardless of their cir-cumstances.
Emily Wessel/Herald
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In the parking lot of the spring training camp for the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Fla., one of these things is not like the others.
Picture them, and see if you can pick the odd man out: a luxury SUV, a $100,000 BMW, a tricked-out Escalade and a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia mini-bus.
This is a real situation
for the Blue Jays. The mini-bus, named “Shaggy” after the Scooby Doo charac-ter, belongs to the shaggy-bearded 21-year-old pitcher Daniel Norris.
Despite a $2 million signing bonus with the baseball club, Norris pre-fers to live the solitary, simple life in his mini-bus in the off-season, touring around and making the 1,100-kilometre trek from his home in Tennessee to the Dunedin spring train-ing camp each year.
His van is typically parked in the parking lot of the city’s 24-hour Wal-Mart.
He cooks his meals on a camping stove, and spends his free time camping in the wilderness and surfing.
He does pullups and pushups in the parking lot of the retail giant, and is
used to a fair amount of curious attention.
Some passersby offer him money or prayers, thinking he’s in a tough situation financially.
In reality, they couldn’t be more wrong.
He’s a young multi-millionaire who simply chooses to live in the rag-gedy van.
He looks every bit the rugged outdoorsman in the off-season, but when baseball starts up again, he’ll shave the beard and move in with a teammate.
He tells media he is committed to his job on the team and takes his career with the Blue Jays seriously and is figuring out how much give and take there is in terms of reconciling his freewheel-ing, solitary lifestyle and his heavily team-oriented
career.He’s become known
as the “van man” around Dunedin, and it doesn’t appear to be a title he or his baseball club rejects.
It’s not a concern of the Blue Jays if Norris spends his off-season on the road in a cramped camper-van because he stays in shape and during the season, he plays well and holds up his contribu-tion to the team, an assis-tant GM with the Jays told the National Post.
He is a promising pros-pect vying for a starting pitcher position with a left arm that can fire a fastball at 96 miles per hour.
The irony is his attempt at keeping his lifestyle simple is somewhat com-plicated by the immense publicity it’s garnered as of late.
But perhaps that’s part of the pitch for him mak-ing it as the team’s starter on the mound.
Cynics will say it’s all a publicity stunt, but I don’t believe it is; at least, not entirely.
In interviews, he comes off very down-to-earth and genuinely the lone, rugged ranger who under-stands the fascination with his unconventional lifestyle and people’s curiosity.
And in the arena of professional sports, where some of the most famous, highly paid and highly revered athletes make headlines for knocking out their wives, abusing their children, fighting dogs, doing hard drugs or any other bad thing you can imagine, this guy’s moun-tain-man lifestyle really is a breath of fresh air.
HERALD OPINION
Ensuring a life sentence is a sentence for life
Last week our prime min-ister announced that a new government bill will be intro-duced in the House of Com-mons early this week.
This bill proposes to change the terms of parole for some of Canada’s most disturbing and senseless acts of murder to ensure that in these situations a life sentence in jail more closely resembles a sentence for life.
It will be proposed that in serious criminal cases that involve a convic-tion of first degree murder (murder that is both planned and deliberately executed) would be subject to a life sentence without parole.
What types of serious criminal offences would apply? A kidnap or sexual assault that results in a mur-der; first degree murder of police, correctional guards or other law enforcement personnel; and acts of terrorism are a few examples where life sentences without parole could apply.
Although parole eligibility would be eliminated in these situations, those who have served a life sentence after a minimum of 35 years could apply to the minister of public safety for exceptional release.
Decisions on application for spe-cial release would ultimately be sub-ject to ministerial approval and not part of a conventional parole hearing process.
While these proposed changes would only impact a relatively small number of our most serious criminal offenders, they will be welcome news for a very important segment of Canadians: the friends, families and victims who are left behind after such a senseless loss.
Daniel Norris: mountain man, millionaire
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Dear Editor,
The way I see it, the current sewage sludge (a.k.a. biosolids) contro-versy is not really about whether or not the stuff is safe.
The local company composting Merritt’s own sewage is not under attack. Most of us have learned that their product makes lawns greener and flowers bigger, and each individual has a choice whether or not to use it in vegetable gardens.
But consider the quantity of sewage a small town produces. Multiply that by several thousand, and you will have an estimate of how much filth is being hauled to this valley from other cities in B.C. to be composted and spread here. And we, the people, were not consulted. Is this fair?
If the sewage sludge were honey, would we want that much honey?
Irma StarrsMerritt
Biosolids issue a matter of quantity
Many are unaware that Canada’s current parole entitlement to criminals means that even those with poten-tially no hope of release are still able to partici-pate in a parole hearing every two years.
For family and friends of a murdered loved one, this often results in travelling a significant distance to be forced to re-live one of life’s most traumatiz-ing moments every two years.
It is a very painful process that is often referred to as “re-victimization” and, as I have stated previously in the House of Com-mons, for victims it should not have to be this way.
While some think
of well publicized murderers such as Clifford Olson or Paul Bernardo, even here in Okanagan-Coquihalla the family and friends of the Johnson and Bentley families have been forced to re-live this tragedy as con-victed murderer David Shearing remains eli-gible for these parole hearings.
Last fall I presented a petition of over 10,000 signatures from Okanagan-Coquihalla to the minister of pub-lic safety opposing the release of Mr. Shearing.
For many volunteers, who in some cases have also lost loved ones, the process of collecting these signatures is a painful but important exercise.
Although there have been private members’
bills previously that have proposed an end to this re-victimization of families through the current parole process, none to date have received royal assent.
A government bill, though not retroactive, would ensure families who have been victim-ized by brutal and senseless acts of first degree murder would not be forced to con-tinue to revisit such devastating traumas every two years.
I welcome your views on this or any subject before the House of Commons.
I can be reached via email at [email protected] or at 1-800-665-8711.
Dan Albas is the member of Parliament for Okana-gan-Coquihalla.
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Parole hearing process painfulSTRING SECTION Members of the Fountainview Academy Orchestra perform as part of their Lift Him Up concert at the Crossroads Community Church on Saturday morning. Michael Potestio/Herald
The Kamloops Fire Centre is urging people to use caution when they’re conducting open burns because of unseasonably dry conditions.
Because of a lack of snow, mild temperatures and increased wind, dead grass has dried out quickly in the region.
Mitigate wildfire risks by con-ducting a backyard burn with enough people, water and tools on hand to control the fire and prevent it from escaping; don’t burn during windy conditions; clear a one-metre perimeter around the fire of all combus-tibles; and completely extinguish
the fire before leaving it. Anyone found in contraven-
tion of an open fire prohibition may be issued a ticket for $345 or, if convicted in court, may be fined up to $100,000 and sentenced to one year in jail. If the contravention causes or con-tributes to a wildfire, the person may be subject to a penalty of up to $10,000 and be ordered to pay all firefighting and associated costs.
To report a wildfire, call 1-800-663-5555 or dial *5555 on your cellphone.
Open burns are prohibited in Merritt’s city limits at all times.
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Local hockey product lands U.S. college scholarship20-year-old Russell Sanderson will play for the University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos starting in September
By Ian WebsterTHE HERALD
For Merritt’s Russell Sanderson, it’s like a dream come true.
The personable, young 20-year-old resident of the Nicola Valley has earned a scholarship to attend school and play hockey at the University of Central Oklahoma starting in September of this year.
Quite an accom-plishment given that Sanderson has spent almost all of this past season — his final one in junior hockey — on the sidelines recovering from extensive surgery to his hip.
The original injury was a serious one, especially given that Sanderson is a goalie and hip flexibility and mobility are vital to the position.
“I tore my labrum, as well as did some cartilage damage,” Sanderson said, “as well as damaged the bony area of my hip joint. They had to actually shave my hip bones down, put in some arti-ficial cartilage, and re-attach the labrum.”
Sanderson’s surgery took place in July of last year, and he has been rehabilitating ever since. It’s only been the last month or so that he’s been feeling his old self again.
“The rehabbing was a pretty extensive pro-cess,” Sanderson said. “I was on crutches for three months. Things are progressing well now. I’m working on getting my muscle strength back and my full range of motion. I’m feeling better on the ice every day.”
Sanderson said a lot of the recovery process is mental.
“Initially, I was pret-ty down in the dumps about the surgery. It wasn’t the way I wanted to finish off my final year of junior eligibil-
ity.”Things took a
marked turn for the better in January of this year when Sanderson received a phone call from Lee Stone, his for-mer Junior B coach in Campbell River.
“He told me that Central Oklahoma had been asking about me. Their head coach, Craig McAlister, had watched me play last year with the [Campbell River] Storm and liked what he had seen.
“One thing led to another and pretty soon they offered me a schol-arship,” Sanderson said. “It was pretty surreal to go from one minute not knowing what I’m going to do to hopefully having the next four years of my life planned for me.”
Sanderson’s long road to a hockey schol-arship has been an interesting and at times difficult one. Born in Abbotsford, he got his start there on skates
playing Initiation hock-ey. He was a goalie right from the beginning.
“I’ve always loved the position,” he said. “I like the pressure and the responsibility.”
His family moved to Squamish when Sanderson was in Grade 2, and that’s where he played house and rep hockey at the novice, atom and pee-wee levels.
In 2007, the Sandersons moved again, to Merritt, just in time for Russell to begin playing bantam rep. His younger brother, Zack, was a forward for the peewee rep squad.
Sanderson played
three memorable sea-sons of Merritt minor hockey, capped off by his team’s fifth-place finish at the provincial Tier 3 midget cham-pionships in Victoria-Esquimalt in the spring of 2010.
Looking to move up in his hockey career, Sanderson commit-ted to play for the Thompson Blazers major midget team for the 2010-11 season. The Merritt Secondary School student com-muted back and forth to the Blazers’ home rink in Chase with team-mate River Lafferty, also from the Nicola Valley.
“It was a tough year,” Sanderson said. “Travelling as many as five times a week up and down the Coquihalla for practices and games.”
In his final year of midget eligibility, Sanderson made the jump to the Chase Heat of the Kootenay Junior International Hockey (KIJHL). He billeted in Chase to cut down on the commuting.
Sanderson conceded that both the Chase teams he played for were not very strong — losing far more than they won.
“Both years, I faced anywhere from 55 to 60 shots a game. I enjoyed it though. I think that the number of shots really helped in my development as a goalie.”
In September of 2012, Sanderson attended the training camp of his hometown Merritt Centennials and surprised even him-
self when he won the backup goalie position behind returning starter Tyler Steel.
In 11 starts for the Centennials during the BCHL’s 2012-13 campaign, Sanderson recorded a solid .916 SV% and 2.28 GAA.
Sanderson’s sopho-more season with the Cents was a memorable one — for all the wrong reasons. Set to take the reins or at least share the work load with rookie Devin Kero, Sanderson suffered a series of injuries and ailments that kept him out of the lineup for long periods of time.
“I broke my arm early in the fall, man-aged to get back for one week, then got the mumps,” Sanderson said. “Then my hip and groin issues started up.”
Leading up to the BCHL trade deadline on January 10, 2014, Sanderson had man-aged to play only eight games in a Centennials’
uniform. In order to take some pressure off the Merritt team and himself, he requested a trade.
Sanderson wound up being acquired by the Campbell River Storm of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League, the same team that his brother, Zack, was play-ing for in his rookie sea-son of Junior B hockey.
“I really liked it there. Everything was run so well, just like a Junior A program,” he said.
Sanderson played five regular-season games with the Storm, followed by seven play-off games. It was his eye-popping post-season performances that start-ed turning a few heads. In the seven games, Sanderson recorded two shutouts, a save percent-age of .945 and a siz-zling GAA of just 1.63.
MERRITT-PROUD Twenty-year-old Russell Sanderson played three years of minor hockey in Merritt, and one-and-a-half seasons with the BCHL’s Merritt Centennials. He has signed a letter of commitment to attend the University of Central Oklahoma starting in September. This season, the UCO Bronchos are the second-ranked team in the American College Hockey Asociation. They are currently playing in the national championships in Strongsville, Ohio. Ian Webster/Herald
See ‘Sanderson’s hockey journey’ Page 10
‘‘‘I’ve always loved the position. I like the pressure and the responsibility.’
— MERRITT’S RUSSELL SANDERSON ON BEING A GOALTENDER
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It was that tremen-dously positive experi-ence in Campbell River one year ago that has led Sanderson to return to the same Vancouver Island community this spring to train with the Storm, assist coach Stone with his team’s playoff run, and prepare for the college game south of the border beginning in September.
“I’m helping out with coaching right now, and I’ll be doing some scout-ing,” Sanderson said. “There’s ice here for all but one month of the summer, so I’ll be able to get lots of practice time. The club even has its own gym where I can work out.”
Sanderson antici-pates that he’ll leave for UCO in mid to late August. He’ll be join-ing an excellent hockey program that is enjoying a lot of success at the Division 1 level of the American Collegiate Hockey Association.
The second-seeded Bronchos are currently competing in the ACHA national championships in Strongsville, Ohio.
Central Oklahoma defeated 15th-ranked Niagara University 4-1 on Friday in the round of 16, and fol-lowed that up with a 5-3 quarterfinal victory over 10th-ranked Iowa State Sunday afternoon.
Monday night, the Bronchos were scheduled to play third-ranked Minot State in one semifinal, while top-ranked Arizona State was slated to take on fifth-ranked Stony Brook in the other semifinal.
The UCO Bronchos have had an excellent 2014-15 season lead-ing up to the national championships. Their regular season record was 28-5-0-1. At home, they were an impressive 18-1-0-1.
In February, UCO won the 38th Crabpot tournament, defeating the host Navy Academy 6-1 in the final.
The Bronchos’ roster this season lists no fewer than 15 Canadian play-ers with junior experi-ence, including 10 from British Columbia. There
is also one player from Switzerland and two from Sweden.
Sanderson knows a couple of the players on this season’s team.
Curtis Johnson was the captain in Chase when I played there,” he said, “and Tyler Leblanc is from Squamish. He’s a couple of years older than me, but I used to watch him play.”
Sanderson is current-ly checking out courses of study at UCO, which is located in the commu-nity of Edmon and has a student population of 17,000.
In 2009, UCO was ranked in the top 10-per cent of America’s Best Colleges by Forbes maga-zine. It has highly-rated physics and computer science departments.
“I’m thinking of studying to be a French teacher,” said Sanderson, who attend-ed the immersion pro-grams in Squamish and at Merritt Secondary School.
“Russell has the attributes that I look for in a goalie: character, good work ethic, thrives under pressure and can handle adversity,” head coach McAllister of the Bronchos said. “He has shown that he is willing to battle anything that gets in his way to be successful.”
Storm coach Stone said, “I have known Russell for several years, dating back to when he first stepped into junior hockey. UCO could not have recruited a more high-character player for their program.
“To see Russell battle through hip surgery at the age of 20, to not only walk and skate leisurely again, but com-pete at a collegiate level shows that if you put your mind to it, you can achieve your dreams.”
As for Sanderson, he is grateful for the chance to continue his hockey career at UCO.
“It is an honour and a privilege to com-mit to play for Coach McAllister and such a great hockey program, as well as have the opportunity to pursue my post-secondary education. I couldn’t be happier.”
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Minimum wage formula coming soonPremier Christy Clark has
ruled out increasing B.C.’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, but she says there will be a formula announced soon for increases to keep pace with the cost of living.
After meetings between cabinet ministers and B.C. Federation of Labour execu-tives this week, Clark said work is underway to extend the series of increases that brought the minimum wage up to its current rate of
$10.25 an hour after a decade with no increase. She said the system has to protect small and medium-sized businesses from big jumps.
“They know that it’s going to go up, but they want to know that it’s going to go up in a predictable way so they can plan for it,” Clark said.
B.C. Fed president Irene Lanzinger said it’s big busi-nesses like fast food chains that offer many of the minimum wage jobs. Of the 120,000 people in B.C. mak-ing minimum wage, nearly half are over 25 years old,
63 per cent are women and about 10,000 are aged 55 and older, she said.
Labour leaders were more encouraged after their call for a minimum 25 per cent of jobs for apprentices on publicly funded construction projects.
Lee Loftus, president of the B.C. Building Trades, said unionized contractors have the 25 per cent rule in their collective agreements and fund apprenticeship train-ing. But with the majority of construction now done by non-union companies, there
are no quotas for apprentice positions.
Clark said BC Hydro has adopted the 25 per cent standard for the Site C dam project, but other large public infrastructure projects include federal funds. Ottawa wants apprenticeships to be volun-tary for those projects, but Clark said she supports the idea in principle.
“If we’re spending this money on public projects anyway, we should be invest-ing in apprenticeships and getting people up the ladder so they can earn more money
and go and work in what we know is going to be a huge industry, in liquefied natural gas,” Clark said.
Lanzinger said the B.C. Fed has received little response from the govern-ment on its other long-stand-ing issue, the lack of union successorship rights in health care.
A change in contractors triggered layoff notices to 240 Hospital Employees’ Union members this week at Laurel Place, a Surrey long-term care facility.
A contract change for
Vancouver Coastal Health cleaning staff has triggered layoff of 935 staff effective this summer.
Lanzinger said the B.C. government’s 2002 exemp-tion of public employers and publicly subsidized private employers from union suc-cessorship provisions in the Labour Code has resulted in many contract changes with workers laid off and rehired. The practice is designed to drive down wages and ben-efits for employees making little more than minimum wages, she said.
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Cressock, Frank Leonard
With great sadness, I must announce the passing of Frank L. Cressock of Merritt, B C on February 26, 2015.
Frank is lovingly remembered by his son, Bryan and many relatives, long time family friends in British Columbia and Manitoba.
Frank was predeceased in 1997 by his loving wife Marguerite of 47 years and recently by his late brother Frederick of Winnipeg, Man.
After 18 years of being apart, Marguerite and Frank will be reunited once again by their son in a private service. A celebration of Frank’s Life is to be announced at a later date.
My deepest appreciation is extended to all that assisted in their many ways over the past few months.
A special Thank You to Dr. E. Van der Merwe and the staff of The Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt, B C.
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Born in Ashcroft, BC, Grant was the oldest of three children born to Edward and Signe Angman. He was raised in Lillooet, BC, where he eventually married his teenage sweetheart and wife of 54 years, Faye (Becker) on October 16, 1960.
Grant and Faye continued to reside in Lillooet where their daughter, Shelley, and two sons, Ryan and Darren were born. In 1965 Grant began working for BC Hydro. After several moves the family eventually settled in Merritt, BC in 1976. As the years passed his children left home and began to contribute grandchildren whom Grant loved to spoil and brag about. Grant continued to work for BC Hydro until his retirement in 1999. Grant enjoyed the extra leisure time afforded by retirement to spend even more time with family and for gol ng with his numerous close friends. Grant enjoyed curling, gol ng, and y- shing, but rst and foremost in his life was family. He was a loving
husband and devoted father and grandfather. He gave every bit of himself to his family and was actively involved in the lives of his children and granddaughters. His grand-daughters were his world and while they were with him you could often hear the words “you are the greatest grandpa in the whole wide room.”
In 2012, while recovering from a broken neck and back, Grant was diagnosed with cancer. He fought hard, always hoping for the best, but eventually he succumbed to the disease and passed away with Faye at his side on February 28, 2015 at 74 years of age.
Grant was predeceased by his parents Edward and Signe along with his sister in-law Lois and brother in-law Wayne. He is survived by his wife Faye; his children Shelley, Ryan (Torie) and Darren (Connie); his brothers Lyle and Wayne (Pauline); his sister in-law Terry; his 4 grandchildren, Lauren, Nicole, Camryn and Caylee; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Grant also amassed a large gathering of good friends in his life which is a testament to the incredible man he was. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
A Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 PM on March 14, 2015 at the Nicola Valley Evangelical Free Church in Merritt with Lutheran Pastor Gordon Heselton of ciating. A further Cel-ebration of Life will be held at 1:00 PM on April 11, 2015 at the Merritt Golf and Country Club.
The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the staff of the Cancer Clinic at the Royal Inland Hospi-tal in Kamloops and Gillis House in Merritt for their kindness, compassion and dedication extended to Grant while he was in their care.
In lieu of owers the family has requested donations be made to the Cancer Foundation.
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