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MFRD GETS NEW WHEELS
BASS COAST TIX SELLING FAST /PAGE 5
CENTS HAND OUT THE HARDWARE /PAGE 9
Check out more photos of the new truck /PAGE 3
Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
The next time you hear a siren blaring, it might just be your
local fire department putting its newest addition to good use.
After a year-long build and months of anticipating its arrival,
the Merritt Fire Rescue Department (MFRD) has finally received its
new fire engine, which takes its place as engine one in the
fleet.
The fire department now has eight vehicles at their disposal,
including three fire engines and a ladder truck.
More storage space is what makes the new fire engine stand out
from the rest of the fleet. It boasts double the capacity compared
to the fire departments other fire engines.
The new vehicle has storage spaces on its top, and deep storage
compartments on its sides compared to the other engines, allowing
for more equipment to be carried to a fire equipment that in the
past required an extra vehicle in order to be delivered to
firefighters at the scene.
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Truck tire rolled onto Highway 8 nearly hits vehicle
A three-quarter tonne truck tire with the rim still in it was
rolled from near the Canadian flag pole at the Norgaard Lookout to
Highway 8, nearly hitting a vehicle.
It couldve been horrid, RCMP Sgt. Norm Flemming said of the
incident.
The wheel came down off the mountain just past Juniper Drive
shortly after 4 p.m. last Tuesday (March 1).
Two people in a vehicle driving into town were spared from an
accident when the oncoming tire bounced over the vehicle causing
the male driver to brake.
He saw it at the last minute [and] he said he had nowhere to go,
Flemming said.
The tire came to rest on the south side of the road some 200
metres west of where the Nicola and Coldwater Rivers converge,
Flemming said.
The vehicle turned around and the passenger saw two youths maybe
14 or 15 [years old] scrambling up the hill and riding bicycles,
Flemming said.
The driver proceeded to drive up the hill to the flag pole in
search of the individuals, but didnt find them. He then called the
police who searched the area to no avail.
No one was injured and no damage was done to the vehicle.
If it had hit the drivers door straight on, it could have easily
killed him, and the truck wouldve undoubtedly wound up in the
river. Nobody wouldve been prepared for that, Flemming said.
He told the Herald police are seeking more infor-mation
regarding this incident.
The tire came off a late 1990s, early 2000s Chevrolet, he
said.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Merritt RCMP
or call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
POLICE REPORT
Close call has police seeking more informationMichael
PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
Attempted vacuum theft at Canadian Tire
A man prohibited from entering Canadian Tire stores was caught
allegedly trying to steal vacuum cleaners from the Merritt
store.
RCMP Sgt. Norm Flemming said that at about 6 p.m. on March 2,
Canadian Tire employees discovered the man in the stores warehouse.
The man left the building and got into a U-Haul outside that a
woman was driving.
The manager later found a garbage can over by the back bay door,
and it had some Dyson vacuums stuffed in [it], Flemming said.
Whether he was intend-ing to come and take them from the outside,
or he was going to put them outside before he got caught, Im not
sure.
The police were called to Canadian Tire, and they found the pair
at the neighbouring Extra Foods, Flemming said.
The U-Haul didnt have anything unusual in it.
The man was arrest-ed and held in custody, while the woman was
released at the scene without charge.
Flemming said the
suspect was in court March 3 in Kamloops for a breach of
recog-nizance for attending a Canadian Tire store, and the Merritt
police have charged him with attempted theft.
Flemming said the man is not a local.
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From the Herald archives: March, 1929
DR. GILLIS MAKES FINE
MAIDEN SPEECH
Making his maiden speech dur-ing the course of the budget debate
on Wednesday, Dr. J.J. Gillis, MLA for Yale, dwelt at con-siderable
length on the importance of social services being provided by the
gov-ernment.
He deprecated suggestions being made that provin-cial provision
for education health and pensions could not be maintained as fully
as hitherto. On the contrary, he stressed the need of extending the
medi-cal health services by increasing the number of public nurses
in outlying districts and put-ting on three or five tuberculosis
special-ists instead of one as at present.
Dr. Gillis thanked Hon. Nels Lougheed, minister of public works,
for providing the estimates for urgent necessities in Yale in the
way of road-building and replacement of Spences Bridge at a cost of
$145,000.
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We arrive ready to go to work, and I think thats a big
improvement, said Fire chief Dave Tomkinson of the upgrade the new
fire engine provides.
The new engine can also carry 14 spare air tanks compared to the
five the other trucks carry, which will extend the amount of time
firefighters can remain at a fire before needing those
resources.
Now were carrying three times the amount of air bottles,
Tomkinson said.
Its the one division between those toxic, smoky carcinogens and
firefighters ending up with cancer, so we take that seriously,
Tomkinson said.
The cabin of the new truck has about an extra foot of leg room
and airbags to protect its passengers, two features none of the
other fire engines have, Tomkinson told the Herald.
Acquiring the new fire engine moves the fire departments engine
three into an auxiliary role.
The new engine will be used in town with the ladder truck, while
engines two and three will be deployed to calls in the fire
departments protection area outside city limits.
The fire departments members are being trained to use the new
engine over the next two weeks, and the vehicle is ready to be used
in the event of a fire.
COVER STORY
FROM THE ASSEMBLY LINEStraight to the Merritt fi re hall
MFRD chief Dave Tomkinson (centre) with his men, in front of the
new truck. Michael Potestio/Herald
From Page 1
Chief Tomkinson shows off the vehicles storage capacity. Michael
Potestio/Herald
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City CalendarMarch 8, 7 pm Regular Council Meeting Merritt City
Hall
March 8, 6 pm Nicola Valley Women in Action NVIT
March 11, 8:30 to 10:30 pm Family Fun Night Aquatic Centre
March 11 to 13 Crop Weekend Merritt Civic Centre
March 11 to 18 XploreSportz Spring Break Camp Merritt Civic
Centre
March 17, 7 pm The Nicola Naturalist Society Monthly Meeting
NVIT
March 21, 7 pm Nicola Valley Film Society presents Jimmys Hall
NVIT
March 22, 7 pm Regular Council Meeting Merritt City Hall
March 23, 8 pm Pre-Teen Night Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre
March 23, 8:30 pm Teen Night Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre
Recordings of the City of Merritts council meetings can also be
seen on Shaw Cable (Channel 10) on Thursdays and Sundays at 11:00
a.m.
Council meetings can also be streamed live online at:
http://www.merritt.ca/live-streaming-council-meetings
See past council decisions at:
http://www.merritt.ca/city-council/council-meeting-decisions
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Applications are invited for the position of Seasonal Labourer
for the Public Works Department for 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 11, 2016 and should be addressed
to:
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City of MerrittPO Box 189, 2185 Voght Street
Merritt, BC V1K 1B8Or by email: [email protected]
For complete posting listing see www.merritt.ca
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those
selected for an interview will be contacted.
SEASONAL PUBLIC WORKS LABOURER
PUBLIC NOTICESEWER AND WATER PARCEL TAX ROLL
NOTICE is hereby given that the Sewer and Water Parcel Tax Rolls
are available for viewing in the Finance Department of City Hall
from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, except statutory
holidays.
A person who owns a parcel included on the parcel tax roll may
request that the roll be amended respecting a matter referred to in
section 205 (1)[complaints to review panel], but only in relation
to the persons own property;
You may make a complaint under Section 205 of the Community
Charter to the Parcel Tax Review Panel for one or more of the
following reasons:r5IFSFJTBOFSSPSPSPNJTTJPOBCPVUBOBNFPSaddress on
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March 31, 2016 to the attention of:
Ben Currie, Deputy Finance Manager and Collector, 2185 Voght
Street, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8.
YOURE INVITED!to meet with Mayor Menard on
March 16th from 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., in the Mayors Ofce at
City Hall
(second oor), 2185 Voght Street.
If you would like to schedule a particular time to meet with the
Mayor at a Drop-In session please call reception at City Hall
250-378-4224.
Interested citizens are welcome to stop by, say
hello and discuss issues and opportunities for the City, its
residents and businesses.
You are invited to attend an upcoming webi-nar (online semi-nar)
hosted by Green Tourism Canada and the Thompson- Okanagan Tour-ism
Association. The webinar, entitled Getting Started With Green
Tourism will take place on March 17 from 10 to 11 a.m. The City of
Merritt has registered for
the event, and we invite inter-ested commu-nity members to join
us in the Community Boardroom (first floor of City Hall) for the
webinar. The purpose of the webinar is to assist our regions
tourism businesses in improving their sustainability performance in
an effort to not only protect the natural environ-ment that
makes
us so unique, but also to meet the growing con-sumer demand for
responsible business.
Open discus-sion will follow the webinar. There is no cost to
attend. Please RSVP wgeorge@
merritt.ca. You can get more information at
www.green-tourismcanada.ca/tota/.
UPCOMING GREEN TOURISM WEBINAR
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Please RSVP toJourney's Into Tomorrow Transition House
Elder's Easter Luncheon
PEveryone Welcome!
The Easter Bunny will be here! There will be entertainment
throughout the day and our guest speaker, Jan Derrick will be
talking at noon.
Where & WhenRegistration at 9 amEvent: 9:30 am - 2
pmLocation: Merritt Civic CentreCome visit old friends and meetsome
new ones!
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members or anyone else wishing to sell their homemade
products.Make, Bake, or Grow Yourself!
Tickets for Bass Coast going fast
With Bass Coast set to return to the Nicola Valley for the
fourth consecutive year this July, ticket sales are flying out the
door, said organizer Paul Brooks.
Tickets are selling faster than ever before and we are going to
reach our goal soon, he told the Herald in a phone interview. Their
goal is 3,500 tickets 500 more than last year. I encourage people
to get their tickets as soon as possible.
Brooks said part of the draw was the low Canadian dollar, which
he credited for bring-ing in attendees from outside of the country.
Were seeing people travel from as far away
as Europe for this event, so its really cool. Were excited to
welcome some first-timers from across the globe.
Similarly, the first round of the 2016 lineup will boast plenty
of international artists. Some of the headliners the organizer
pointed to were Todd Edwards, &ME, Ivy Lab and Machinedrum.
Todd Edwards is a Grammy Award-winning artist who is probably
most famously known for his work with Daft Punk, he said. Edwards
was influential in the genre of garage music in the UK.
From the genre of garage came dubstep and other forms of bass
music that are repre-sented strongly at the festival, so
this guy is a pioneer in the type of music that we like to focus
on in the event, and were proud to be hosting such a distinguished
artist, said Brooks.
Other international headlin-ers are from the U.S., as well as
from Germany and the UK.
Although the theme of this years festival wont be released until
later this month, Brooks hinted that they took their cue from the
Nicola Valley. Were taking some inspiration from the community and
from the area that we hold the festival that is going to play into
the theme this year.
Last years theme was ten-tacular and the year before the grounds
were decorated with a pirate motif.
BRINGING THE BASS
First lineup announced, with more to come
Last years Bass Coast festivities brought in 3,000 attendees.
This year, theyre prepping for 3,500. Herald file photo
David DyckTHE MERRITT HERALD
Health Minister Terry Lake toured the new Clinical Services
Building (CSB) at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) on Friday, March 4
with a number of other dignitaries. Left to right: Peter Milobar,
Thompson Regional Hospital District chair; Chris Mazurkewich,
Interior Health president and CEO; Jackie Tegart, MLA
Fraser-Nicola; Susan Brown, Interior Health vice president and COO,
Hospitals and Communities; Todd Stone, MLA Kamloops-South Thompson;
Health Minister Terry Lake; Frank Quinn, Interior Health board
director; and Carol Laberge, RIH health services administrator.
Photo courtesy IHA
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South Africa is now verging on the status of economic basket
case. GDP growth last year was around half of one per cent, the
countrys cur-rency has been in free fall
for the past year, and its bonds face an imminent downgrade to
junk status. So is the South African economy doomed to a long
period of low or no growth no matter who is in charge or is
President Jacob Zuma to blame?
Zuma is no longer a president that deserves respect from anyone,
said Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
party, in South Africas parliament last month. And as Zuma tried to
give his eighth State-of-the-
Nation speech (he became president in 2009), the EFF members of
parlia-ment chanted Zupta must fall. (Zupta is a reference to Zumas
close ties with the immensely wealthy Gupta family).
Julius Malema does not qualify as an unbiased observer, but his
view of Zuma is shared right across the political spec-trum in
South Africa and beyond. No-one believes anything he says,
con-cluded veteran political analyst William Gumede. And yet Zuma
continues to be in charge of Africas
largest economy which is now deteriorating prac-tically by the
day.
Post-apartheid South Africa was never a great economic success.
After the end of apartheid in 1994, there were high hopes that the
economy would grow at six per cent annually or better and create
half a million new jobs a year. In reality, growth averaged just
over three per cent in the next decade and then fell off a cliff
after the global financial crisis of 2008.
South Africa joined Brazil, Russia, India and
China as a member of the BRICS in 2010, but it didnt really
qualify. While its fellow BRICs powered through the great recession
of 2009-2012 with undiminished growth rates, South Africas economy
fell to two per cent growth a year, then one percent, and now half
a percent.
It is no crime that Zuma was born poor and never went to school.
Neither is it a crime that he has never worked in the private
sector.
MP budgets and Friday sittings
It should never be forgotten that elect-ed officials work for
the pub-lic and should be account-able to the people we
collectively serve.
This was one of the reasons why in last weeks MP Report I asked
citizens to share their input with me on these weekly reports and
what changes and suggestions people would like to see for future
reports more so now, given my role as an opposition MP.
The response was significant and very encouraging. I would like
to sincerely thank the many citizens who took the time to offer
some very valuable suggestions and ideas that will be incorporated
in future reports.
One comment I heard frequently was to spend less time on events
widely covered in media and more time on issues that are less
covered.
Taking that feedback to heart, this week I will mention a few
top-ics that were not widely covered but may be of interest.
One issue that was announced last week is that MP office budgets
are being increased. Currently MP office budgets have been frozen
since the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
The increase announced last week is a 20 per cent raise to MPs
basic office budgets, a five per cent increase to travel accounts
and a 20 per cent increase to House officers budgets in Ottawa.
South Africa Is Zuma to blame?
MP REPORT
DAN ALBASView from the HILL
See Pay increase Page 7 See Yes Page 7
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These budgets are intended to allow MPs to pay for increases in
rent and staffing costs as well other expenses encountered when
running several offices between the riding and Ottawa.
I should also add that an increased budget does not necessarily
in this case lead to increased spending. Any unused funds from an
MPs annual office budget are returned to Ottawa each year with the
exception of a five per cent carryover that an MP can apply to
their next fiscal year.
All of these funds, when spent, are reported in a members annual
financial report and in my case I also provide an annual
account-ability report to make this and other information easi-er
to find and compare with previous years.
To date, since I was first elected as a member of Parliament in
2011, I have never yet maximized my available budget spending and
have returned unused funds to Ottawa. I expect this trend to
continue.
Another change being contemplated in Ottawa is shortening the
work week when the House of Commons is in session.
Generally when MPs are in Ottawa, the House of Commons will sit
from Monday to Friday with the rare exception of a holiday creating
a shorter week when the House will adjourn.
The House typically sits for two or three weeks in a
row before adjourning for usually one or occasionally two
constituency weeks. A Parliamentary committee is currently
exploring the option that the House of Commons no longer sit on
Fridays.
The intent of this change is to help improve the fam-ily life
balance for Members of Parliament.
My thoughts on this? Currently, for a B.C.-based MP travelling
either to or from Ottawa the travel time takes the better part of a
day, so having a Friday strictly for travel would allow for more
time back home.
However as it stands now there are currently 24 Fridays the
House is sitting in 2016 meaning the elimi-nation of Fridays would
mean a loss of one month of House time. That is sig-nificant.
It should also be pointed out the current obligations that
include sitting five days a week when the House is in session were
well-known to all who put their names forward and were elected as
MPs only a short time ago.
As I believe it is impor-tant that elected MPs fulfill the
obligations they were elected under, I will be opposing these
changes. I welcome your comments, question and concerns on this or
any subject before the House of Commons. I can be reached at
[email protected] or toll free at 1-800-665-8711.
Dan Albas is the Member of Parliament for Central
Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola
From Page 6
Pay increase, shorter work week considered for
parliamentarians
All his jobs, from the age of sixteen, have been in the service
of the now-ruling African National Congress (ANC). But it is
remark-able, given these facts, that he has neverthe-less become
very rich (at least $20 million).
Zuma has never been jailed for cor-ruption, but his principal
financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was sentenced to 15 years in
prison in 2005 for corruption and fraud.
The judge said that the evidence of a cor-rupt relationship
between Shaik and Zuma was overwhelming, and Zuma was imme-diately
fired as deputy president by then-president Thabo Mbeki.
Police raids on two of Zumas homes yielded evidence that led to
charges of mon-ey-laundering and racketeering in connection with a
multi-billion dollar arms deal. Just three days before Zuma was
installed as presi-dent in 2009, the charges were dismissed on
grounds that the evidence had been tampered with, but a recent High
Court decision has reinstated the charges.
Then there was the Nkandla scandal, in which Zuma got his
government to pay for the $23 million expansion of his country home
in KwaZulu-Natal. (He was eventually forced by the courts to pay
back some of the money.)
Or consider the astounding events of last December, when South
Africa had three min-isters of finance in the same week.
The first finance minister, the widely respected Nhlanhla Nene,
had annoyed Zuma by refusing to approve some very large contracts
in nuclear energy and the state-owned airline. (Nene may have
suspected that big kickbacks were involved.) So he was
dismissed.
The second finance minister was David van Rooyen, an unknown
party wheelhorse with no financial experience. It was soon
dis-covered that he had close ties to the Gupta family, which gave
rise to speculation that Zuma was helping the Guptas to capture
control of the states financial policies. He was forced to resign
after four days.
The third man, Pravin Gordhan, was respectable and competent,
but by then South Africas stock market had collapsed, its currency
had tanked, and the Standard and Poors ratings firm had reduced the
countrys credit rating to just one notch above junk status.
So Zuma does bear the blame for the col-lapse in international
confidence in the South African economy but not for its long-term
failure to grow as fast as was expected. What is to blame for
that?
South Africa was already a developed country when apartheid
ended. It was a very strange sort of developed country, with around
ten million people living in a mod-ern economy among thirty million
others who filled menial roles or lived by subsis-tence farming.
But it was already urbanized, already industrialized, and therefore
not eli-gible for the once-only bonus of high growth that some big
emerging economies enjoyed.
The best that South Africa could ever have expected was the
three per cent growth that it had in 1996-2008. That would have
been barely enough to meet popular expectations for rising living
standards. The main cause for its failure to meet those
expectations, and for any political upheavals that may subsequently
ensue, is Jacob Zuma.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are
published in 45 countries.
From Page 6
Yes he is, as it turns out
LETTER to the editor
Editor:
I noticed an error in the article on page three of the Thursday,
Feb. 25 edition of the Merritt Herald.
Please note that Lizette Nel is not an independent entrepreneur,
operating the Love to Dance Academy. In fact, the Love to Dance
Academy is a project of the Merritt Dance Society. Lizette Nel is
an employee
of the society, hired as our Principal Instructor. She plans and
manages all of our dance programs for the society.
We point this out to you to because the distinc-tion has
influence on the Society's ability to access support through
funding for scholarships and bursaries, as well as grants for
special projects.
Nonetheless, your cov-
erage in "Dancing for the heart" was otherwise accu-rate and
very well stated. I believe our Steering Committee will be
releasing a Press Release to announce the results of the event.
Thank You, Selena Voigt,President Merritt Dance Society
A point of clarifi cation
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A second phase of renovations that would alter the
administrative side of Merritts fire hall will sit on the shelf for
at least another year.
In the five-year financial plan passed by coun-cil last year,
phase two was scheduled for 2016, but the city has not set aside
any funds for this project.
Undertaking the alternative approval process which requires 10
per cent of the voting pub-lic disapprove of the project to see it
nixed is required before the project gets off the ground.
The fire hall recently underwent phase one of renovations which
involved adding another truck bay to the facility. Those
renovations cost approx-imately $450,000.
City of Merritt financial director Sheila Thiessen told council
at its budget meeting last Wednesday (March 2) that staff felt it
was appro-priate to take its time to build a proper business case
before going to the public.
Thiessen told the Herald the city also intends to consider what
the best timing for the project would be in relation to other
projects.
She said that under its new management struc-ture the city is
trying to ensure it has the capacity to take on large projects
before starting them.
We might be required to bring in consultants or somebody to
manage the projects, depending on the expertise and whats required,
Thiessen said.
Phase two of fire hall renovations would involve creating a
two-storey 10,000 square-foot wood frame building next to the truck
bays in place of the current one, Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson told
the Herald.
Some major aspects of the renovations include creating a
dormitory for work experience fire-fighters, a turnout gear storage
room and a decontamination room which would be a major improvement
on the departments current setup for when firefighters return to
the station with undesirable materials on their gear that need to
be cleaned off.
We do have a washer, but it has to dry here in the station, and
so constantly those chemicals are being dispersed into the fire
station itself, and sometimes were out on the front tarmac on the
asphalt washing and scrubbing, Tomkinosn said.
The idea is to make the single fire station model viable for
many years ahead, Tomkinson said.
CITY BEAT
Phase two of fi re hall project shelved for now
Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD
Crews working on phase one of the firehall project, an
exten-sion which added a new truck bay to the building, back in
2014. Herald file photo
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Merritt Centennials hand out the hardware
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER #4 Michael Faulkner
MOST GENTLEMANLY PLAYER #27 Tyler Holt
SKA-LU-LA AWARDS #14 Zak Bowles, #28 Mark OShaughnessy, #25
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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR &MOST PROMISING PLAYER
#18 Tyler Ward
UNSUNG HERO #13 Henry Cleghorn
ACADEMIC SCHOLAR #15 Michael Regush
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JOE TENNANT - MOST DEDICATED #25 Malik Kaila
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LEADERSHIP AND ABILITYCOACHES AWARD &
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Leroy Tolofson
Leroy Tolofson passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the age
of 69. Predeceased by both of his parents, Lee is survived by his 2
sons - Heath of Vancouver and Chad of Edmonton, his brothers Lorne
and Paul, and his sisters Letty and Reta. Lee was also a father
gure to many other children over the years. Lee worked at the mine
in Bralorne, then at Craigmont for 16 years. He loved his
motorcycle and spent his free time hunting on Swakum Mountain. A
Celebration of Life will be held at a future date.
Online condolences may be left at
www.MerrittFuneralChapel.com
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