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CommntJob/Career Far

Merritts job/career fair is being heldat the Merritt Civic Center on Sept 11 & 12,10am-5pm, open for everyone to attendfree of charge. 20+ business and schoolswill be in attendance. If you're looking forwork or looking to upgrade your skills,this is an event you will want to attend.Work BC will also be on hand offeringhelp with resumes and interview skills.Canadan Contr Msc Hall of Fame

The Canadian Country Music Hall of

Fame is open this week: Thurs 10am-12pm, Fri 12pm-2pm & Sat 12pm-2pm.They are searching for volunteers tospend as little as 2 hours or as much asyou like. It's a lot of fun at the music mu-seum with records, downloaded music,guitars, history, video and more. Call 315-6140, email CCMHofFame@gmail.com,or visit www.facebook.com/groups/109415629093829/Lower Ncola Hall fndraser

Steak dinner fundraiser at the HitchnPost Restaurant, in support of LowerNicola Community Hall, Sept. 14, tickets$15, call Shirley 378-6386. Proceeds tohall upgrades.A 50s eenng wth Els

Join Merritt Crime Stoppers for greatmusic, dinner, silent auction and lots of

fun! Cocktails at 6, dinner 7:30, Sept. 14,Civic Centre. Tickets $35ea. at Commu-nity Police Office on Quilchena Ave.,Show your community support and wear50-60's clothing. Must be 19 yrs to attend.Gmkhana

The NV Riding Club will hold agymkhana on Sunday, Sept. 15 at therodeo grounds, 9:30am, open to all ages.There is pole bending (right), barrel rac-ing, keyhole, etc., an obstacle/scavengerhunt and horse soccer game. FMI contactDarlene Gellrich 378-4711.Commnt Chor new season

Merritt Community Choir will bestarting up for the fall season on Monday,September 16th and welcomes newvoices! Drop by for a visit to check us out.Practice is held Mondays at 7pm in the

Colletteville School, use rear entrance offBirch Ave. FMI Ellen 378-9899.Oldtme Fddlers meetng

Merritt Oldtime Fiddlers generalmeeting at the Cadet Hall on Sunday,September 22, 2pm. All members pleaseattend as it is an important meeting.Newcomers welcome. FMI Angele 378-5679 or Del 378-9849.3D prnter demonstraton

The Friends of the Library in partner-ship with the Merritt Library is hosting apresentation on Tuesday, September 24,5pm at the Library. 3D printing is an ex-citing technology used for prototypingand manufacturing, with applications inarchitecture, construction, industrial de-sign, automotive, aerospace, military, en-gineering, civil engineering, dental andmedical industries, biotech (human tis-sue replacement), fashion, footwear, jew-elry, eyewear, education, geographicinformation systems, food, and manyother fields.

Three 3D printers will be demon-strated and the audience will be given theopportunity to suggest items to beprinted. There will be refreshments priorto the start of the presentation. No chargeto attend, but please register by calling theMerritt Library 378-4737 or dropping by.

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Nothng Works I was enjoying the second week of a two-week vacation thesame way I had enjoyed the first week: by doing as little as possible. I ig-nored my wife's not-so-subtle hints about completing certain jobs aroundthe house, but I didn't realize how much this bothered her until the clothesdryer refused to work, the iron shorted, and the sewing machine motorburned out in the middle of a seam. The final straw came when she pluggedin the vacuum cleaner and nothing happened. She looked so stricken that I

had to offer some consolation. "That's okay, honey," I said. "You still haveme." She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. "Yes," she wailed, "but youdon't work either!"

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2 bdrm in Sixplex. (Lower Nicola)........................$700

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1 bdrm basement suite. (Bench).......$700 plus utilities.

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This year's food drive takes place thisweek, and Saturday is collection day.Throughout the week, volunteers de-liver bags to individual homes with fly-ers asking for donations. On Saturdaytheyll return to pick up the donationsand deliver them to local food banks. InMerritt last year, about 16 volunteersworked nearly 200 hours and collectedapprox. 1000 lbs of food for our food

bank. This is the 3rd year for this-province-wide initiative.

The growth game Part 3The Merritt Official Community Plan

acknowledges that the TNRD hasadopted a 1.8% projected growth rate fortheir official plans. To show some op-tions, the Merritt OCP projected growthscenarios of 0.5%, 1.0%, and 2.0% overthe next 15 years, which would result ina 2030 population of 8300, 9375, and11,759 respectively (Merritt OCP, 2004).

The community survey conducted aspart of the Integrated Growth Strategy indi-cated that a significant portion of the com-munity considered 15,000 inhabitants to

be a good population base for Merritt in2030. In order to achieve this populationlevel by 2030, a growth rate in the order of

3.2% would be required.The Integrated Growth Strategy also

states: According to the TNRD RegionalGrowth Strategy, 40,000 additional peo-ple will be added [to all of TNRD] by2015. The TNRD projects the populationof Merritt will reach 9,600 by that samedate. That was in May 2010.

However, the BC Census shows thatin 2011, the city of Merritt had a popula-tion of 7,113, a 1.6% change from the 2006census of 6,998 thats 115 new peopleover the 5 years, 23 per year.

This summer, TNRD updated theirRegional Growth Strategy, and it was pre-sented to City Council during a regularmeeting. Theyve revised their projectedgrowth rate from 1.8% down to 0.8% peryear over the next 25 years, according to

theMerritt Herald dated July 11, 2013.Of course its impossible to really pre-dict how many people will come here inthe future. If we extrapolate from the recentpast, there will only be 7,205 in 2015, andthats not even half of the 15,000 that par-ticipants in the Citys survey thoughtwould be a good population base for Mer-ritt in 2030! (Wed have to grow by 520 peo-ple per year from now on to reach that!)

There is one possible game-changer inMerritts near future: the BC Hydro powerupgrade which should be completed nextyear. In economic development circles, thisis being touted as the thing that couldchange it all for us. And once theresenough hydro that will allow this commu-nity to grow, the ball will be in Ec Devscourt to make it happen. KL

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