Tag Archive: Merritt Secondary School


Essential service, schools out for summer

Filed under: Collective bargaining by percypaschal — 9 Comments
June 23, 2014

 

Photo: KDG

Photo: KDG

The School system will be down for the rest of the year starting today. A source says that provincial exams are still on and grading will be done from where instruction was discontinued, so no one will lose the year. This fulfills the essential service that school and other public works are under. One hundred and nine young people Graduated From Merritt Secondary School on Friday. The ceremony was held at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena and a parade from the high school was headed by Mounties in their Scarlet dress uniforms.

School district 58 includes the Nicola Valley, Merritt, and Princeton primary and secondary schools. http://www.sd58.bc.ca/District/Home.html

Today in history: June 23 1946
The Vancouver Island Earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, Canada

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Powwow

Filed under: First Nations People by Kevin Griffiths — Leave a comment
May 29, 2013

This morning there is about three hundred people in the front field of Merritt Secondary School. Starting with a Grand procession a colorful procession of First Nations people are advancing about the field in the direction of a white teepee tent on the eastern side of the field. Flags , feathers and scarlet coated Mounties are followed up by children of first nations decent.

A young women getting into a jingle dancers dress to take part said it is a first annual and is linked to the school district.

The high school also has a pit house reconstruction at the rear of the school.

The Powwow goes to 1 PM today.

Today in history: May 29th 1954

The first of  the annual bilderburg conferences.

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Triathlon

Filed under: Vegtable soup by Kevin Griffiths — Leave a comment
November 9, 2011

About 40 grade twelve students are about the 1900 block of Nicola avenue at this writing  holding a finish ribbon for competitors in a school triathlon. he competitors team up in threes and each take an event including a bike from lower Nicola an unincorporated area about 5 miles south on highway 8, and a run from 1900 Nicola , up through Parker behind the bench and around back by the golf course to 1900 block Nicola a distance of about 6 KMS and finally 20 lanes both ways in our olympic indoor pool. The demeanor of the runners is hard  and full of effort, as vocal cheering takes place.

Opinion:this is a good sign for those young people involved and boads well for those that seem to take it serious.Kudos to Merritt Secondary School.

Today in history, November 9th,1998

Capital punishment is abolished for any crime in Britain.

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