Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News
BC vaccine passport doesn't meet national standard for travel
The Federal Government announced this week that a deal had been reached with the Provinces on a new vaccine passport for travel purposes. The passport would be needed for international travel as well ...
Oct 22, 2021 Credit: CFJC Today
B.C. surpasses 200,000 COVID-19 cases; 715 new cases in the province and 137 in Interior Health
VICTORIA - B.C. has hit a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic today (Oct. 21). As the province reported 715 new cases of COVID-19 for Thursday (Oct. 21), with 137 of them in Interior Health, B.C. ...
Oct 22, 2021
Slow start for Sloan in Japan
Merritt's Roger Sloan is in Japan this weekend, competing in the Zozo Championship. It was a fairly uneventful opening round for the PGA Pro, with just one birdie and one bogey on his card through 15 ...
Oct 21, 2021 Credit: Roger Sloan / Facebook
SD58 plans to relocate CLC and Board Office
School District 58 Nicola-Similkameen has gone through a consultation process on a long range facility plan. Following the review of the public consultation process the Board highlighted a number of c...
Oct 21, 2021
Merritt records 17 new COVID-19 cases
The BC Centre for Disease Control has released the latest local health area COVID-19 data, covering the week of October 10-16. The Merritt area did see a decrease in the weekly count from 24 to 17 cas...
Oct 21, 2021 credit - BC CDC
B.C. reports 696 new COVID-19 cases; hospitalizations and active cases drop
VICTORIA - B.C. reported 696 new cases of COVID-19 for Wednesday (Oct. 20), with 118 of them in Interior Health. The active COVID-19 case count decreased to 4,888 in B.C. (down by 25), although the ac...
Oct 21, 2021
Logan Lake hires new CAO
The District of Logan Lake has announced the hiring of Wade Archambault as the new Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Archambault takes over from the interim CAO Randy Diehl on November 1. Archambaul...
Oct 20, 2021 Logan Lake | Q101News
Wednesday night start for Roger Sloan
Merritt's Roger Sloan is overseas this weekend to take part in the Zozo Championship in Japan. Due to the time-zone, Sloan will actually tee off for round one later tonight at 5:47 pm (Wednesday). Slo...
Oct 20, 2021 Credit: Roger Sloan / Facebook
School District 58 publishes ventilation upgrade information
On Tuesday, Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart questioned the NDP on providing information on promised ventilation upgrades in schools across BC. "Obtaining school COVID data from John Horgan's governmen...
Oct 20, 2021
Capacity limits still in place across Interior Health
On Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Bonnie Henry announced that capacity restrictions for indoor events will be lifted as of October 25, 2021. The provincial health officer order restricting capacity limits to ...
Oct 20, 2021 NVMA | Centennials.ca
