This 9-week program will serve as a tool for parents to navigate through a modern urban society, all the while preserving traditional values and cultural practices through their children.
After another successful weekend of eventing at Millstreet, Ireland, Merritt-born and raised equestrian Dana Cooke has donated a total of $4500 to the Merritt Rotary Club’s flood relief fund, after blowing past her original fundraising goal.
Handling the clean up for flood damaged properties in Merritt is costly and requires manpower. Thankfully residents could get some assistance on Saturday, April 23, as there will be a volunteer clean up event hosted at the Rotary Park.
In response to the City of Merritt’s curbside debris collection for flood affected homes ending on April 30, the veteran-lead disaster response charity Team Rubicon looks to relieve the sense of pressure and urgency homeowners may feel to meet this deadline.
This upcoming Easter Sunday will be the first service held that will be open to the public since the Murray Church was burned down in 2019.
The free curbside pickup of debris materials for flood damaged properties is set to end on April 30.
Merritt Secondary School (MSS) senior Diya Chhabra is organizing a fundraiser to assemble educational packages for students.
Christian Aid Ministries have decided to lend a helping hand to Merritt by sending over a crew willing to work on residents’ flood-affected yards for free.
Nicola Valley Women in Action has been honouring the women of Merritt who go above and beyond since 2005 as part of International Women’s Day.
In late January, an SUV filled with goods pulled up to the Nicola Valley Food Bank in Merritt in honour of a retired Handydart employee that has been highly impacted by the November flooding.
The most anticipated arts event of the season, the Winter Artisan Show and Sale, is on at the Nicola Valley Arts Gallery and has now been extended until Jan. 23, 2022.
Vanya Beck is on a mission to bring smiles and joy to her community and has engaged in ‘Random Acts of Crochet Kindness’, leaving crocheted items, namely Worry Worms, in numerous locations around Lower Nicola and Merritt.
October 10-16 is Legion Week, and to celebrate, the Royal Canadian Legion Merritt Branch 096 will be hosting an open house and a BBQ offering free hotdogs, hamburgers, coffee and soft drinks and educating the community about what the Legion does.
Mrs. Donelda Haller’s grade 4/5 class at LNIB school have been busy honing their art skills and decorating the common area with a wall of bright and colourful homages to their favourite animals.
It was a perfect day last week at Lundbom Lake to plant trees.
Friends Mitchell and Aidan collected nearly 200 items for the Nicola Valley Food Bank in a spontaneous food drive earlier this month.
Students at Merritt Secondary School were eager to do their part for Earth Day on April 22, opting to head out into the community with garbage bags and trash pickers to tidy up streets, sidewalks and public spaces.
Members of the local Remax team spent the morning of Earth Day cleaning up the streets and trails of Merritt.
Nicola Canford students have been busy preparing their school gardens for spring planting.
Students at Bench Elementary recently created kindness boards to celebrate Kindness Week.
