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Prescribed burn Community Our Services:

planned for Nooaitch Community Garden planning meeting
NV Community Garden will be hold-
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The BC Wildfire Service will be sup- ing their Garden group planning meet-
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massage -Trifractional skin resurfacing
porting the Nooaitch Indian Band in con- ing this month to decide on what we -Wart, skin tag, mole removal -Skin peels
ducting a prescribed burn covering up to will be planting in the garden this year. -Stretch mark removal -LED therapy (red light, blue
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Our rodeo is a high quality, action-packed family event MEETING YMCABC will host a wellness work-
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This prescribed burn is to reduce the unblemished
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Calamity House - fact,

Rotary Park. There will be an egg hunt
(b.y.o.basket), bouncy castle, face paint-

BECOME A VOLUNTEER TUTOR

fiction or rumour? ing, arts and crafts, and a magic show.
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Do you have 1.5 hours a week to read published in 1927, is a story of death, deception and suspicion. Nearly 300 pages long,
Saturday Seniors’ Social
one-on-one with young students? the novel is a work of fiction written in 'old English' style by Mabel Broughton-Billett.
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must have good English language skills worth, the village detective who faces many obstacles as he works tirelessly to identify hosts a Seniors’ Social, taking place on the
the murderer of Mrs. Townsend, the wife of the local doctor. first 3 Saturdays of each month!
• Tutors attend a 1.5 hour training session It has been said that the characters Dr. and Mrs. Townsend are based on pioneer This time of connection, with light lunch, is open to all Elders
& a school orientation before starting doctor George Tutill and his wife Grace (nee Douglas) and seniors in community.
• Tutors read with 3 elementary students Dr. Tutill started a practice in the Nicola Valley in 1901 and, although some con-
for 30 minutes each, once a week for 10 sidered him a tad odd, for the most part he was seen as a good and caring doctor. In Time: 11:00am to 2:00pm
to 12 weeks 1905, he married Grace and a year later their only child Douglas was born. As Merritt Location: ICS - 2040 Granite Avenue
started booming, the family moved from Nicola to a house near where Norgaard's
Email literacymerritt@gmail.com
stands. In 1914, Tutill bought a fellow doctor's home on Nicola Ave. The home had Spaces to visit over a beverage, areas for playing games,
to register for training already seen one tragedy; the previous owner Dr. Williams lost his wife and baby in resources available.
childbirth there. For information, please contact the
The Tutills lived happily in their new house for a time. George's practice was Better at Home Nicola Valley Program Coordinator,
thriving and Grace took part in both the social and political activities in Merritt. She Judy Myram

worked on behalf of the Anglican Church and hospital as well as serving on the local
at 250-280-3015 or jmyram@interiorcommunityservices.bc.ca

school board. She established herself as a gracious host.

But their happiness was short-lived.In 1923, tragedy struck the Nicola Ave. house.
Grace, who had a bad case of the flu, fainted and hit her head against a radiator in the
home's medical office. Dr. Tutill rushed to her aid but was unable to save her. She was
pronounced dead at the age of 52.
After this tragedy, some unsavory rumours arose. Townspeople began to grumble
that Dr. Tutill had turned his wife and son into drug addicts. Whispers were circulat-
ing that Tutill, in a mad rage, had pushed Grace down the stairs to her death. Even
more outrageous were stories that Grace had an affair with a hired hand.
These rumours were tempting fodder to the aspiring writer Broughton-Billett, a
journalist who moved to Merritt from Winnipeg in the mid-1920s. She penned Calam-
ity House four years after Grace Tutill's death and it seemed to be loosely based on the
Nicola Valley, Merritt and its residents. To be continued
I was working in the sun all day, putting finishing touches on the new deck outside my
house. My sister pulled into the driveway, greeted me, and looked over my work. "Wow," she
gushed, "you're an expert." Feeling proud, but trying not to seem egotistical, I responded...
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