Merritt business owners support diversity by handing out rainbow stickers
MERRITT — A pair of Merritt business owners are doing what they can to promote diversity in their city.
Kerstin and Roland Auer have created 1,000 rainbow stickers in support of the LGBTQ community in town.
It follows council’s recent decision to deny School District 58’s request for a rainbow crosswalk downtown. A group of LGBTQ students at Merritt Secondary School was seeking city approval for the crosswalk which they hoped to paint — at their own cost — on Coldwater Avenue.
Kerstin Auer says she was shocked by council’s decision.