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Know as the trans-mountain apartments  the 60 year old apartment building  keeps it s vigil over Voght park in Merritt BC ….                   File Photo KDG

The lower Nicola Indian band and Aron Sam ( Sumaexheletza )the band has an economic development arm Lower Nicola Site Services. The 1200 members of the band are expected to benefit in employment with the 51 percent acquirement of the existing Hope BC based service company in a joint venture with Vancouver’s Infracon.
Chief Sam Sumaexheletza is a UBC graduate .

The Metis association of Alberta has voted to support the pipeline expansion on Sunday according to the CBC.

The Trans Mountain project is also expected to cost an additional 1.9 billion dollars from the estimates used when the government purchased the line from the Texas based Kinder Morgan. Some reports say that the sale of the project after it was cancelled by Kinder Morgan brought  them a 600 percent return on investment . It is also speculated that it will bring the federal deficit up by 36 percent.

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EV reserved parking, city crews in Merritt install a EV spot in Merritt BC File Photo KDG

 

On this Day: August 15th 1965

Stadium rock comes into vogue with the Beatles performing before 60,000 at Shea stadium.