Category: Arts and Culture


Regular gas at $1.20.9

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January 30, 2014
500 volt 120 amp quick charger

500 volt 120 amp quick charger

Most of the main gas stations here in Merritt are selling regular Gasoline at $ 1.20.9 cents a liter. This happened about a week ago .However the best gas price can also be made if you take part in the loyalty programs. Extra Food offers 7 cents a liter in  their trademarked super buck program.

The DC 500 volt quick charger is turned on Voght street this week. A Source says you need an adapter to your particular EV. Tesla has a proprietary one at about 25 dollars.

Gasoline in Kamloops is at $1.14.9 , and a low in Courtney at Coast co is $1.12.9 a liter.

Today in history: January 30th 1964

The Ranger program Ranger 6 is launched.

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Community Art Show ” things that make you smile”

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January 29, 2014

February 6th the arts council is hosting a community art show at the court-house gallery. The artist reception is on February 7th 4-6 PM.
Three levels of small cash prizes come from a grant by the Provincial Arts Council who endorse the show.

A work displayed at a Community Art show in Merritt. By Andrea Rogers.: Photo KDG

A work displayed at a Community art show in Merritt. By Andrea Rogers:
Photo KDG

This is the 8th annual for the local council.

This show features an array of art mediums on display by creative Nicola Valley residents and it is open to all local artists and artisans.  In the past this show has included modelling, needlework, weaving, carving, fly-tying, woodworking, sculpting, drawing, and paintings.  There will be prizes awarded to Best of Show $100.00, Viewers’ Choice $150.00, and Youth Under 16 $50.00. Bring your artwork to the Gallery on Feb. 5 from 10 am to 4 pm. For more information contact the Gallery at 378-6515 or artgallerynv@gmail.com.

Today in history: January 29th 1900

The American league is organized with eight founding teams.

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The me in Dementia

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January 23, 2014

British Columbia has about 4 and a half million people and as of August last year fully one million of them were are on Canadian Pension plan. With an  overall death rate on par with the  Arab Emirates and less than half the national rate. BC enjoys over 20 percent of the population in some kind of retirement, capacity and memory can become a real issue especially when life engagement wains.

Succesful people have developed social skills over a life time that include an out going   sence of  giving to the community in a productive way and receiving back.

Diminishment seriously undermines  people’s ability to keep up  and sometimes makes engagement a struggle.

The Alzheimer’s Society of British Columbia is hosting a workshop  The me in Dementia at the Coast Canadian Inn Kamloops, March 28th 2014. ( 9 am to 4PM).Ph: 1 855-742-4803. Twenty dollars admission includes lunch.

Catch Phase: Increasing understanding along the Dementia Journey

Editors note:  We would like to acknowledge the efforts of  Gregory and  Colby Griffiths who as preteens have raised  monies in the  5 digit range for research into the disease by bottle drives. They also had the courage to lend their young voice to the in an interview last year on CFJC news in Kamloops.

Today in history: January 23 2002

A Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan and later murdered.

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Home Again, Canada 2012

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January 20, 2014

The Nicola Valley Film Society presents Home Again tonight at  the NVIT lecture theater. Tiff endorsed and rated 14A. The film starts at 7:30, free parking at the school , admission $5.00 with 2 dollar season membership.

No food in the lecture theater please.

Today in history: January 20th 1950

Chuck Lefley Canadian Ice hockey player born.

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Public hearings

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January 17, 2014

The time to be heard at the public process for the Kinder Morgan  twinning project application is fast approaching. opening on Wednesday the 14th and ending on February 12th you must apply to the National Energy board to make a submission.

Here is the contact info according to Trans Mountain Pipeline; Kinder Morgans subsidiary and active agent in this application.

Grass seeding at a construction site in Merritt Photo KDG

Grass seeding at a construction site in Merritt
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Trans Mountain notes an error in the email notification that was sent to you this afternoon on behalf of the National Energy Board.

The correct email address for the National Energy Board’s Process Advisor, Reny Chakkalakal is transmountainpipeline.hearing@neb-one.gc.ca.

The National Energy Board (NEB) has issued an Application to Participate Notification about the hearing process for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project.

Those who wish to take part in the NEB hearing must apply to participate. The application to take part is on the NEB’s website at:

www.neb-one.gc.ca select Major Applications and Projects, then Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC – Trans Mountain Expansion.

Applications to participate in the NEB Hearing are due on or before noon on 12 February 2014.

If you need more information, the NEB has appointed Ms. Reny Chakkalakal as Process Advisor to give assistance.

Ms. Reny Chakkalakal Process Advisor, NEB E-mail: transmountainpipeline.hearing@neb-one.gc.ca  Telephone (toll free): 1-800-899-1265

The notice is also posted on the Trans Mountain website. You can read the full notice here.
Sincerely, The Trans Mountain Expansion Project Team

Today in history: January 17th 1946, 2007

The UN security council holds its first meeting.

The doomsday clock goes to 5 minutes to midnight in response to North Korean nuclear testing.

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Archaeology from a First Nations perspective

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January 15, 2014

Mary Sandy is the presenter at the January 16th meeting of the Nicola  Naturalists. The First Nations people have a unique world view on the environment. Mary’s work has a focus on wildlife and ecosystems. She is an anthropologist with the Esh-km-am Cultural Resources Service. The service is based in the Nicola Valley and is used for gathering information on ecosystem.

The presentation begins a 7PM at the NVIT lecture theater. Free parking no food or drinks in the theater,admission by membership or donation requested all welcome.

Today in history: January 15th 1759

The British Museum opens.

Mary Sandy’s presentation was conditioned by a brief outlining of the first nations world view on environment and ecology. In a nut shell she defined western culture as seeing resources as  something to be possessed. She asserted that First Nations ideal is ” who do we share this with.” She contented that their view was holistic.

Sandy said her drive comes, believe it or not from Walt Disney’s methods of film making . She thinks that robust knowledge comes from tradition  and legends are based in some substance. Her father, she explains was born in 1903 and her grand mother  in 1886, her great grand mother whom she knew was born in 1861. They also were connected to two  living generations giving a legend of tradition that was even longer. Some legends based in stories: ie Coyote stole his long tail from rabbit.

Her discourse then went to the archeology of the local area and its climate and vegetation changes over 4 periods going back to pre glacier, 10.000 years bp ( before present.).

Mary is a member of the Coldwater Indian Band in Merritt BC Canada.

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Authors roll- read-alikes

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January 14, 2014

The public library has a recommends sheet of authors that  have a continuity  : If you liked Maeve Binchy you might like”

  • Anita Brooker
  • Catherine Cookson
  • Janet Dailey
  • Elizabeth Goudge
  • Emily Grayson
  • Kristin Hannah
  • J.Lynn Hinton
  • Eve  Ibbotson

More read alikes for Maeve Binchy:

K.C. McKinnon

Fern Micheals

Judith Micheal

Rosamunde Picher

Luanne Rice

Francine Rivers

Anne River Siddons

Katherine Stone

Joanna Trollope

Anne Tyler

Robert James Waller

Sarah Woodhouse

Attribution: Thompson Merritt library System Merritt PUblic library, Merritt BC Public information counter.

A source at the library said it’s for people whom read Maeve Binchy and is probably reciprocal to the rest of the writers on the list. Binchey was a writer from Ireland who died in 2012 at the age of 72. She accomplished 7 notable literary awards and wrote Fiction, Short story and travel.

Since her death its obvious that her readers will be looking for works similar to the ones she produced in her lifetime.

Quotes from her life accouring to Wikiquote:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maeve_Binchy

  • I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
  • I don’t say I was ‘proceeding down a thoroughfare’, I say I ‘walked down the road’. I don’t say I ‘passed a hallowed institute of learning’, I say I ‘passed a school’. You don’t wear all your jewellery at once. You’re much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
  • It’s like if you don’t go to a dance you can never be rejected but you’ll never get to dance either.
    • On having her first book rejected again and again. bbc.co.uk
  • (A) writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.
  • Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, ‘Madame, what is your philosophy of life?’ What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live. So I said, in French, ‘I think that you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.’
    • Recalling being invited to appear on French TV on what she described as “a terrifying serious program about books”. nydailynews.com
  • I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It’s the only book I didn’t finish. I couldn’t get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
  • I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
    • On her preference for issues that could be argued with from either side. nydailynews.com
  • On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.

Today in history: January 14th 2005

The Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan

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Art show

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January 10, 2014

The Court House Gallery  starts its show tonight with Kelowna Artist Eric Drane. The show is titled Brain Drain and the artist describes his  style as ” forced 3d” Eric has about 20 pieces some started more than 8 years ago”

Eric has his works in a book as well and is currently engaging a local contractor to publish them in an e-book format. Eric says he was  wounded  in military service and its a miracle  that he  is back and says his works were therapy.

Today in history: January 10th

The Rubicon River is crossed by Julius Caesar with his legion in contravention of Roman convention against troops with in the center of Rome.

 

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Ice Fishing Derby

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January 9, 2014

100_7399 ice

The local Fish and Game club is having a derby on Mamette lake in the Highland valley.     The derby on January 12th is and is a “take part at your own risk event” and subject to “safe ice conditions.”

Entry fees are 15 dollars a person or 30 dollars a family. Prizes include a hidden weight prize . We hope that is for fish taken  and does not have something to do with ice conditions.

There is a prize for coarse fish,  coarse fish is something that the club doesn’t like and there are fines for transporting them between lakes. Mamette lake has trout and fresh water cod.

Ice conditions have not supported derbys in general in recent years.

Update: Sources say that one hundred and fifty people enjoyed the Derby on Sunday. Trout were landed as well as ling cod (which can’t be kept” . A estimated  ice level of at the lake ( 50° 25′ 0″ North, 120° 49′ 0″ West)  was over 40 centmete

There were gift bags for all young people who attended and the event operated at a break even level. A source says elections for the executive are coming up next month

The Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club holds its annual fishing derby at Mamit Lake on Sunday, starting at 8 a.m.

It has been running for 13 years and is one of the biggest ice-fishing derbies in the province.

Anglers of all ages are invited to bring their fresh-water fishing licence and fishing tackle to the event and participate for $15 per person or $30 for a family.

The derby runs until 2 p.m. and will award prizes for best fish, hidden weight and more.

Kamloops residents can access the lake via the Logan Lake turnoff. Derby organizers say the fishing site is about 10 kilometres south of Logan Lake and will be visible from the road, starting at about 7 a.m. (Source Kamloops Daily news)

Today in history: January 9th 1941

The first flight of the Arvo Lancaster

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Power lines can kill

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January 2, 2014
Model plane stuck in power line

Model plane stuck in power line Photo KDG

There was a model plane stuck in the power lines this week behind the local arena. When we showed this picture to the City works Foreman Dan, he said he would call Chris  from the hydro the plane was gone before the crews were able to find it and all concerned agreed that to try to recover something like this could be fatal especially with a stick reach we hope that it fell over time and no one attempted to get it down with any method. (including throwing rocks.)

Today in history: January 2nd 2004

Stardust flys past comet wild 2 collects samples that will be returned to earth.

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Happy new year!

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December 31, 2013

Beautiful harvest moon.

We hope that you have the joy of life although 2014 and  your success will be measured by contentment.

Happy new year and many happy returns!

Today in history: December 31st 2009

A blue moon and lunar eclipse occurs. (Wikipedia)

Editors note: A blue moon is a second moon in a Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar month. ( 1 January in the Julian calendar is 14 January in the Gregorian)

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Boxing day :December 26th….-

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December 27, 2013

The day that starts the boxing week sales once the day to remember the poor. Help support the entry workers in retail that may get benefits after a years service.

Today in history: December 27th 2001

China gets permanent trade with the United States.

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