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Today in History: February 10th 1996
Gary Kasperov world chess champ is beated by super computer Big Blue.
Category: Arts and Culture
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.
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
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.
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.
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
File: Photo KDG
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.
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.
- When asked about her influences. guardian.co.uk
- 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.
- On her secret to writing. bbc.co.uk
- 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.
- On Gordon Snell, her husband. irishtimes.com
- 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.
- When asked in 1995 how she would like to die. guardian.co.uk
Today in history: January 14th 2005
The Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan
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.
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
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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