Category: Arts and Culture


Ten thousand books

The Merritt public library is having a book sale, March 12 through the 23rd. A one free book coupon are available for one per day use.  The library is at 1691 Garcia street ,and hours are Tuesday and Wednesday 10 am to 8 pm, Thursday though Saturday 10 am to 5.pm.

Today in History: March 6th,1983

The first United States Football  League football game is played.

1000 posts

Today we are posting our one thousandth post on the WordPress blog service , for The Proprietor Review. To mark the occasion we have a suggestion to all the Facebook fans and users that we are associated with.The  games on that service command some time to get  the mouse control , attention to graphics and directions to master. Since you have these already go to http://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/getting-licensed/pass-veh/opkt and take the practice road test; that’s the second link down on the menu on the left. Answer the 25 questions untill you get 100 percent. The questions are worth 4 percent each so you need 80 percent to pass; for licensed drivers it should be a breeze.

Today in history: February 28,1784

John Wesley charters the Methodist church

Merritt Fun Run

Registration is open for the Merritt Country Run, the country run is on June 9th,2013 at 8:Am,at Voght park. The run starts and finishes at the park,Main Street and Canford Avenue.

21 KM walk/run (8:am )

Twice around the park track (8:30 am )

5 KM walk / run( (9 am)

10 KM walk/ run (9 am)

Register at www.merrittcountryrun.ca

The 3 months gives people time to get  in the shape they want to take part at the level they want.

Certified Routes.

Today in history: February 27,1940

Kamen and Ruben discover carbon 14.

The lady

About a hundred people of this small south central interior British Columbia community watched The Lady last evening at the local college lecture theater. A powerful storytelling of the the fight for democracy in Burma, the film seemed to hush the people as they left the building.”That was a good film” was one of the comments, I saw that 2 years ago at the coast another. However an overall mood of some reverence was very clear.

Red scarfed soldiers selected and given licence to arbitrary kill seemed to be one of the key elements in a muting of  unsolicited opinion. The fact that the Military allowed a free election May 1 and only won 10 seats of the 400 some also raised a sence of wonder about delusion and arrogance of unrestrained power.

The president of the group was heard to say that the film was attended by 87 members. Ron Brown was in the group, he was an election official here and supported mandatory voting. The group according to the president all voted in the tear off people’s choice with a unanimous excellent.

Today in history: February 19,1861

Serfdom is abolished in Russia

Membership drive

The local arts council is having a membership drive. In its 29th year in the Nicola Valley its offering memberships at 20 dollars for and person, 40 dollars for a group and 100 for a corporate.
Forms can be downloaded from its website http://nvartscouncil.com/
The arts council sponsors concerts and arts in the community of Merritt.

Today in history: January 16,1412
The Medici family is appointed official banker to the Papacy

TGIF

Merit of Merritt

Its good that it is friday….

There was a remembrance for the shooting victims of  an eastern university some years ago. Billed as “National day of remembrance and action on Violence against women. Dec 6th 2012.

Numbers of students had parts and Guest speaker Sharon McIvor presented.

The demeanor served to solemnize the relationship of women in society and how violence may affect them.Sharon is a lawyer and a professor at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

Today in history: December 7,2007

An oil spill in South Korea when a crane and a large tanker the Hebei  Spirit tangle.

The week in pictures 12/1/12

http://wp.me/PAoul-8D TWTW

New snack

The local A and W fast food outlet has a new snack! Chubby Chicken piece in a roll. It has a very tasty sauce.

The restaurant has free coffee refills to 11 am and a special on apple turnovers.

The Chicken piece is attractive and stimulates taste buds in a pleasurable way!

Rates : **** good

Today in History: November 8 1973

The right ear of  J. Paul Getty  the third is delivered with a ransom note that caused the payment of a 2.9 million dollars ransom.

Work a day

Little excitment about here today after the US Election but a sence that it means that the agenda continues and work a day style will also continue as well.

A college teacher was talking about high standards of completion of assignments being required by schools.

Some talk of the dynamics of the Republican controlled house on the agenda but no expectation of dysfunction from the US by regular people.

 

 

Today in History: November 7,2002

Iran bans the advertising of American products.

Pipeline application

There was an information public meeting last night at the Civic Center here. Kinder Morgan was displaying the wares of its pipeline Company Trans Mountain Pipeline Company. The operation is in a process to get permits from the NEP The National Energy Board, that’s the regulator that recommends to The Federal Cabinet on energy matters. The open house was about its activities to twin its 61 year old line from Edmonton to Burnaby. An upgrade its dock facility as well.

The purpose of the evening was for discussions and they say that all statements will be in consideration for its final application for permits.

 Editors Note:

Trans Mountain has operated out of Merritt one pumping station with no  significant trouble in the 60 years of its delivering oil to the  major population center of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.

A timeline was in the publication material showing where they are now and when construction would start. A full year of discussion remains before the application is submitted and then 2 years of scrutiny with it being in the hands of the regulators.

A pair of consultants also had meetings with city officials and the board of Community Futures Development a high risk lender for economic development and an arms length facilitator of the Federal Government.

The company also delivers refined gasoline products to central BC. PP

Today in history: October 31 1997

A British person au pair Louise Woodward is sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of second degree murder the day before by a Massachusetts jury.

Visit

The Area Governor and delegation visited Merritt Toastmasters club last evening.Shirley Boxrud is area 35 district 21 of Toastmasters International. It was her official fall visit.

The delegation participated in the meeting and gave the general evaluation.

After completing a report on the distinguished club program goals the delegation left for home in Kamloops with a recommendation for a good restaurant.

Today in history: October 24, 1929

The stock market crashes on Black Thursday

Zombie walk

The local public library is talking about another Zombie walk this year.  The Halloween season brings a dress up appetite to all the excentrics and not so excentric in the world. When asked  if the local Librarian had enough brains left to host another Zombie walk this year she  motioned in the affirmative.

Today in history: October 10th,1973

The United States Vice President Agnew resigns after being charged with Income Tax Evasion.