Category: Arts and Culture


Pastel


This is a piece at the court-house gallery showing a pastel by Andrea Rogers, she told me it was 3 months of work and a lot of detail. Her show runs weekends till the end of the month.

Today in History, July 20 1926
Convention of Southern Methodists vote to allow women ministers.

MM

This item is the second such laying in the street, this person has seen. One assumes it is Medical Pot. The first was brought to the attention of the local coroner and she affirmed  in her opinion it was. She removed it. There is a health food store that advertises some form of it in a local store . The local police are fond of putting,  a most wanted add, under the add that the store runs for MM.

Remember that entrapment  defence laws exclude those  that have a predispostion for something not legal ; ie a record.

We think they may be falling from those that have motorized wheel chairs, however it does not represent a significant public interest at this time , to us here.

Today in History, July 15 1927

Massacre of July 15th ,89 Protesters killed by Police in Vienna

Mechanical feeder


This is the bucket system feed that brings wood pellets up into a storage silo. Production of wood pellets here has not started as yet however the facility is progressing regularly and under good security on off hours.

Today in History, July 13th 1997:
Leo Howard ,American actor born.

Flag

 The flag is still there. No it’s not the Cumberland River ,it’s the local concrete proprietor who hoisted this flag above the gravel pit they recently reclaimed with some seeding. The flag however placed , more than two decades ago and assaulted , taken and harassed at nite for a long time. The owner prevailed through a process of years. Greasing the pole, making it higher, numbers of trips, and flags. In recent years,there have been few vandalisms  noted and it has become a local fixture. The main man in the story is a man named Henry an person from Scandinavia. Now elderly and retired both him and his wife Clara ( a former city mayor) are noted for both takeing (enterprise) and giving (jobs ,fundraising for skateboard parks, etc) they are less public now and have a comfortable retirement home on the same mountain side that supported the gravel business. Henry is seen to frequent the Middlesbrough Pub for light refreshments and lunchs.The pub occupies the same hillside and a couple of miles down. Now thats building a convient life through hard work and perseverance .We hope they both enjoy their golden years that they deserve. And is not always the result of efforts in the old world; where in part they and we come.
Today in History, July 9th 1947 Elizabeth and Phillip announce their engagement.

Art and lifestyle showing

This showing of art and lifestyle chronicles  an interesting life of a women, that came to Canada from Holland at 19 years of age.  She has hosted an optimistic life after coming 6 months after War Bride privileges expired in Canada to join her Husband a WW II veteran she met in Europe. One of her life choices was to not compete in the 1948 Olympics that she had qualified for and to choose  a  more private lifestyle here in Canada with her future husband Norm.

Her choice’s further included wisdom to over come the past as a child viewing mass  reprisal executions in her village by occupation forces. The woman is a great example of overcoming and mitigating the petty things that often escalate to the  unattractive and sometimes cruel; in this life sometimes covered by a thin veneer of prosperity.

Her showing at the Court House Gallery here in Merritt BC , Canada kicks off with an evening reception on the ninth of July.  The showing will run weekends through July.

Rates : For perspective and understanding of positive projection: ***** excellent.

Today in History:July 6th,1947

The AK -47 Rifle goes into production in the Soviet Union.

work started

work started

The Canadian Country Music Hall of Honour, has started work inside their building. posted blueprints on the wall show rotunda, vinyl resurfacing, and flat screen TVs going into the building in the 2000 block of Quilchena Avenue in Merritt.

This Anne Murray hand print is one of some not displayed in the walk of stars proper , walking tour about town. It was on display in the building untill recent work began.
 
 
 
 
 
Today in history, June 30 1990 :
East and West Germany Merge their Economies.

old hotel

This picture is purported as  the original Coldwater Hotel in Merritt. Burned down in 1907. Built by Wilber McIntyre, replaced two years later.

Today in History, June 29, 2002

Koreans clash, 6 dead , north”s ship sunk.

New plant

New plant

2.5 million dollars of federal money has Merritt a new wood pellet plant, it may use up to 50 people. The place is welcome cleaning up and improving an auto wreaking yard and an auto body repair place.

Wood pellets made from  bug killed trees could be  stumpage rate friendly as well.

 

Today in History, June 28, 1894:

Labor day becomes a offical holiday in the US.

Tourist Booths

Merritt, Bottling Works, a couple of entrepeneurs sold pop to coal miners, the time tenure relates to most of the post European contact, in this part of the south central interior of BC.

Today in History, June 24 ,1692

Kingston Jamaica founded.

Land Rover

1959 Land Rover in absolute mint condition, restored at a business in a small community close to here. You could not tell that it had not come off the assembly line yesterday.

Today in History, June 23, 1961

Treaty in Antarctica.  The agreement aids tensions in Cold War International territory cooperatively governed a precursor to the space station program.

TM

Local Toastmaster Phyllis recieves certificate from  President Phil.

The club meets tuesdays at the library.

Today in history , June 21 1957 Canada gets first women Cabinet Minister.

chicks head

Looks like the Osprey population has a new addition .

Today in history, June 17th 1987
With the death of the last individual the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.