Category: Arts and Culture


December 30, are you up to date…

You are not a magician. You’ve got to rely on you and your others. And you don’t want to be a burden on anybody, including yourself. Make plans. Years are coming. Decades are flying. Centuries are looming. + You don’t want to miss a thing.

Blast from the past

Dino, Dean Martin was a wonderful actor. You often played a drunk  so don’t you play a drunk? He’s already played it enough for everybody for a long time.

Merry Christmas crafters and artists…

Closed to January 8th

The Nicola Valley community Arts Council gift shop is closed now until January 8th. Merry Christmas!

Cat city…

Happy cats, Gemini
Meow…

This looks interesting. Is it Satire? No Cat astropies there…

Bus tour

Adventure center P/U

Be at Spirit square at 5:45 p.m. December 19th and 20th. Pay $5 for a seat on the city bus. Go on a tour of the lights for Christmas.

Call 778-661-0879 book a seat…

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500 million dollars BC Hydro. This project is going to be done by BC Hydro. Although their name Hydro connotates the fact that they own every drop of water in British Columbia as a monopoly for power generation. They are expanding wind farms and power smart are in their resume.

New

Environmental assessment waived

The company has just been directed to do everything as efficiently as possible and they’re waiving the environmental assessment. Which may in one case be reasonable because of the wind and its passiveness. However, they are notorious for bird kills and I would think that would be part of the environment. More on this later we hope. Maybe we can get a quote from theNicola Naturalist Society Incorporated. Alan Berger president.

Good luck

Good luck Christmas bird counters…

Alan Burger and the Nicola naturalist Society Incorporated are out today doing their Christmas bird count. Nearly three decades  of service…
Humming bird.

Nice if they counted some of these…

Star struck

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Yes….

I love all that you are…

The Nicola Naturalist Society  INC is having its bird count on Saturday the 14th of December in Merritt BC. This will be the 26th annual count by volunteer members. The stats are compiled and sent to the Audubon Society.

Get counted this Christmas, Heron Nicola River.
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By the By pyro beetle

This pyror beetle showed up after the wildfires of 2023. I believe it was anyway. It was photographed on a wooden edge of an apartment building. These beetles live on burnt wood according to sources.

Pyro beetle

Day off  river cleaning:

Dated photo
Snow was dear back then…

Day off takes advantage of snow

This fella had an unexpected day off a year ago or 2 years ago and he decided with the fresh snow that he could do something at the river, so he went down and he sledded what he found as far as recyclable stuff back into the economy.

Sweet

Northern lights

Black Friday parade Merritt British Columbia November 29th 2024

Heavens lights

Watching the parade not the sky refer to the button.

Merritt Parade

The streets of Merritt downtown heard the jingle and the jungle of paraders for the black Friday start of the Christmas shopping season parade in Merritt.

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