Retaliation was the undoing
Cattle in the Nicola valley Merritt BC historically
Category: Arts and Culture
5:00 a.m. November 4th 2025, budget day in Canada
Moon above Merritt BC in the Western sky going down after circling the horizon over night.
Don’t lose your perspective with your head in the clouds and forget to feed the cat.
Remember Rocky the flying squirrel was born on a cold November morn, and he had perspective of flight, cats don’t.Hey Bullwinkle…
Moon photo KDG, Beaver Moon due on the 5th. Maybe a blue moon? As this photograph from the 1st of November is telling us, there’s also predictions of lots of snow coming in November so that’s the way it goes sometimes…
Conjunction with Saturn this AM.
Countervailing duty…
Perhaps the most memorable trade sanctions for us in Canada or British Columbia. Any time, were the countervailing duties Americans put on us when they began to feel the pressure of the modernization by numbers of sawmills and logging operations in British Columbia in particular.
These innovations cut local workforces down considerably. A milling operations such as one planer in Merritt,was once started in the home of a single entrepreneur; Bud Woodford, in the center of the town; Merritt had grown to being able to have 300 working people there at the birth of free trade . Some just very unskilled labour. All making livelihoods and used to having good jobs and skilled jobs at the height of markets.
Log port out of Stewart BC ended raw logs export when hydro power came for milling.
Inovation
The soft wood countervailing taxes Americans put on were mitigated by the fact that value added escaped it. We remember that the Mills here then became complimented by smaller Mills that did value-added, that was anything that wasn’t a 2×4 a 2×6 and other dimensional lumber (good reputation in the US Canadian blue) and had value added in it, including door jambs made of short pieces of cut offs, they were put into finger joints and were marketable in with attitude of value grown contribution rather then exploitation.
Opportunity meets ambition…
Innovation shouldn’t be stifled by heavy taxes it should be discovered in its trail of test.
Find a value added partner today…
By the way
Care is the way… With boundaries.
You first so you can be well with others…
The Merritt Centennials met the Princeton Posse in action at the Nicola valley memorial arena in Merritt this evening. The final score was home 2 and guest five. That would be Princeton over Merritt in Merritt.
Great fun!.
Your only Young once…
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Be innocent as a dove and as wise as a serpent.
Cassandra Dolen, an established successful artist with published books was at the the artist reception for the October November showing of the “Who Done It” version of an anonymous artist competition and sale.
cassadradolen.org
Cassandra was noted as saying that she has returned to Merritt after living with her brother in Victoria after losing her husband, 3 years ago.
Who Done It art show continues on to November 10th. 2025, corner of Nicola avenue and Voght Street in Merritt, BC.
Who done it?
Friday October 17th,2025,5-7 PM
The Nicola Valley Community Arts council is at it with a show that runs till November 10th, “Who Done It”, displays a lot of local artists with the same size canvas putting their art up anonymously and showing their style into a Discovery.
Reception at the corner of Nicola and Voght Street in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. Enter by the side door beside
Kekalui Cafe.
This is not an add, however, it’s news and we expect anybody that would like to would make a comment about the show and we’d appreciate that input. KDG
spacex
Rah Rah
Eight dummy satellites deployed.
Data Success
According to sources they are happy with the data collected however it’s another space rocket exploded after the test, on landing, in the water, not unexpected.
Number 11 Ditto
October 2-12 2025 Over a hundred seventy films of interest,international scope, scale and society… Sweet artist accent! always.
Vancouver international film festival concludes
Kevin Griffiths
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