You are presumed to be honest and responsible without evidence to the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt… on the balance of probablilties you are justified by 51 % likelyhood.
The Nicola Valley has a range of gas prices. Regular gas is going for $1.17.9 a liter at shell within site of the petro can at $1.16.9 on the exits to the freeway off Voght street in Merritt. The Downtown Petro Canada is selling at $1.18.9 at the highway 8 and 5A /5 junction at the corner of Voght and Nicola.
Its not often that the retailers here have a price difference! The lowest price in BC is Dawson Creek at 99.9 and the highest is $138.9 in Port Alice.
Gas buddy is reporting a comparison for the last 36 hours on the site.
The old court house on Nicola avenue , in Merritt.
File Photo
Photo KDG
The Arts Council and the Old Court House Gallery are having a show for May. Running Thursdays through Saturdays until June 3rd it is featuring landscapes. The artist reception is Saturday May 6th 4-6pm.
The Old Courthouse Gallery is at 1840 Nicola Avenue, in Merritt, hours are afternoons.
On this Day: May 5th 1905
Finger print evidence is used to get a murder conviction for the first time.
There are a least 13 more EV chargers coming to the Kootenay region of BC through 2018. BC Hydro is installing them and they are the quick version. The 13 planned additions follow the US Border to near the Alberta border going east from Greenwood then go north along the Alberta border to Rogers pass. To side ways roads go to Sparwood and Field being the closest to exiting BC for Alberta.
The 13 are promised by the end of 2018.
Billed as Canada’s first regional and community-driven strategy to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles, Accelerate Kootenays kicked off the big push with the opening of a DC fast charge station in Cranbrook. Gone will be the days when longer electric vehicle trips in the region were marathon “making the most of it” affairs that might involve going on a local hike while your car “trickle-charged” for hours at a local campground. Source BC Hydro
Best Western under construction in Merritt includes EV stations File Photo: KDG
On this Day: May 3rd 1973
The Sears tower in Chicago becomes the worlds tallest at nearly 1500 feet.
Community Art Show youth winner, 50 dollars prize. File Photo
There is an artist reception for the April March showing at the Old Court House Gallery on Thursday night, April 27th at 4 PM. The show is by high school students from Merritt Secondary School.
The show runs to March 5th Gallery hours are Thursdays/Fridays noon to 6, Saturday noon to 3 pm.
The show is a segment of School district 58s Canada 150 “what’s the big idea” Festival of the Arts. Editors Note: May is the right month not March.
The Old Court House Gallery is at 1840 Nicola Avenue in Merritt, BC, Canada.
On this Day: April 26th 1970
A convention regulating world international intellectual property is in force.
Grass lands producing grass for cattle are in demand for feed lots and dairy cows They feed for winter as well. for meat producers. File Photo KDG
Opinion:
The North American Free Trade agreement was touted as not a perfect fix but what was desirable was the fact that it included a dispute resolution mechanism or board.
There are lots of ways to solve an impasse :
Chapter 11 establishes a mechanism for the settlement of investment disputes that assures both equal treatment among investors of the Parties to the Agreement in accordance with the principle of international reciprocity and due process before an impartial tribunal. A NAFTA investor who alleges that a host government has breached its investment obligations under Chapter 11 may, at its option, have recourse to one of the following arbitral mechanisms:
the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID);
ICSID’s Additional Facility Rules; and
the rules of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL Rules).
Trade infractions or disputes also have an option:
Article 1904 establishes a mechanism to provide an alternative to judicial review by domestic courts of final determinations in antidumping and countervailing duty cases, with review by independent binational panels. A Panel is established when a Request for Panel Review is filed with the NAFTA Secretariat by an industry asking for a review of an investigating authority’s decision involving imports from a NAFTA country.
It seems there is nothing cowboy about the structure and article 19s binational provision seems like it would be attractive at this time.
There are 118 decisions listed with the NAFTA secretariat some taking more time that others and more reports. things range from red raspberries to hot rolled carbon steel plate.
Is it still attractive is a milk dispute out of reach for a filing?
Friends don’t take friends to….
Corn grown in the Nicola Valley File Photo KDG
Need to be more friendly?
On this Day: April 20th 1918
The Red Baron shoots down his 8oth and last kill before his death on the 21st.
The Nicola Valley Film Society presents its Canada 150 special film tonight at 7PM in the lecture theater at NVIT. The film is in the Lecture hall, top of the hill Belshaw avenue on the north end of the city. Admission is free.
A number of films are being presented in the 150 program in different communities but film night is tonight.
First come first serve.
On this Day: April 19th 1987
The Simpsons first appear on TV as a short on the Tracy Ulman show.
The posters are up at the public library for the Nicola Valley Film Societies special presentation of “Water” for Canada 150.
Canada on Screen is a number of different films for the anniversary of confederation.
The screening is free on Wednesday April 19, 2017 at the local community college lecture theater. No food or beverage in the theater. Start time is 7 oclock, fist come first serve.
Tiff
Rated PG
On this Day: April 12th 1917
The battle for Vimy Ridge ends with an allied victory.
A conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame building on April 6-7 will feature Baskets of the Nicola Valley, with keynote speaker Dr. Marie Anderson. The show at the Hall of Fame is at 2025 Quichena Ave in Merritt. Registration required @ 250- 378-2771 PSA: cultural concern for those interested. PR
On this Day: March 31st 1949
The Dominion of Newfoundland becomes Canada’s 10th Province.
Urban living: this marmot takes advantage of a concrete pad for shelter. Photo KDG
Its good to be right, then you can go by your own name Ground Hog…
The April meeting of the local Naturalists is on April 20th at 7PM a graduate student of UBC will be presenting on the flora of the Arctic, in particular berries.
Sarah Desrosiers is a local graduate student pursuing her degree at the University of British Columbia. She has worked with Inuit elders, youth and land users in the Canadian Arctic for six years. She is collaborating with communities to help document, preserve and promote traditional knowledge of plants for foods, materials and medicine. Sarah will discuss her involvement with a community-supported berry-monitoring program in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. She will also talk about the importance of building capacity for youth to engage with the local environment as a way for healing and well-being. This will be a very interesting ethnobotanical talk.
The meeting is at the NVIT Lecture theater top of the hill on Belshaw avenue in Merritt, membership or donation requested. No food or beverages in the Lecture theater.
On this Day: March 30th 1905
Born Mikio Oda, Japanese track and field competitor.
Conventional wisdom here at 700 Meters above sea level in Merritt is plant outside on the long weekend near the end of May, or all the snow is gone from Iron Mountain. Some are itching and raking already! Some get a start by having sheltered areas and using manure to heat he ground there is a myriad of skills and knowledge out there.
A community garden is available near the hospital grounds here in Merritt 25 dollars for the first year a partial refund is given after harvest and clean up. The Society is having its AGM and seed swap on April 19th. Nicola Valley Community Gardens: Hosted by Joleen Morrison, Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/events/2011940762366742/
On this Day: March 29th 1849
The British annex Punjab.
Symbols are a funny thing, sometimes used to reinforce power there gets to be a hand behind them. Sometimes random events bring symbols together and there is a feeling that they need interpretation so that our conscious minds ( if only that )can attempt action.
On Saturday last I noticed a new beaver swimming in the Nicola River here in Merritt it was headed downstream to the foot bridge area behind the Merritt Desert Inn. There it had a 4 inch in circumference root peeled back about six feet and protruding over the flow of water. There it was laying about a foot above the river on the stripped white wood, seemingly relaxed.
It looked so relaxed in its perch you would think it was a nesting bird.
The thought struck me that the fact that his plate was secure made him feel more secure and happy. An affinity began to develop and a distant memory of a time I was fishing through the Ice with a preschool youngster who was much taken by the small fish we were pulling through the ice with corn as bait. He abandoned his desire to see fish pulled through the ice when ne appeared with the yellow corn kernel outside its mouth. ” Ah he was just hungry” and that was it for our fish gathering that day.
Food security is a common need, according to councillors its one of the three that need to be filled before social abilities are fully useful. The hundred KG gold Canadian coin taken from the museum in Germany on the weekend was an interesting symbol with the queen on the front I wonder if it was a Nickel Coin with our national symbol the beaver on it, and what that symbol means to those over there?
Kevin Griffiths
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