Roadster lots of traffic after the weekend. Gas at $111.9 File photo
Photo of bike park upgrade File photo KDG
Can a birds nest fall to the ground without making a sound.
new parking policy at hall Photo KDG
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There were some members of the international union IBEW at a local watering hole last night . They are here to do the 500 KV line to the lower mainland.
Doug Giles the job Stuart and representative for the BC local 258 and his entourage said there is 4 yrs of construction work in the line Merritt to the lower mainland.
One of the party said they were looking for common sence in their operations.
CLAC The Christian labours of Canada is the other union involved in the line construction.
Today in history: June 20th 1837
Queen Victoria succeeds to the throne of Great Britain.
A few local non construction jobs here for the hydro 3rd 500 KV line. A local security firm has the job of security for the new substation site west of the local hydro yard. A person who said that she got a job with Robin Hood security and that she got certification online and is awaiting a certificate. She said she must also take the hydro security program as well as a condition of hire.
Another source says that there will be road construction as well. He says a one way road will connect Spring-bank road, a subdivison to the south of Extra foods with Vought street by passing the hill west of the RCMP station.
The substation is said to be planned for completion in two years.
June 19, 1970
The Patent Cooperation treaty is signed.
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Show and shine coming File photo KDG
Voght street Office of a local mine benifiting from new Hydro infrastructure. File Photo KDG
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KIm of the VVA
Hobbies are a good way to relax from pressure ,good landings as well. File photo KDG
Today in History: June 15,2008
The Lehman brothers file for bankruptcy triggering the 2008 financial crisis.
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The Ardew mill site has some activity on it this week .Lumber cut at its new owners Aspen Planners Ltd is being piled for planning at the site. A source says that although the Ardew milling operation was not automated they had a good planner.
Aspen planners cut lumber for their mill on Quilchena Avenue and plane it at the old Weyerhaeuser mill site which they also own and use exclusively for planning.
modernization and consolidation of operations have dramatically reduced the amount of workers employed here at local mills.
The old Ardew site remains bare of logs. ardew wood products was a family operation that employed about 60 people.
Today in History: June 4, 1975
California gives farm workers collective bargaining rights.
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A source at the ministry says that there are sensors in the pavement at the street lights on highway 8 Nicola Avenue here in Merritt. The sensors will change the red light to green but you must be behind the painted stop line stopped to activate it, and not past it waiting to turn. He said that some lights have cameras that do the same thing but you can also be out of the field of view for them to work.
Some old street lights are on arbitrary timers as well.
Today in history: May 31, 1927
The first of 15 million Ford Model T‘s comes off the assembly line.
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Its good that it is Friday….
A source says that there are 24 haulage jobs posted at the Highland Valley copper mine. The multiple hundred ton trucks are driven off road in the mining pits and the source says that they are an entry level position.
In the past
haulage jobs were posted for bid by seniority by mill labourers the source that works there said they are both entry level jobs. This is not confirmed.
The website shows one haulage job advertised the source may not be current or the jobs are posted internally.
http://www.infomine.com/careers/jobs/job914836/pit.utility.haul.truck.driver.aspx
Highland Valley copper is undergoing a major upgrade two buses are currently picking up iron workers from the parking lot behind the Merritt Desert Inn on Voght street daily.
Today in History: May 28th 1937
The German auto manufacturer Volkswagen is established.
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Today in history: May 11, 1997
A computer, Deep Blue defeats a champion chess player Garry Kasparov!
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The chartered accounting firm that has been a mainstay of local business here in Merritt has a new owner, but same location. The 1900 block Quilchena avenue, upstairs office was for decades, Best ,Reimer and Maclean. It was sold to Alistair Murdock from Victoria , Murdoch has operated the business for about ten years and gained the confidence of the community, he is a two term and sitting city councillor. Murdoch has sold the firm to Carrie Ware and company. Carrie said the Alistair is going into semi retirement , and has bought a company in Kamloops, a community of about 80,000 an hours drive from here.
No word on whether Murdoch will serve out his term on council.
Today in history: May 6th 1954
Roger Bannister breaks the 4 minute mile .
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The penny is out of production here , and the last few months a rounding of formula is in effect; to the nearest nickel. When we offered to pay the 3 cents of the dollar 98 for a large coffee at McDonald’s Sunday we were pleasantly given a nickel back. Pennies are not about as they were . And the approximately 2 that would have been made for every Canadian this year is obvious by their absence. However outlets still honour them and an unconfirmed source said that they were able to put a one cent debit transaction through at a local big box that had an add a penny take a penny counter dish at one time.
A counter person agreed that the demise of the penny needs to overcome a lot of poetry and folklore to be complete:
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Put a penny in your shoe for luck
Don’t give a wallet or purse without a cent in it as a gift.
And of course in all respect to the British homeland, Margret Thatcher’s pennies don’t come from heaven they have to be earned here.
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The Royal Wedding of William and Kate.
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