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Success

 

Canoe quest to north west coast of BC

Canoe quest to north-west coast of BC

No pipeline through the Great Bear Rainforest, a definitive decision. Success to many.

The Burnaby from Edmonton approved expansion will see one medium tanker a day every day. One tanker a day should be safer then the possibility of collision. Some diligent people will need to secure the confidence of Vancouver people.

One hundred and fifty seven conditions came out of consultations on the approval of Trans Mountain’s expansion and some conditions by the province need to be met.

The Government is probably interested in carbon schemes .(to help pay for the fiduciary duty to people)
Editors note: Bad faith must be avoided!
When permits are let there must be a reasonable expectation of completion for the risk taken. Permits were let and a 63 year operation with a proven track record and a good community record is not valued enough.We lose something in this.

Trans Mountain’s operation effects us all; what did they expect to happen when permiting the original development. What do you expect when hiring someone…. This is Us not Them!

Keep up the scrutiny….
That’s it KDG

 

On this Day: November 30th 1829
The first Welland Canal opens for a trial after 5 years of construction.

 

Black Friday parade

Merritt girl guides involved in Black Friday parade November 2016 Photo KDG

Merritt girl guides involved in Black Friday parade November 2016
Photo KDG


A Christmas parade on Friday saw participation by 51 groups including the local girl guides.
The troop is having a winter coat drive tomorrow from 5-9 PM and will be going door to door collecting them for distribution.
Coats can also be dropped off until December 9th at the Merritt Advocacy Center 2025 Granite Avenue.
The evening was complete with hot chocolate at the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame with the local member of the legislature.

Happy giving back day…
Editors Note: The time for the door to door is 3-8PM on November 30th

On this Day: November 29 1965
Canada launches a space satellite Alouette 11.

Girl Guide Coat Drive

In the window of the CPO , the United Way charity, funds many things including shelters. File Photo KDG

In the window of the CPO , the United Way charity, funds many things including shelters.
File Photo KDG

On November 30th the local girl guide troop will be going door to door canvasing for coats. The drive will be from 5-8PM.
Winter coats are dear to some around Christmas;you may also drop them off at the Advocacy Center 2025 Granite Avenue Merritt.

A 2010 single homeless,camp on a traffic island on a freeway... File Photo KDG

A 2010 single homeless person camp on a traffic island on a freeway,left for winter… File Photo KDG

Children’s coats are posted as going to the Food Bank, adults to the Extreme Weather Shelter.

The drive is from November 21st to December 9th, 2016. The drop off time is 9AM to 4:30 PM Monday to Friday.

On this Day: November 24th 1932

The FBI opens its scientific crime lab.

Christmas week

Merritt has a walk of stars walk and a hall of fame. File photo KDG File Photo KDG

Merritt has a walk of stars and a hall of fame.
File photo KDG

The City, Chamber, mainstream press and businesses have cooperated once again to have a Christmas week before and after Black Friday the day that starts the Christmas shopping season. Meaning there is no big observance day per say in the way of an advent to the 25th of December and Christmas celebrations.
The big one is on Friday a evening parade with Santa Claus and midnight madness of the downtown shopping area of Merritt. Coming this Friday there is hot chocolate in the Canadian Country Hall of Fame in the 2000 block of Quilchena avenue during and after the parade as well as other interested offerings of escape and diversion.

Any day this week can find some activity marrying the commercial and the spiritual to the countdown to Christmas 2016.

Schedules are  published in the Merritt Herald
Editors note: Stay out of unmanageable debt as January can be hell…

On this Day: November 23rd 2015

Blue Horizon’s space craft New Shepard makes a vertical landing after returning from space.

TGIF- new library head

 

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Public library Merritt BC File Photo KDG

 

 

 

Meg Gregory is taking Deborha Merricks position as head of the local regional district library here in Merritt, Deborha’s last day is Thursday, December 8th and that afternoon between three and five there is a meet and greet and goodbye combined with coffee and baking.
Deborha is responsible for 10 libraries in the district now and will be working from Merritt.

On this Day November 18th 1963
The first push button telephone is in service.

Rotary Auction

Sarah Molnar works at a recent Rotary event.  File Photo KDG

Sarah Molnar works at a recent Rotary event.
File Photo KDG

The local Rotarians are having a fund raising radio action on Monday the 21st of November. The club has numbers of donated items from local business participants.
The radio station is Q 101.i in Merritt phone 250-378-3371, the auction is from 6:30 Pm to 9:00 Pm with pre-
bids being taken starting at 4:30.

Info at http://www.facebook.com rotary/Merritt.
Merritt Rotary has a number of humanitarian and charitable projects including a polio vaccination program in the 3rd world as well as sponsoring student exchanges.

 

 

On this Day: November 15th 1988

The first fair trade label, is released, Max Havelaar.

40 Mega watt plant…

Cladding going on new power plant. Photo KDG l Phot

Cladding going on new power plant.
Photo KDG
The co gen plant is having its cladding up and moving to completion.

The plant is quite a presence on the hillside south east of Merritt, lighting gives a pronounced signature. Once cladding is on and it is started up it should have less light pollution as visibility is a safety concern at this time. source.

On this Day: November 10th 1989

The Germans begin to tear down the Berlin wall.

 

Take care,geo cache site

Geo cache hidden photo KDG

Geo cache hidden
photo KDG
Geo Cache sites are fun, when getting access to them make, take, care for hazards like wind bringing down limbs or trees. A tree in the open may be sturdier than ones recently exposed to winds. Don’t turn your back on a large tree that has not been maintained.
Tourism organizations may have done more diligence than online remote websites that rely on placing by enthusiasts.

Gold Country’s GeoTourism Program has researched sites of interest throughout the region under a variety of themes & hidden caches for you to find! Learn about each site while unearthing treasures! Use your GPS or letterbox clues to locate each cache, swap some swag, then re-hide the cache. source: https://www.geocaching.com/play/geotours/goldcountry

The site above is called Dumbo 09 and has a visitors log  of 250  since 2012 the latest visit was mid October this year.

On this Day: November 8th 2011

A bright asteroid passes close to the earth, the 300 thousand kilometer distance was 0.85 moon distances away making it the on pair with asteroid 2010XC15 in 1976.

Crab apple

The leaves have fallen away from this crab apple tree behind the Merritt Desert Inn, leaving red crab apples. Interestingly there was a black bear destroyed in the tree a few years ago . The bear was drawn by the fruit. The bear would make a great picture now is he was in the tree.

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Leaves gone fruit remains. Photo KDG

The right hand portion of the picture shows the lawn bowling club house. In a poetic way we might say that Joe and his elderly bowlers are symbolic of the effect ,having the working part of their life behind them they are enjoying the fruit of retirement and a productive life.

On this Day: November 1st 1941

Moonrise, an iconic photo by Ansel Adams is taken.

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/grant/ansel-adams-moonrise-hernandez-8-31-11.asp

Clean and smart Nicola Avenue, Merritt

Paving Nicola Ave Merritt BC Photo KDG

Paving Nicola Ave
Merritt BC
Photo KDG

Paving is about a third done on the Nicola avenue redo in Merritt. Curbing is also well under way as well as new sidewalks to replace the ones taken out to for new water lines for the City.
A crew of quality control from the concrete supplier were testing batch’s on site on the 19th, ” MPH 32 desired strength” a worker said.

On this Day: October 2oth 1781
The patent of toleration is given by the Hapsburgs.

Can Am buggy

23 thousand dollars photo KDG

23 thousand dollars
photo KDG

This rig gave a pipeline supervisor an option to transverse a recent maintenance job here to the natural gas line. The line built in the 195os takes gas to the lower mainland through the Coqihalla .

The supervisor said that he had replaced three valves for his part and had a week to go to complete the job. Surerus  Pipeline  the contractor  is from fort St John. He will be returning to work in Ft.St.John.

Crews have been staying in the downtown In Town Motel from  the green energy project, the pipeline maintenance ,railway upgrade and other projects. win_20161017_17_40_56_pro

The motel is owned by 5 partners, Chin, one of them enjoys the diversity of Merritt. Chin has recently redecorated his 44 rooms

On this Day: October 18th   1979

Home satellite earth stations are deregulated from federal licensing in the US.

 

 

 

 

TGIF-Bin

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A huge bin made from pipe driven into the ground forms a bin for green wood waste at the new sustainable 40 mergawatt steam powered electric generator in Merritt BC. the plant is planned to begin operations in December.

The next door neighbour Tolko industries  is  permanently closing its modern high production mill on December 16th displacing 200 workers. Tolko produced 1 million board feet of lumber a day.

The new plant will have 25  permanent workers for its 30 year life span. Tolko is said to be a supplier of chips for fuel…

On this Day: October 7th 1996

The Fox News Channel begins broadcast.