To the seasons of life
The Guard,the Nicola Valley Film society presents on Monday, January 16th,2012 ,7:30pm. at the NVIT Lecture Theater; The Guard rated 14 a .k comedy on rural police corruption.
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Today in history, January 6 1994
Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the US Figure skating championships in Detroit.
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A truck was parked at the Desert inn in Merritt this AM and its side window was smashed out. The hotel owner reported that there had been a rock come down from off the bank and go through the passengers widow. The truck minus its side widow is there as a testimony to its story. and we can confirm that in the past when freezing a thawing occurs on roads with high mountain or hilly dispositions rocks do fall ,and they have caused at least one fatality as a decapitation. Our advice is to be defensive especially when both lanes are full and there is little wiggle room. In some instances ducking beneath the dash ( passenger especially) may be the thing that will help. To do this effectively you need to can the sidehill for tracks and moving stones.
Today in History, December 22,1965
A 70 Kilometer speed limit is applied to all rural roads in the UK ,before there was none.
Liquor Licence:
The Coldwater hotel pub had its licence suspended for four days because of a minor being found in the premises back in September. A source says that the hotel took the sanction and not fight. The hotel will be reopening in four days from the Saturday night closing.
A source says that server’s in the hotels use take an online serving certificate course to serve alcohol to the public.
Today in History, December 19,1843
Charles Dickens Story: A Christmas Carol goes on sale.
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The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology is in Merritt BC Canada and has a Campus in Burnaby BC as well . Its roots are in Merritt with a Grand Chief Gordon Antoine who had a vision to educate his people in a way that would keep their culture.
The school is for the First Nation in Canada and has a policy of admiting others as well.
There is an element of North American Indian Culture in all the courses and it promotes the Thompson and Okanagan language. A confirmed source says that he took a 2 year college university transfer credit in biology, a 4.5 course from a PHD instructor and for a cultural investment of a day also had instruction from some native elders in traditional plant usage including making a pine needle baskets and string from Indian Hemp.
The perseverance of the founders came after the school had been located in store fronts at a distress rental time of the resource community of Merritt . Showing them self serious they eventually got a multi million dollar building that is able to expand to about twice its size .Small in the stature of many universities and colleges; the effort is unique to the way that natives can pursue education. The institution can give credit’s up to an associate degree. It often has agreements to grant Bachelor of Social Work Workers from chartered universities and colleges such as TRU. Many graduates find work in their own aboriginal communities after completing their degrees. It is also culturally enriching to take Native studies and English courses that include another culture then your own. However the bulk of their student s come from the First Nations Community.
A source estimates that there are about 1200 students between the two campus’ and that most of them are Aboriginal. The source also says that the new crime bill is a step backward for the aboriginal community that although having a about four percent of the national population they have a huge, out of proportion population in jails in Canada.
NVIT has a number of trades and technical courses offered from time to time. As well as law enforcement pre seletion courses. The school encourages student democracy and civil harmony.
Accomidateing the local issues of first nations peoples in Canada.
http://www.nvit.ca/programsandcourses.htm?RD=1
Today in History December 14th,1994
Construction begins on the Three gorges dam in China.
Today in History, December 14, 1903
The Wright brothers make first attempt to fly the Kitty Hawk.
Lots of no trespass signs about and some on old hydro meters. Dell from Coopers says they were by and changed his. Some people say they don”t want them because of health issues. Other say they wanted a choice for no wireless connection. The fact is they are being installed and adds in the papers are asking for clear access.
The hydro has worked since it was nationalized in BC as a monopoly and as socialism goes it was considered draconian. However the lower rates we are supposed to get from the monopoly are supportive of the vision of Canada being a mixed economy. As a Non profit crown corporation it is not allowed to have retained earnings and must lower rates for efficiencies it gets. Still you have to watch that the government does not raid it for revenues like raising water licence fees, to accommodate good water levels for the utility.
The off-peak time dynamic will be the next issue us consumers will be watching as we still want it to be an under girding of our economy and not go to profits.
BC Hydro has the rights to all water in the province for generation purposes and a lot of power. When good snow packs occur the next year should see rate reductions, as they have in the past.
The lines and poles are public property and that always raises an issue when they talk about co generation ; recently the utility has replaced a lot of poles and is working to have a third 500 KV line to the lower mainland from the interior.
Today in history December 13 ,2003
Saddam Hussein is captured in Iraq. ( The Ace of Spades)
Tonight at 7:30 there is a recital by an award winning group at the civic center .As of this morning the placard is sporting a sold out sign. According to the Civic center manager that would mean 400 plus ticket holders for a $25.00 addmission concert. That is in our view good for a town of less then 8000 people. The Merritt Civic Center is a comfortable and neat clean facility and has very reasonable rates for non profits and youth activities.
The Nylons a foursome are gold and are on a concert tour. the photo that they have on their billing here in Merritt can be viewed on you tube at the link below.
They are said to do a good rendition of A Lion Sleeps Tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urtw9WaILY&feature=related
There have been twelve members of the acapella group and only one Claude Morrison is an orginal member, from the groups origins in Toronto in 1978.
Today in History, December 12,1982
Women’s peace protest at Greenham Common- 30,000 women make human chain 14.5 KMs long
The Bralorne mine is still operating in Bralorne.Today some miners one the person responsible to run the mill returned to the operation for a 2 week rotation. Within driving range of Merritt BC the operation has been stable for some time. A deep old underground working the mine has always had a interest in particular when economic times are uncertain and the price of gold is higher. A fellow named Bill Smith was a prospector and miner here 40 decades ago and the lure of that rugged country and gold heritage drew him away long ago on inquiring he is reported as still being involved in his 7th decade of life and working at this time there.
I worked as a driller about 20 years ago at Gold Bridge a gold camp not far from Bralorne and I recall talking to a couple of contract underground miners in the camp. They lived in Summerland and the earning potential of thier expert abilities had made Doctors peers in homes in the neighbour hood that housed them in Summerland BC. This according to them.
Mining is a risky business and caution is advised for career and investment.
Today in History, November 30 1940:
Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnez
TGIF : Today in humour: I thought of being a musician once and registered for classes.They said I had to play scales , I said I will take Sturgeon ;I never got a call back!
Today in history, November 25th 1667
Eighty thousand killed by an earthquake in the Caucasus.
This week there is a scrap gold and silver buyer at the local civic center.When I talked to the one seemingly in charge a well groomed and handsome young man named Mark . He affirmed that it is a business and he meets a need and especially in a tough economy.
He said that contentions between heirs can be settled here for collectible stuff in a proactive way.
He has had one instance in the last year that involved title to property serious enough to involve authorities. He says that they have a b+ rating with the better business bureau and only has public offerings in rented facilities such as the civic center today.A quick check of the BBB at this postal code shows no listing at the the BBB in Canada for the Treasure Hunters Road Show.
The parent company in Springfield IL has a B+ rating as an overview and says it is not an accredited BBB Company.
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B+Mark also said that he asks for Id from all sellers.
He said that he does not go to nursing homes and that his company the Treasure Hunters Road Show is has a long term presence that since 1995, sixteen years.
The scratch card for a bearer prize is from THR&ASSOCIATES an international company with a website that claims sales stating in 2008 at 3 million a year and projecting astronomical growth into the billion in a few short years .
A couple from Merritt were noted as doing business there today , and their background is of hard-working and credible people. However they are remarried and legally free for valuables in their possession and may have been there because of that convenience.
Another gentleman that attended a retired CPR worker in his late 70s attended and said that a person could do better by going directly to a collector. He however spends a lot of time collecting and studying the value of such things as old coins and books.
Old comic books, old swords and guitars are featured and unlike the Antiques Road Show he is buying and not appraising .So your family treasures will go out of your control for an amount of cash. And may end up well maintained by a collector after the road show makes a profit.
This is a business service and caveat emptor applies as always.
The Treasure Road Show is here in Merritt untill thursday this week.
http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com/
Editors note: on returning to the show the attendant said I had his name wrong, I stand corrected he says it is Martin. They are now going to Kamloops and their add in the paper includes an offer for discrete home visits something not included here.
Today in History, November,16 534
A second and final revision of Codex Justinanus is published.
The Japanese needed security and provoked the second world war for fill. Yes fill, the crafty fellows thought that the world would respond by firing artillery shells into the island nation, plugging holes and filling cracks so that they had land to live and grow on. That has to be true as when the game went atomic the war was over because no more fill.It’s a long, long way to paradise from spirit bay….
If the Japanese can make it to Vancouver they can fly for about a thousand dollars to New Zealand via commercial air carrier .
Note there are poisonous sea snakes in the ocean off New Zealand .
This valley has a tradition in the cattle business and supports a segment of the population that keep the cowboy and wrangler lifestyle. As with other pursuits in the world it generates a following and some industry, in this case a green or friendly to, or close to the earth .
There is a tack shop and saddle maker on the corner of Nicola and Garcia and they take pride in producing quality tack . Also a school for saddle making under the name of Don Lowen. They have saddles on the go and it may be worth a look at the ones in progress, the Garcia street side door opens on the shop and I was recently invited in by a worker and saw two saddles on the go.
Cowboy poets and painters set a tone for that community often celebrated at the Quilchena Hotel on Nicola Lake about 20 minutes from here. They celebrate by reenactments musical gatherings and the opportunity to live their lifestyle in a semi public way. Saddles are a status symbol to those that ply the trade at the local cattle ranches including the famous Douglas Lake Cattle Company.
Many first nations people have also taken up that lifestyle here.
Today in History, November 7 1811
Tecumseh Indian war battle of Tippecanoe .
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