To the seasons of life
There is a pancake breakfast at Smith Pioneer Park , in Lower Nicola on May 25th 2014 it includes a yard sale and has the Nicola cruisers and vintage car bunch listed on the handbills. 10 dollars a table for the yard sale, 5 if you bring your own. Set up at 8 am Breakfast 9-11 sale 9-12.
Call 250-378-8847
Today in history: May 14th 1925
Virginia Woolfs novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
The Valley Visual Artists have the court house gallery this month in Merritt. Gallery Director Meriel Barber says that the local group has the facility and will be showing in May for the 20th annual art show and sale.
The VVA is hosting an opening reception on May 2nd from 5-7 PM, and an open house May 3 and 4th 2-4 PM:
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The show runs May 2nd to 31st at the Court House Gallery, at the old court-house 1800 block of Nicola avenue in Merritt.
Today in history: May 1st all
Begins the month of music in New Zealand
The Nicola Valley Community Garden Society is taking requests for a garden plot. Registrations for 2014 can be accommodated by the Baillie house Drop in center/ tourist info / historical society at 2202 Garcia street. the cost for 2014 would be 40 dollars including a 5 dollar membership and a 15 dollar damage deposit. There is a possibility of a wait list.
Some advice from the garden society ” use your twigs for plant tags” ,”just shave the ends and then write on them with felt pen”.
E mail: nicolavalleycommunitygardens@gmail.com
Today in history April 25th 1944
The United Negro College fund is established
There are English as a second language classes in progress at the public library here in Merritt. In the multi purpose room about 7 people are being facilitated by Sharon Edwards.
English as a second language is important to some people as Government services are only guaranteed in one or the 2 official languages French or English.
English as a second language (ESL) is the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages.
English is a language which has great reach and influence; it is taught all over the world under many different circumstances. In English-speaking countries, English language teaching has essentially evolved in two broad directions: instruction for people who intend to live there and for those who do not. These divisions have grown firmer as the instructors of these two “industries” have used different terminology, followed distinct training qualifications, formed separate professional associations, and so on. Crucially, these two arms have very different funding structures, public in the former and private in the latter, and to some extent this influences the way schools are established and classes are held. Matters are further complicated by the fact that the United States and the United Kingdom, both major engines of the language, describe these categories in different terms: as many British observers have had attributed to them,[1] the saying goes that “England and America are two countries divided by a common language.” source Wikipedia
Jury selection can be based on the understanding of the nuances of language.
Today in history: April 22nd 1876
The first ever national baseball game is played in Philadelphia
A source with the Merritt Community Cinema Society says that there is a similar organization in Nelson organizing at this time to have a community theater society for first run movies and live theater. However the source says that they have also gained charitable status as well. The local effort remains a non-profit but imply that Charitable status is desirable.
The difference between the two organizations is tax receipts for donations, as a non-profit, the tax advantage is limited to business donations that can use it as an expense for promotion of their business.
The project is aimed at being a stable source of funding for the local arts council and is touted at a price tag of 5 million dollars. The project has raised enough money to acquire land and has not yet gotten a design in place.
http://merrittmovietheatre.com/
Today in history: April 10th 1970
Paul MacCartney leaves the Beatles for personal reasons.
April 22 will be here quicker then you think. The international observance of the earth and its systems will be even more relevant this year as a movement toward global environmental engineering seems to be being whispered.
If all you do on that day is take hold of some recyclable material and get into the system you will be doing a lot if collectively we all do it.
Today in history: March 31 1889
The Eiffel tower is officially opened.
The 5th annual Merritt Country Run is on Sunday June 8th 2014 starting a Voght Park, on Canford avenue. The sunday event is billed as having certified Routes , Walk or run, for individuals, or teams. You can register online at http://www.merrittcountryrun.ca
Events run from 5km,10km,and a half marathon.
Follow the run at twitter@merrittrun or mcrun@facebook.com
Today in History: March 28th 1959
The communist government of China declares the government of Tibet as being no more.
Today there is a job fair or career promotion and awareness event at the Shacken Indian Band Hall, all day. The featured speaker is Aliyah Rodiminkski from Okanogan college.
Other representations come from Thompson Rivers College, First West Kelowna College, the British Columbia Aboriginal Mine Training association and NVIT.
Billed as ” Programs that can take you to the top”
FMI: Debra Manuel 250-378-5410
Today in History: March 18th 37
The Roman Senate nulls Tiberius’s will and makes Caligula emperor.
The public library hosted a read athon on September 26th as a part of Freedom to read week. In one time block 4 young men and women from local media read pieces that they choose as controversial. Workers From Q101 radio. The Merritt Herald editor the Shaw Cable programmer e by a community member, Carmen Fairley, billed as a media consumer.
There were presentations from a local author of Squawker a children’s book about having a pet crow . Squawker was locally produced and published.
Numbers of community members including Tracy Dunsmore from the CPO, Mayor Susan Roline, and classes from the high school maintained a continuous out load reading vigil from opening at 10 AM till closing at 8 PM.
Freedom to read week ends March 3rd.
Today in history: February 28th 1991
The first gulf war ends
The Merritt Community Theater Society, has a published business proposal that they informally discussed this week at some meetings in the Merritt Civic Center. Interested people included economic development consultants from Kamloops and Mayor and council members.
Rich Hodgson a contact for the group said the group is looking for 5 million dollars to complete the project and have raised enough to buy the property in the Rail yard mall downtown Merritt.
The group said that they will be free from property taxes for five years as would anyone else doing new construction in the downtown. This is an economic development strategy of the city of Merritt.
Today in history: February 21, 1925
The New Yorker publishes its first issue
The February 20th speaker at the Nicola Naturalists is Richard Doucette. Richard is a official of Tech/ Highland Valley Copper and his presentation is “reclamation of a Tailing pond”
The Nicola naturalists have their presentations in the Lecture Theater at the local Community college NVIT on Belshaw avenue Merritt. They are member and invitee driven but they post ” everyone welcome membership or donation requested.”
Their website is Http://www.nicolanaturalists.ca/ they are a member of the BC naturalists.
Today in History: February 13th 1931
New Delhi becomes the capital of India
British Columbia has about 4 and a half million people and as of August last year fully one million of them were are on Canadian Pension plan. With an overall death rate on par with the Arab Emirates and less than half the national rate. BC enjoys over 20 percent of the population in some kind of retirement, capacity and memory can become a real issue especially when life engagement wains.
Succesful people have developed social skills over a life time that include an out going sence of giving to the community in a productive way and receiving back.
Diminishment seriously undermines people’s ability to keep up and sometimes makes engagement a struggle.
The Alzheimer’s Society of British Columbia is hosting a workshop The me in Dementia at the Coast Canadian Inn Kamloops, March 28th 2014. ( 9 am to 4PM).Ph: 1 855-742-4803. Twenty dollars admission includes lunch.
Catch Phase: Increasing understanding along the Dementia Journey
Editors note: We would like to acknowledge the efforts of Gregory and Colby Griffiths who as preteens have raised monies in the 5 digit range for research into the disease by bottle drives. They also had the courage to lend their young voice to the in an interview last year on CFJC news in Kamloops.
Today in history: January 23 2002
A Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan and later murdered.
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