Category: Sports and Leisure


Sunday junior hockey…

The Merritt Centennials played to 725 fans in the Nicola valley memorial arena in Merritt tonight.

The team scored twice to the visiting Wiliams Lake team’s 4 recorded goals.

Action in Merritt file photo.

The Centennials hockey team is a part of the KIJHL.

The next game is on the 21st in Kimberly.

Centennial’s action

The Centennials are facing the Asoyoos team tonight in Merritt and it’s a couple minutes left in the second, and the Centennials are leading 621.

Update

The second period is over and the Centennials are leading seven to one, going into the final period.

The club is having their postponed Icebreaker tomorrow in Merritt. The social event will be a buzz with the record of the young Junior B team.

Post Script

Tonight’s game ended after the 3rd period in an eight to two advantage of the Merritt Centennials team, this was seen by 872 fans which is considerably up from the previous games. It all helps

Photo KDG: CC entering a recent hockey game in Merritt

https://www.merrittcentennials.ca/stats/schedule

The next Centennials Jr. B game will be Merritt and Ossoyos.

November 14th, 2025, 7:00 p.m. at the Nicola valley memorial arena.

Clayton:

Charters says he has supported the local Junior team for 15 years and likes to come dressed up as this rodeo clown job allows.

Keep it between the blue lines….

Registration on now for June…

Limited spaces for a 120 kilometer cycle race/run.

Merritt Crown

Be part of the engagement in the Nicola Valley.

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music and myrth

Merritt Centennials

The Merritt Centennials met the Princeton Posse in action at the Nicola valley memorial arena in Merritt this evening. The final score was home 2 and guest five. That would be Princeton over Merritt in Merritt.

Great fun!.

TGIF-Friends

Your only Young once…

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Be innocent as a dove and as wise as a serpent.

Toastmasters 3929 circa 2006

From left to right: Elizabeth Laird, Sue Peachy, David Brown, Jim Bradford, Dorothy Molner, Helen Stoneman, Gale Simpson, and Kevin Griffiths that would be me.

We were very active back then, surrounded by great people. It was easy. We missed toastmasters myself. I was the conductor of a speechcraft for youth for about a decade…

Helen came up a little short of being 100 years old. Passed a few years ago and most everybody else is still living and happy. Oops Liz Laird is gone.

Please comment if you have any comments about toastmasters or about public speaking or any of these fine people.

I am posting this because I briefly talked to a young lady that had a nice jacket on that said 4-H, and I remember Gloria Capp as one of our members was very much involved in 4-H. She was a rancher and she nurtured young people into the ability to raise a calf to a cow and numbers of other 4-H things. We enjoyed some canned fruit at her house that she had done and they did that in that 4-H program. It was very close to the toastmasters program that sort of thing and

I guessed the young lady’s age at 20 and she said try 35. She looked like a baby.

We go around, zoom around and where we stop, Nobody wants to know…

Merritt BC,Canada…good stop to talk and be keen…

September 28th, 2025.

Home to fowl and fish with a certain pride.

Rivers pickup our rain and deliver it back to our seas and in the interim they water crops and they mitigate carbon and they mitigate phosphorus and all sorts of things that are being brought to the surface and give us a good environment.

Peace

Mallards matter

Mallard ducks are the most prevalent around our place, our neck of the woods here in Merritt, British Columbia. We love our Mallard ducks.

The local naturalist club will begin their regular weekend fall and winter schedule on the 18th. Their meetings are generally most months on the third Thursday at 7:00 at the Nicola Valley institute of technology, top of the hill Belshaw Avenue in Merritt.

Jeep, Nicola Valley classic car club…

Jeep by Willies, Barry Jackson restoration as  classic lover started “Last September”
  • Classic Car club meeting

The group of classic car club enthusiasts meet on Wednesdays  for supper, and talk and park at the Merritt A&W on Voght Street.

TGIF-Farmers Market

Saturday August 23 2025,2050 Voght St Merritt BC

August 30th

The Nicola Valley Farmers Market, is enjoying glorious weather through August. And the absence of forest fire smoke has been a particular boon. There is one more market in August, next Saturday then on to September and   October 12th.

The Markets times are Saturday’s 9 AM- 1 PM.

A flying bird turns into Dianna Grimshire.