You are presumed to be honest and responsible without evidence to the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt… on the balance of probablilties you are justified by 51 % likelyhood.
Projects are sometimes funded by government when conditions are correct File Photo KDG
The government of BC has promised rural economic development support in the next fiscal period. Starting in the spring they are committed to :
This spring, the government will implement a new Rural Economic Development Strategy. The Strategy has three key elements:
Moving forward with projects like Site C and LNG that create jobs in rural communities.
Investments to create jobs through necessary infrastructure improvements.
A long-term plan to diversify rural economies by encouraging the growth of new and emerging sectors.
Merritt is applying for support with the Community Theater project this spring.
Government activity includes infrastructure File Photo KDG
According to Rich Hodgson MCTS
On this day: February 16th 2006
The dome of the Coldwater Hotel in Merritt. Photo KDG
Dr. JJ Gillis had an office and a practice in this hotel for may of the years of the first half of the 20th century. The government long term care facility near the museum and archives in downtown Merritt, bears his name.
Gillis had the fortune or misfortune of being the member of the provincial legislature for two decades here. His time included the great depression and the second world war. Dealing with local Japanese citizens and coal mine s in the valley.
A graduate of Mcgill University in 1918 he was invited by a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway to Merritt as a Doctor. He was responsible for a work camp and he ran a nursing school at a Merritt Hospital .
A man in a wheel chair was covered head to toe by a blanket on the sidewalk during the December cold spell, when approached he said nothing a neighbor said his name is JJ and I some people left him there, ” I called the police” . The man then came alive and said ” leave me alone”. The police later were seen talking to him and it was resolved somehow.
Gillis was also the local coroner. He passed from this life in 1965: source
If the ghost of Dr. JJ Gillis visited and I was him I would say leave me alone.
RIP DR.Gillis
On this Day: January 24th 1972
Sgt .Shoichi Yokoi of the Imperial Japanese Army is found hiding in the Jungle since war end in 1945.
Despite hiding for twenty-eight years in an underground jungle cave, he had known since 1952 that World War II had ended.[5][6] He feared to come out of hiding, explaining, “We Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive.”[1][5]
Yokoi was the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after the war, preceding Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (relieved from duty by his former commanding officer on 9 March 1974) and Private Teruo Nakamura (arrested 18 December 1974). source: Wikipedia
Nicola Avenue Merritt lit up for after pavement and traffic island redo.
Some people suffer from SAD , Seasonal Affective Disorder. Seasonal celebration lighting may help.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine notes that “some people experience a serious mood change when the seasons change. They may sleep too much, have little energy, and may also feel depressed. Though symptoms can be severe, they usually clear up.”[6] The condition in the summer can include heightened anxiety.[7 source Wikipedia
The affliction may happen it summer change and may also have something to do with course change.
The shortest day is on December 21st at 10:44 UTC time. The north pole will be at its greatest distance from the Sun at minus 23 degrees . The sun will rise at 8:01 AM and set at 3:59 PM making for 7 hours and 58 minutes , 7:57:58 for you rocket science people.
Be happy be glad today is yours to have its 24 hours just like everyone else alive.
Fish trap Coldwater river
Merritt BC
photo KDG
The local fisheries authority with the first nations are doing a Coho study on returning Salmon on the Coldwater river, I’m Merritt. The study will keep this trap up to December and harvest ships from returning hatchery Cohos, count and release wild fish, then walk the river and survey dead fish expired after spawning.
Rob on the site says that some of the fish he processed are in the 70 centimeter range. Coho are also known as Silver Salmon and don’t have the black lips of Chinook.
The trap will be stored at the authorities warehouse after the study
On this Day: October 25th 1995
Seven students are killed when a train strikes a bus in Spruce Fox Grove. Il.
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.
A new hydrant is placed at the corner of Garcia in Merritt. A supervisor says as they were making a local serial number into the cap that they are recorded for capacity (flow) then colour coded. This one will “probably be blue capped and red bodied as a high volume hydrant.”
Merritt takes a lot of pride in readiness including foam products carried in trucks.
On this Day: October 14th 2014
A snow storm in the mountains near Nepal kills 43 people.
The city of Merritt has had some more vinyl reliefs covering utility boxes about town, Brad and a coworker covered the large DC chargers converter box at the quick EV charger on Voght street Wednesday with an early 20 th century vinyl reproduction of down-town Quilchena avenue. The photo by H Priest a female photographer and chronicalor of the Nicola Valley.
The pair said they had some smaller ones to cover on the east side of Nicola Avenue.
Andrew a city worker said that the vinyl coverings give options when graphite happens as well as enhancing the look and feel of the utility boxes.
The Ladysmith team for the BC Youth Ambassador presentation photo KDG
The ladysmith ambassador team ,pose for pictures ,at the Merritt Civic center last weekend. The team and support were given credit by a New Denver mom for placing high in a several categories including being one of the three BC Youth Ambassadors to represent the province.
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