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.
The federal election is coming on Monday , October 19th, 2015. It is from 7 am to 7 pm and the local polling stations in the Nicola Valley (here) are the Merritt Civic Center and the Lower Nicola Community Hall.
The advanced polls are :
Friday, October 9th- noon to 8pm
Saturday, October 10th-noon to 8pm
Sunday, October 11-noon to 8pm
Monday, October 12-noon to 8pm
There is a mail in ballot opportunity if you are not in the riding on any of these days, you can vote by special ballot, to obtain the ballot contact the returning officer. The ballot must reach the riding by 7PM on October 13th 2015 .
Disclaimer: this information comes from published material from Elections Canada distributed by E. Salmon-De- Friedberg, please refer to a second source for certainty in this important event.
elections canada.gc.ca
On this Day: October 6th 2007
A human powered complete navigation of the globe is done by Jason Lewis.
Pole installation and work on Voght street Merritt Photo KDG
The work continues for the Merritt Green energy and new substation power project. Poles on Voght to transmit power from the substation and generator.
A worker on site says that they are putting pipes in the road to bring three phase power to some business’s for after they move the poles to the other side of the road.
On this day: September 30th 1955
Popular entertainer James Dean dies at 24 in a car crash.
On Wednesday a pair of observers of First Nation origin were rowing down the Nicola River in a rubber raft.When challenged by the PR they said “we are looking for Chinook Salmon” .”We tagged a thousand of them last year and they should be here anytime” They run every year, said the person in control of the boat.
Merritt has two small rivers that join in the city. The Coldwater and the Nicola they continue as the Nicola to the Thompson at Spence’s Bridge and then on to the the Fraser and the Pacific ocean.There is a fish hatchery at Spious creek west of Merritt that is open to the public for tours. A serious fish tagging program is undertaken and a cabled intervention point is on the Coldwater River off the Voght park walking trail.
The Coldwater river was visibly seen to be suffering during the drought this summer but on viewing the this morning looks healthy and well due to rains in the Coldwater river valley high into the Coquihalla area to the south. The river is however void of fish at this point from a layman’s perspective and access. Chinnok Salmon are on the UNC red list for endangered species.
According to the local newspaper of record the city has announced plans to purchase three city lots on Charters street (* one is in the Nicola river) for a preserve.the lots are said to have access problems which may make them suitable for the preserve.
Chinook are anadromous fish native to the North Pacific Ocean and the river systems of western North America, ranging from California to Alaska, as well as Asian rivers ranging from northern Japan to the Palyavaam River in the Arctic north-east Siberia. They have been introduced to other parts of the world, including New Zealand and the Great Lakes of North America. A large Chinook is a prized and sought-after catch for a sporting angler. The flesh of the salmon is also highly valued for its dietary nutritional content, which includes high levels of important omega-3 fatty acids. Some populations are endangered, however many are healthy. The Chinook salmon has not been assessed for the UCN Red List.
Source: Wikipedia
On this Day: September 3rd 1976
The Viking 2 spacecraft lands on the Utopia Planitia,Mars.
A curb to sidewalk concrete entrance is poured, with feeling slots for the blind. Photo KDG
A worker at the city says that the slots on this concrete are 150 Millimetres apart to accommodate blind feeling the way off the walk. He says there are pre-existing non conforming ones that don’t have them. So now you know and you can watch out for the struggling blind.
On this day: September 2nd 1859
A solar storm causes disruption in electrical transmission.
The area now occupied by the 270 million dollar Merritt Green energy project had this lone box car sitting on it until construction.
Landed immigrants, labourers were once employed to load these things with dimensional lumber by hand. Automation dramatically changed the dynamics of this industry from a few decades ago.
We are on a course that does not allow for going back to that…
On this Day August 20th 1866
United States President Andrew Johnson declares the Civil War over.
Dan Albas no longer MP for Merritt since August election writ dropped. Photo: KDG
The 2015 election sees a boundary change that brings Merritt in with West Kelowna and Dan Albas home town of Penticton a different riding.
As of today there are no candidates registered or confirmed with elections Canada for our new riding (Central Okanagan Nicola.) Nomination ends September 28th with a list of candidates coming September 30th for the October 19th vote.
On this Day: August 13th 2010
A refuge ship carrying hundreds of Tamil refugees docks at Canadian Forces navel Base Esquimalt on Vancouver Island.
Rod and others were busy Tuesday morning installing a Blue Reserved for EV parking marker at the 500 Volt 130 amp DC charging station on Vought street.
The blue is not to be confused with handicap parking as it is for EV vehicles charging at the station. There is also a 90 Amp (70 continuous AC charger with in reach of the parking stall.
The parking lot is used for the farmers market until October and on Saturday mornings.
Andrew a supervisor says that the markings were supplied by BC Hydro.
Editors note: The DC charger is 500 volts 120 amps.
On this day: August 12th 30 BC
Cleopatra the seventh makes an Asp of her self ending her life.
Its owner Jerry say s that its required now and that it gives him the right to cross a public road to get to off roading on the other side. No ICBC insurance required but he says he has private insurance of some kind. Snow mobiles have been doing this for some time and there is a vibrant club here in Merritt . they have their AGM usually at the Merritt civic center behind city hall MTC.
On this day : August 11th 1929 Babe Ruth hits 500th home run, first ever recorded.
On the corner of Garcia and Quilchena Avenue in Merritt BC Canada is one of the land marks of the 700 souls that made the City of Merritt at the top of the Victorian/ Edwardian age. In the side walk out side and across the street proudly displayed is a plug that tells the date of the cities incorporation in 1911. April first of that year saw a council in place that and a local doctor starting to take on his own, a 1908 graduate of Magill University and a medical Doctor John Joseph Gilles.
Invited by a CPR director to the wealth of coal, agriculture and timber and a microcosm of Victorian prosperity and with new world hope, the little city sported a couple blocks of enterprise anchored by the Adelphia and the Coldwater Hotel. The council found a life in this valley.
With only serious European contact from the mid 19th century a place of relative respite from long grudges of the past, Merritt developed and prospered with 2 diversions of old world strife drawing her resources and strength.
DR. Gillis had his practice in the Coldwater hotel and raised 8 children in a house on Garcia (a couple of blocks down from the Adelphia) street now a BB run by the Gillespie family.
At this writing the progenitry of JJ are planning a get together in early September. We applaud the effort to remember this families effort for our past and future. You may want to take an interest in the website. http://www.gillisfamilyreunion2015.com/#!events/c1cb2
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On this Day August 4th 70 CE On this Day August 4th 70 CE
Pipeline politics are on again! Has any one ever asked the question why is oil not refined at sea and taken by tankers off rigs to retailers. Maybe the technologies are non existing. Why not? Can water also be desalinated on off shore rigs cleaned up and taken away? Possibly but the politics of oil is the politics of wealth and seems to be very guarded.
Locally hearing by January the recommendations a possible decision 0n if we will have a twinned line come through Merritt still makes us conflicted between knowing it is someone’s necessary evil and some else’s path way to wealth . We at this blog (royal we) hope that what ever the NEBs report is that it mitigates and distributes the benefits closer to ordinary Canadians birth expectations and rights….Here’s what the responsible operator of the 60 year trans mountain line says of the countdown to decision.
It’s been nearly two years since the head of Kinder Morgan and the company behind the Trans Mountain Pipeline project addressed the local business community about the project, and it was at a time when any formal decision to proceed was a couple years away.
On Tuesday, Kinder Morgan president Ian Anderson was back in Coquitlam speaking to the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce to provide an update on the billion-dollar pipeline project.
He said the National Energy Board is expected to issue its recommendations to the federal government in January, which in turn has another 90 days to accept or reject the project.
In the meantime, he said the energy company still has a lot of work to do on the design of the project, the emergency response plans, and dialogue with First Nations communities.
Kinder Morgan is proposing to expand the 1,550-kilometre pipeline that carries oil from Edmonton to Burnaby.
The proposed pipeline route in Coquitlam would run east of the Port Mann Bridge through the Fraser River, hitting land near United Boulevard.
The line would follow the road west past the Eaglequest Golf complex before meeting up with the Lougheed Highway corridor to Burnaby.
The cities of Coquitlam and Port Moody along with the Village of Belcarra have been given intervener status, which allows the municipalities to ask questions and receive answers through the NEB process.
Anderson, who last spoke to the chamber in the fall of 2013, said the company has listened to some of the local concerns about the project, noting Trans Mountain originally intended to use the Colony Farm area as a work site, but opted not to after hearing from the community.
He also said the company has heard from businesses along United Boulevard about the disruptions from years of construction in the area, and are trying to mitigate the impacts from any pipeline construction.
The balance of the worlds wealth is important, and the use of income needs to be in responsible hands, lets not squander that or make the world worse but wealthier . The way these things are done is as important as doing it. PP
Editors note: The decision remains in the hands of the people of Canada through responsible elected and the rule of law.
On this day: July 17th 1955
Disney land is dedicated in California
Smoke filled the skies around Merritt on Monday and Tuesday, there were fires around Cache Creek and the Pemberton area sending smoke this way Photo KDG
No fires in the immediate area however smoke drifted in on Monday making the sun particularly red. We didn’t find our breathing effected, air conditioned, public buildings included the Public library, the Aquatic Center , the Civic Center. some restaurants were available to those that may be concerened .
The smoke was very much less severe by Wendnsday. Kudos to those that have to be out fighting these things.
On this day: July 09 1993
Canada divides its Northwest Territory in two, creating Nunavut and making NWT and Yukon the three territories in Canada’s north region.
Poles in place for the 130 KV line from the Merritt Substation to the Highland Valley Photo KDG
On Monday we talked to a member of the BC Hydro team at a local coffee shop he pointed out a pole on a trailer going by on highway 5A. The large greenish pole is seen on tuesday as standing in the parking lot area of the Extra Foods complex and is part of a 130 KV line to the highland valley from the upgraded substation. The source says that poles that are green are ceder and are treated with arsenic and copper in solution. Don’t chew on them. A number of the poles were strengthened with galvanized channel iron driven into the ground next them, they are being replaced after decades of service.
On this Day: May 7th 2000
Vladimir Putin becomes the president of the Russian Federation.
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