To the seasons of life
Its good that it is friday….
There is an every job counts Canada action plan program going on at the Merritt Civic center. The kitchen is being upgrades with new stuff including convection ovens and a walk in freezer. Ste 1 is complete including stainless steel preparation tables and the next stage will include organized serving carts.
The civic center is available for functions and a food safe certificate is required for public but not private functions.
Today in history: July 19,64
On the west edge of the BC Hydro construction of their new substation and on the crest of a 40 meter hill is an extension of Spring Bank road going south toward town.Full water and sewer lines are being added. The view is of the River Ranch across the Nicola River with its green fields and meandering willow stands. The area was serviced with storm sewers decades ago.
A forestry forest fire training facility that features a simulator is being completed at the local airstrip about one mile away. The facility is scheduled for substantial completion on July 26th and for minister opening on the 1 st of August.
There are 3 twenty man training rooms, a laundry lots of offices and a large reception area, two helipads and a stones throw to the airstrip. There is also 4 residential lots that belong to the forest service. The facility is autonomous to the Regional Forestry Office on the other side of the airstrip and an open field away.The training center does not have living quarters.
The airstrip has a live in security person and houses the search and rescue command van.
Today in history: July 16,1212
Pope innocent the third calls European Knights to a crusade.
Today we have a sitting premier in the 85 seat government of British Columbia.Christie Clark won a seat in west Kelowna in a by-election,she carried 63 percent of the vote about the same as the Liberal member that steped aside so that the Premier could be available to the opposition in Question Period during the sitting of the legislature.
A by-election is on for the seat vacated, in the Village of Ashcroft by our Fraser Nicola member Jackie Taggart.
Today in history: July 15, 1916
Pacific Aero Products, later to be called Boeing is established.
There is an airplane at the Princeton Airstrip about 100 kilometers from us in Merritt. It is a CF100 starfighter from the 1950s it saw service in the Korean conflict. The plane had the nickname ” the lead sled “. It is up on a pedestal and bears the number 420.
The United States made a number of these aircraft available to Canada after it canceled it s own Avro Arrow program.
A local was noted for flying his over his home town of Merritt and braking the sound barrier as a hello to his fellows.
Diagrams and paintings of the Avro Arrow craft show up at antique outlets from time to time here. The company A.V. roe was organized in Canada in 1945. Its links to the UK and successes such as the Lancaster bomber the B25 Mitchell made for a considerable fondness for the old world and its way of doing things.
Princeton BC Canada is a colorful resource town on the Similkameen River and a historic haunt of the Train Robber Bill Miner at the beginning of the 20th century.
It hosts Racing Days ( 45 years of horse racing this year) at the end of July and is in close to the Cascade Mountain range.
Today in History: June 13,1898
The Yukon Territory is established with Dawson as its Capital.
Scides the distant education center, and the Kengard learning center at the Kengard School at the end of Merritt Avenue graduated 42 young people here in Merritt.
The program had a quote on the last page from Diaraku Ikeda ” While it is important to win, it’s even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens.”
To those that are undefeated and and grads Kudos:
N. Anders-Valdiva, W. Brown, B Christainson, D Clarke,
L Cresswell, A Dennis, B Fletcher, A Granberg, D Green,
D Hagel, L Harland, J Harpe, P Johnson, N Jylha, P Johnson,
N Morton, J Nemeth, J Smith, M Smith,M Smith, L Turner, J Veronneau.
D Allen, M Brynojolfson, D Collier, M Dasilva, A Dawson, J Fell, A Greenaway,
J Harder, S Hefer, K Hopkins, E Karlson, B Manke, J Miller, B Mizen, A Patterson,
C Steele, C Sitryd, R Tancsa, W Thompson, A Welch.
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Today in history: June 10th 2013
Tax Freedom day in Canada, the day that people are working for themselves: Source: The Fraser Institute. (EN: finished paying for their government services).
The penny is out of production here , and the last few months a rounding of formula is in effect; to the nearest nickel. When we offered to pay the 3 cents of the dollar 98 for a large coffee at McDonald’s Sunday we were pleasantly given a nickel back. Pennies are not about as they were . And the approximately 2 that would have been made for every Canadian this year is obvious by their absence. However outlets still honour them and an unconfirmed source said that they were able to put a one cent debit transaction through at a local big box that had an add a penny take a penny counter dish at one time.
A counter person agreed that the demise of the penny needs to overcome a lot of poetry and folklore to be complete:
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Put a penny in your shoe for luck
Don’t give a wallet or purse without a cent in it as a gift.
And of course in all respect to the British homeland, Margret Thatcher’s pennies don’t come from heaven they have to be earned here.
Today in History: April 29,2011
The Royal Wedding of William and Kate.
Its good that it is friday….
Today in History: April 26 ,1994
South Africa holds its first multi racial elections.
The people at Ardew were informed at 5 o’clock this morning Saturday 13/13 that they were all laid off. The mill was being taken over by Aspen Planners after being acquired by them. The Ardew Mill is old tech without J bar sorter.:*
* Opinion: There will be a net job loss in that sector as Aspen Planners have two mills here before acquiring Ardew. One saw mill one planner mill .
The consolidation sees AP in control of the Weyerhaeuser operation and the Ardew operation , leaving one other lumber producer here; Tolko Industries a private company that also had its start as a family business.
Other small mills include NMV and pine Ideas as specialty lumber manufacturers.
Today in history: April 15th 1923
Insulin becomes generally available for people with diabetes.
The local library is on Garcia street in Merritt it has 8 public access PC type computers. The public can log in for an hour a day with their library card and for visitors out of the area a 1 hr pass code is available at the front desk.
The library was built in the early 1990s and a big part of the plan was the acceptance of the computers from the Bill and Melinda
Gates foundation. although they have been updated by the regional district since the original gifting it is good to acknowledge those that give back to the community in this way.
From the 8000 people of Merritt and 10,000 more in the trading area ,thanks to goodness and the Gates bunch.
Today in History: April, 4, 1975
Microsoft corporation is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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