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Card lock

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August 31, 2011

The Esso agency had a customer appreciation day today .The Cold Creek Agency of Nicola Avenue had the radio station, prizes , hamburgers and a celebrity Mobile Oil sponsored formula one car on site .To appreciate  their customers.The business is  located in a heavy commercial zoning beside a road contractor an unconfirmed source is saying you don’t have to be a business to have a card lock and their prices change daily with oil prices and are emailed out to card customers at levels of discounts.Implying volume.

Its a clean and uncluttered business you may want to check it out if for some reason you need volumes of fuel and don’t mind competing with logging trucks for fueling.

Today in history, August 31,1537

The Honorable Artillery Company, England’s oldest is formed.

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Job fair

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August 16, 2011
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A small job fair was held at the campus of NVIT on monday, Teck the mining giant that runs the Highland Valley Copper Mine was there . A representative said they would be hiring around  the middle of December. A training company/ society for people who would work on the hydro site at Revelstoke and Mica also had a booth, as did the Community Futures Society for the first nations of the Thompson Nicola.

A rep from  Western Bio Energy of Richmond BC  for their proposed hydro co-gen plant was giving out information. Fred Scott was saying that when the project is approved for permits it will have a strong contact with hydro that prohibits fuel being used that is not green wood waste ie railway ties. The boiler is only capable of taking 1900 degrees and toxins must be burned at higher temperatures \(legally).

There is one toxic waste facility in the province it is in the lower mainland. This project is strictly green and for hydro co gen to the public utility BC Hydro.The plant would be on the Tolko mill site here in Merritt, the company plans public consultations in the next 5 months to accommodate their permitting process.

The VP of business development Fred M. Scott said that it was not to be confused with a proposal that failed 8 years ago which included medical waste. We say that a proposal of some decades ago that generated a ground swell of protest should not be mitigated by this corporate goodwill to ward green coming from the proposal and BC Hydro.That one was for toxic waste and the interest went to a plant in Swan Hills Alberta after being soundly rejected.That proposal was encouraged by then Mayor H.P.Kroeker and his administration that included an economic development officer that was a former used car sales rep. Kroeker still sits as a counselor here after some years as a justice of the peace and after a failed  Mayoralty  reelection bid.

The job fair was aimed at young people and training opportunities in the resource sector. Nadine Israel, represented BCAMTA as a coach. That organisation is the Aboriginal Mine Training association. www.bcamta.ca

Today in history, August 16 1989

Solar activities interfere with electronics ceasing trading on the TSX.

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Seagulls

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July 12, 2011

 Twenty odd seagulls were at Voght park this  AM they would have come up on the winds that brought rain from the coast last evening.

Today in history, July 12, 1962

The Rolling Stones perform in their first ever public concert in the Marquee

Club in London.

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Go fish BC

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June 10, 2011

The Society formed in 2002 now stocks all lakes in British Columbia with game fish.A source says that 52 % of the licence fee to game fish goes to funding the society.

Some lakes do not have good spawning beds or outflows inflows of water so they are stocked with sterile fish and all their makeup goe to producing weight rather then eggs. Sixty to 100 thousand live fish are carried in one of their trucks and are matched to water temperature  to relief stress on release. One truck crew I talked to was on its way to the Bridge river area to stock lakes yesterday.

One of the chamber themes here is a lake a day as long as you stay and the worker said they do a lot of stocking here.

Today in history, June 10th,1190

Third crusade Frederick the first Barbarossa  drowns in the river leading the way to Jerusalem.

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Fish policeing

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May 11, 2011

Fishery and Oceans , the federal government are being seen moving craft  about; they are concerned about what runoff goes into fish habitat this time of the year.

Today in History, May 11 1987

Klaus Barbie goes on trial for Second World War crimes.

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SSL

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April 26, 2011

The public library is discussing putting in an ability for patrons to come in and use electronic banking bill paying . In a more secure way then the SSL on websites. that would mean a low tech booth for privacy. Not to difficult to understand. There is a perceived demand for it.

It is illegal to listen unaware in on conversations or eavesdrop without legal process.

Today in History, April 26, 1928

Los Angeles

Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.

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Vancouver Aquarium Vehicles

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April 14, 2011

A great attraction to the lower mainland is the Vancouver Aquarium. A noble cause and an expensive one it has the support of the corporate community. A Van stopping here shows a great Public relations value to its BC Hydro sponsor.We are with in a few hours of the facility and it is often used for field trips and an interest point when visiting outside this small community. We also get a great collage of vehicle traffic stopping here on their way to major centers.

Today in History, April 14th 1999

Hailstorm in Australia causes 2.3 billion in insured damage.

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Grissly Bears

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April 6, 2011

There are these great beasts in the proximity of Merritt Styoma Mountain near the coast range supports bears as well the Petite Creek area  toward Spence’s bridge also have reported bears from time to time. There is a presentation by the Nicola Naturalist Society  on Thursday the 7th at the NVIT room 0001 . Dr Sue Senger from conservation northwest is presenting; 7PM . Membership and donations requested.

http://moodle.sd58.bc.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=3015

Picture of Styoma Mountain , source  Coquihalla middle school.

Today in History, April 6,1998

Pakistan tests medium range missiles capable of reaching India

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Potable water

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March 15, 2011

There is a Ministry of environment test  water well on Garcia street in Merritt, today pumps are going for an annual test. The person testing it says that it is potable and the rusty color of the test water going through a bucket is because it is stagnate for along time , meaning it does not move. And a rust comes off the casing. The well is not perforated or have screens on the bottom. With no pumping it gets no flow.

There is ground water and surface water to consider in wells, ground water has been filtered well by actions and microbes in the ground . It has less entry of surface water into it. The city spend over two million dollars on another well a couple of years ago with 4 test wells to complement it in testing of levels of the aquifer. Merritt has always had great water, a selling point for the City.

However very little  to non left over to sell ,outside local consumption.

Today in History, March 15th 44 BC

Julius Caesar assassinated in the Roman senate.

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Nicola Valley Explorers

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March 9, 2011

A local group of naturalists and yes they hike  fully clothed. The group has been here for some years, Merritt has a lot to offer to the hiker; lots of trails Demo forests and one of the Chamber themes of some years is a lake a day as long as you stay. Abandoned rail beds connect to the old kettle valley line and in-recent years the Government of British Columbia has spent in one instance 17 million dollars to restore old train   tressel’s  in conjunction or with direction and insight  with  Explorers like non profits.

Today in History, March 9th  1796

Napoleon Bonaparte marries his first wife Josephine.

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Soapstone

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February 10, 2011

The guy that does this soapstone here says that some soap stone has asbestos and could be dangerous in dry form. So if you take up check it out.

Today in History, February 10, 1996

Super computer beats Chess Champion G Kasperov for the first time

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Ice

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February 7, 2011

Today In History, February 7, 1962

United States Bans all imports from Cuba.

The weather has returned to colder and snow with it  comes ice these things can be dangerous to you especially if your eves-troughs are full they can fall and do a lot of damage and from a height serious injury.

Winter has returned

Icicle

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