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Today in history: February 14,1859
Oregon becomes the 33 state in the US union.
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The local public library suffered another broken window causing an opening delay till 10:45 this morning. The library has had numbers of broken windows over time and a few years ago there was a work bee of volunteers organized to remove the landscaping rocks from about the Garcia street building.
Some might ask isn”t that freedom of expression, isn’t that fair comment?
We say that glass is a reasonable restraint on freedom of expression and that the perpetrators should take up letters to the Editors.
Today in history: February 12,1909
New Zealand worst maritime disaster as the ship Peguin sinks in Wellington harbour
Today in History: February 9, 1969
The first test flight of the Boeing 747 airliner.
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Today in History: February 8,1952
Elizabeth 11 is proclaimed as the constitutional monarch of Great Britain.
Monday February 18, 2013 The Nicola Valley Film Society will present The Lady. At 7:30 in the Lecture Theater. Free parking and no food or drinks in the theater.
The film is rated 14A.
Set in Burma in 1947, it cases political struggle and Aung San Suu K and her travail to be the first women in Asia to get a Nobel peace prize.
Editors Note : Burma has been noted as being very repressive for the individual and is a bell weather for struggle for electronic freedom.
Today in history: February 7 ,1940
The second full length Disney animation is released: Pinocchio
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There was a scale card at the local library for White cane week that had 6 eye conditions simulated through lens. What was surprising to me was blind is not like when you close your eyes it is a soupy white. One condition is like looking through bridal lace, and macular degeneration just fuzz’s the letters some, on a card.
A number of people suffered some sort of blindness including the retired radio personality Al Clark. Al had a marvelous voice on the local Q101 giving no inclination of any disability, however he was not able to secure a driving licence and was years ahead of bicycle and helmet usage.
Editors note: The channel 888 here is looking for 1000 sight challanged people for a consultation group to recommend services for the blind. the channel narrates programs for people to enjoy that would have to guess at visuals in shows. They are also applying to renew their licence with the CRTC.
Check them out at AMI.ca
The Accessible Channel or AMI promotes media access for 6.6 million Canadians who are blind, deaf,,vision impaired or hard at hearing.It was launched in 2008, and goes by TAC for short.
Today in History: February 6,1918
Women in Britain over 30 get the vote.
Today in History: February 7, 1976
Darryl Sittler gets 10 points in a single NHL game
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The local expression of the church that is not world religion , the United Church is having a pancake supper. The Methodists , Congregationalists and Presbyterians united after a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbour early in the 20th century. One church building of the three were left standing after a horrific blast leveled most of the City of Halifax. They took comfort together in that building and later named it the United Memorial church. The dynamic stuck and the pluralistic groups remain United till this day.
The fund-raising event here for the locals is on February 12 Shrove Tuesday at church the corner of Quilchena and Chapman 5-7 PM children under 9 four dollars ,adults six dollars.
Today in history: February 5th 1971
The moon is visited by the Apollo 14 astronauts.
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Lisa Hawkins is presenting Yoga for and hour on Tuesdays 12-1 at the NVIT lecture theater. She promotes her style as latin-inspired and calorie burning.
Lisa is a security guard and does Zumba dance and Ti Chi.
Students of the NVIT school are quite well served by supervised extra curricular activities such as these. (opinion)
Today in History: February 4th 2008
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Mosaic by Siva Rosfelder Schechtel, on display at the local Court House Gallery for the next 6 weeks.
community art show brings different items to the public.
Hydro wishing to finish installing smart meters, a source says that the ability to see your account on-line will be a while as a web converter needs to be acquired. He was unsure if the meters were being read by transmission as yet.
Its good that it is friday….
The local library is having White Cane Week Feb3-9th ” reading club for the blind”. ” A lack of sight is not a lack of vision!”
Editors note: Audio books are available through smart devices at the public library .
Today in history: February 1, 481
Vandal King Huneric organizes the first conference between Catholic and Arian Bishops at Carthage.
It’s that time again for the 7th Annual Community Arts Show. Featuring carving, woodworking, fine needlework, weaving, photography, painting, drawing, sculpting.
The theme of this year’s show is: Magical, Mystical, and Legends. Cash Prizes in this category and for Best of Show.
Gallery Hours are Tuesday noon until 4pm, Thursday from 1-8pm, Friday and Saturday noon-6pm
Today in History: January, 31,2010
Avatar becomes the first film to gross more than 2 billion dollars.
One of the local Elementary schools began a strong start program last year. the public School Merritt Central Elementary School, today is circulating posters saying that there is now a fee drop for both the children: birth – 5 years, and their caregivers. The poster also now includes two more of the 4 elementary schools here in Merritt.
The local school board has recently had to close a middle school for the lack of 48 students.
ph: 250-378-9931 for info.
Today in history: January 31 1950
The United States undertakes to develop the Hydrogen Bomb
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