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The week in pictures 3/12/11

 

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TGIF

 

Today in history, December 2 2001

Enron files for chapter 11 bankrupcy protection.

Granite and Garcia Street beautification, Merritt BC

The crews are back at work on th upgrade after talk of being laid of because of wheather they are hard at it again. Two new bus stops are taking shape on alternating sides of Garcia at the the corner of Quilchena Avenue and the black steel posts that will guard the shelters from miscreant vehicles are noticeable. As the work continues   large star forms are in place for cement filling and  they complement two country murals already placed on the government building housing the EI office there.

A lot of  stimulus money and much volunteer effort has gone into continuing a theme of Merritt being the Country Music Capital of
Canada.

Construction has not closed down the street from traffic so one must pay attention to hazards and flagging control people at the site.

Today in history, November 29th 800

Charlemagne goes to Rome to investigate the crimes of Pope Leo the third.

Transit

Merritt, British Columbia

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The  local BC  transit bus has a scheduled route that provides a lot of relief to the to those that have to use it. Today a source rode it as it picked up 13 residents of the Nicola Meadows home for the aged or assisted living home a caregiver  ensured their safety as they got on and they were happily taking a scenic route about  to get to their destination a shopping trip to Wal Mart. they estimated that they would have about 2 hours in the store and complex before catching the small 26 passenger bus to return to there living space . The source said that he sat beside  a legally blind person that has an endorsement to travel as required on the transit system. Ms Kinvig a person in her late 50s was also going to an assisted living facility; The Florentine just down from the local college. Not to live  but to sing for the residents and entertain them.

Another private tour bus has opened its doors for profit and is advertising tours around the Walk of Stars hand prints and murals By Michelle Loughery.
They also offer a passage from the skytrain in the lower mainland to Merritt 10 dollars less then the Greyhound. It is limited to Fridays and Mondays however. Merritt Bus Lines operates its charter service out of the optical shop on the corner of Voght and Quilchena, ” Vision Quest Optical is the in part owned by Harvey Keys  a new comer from California and a North American Indian. Harvey garnered  a little more then 300 votes in the recent civic election, a good showing up against a filed of incumbents and former mayors.

Today in history, November 28th 1925

The Grand Old Opry begins broadcasting as the WSM Barn Dance from Nashville Tennessee

week in pictures 26/11/11

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lending library

An Amazon Kindle Powered Off

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The electronic world is expanding with a lending library on Kindle readers.  The local  Public library  has a Kindle reader for lend , and they have paid for some titles, now a source says that Amazon the internet book seller is also going to be offering  an entry menu of some publishers books  on lend. We will watch  and wait on this. However reasons for not having a tablet  device are getting fewer and far between.

Today in History, November 23,2001

The convention on cyber crime is signed in Budapest Hungary.

Election

The popular connection between Einstein, E = m...

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Susan Roline was reelected Mayor of Merritt ,BC Canada on Saturday by a good margin garnering about 100 votes. Less then 2000  turned out  to voters gave her a handy vote margin over her challenger former Mayor Bob Baird. He garnered some over 700 votes.

Shelly Sanders was not returned by one vote in favour of Alastair Murdoch who was. An upstart new comer North American Indian and former Hollywood set man  Harvey Keys placed last and not elected,  but managed about 400 votes: a good showing.  All other incumbants were returned  and Clara Norgaard a former Mayor was elected in place of Sanders.

The new sidewalk upgrade is nearing completion with some large stars placed in the beatification with bits of copper scattered with in.

Merritt was once known as the Copper Capital of Canada  as a billion pounds of copper was mined at a local mine site.

One unconfirmed source said the copper came from Highland Valley Copper’s mine, the mine you can see from space,  about 45 miles from here. Another thought they came from copper pipe, and a white hat didn”t know were but said they were manufactured in Vernon.

Today in History, November 21,1905

Albert Einstein’s Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal “Annalen der Physik“. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

The week in pictures 19/11/11

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Christmas Mailing

The mail season at the post office is fast approaching. For 2011 local delivery of holiday cards in Canada is guaranteed  by posting by December 19th,  within the province guaranteed by posting by December 16th, Outside the province post by December 15th . Regular parcel December 12. Got money and forgot someone Priority TM next AM needs to be sent by December 22 to get to its destination by Christmas Eve.

Mailing to the US, December 13th letter post , December 8th surface parcel.Europe November 29th letter October 25th was the deadline for surface parcel. However air parcel will make it to Europe if mailed by November 29th.

Canada post has a website: canadapost.ca

Today in history, November,17 1967

Acting on optimism reports he has be given US President Johnson tells the nation they are making progress and much remains to be done ” we are inflicting greater losses than we are suffering.”

Arctic adventure

Northwest Passage routes.

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November 17th at 7 pm will see the Nicola Naturalists have a presentation on some of their members experience with a trip through the Northwest passage last summer.Entitled a top Russia the group led by Alan Burger are obviously including the thought that the worlds largest country shares an interest in the Arctic and the NorthWest Passage.

Alan Burger is a native of South Africa and was a member of the faculty of the Local University of Victoria. they meet monthly usually at the local public Community College NVIT;4155 Belshaw Street, above the Merritt News.

Today in History, Nov 14th 1921

The Communist party of Spain is founded.

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