The Nicola Valley Heritage Society the people that run the downtown tourist info center ,are having a yard sale.The historic Baillie House, a hundred year old heritage building on the same property as the info booth that has been closed for tours since the end of September and is now hosting a continuous yard sale. Many items are donated in goodwill and re-donated after some use and different this year is a continuous aspect as opposed to a weekend sale.

There are also three antiques store within a couple of blocks in the downtown core, a boon for the ecological foot print crowd.

Today in History, October 18 ,1936

Germany announces a four year economic plan to rebuild the military.

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On Granite Avenue a vacant store is now occupied and doing business. Almost over night and it would seem to be had coördinated with the upgrade of sidewalks and beatification of the 2000 block at on Granite and Garcia. A wholesale retail supplier of discount blue jeans is running cash registers and moving stock brought in with plastic cargo tubs .   There are about four employees  at work and a business card available from a supervisor.

Maud Soderholm is the regional manager for the store and was on hand yesterday in the store.

Warehouseone has a number of outlets across Canada and their presence here is sudden and hardly announced to the benefit of the consumer, in Merritt.

The building was the former site of 2 Sands stores one before and one after reorganization several years ago. It was last used to sell motorcycle fashion wear during the Great Canadian Bike Rally last summer. That event lasted  a few days.

Today in history, October 14,1962

The Cuban missile crisis begins.

There was 2 degrees of frost last night resulting in a flurry of activity with compressors and people blowing out underground sprinklers today. The City today was blowing the lines about the pool a considerable amount of underground sprinkling is about this small city as we enjoy a lot of green space.

People with underground systems get a better time block for sprinkling as the thought is they are planned  as well as more available in off peak hours.

Today in history,October 13,

• 1926 –Born  Walter “Killer” Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2008)

 Happy Thanksgiving from Proprietor Review

Dance lessons are being  offered by the City Recreation department starting October 17 th- November 15 .They are advertised as being with Lisa, the lessons cost  45 dollars  and are an hour long each 5 – 6 pm.

Today in history, October 5th,1947

The first televised address from the White House comes from Harry S.Truman