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Today in History, February 8 1952

Elizabeth II proclaimed monarch.

TGIF

 

Have a great weekend, and visit Merit and Malice and rate them

 

 

Today in History, February 4, 2006

71 die in a stampede in a stadium near Manila.

Paste

Paste costume jewelery

The glitz and glamor of doing yourself up can include paste, around here it would play well especially at high school. Probably not in Hollywood . They say  Hollywood is high school with money , so who else can we emulate on a budget, that’s a small town advantage .

Today in History, February 3, 1930

The communist party of Vietnam is organized.

Clean Fire Hydrants


The city ran and add to hire CUPE workers last week in on of the local weekly’s they were to fix potholes and keep up these things . Most all the fire hydrants were gone through and painted up starting after a local hotel burned down. The fire was reported as arson. In the middle of a labor dispute and some one had opened  a number of these about town diminishing the pressure to fight the fire.

The tag says no not connect without permit;2000 dollar fine, we think it’s not intended for arsonists but the responsible public.

The crime is yet unsolved.

Today in History, February 2 1901

Queen Victoria’s Funeral

Dry Goods

The old Chinese dry goods store’s front windows are now un-boarded displaying some of the dated goods inside. The new owners are said to be going to sell antiques there and live in the house next door.

Today in History, February 1, 1968

Eddie Adams video tapes execution of Viet Cong officer ,builds opposition to the Vietnam war.

CBC FM upgrade

FM radio

Source says a Contractor for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation is upgrading the FM broadcaster here and in a hundred other  communities. An employee says he is happy they got the work.” It  isn’t our regular job”; says a man on site.

The  current receiver is a wire antenna between two poles about 100 feet from this upgrade.

The closest CBC FM presence to here is Kelowna 88.9 Radio one you can listen to FM radio one on your computer, our local private FM station is Q 101.

Found property

A bicycle is said to be waiting to be picked up by the bylaw officer from the downtown policing station. Found property is kept 3 months then disposed of , by crown assets disposal in the past some bikes were given to non profits  for fund-raising. To have an insurance claim a bike needs to be stolen and a file given from the police. Most bikes found are under the 500 dollar deductible limit for insurance some bikes are really expensive. We think that it is a burden on police resources to be chasing these things. So keep your bike out of sight and out of mind.

Remember there is a six month limitation period on petty crimes and you always run a chance of being called as a witness to a prosecution in that period.

In general attention should be paid to terms of coverage of policies still loss prevention helps us all.

River ice

Ice melt on Coldwater River is fast a furious. Open earlier this year then last.

Today in history January 28, 2011

President Regan, lifts oil controls to end the 1979 shortage and creates the 1980 oil market glut.

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old mine

 

This sheve wheel likely sat on top a mine head frame at one time and is now an object of interest in someones yard.

I drilled at a place called mill creek some years ago and there was a flooded shaft with a wooded head frame on it that this would be right at home with. There were lots of these glory holes about in the last century great depression era.

Today in History, January 26th 1992

Boris Yeltsin announces that the Soviets would no longer target American cities with nuclear weapons.

Ravens

The ravens that fed Elijah are fed up and sitting atop a self serve sign at petro can.

Lots of ravens about here scavenging. I saw one take a golf ball and bury it in a field once.

Today in History,  January 25, 2004

Opportunity rover lands on Mars.

Bell

This bell is for people to call for the orders of the day if the agenda goes estrange at meetings none yet.

Today in History, January 24 1924

Petrograd once  Saint Petersburg is renamed Leningrad.

Mine town

This home is on the bench in here. The Bench was a new development when the mine opened in the early 60’s. My Dads Uncle built the second home as a contractor and others after. The bench had a color divide until this home was purchased by an Asian. Now owned by another Asian who has two subway franchises here, it’s a different world now. We think that it was not on purpose but reflected the economic divide and a the minority status of Asians immigrating here that worked agriculture and sawmilling, the richness of the mine brought people with more expectations than those from overseas.

Today in History, January 20, 1920

American Civil Liberties Union founded.

Alternate school

Another diver son program and alternate school that has emphasis on positives with a less than positive client base, peers able to find positives without the competition of the elites. There are a number of these things about here; all small-scale and without the  distraction of large numbers.

Today in History, January, 19,1983

Nazi hunters arrest Klaus Barbie in  South America.

Copper

This rock is laden with copper, there was a billion pounds of concentrate that came out of here from Craigmont mines in the 20 odd years it operated here.

Today in History, January 18,1919

Bently Motors founded.