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Stay safe stay warm…

My brain said, said, train, my feet said meet.
The end of it was incomplete.
But the, the, challenge  of place did not remake.
My best defence to for life and retake.

The rest may be all but sure; and then take the cure.
But me I want a sence of goal, and that may be you!
So stay intack untill I come to list your virtue too.
Safe and warm, set an alarm, for a proposal to woo. KDG November 21 2021
spirit come:

We meet again…

Merritt BC incorporation File: Photo KDG

Five steps Covid-19, Bonnie Henry…

On this Day: November 15th 1920

The free state city of Danzig is established.

Danzig City, state lasts to 1939.

BC Government to get a deferral on old growth from first nations.

On November 2 the provincial government announced that it would be working in partnership with First Nations to defer the harvest of 2.6 million hectares of BC’s most at-risk old growth forests. Logging deferrals are viewed as a temporary measure – as recommended in the 2020 Old Growth Strategic Review – to allow for the development of a new approach to sustainable forest management that prioritizes ecosystem health.

Source

Logging has been a good livlihood for BC.

Large logging trucks need industrial facilities as they can not be parked in residential areas. File Photo KDG

Ferry Creek March 2021

On this Day: November 12th 1954

Elis Island shuts down operations.

Highway 5 outside Merritt, pipe laying.

The laying of pipe is in progress outside the city on Highway 5. the contractor for Merritt to Hope is:
  • Contractor: Surerus Murphy Joint Venture 
Spread 5B: Coquihalla – Hope

Think of the Vet’s hopes on the 11th.

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Pipe for oil field File:Photo KDG

 

On this Day: November 9th 1887

Pearl harbor rights go to the US Navy.

Trans Mountain feature.

Pipe for oil field


File: Photo KDG

The Trans Mountain expansion is on going and with challenges. The company had a large increase in positive covid-19 testing in July 2021, when the count went from 20 to 203. The company had a plan for dealing with covid-19 which they executed with shut down and measures that got them back to normal work.

What will more competition do to fuel availability.

The access to an ocean port will increase and give western Canadian oil producers more autonomy to sell product about. Competition is a selling point for US marketers and can be real or puffed. Oversite will be necessary to mitigate the new autonomy to many interests, including carbon emissions dynamics and demands, economic, strategic, closed markets, regulators clash’s and what is left of the free market as it relates to this substance.

This as it effects Trans Mountain as a pipeline operator by contract, is more then esthetics. While Trans Mountains effects will be limited to the efficiency of transport shaped by demand, this may be negligible as the mentioned before interests are appetites still in the hands of governments and corporations and thankfully consumers . Keep your vote and investment tools in good order.

Good luck as you get it done.

On this Day: October 19th 1943

Streptomycin is isolated.

Health Minister, Adrian Dix Dr. Bonnie Henry, Highlights

October 25th 2021, 100 people limit, not all need be seated, for gatherings on condition of fully vaccinated and checked.

Booster shots for most vulnerable.

High level of vaccination.

New Delta variant…

Flu shot free to everyone over 6 months, book an appointment.

Post infection immunity, no consensus yet, some immunity for some time, very variable, prudent to have known amount through vaccination.

Nearing 90 percent vaccination rate.

556 surgeries posted in last reporting period do to demand on hospital. 12,000 surgeries delivered.

183 surge beds available in province

More…

File photo…

File photo KDG

Today is National Pharmacy Technician Day, since 2015 the third Tuesday of the month is NPTD ” we thank technicians for their tireless efforts.”

  1. Buy a gift only we could tip pharmacy techs! Failing that, a teddy bear, balloon, box of chocolates, or a nice flower to brighten up their workplace (artificial, so as to keep things clean) is sure to light up their day.
  2. Get a flu shot, National Pharmacy Techs Day happens to land right in the run-up to flu season, and most pharmacies offer flu shots. Seeing your pharmacy tech for a flu shot now is a great way to ensure you don’t have to see them under less happy circumstances later.
  3. Just say “thanks”! Pharmacies can have hundreds of people in and out in a single day, and most of those customers aren’t there to socialize. Simply taking the time to tell a pharmacy tech you appreciate them can make a pharm tech’s day.

On this Day: October 19th 1386

The oldest German university has its first lecture.

Life’s a puzzle, but technicians make it work…

The missing piece Technicians got yo love them!
File photo KDG

Wildfires

The 2021 wild fire season was about the same as previous seasons,however the fires were much more aggressive.

The sun west of Merritt,
red from smoke, of the 2017 fire season
in the Southern interior of BC
File Photo KDG

Just south of 900,000 hectares burned. There were 300 fires at one time most of the summer with 67 of them fires of note. Dry fuel conditions may have contributed to a more exciting fire season then was realized. Over 1600 wildfires designated over the summer made up the active and most notable part of the fire season, The fire season will officially end March 31st 2022, the last day of the provinces fiscal year.

There were 304 evacuation alerts, 181 evacuations.. More than 4000 people worked on fires throughout the province of British Columbia. The fire season of 2021 also had over a hundred wildfire fighters from Mexico join the fight.

The the determining factor in the severity of a fire season is the loss of human life and property. The town of Lytton BC was 90% destroyed by a fire that purportedly came up the natural draft that the Fraser river valley provided. Two people lost their lives in a hasty evacuation that was called on in a matter of minutes notice. As of October 14th 2021 the notion that a CPR train started the fire was debunked by the RCMP on investigation.

The town of Lytton did break a Canadian heat record just before the fire started. During 50° c temperatures at the top of a inverting heat dome the fire that destroyed Lytton somehow was incubated.

The BC state of emergency lasted 56 days, ending on on September 14th 2021.There was 565 million dollars spent in this time frame.

Cooler weather and rain was the determining factor in the success of the fire suppression. Large forest fires often produce weather and rain by its submission of particulate into the atmosphere as it reacts with water vapor evaporated from the hot dry conditions previous to the fire. Human presence and property does not allow this dynamic to be fully exploited in our modern era.


Health care takes a lot,

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A flu season is expected

While seasonal influenza (flu) viruses are detected year-round in the United States, flu viruses are most common during the fall and winter. The exact timing and duration of flu seasons varies, but influenza activity often begins to increase in October. Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and February, although significant activity can last as late as May.

CDC

October 1st BC school precautions

(includes statements on flu season), Covid-19…

Daily health check

Stay at home when sick

Masks

Best tool box part :vaccination

Respiratory flu season

Air circulation

Conditions of employment

Cohorts not optimal to reducing numbers and sharing activity times

More.

Elected people in charge under the rule of law

This is the 3rd school year of Covid-19 regulated under numbers of jurisdictions and time proven applications.

Regular flu vaccination is becoming available through pharmacies and doctors offices.

On this Day: October 14th 1066

The battle of Hastings.

Get vaccinated!

Happy Thanksgiving (not an Oxymoron)

Thanksgiving music

Set table for goodness

On this Day: October 11 1492

Christopher Columbus men attempt mutiny.

Happy Pumpkin seed day…

You can’t start out with a glass slipper, you need a pumpkin seed.

#Nationalpumpkinseedday

First Wednesday of October

Try a new pumpkin seed recipe celebrate nature and your place in it, princess not withstanding.

On this Day: October 6th 1217

Henry the third enacts the Charter of the Forest.

Deep in the Forest

Trees made this province what it is, opinion File photo KDG

Trans Mountain Feature update…

Media tour from 2018 Burnaby Terminal Expansion plans highlighted.

The Trans Mountain expansion is on going and the Burnaby tanker port will be expanded. with tanker loads going from five a month to about 34.

Panamax Tanker in service.

The Trans Mountain oil is taken with a Panamax tanker, meaning as the name implys the ocean going ship is for operation through the panama canal.

Panamax Tankers: The panamax tankers operate in the region of Panama, especially the Panama Canal. The tanker size is designed as per the size regulations set by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). The size aspect is very important when it comes to panamax tankers because if the size is not monitored while the tanker is being constructed, then it could pose a lot of problems while the ship is in motion. The operation of the first panamax tanker started in the year 1914 and they are still popular and useful as they were nine decades ago.

Marine

Indigenous Market to compete with.

The pipelines in Canada go north south to the US and there is no shortage of capacity to bring that Canadian product south or American north, the TMX expansion will serve the Californian and Asian market. Those two markets are Indigenous ones getting their oil from Alaska.

On this Day: Oct 5th 1970

The PBS station is created in the US.

Good Evening