Category: Vegtable soup


Tips to be protected, BC Government.




Long time Merritt BC server, now a café owner with employee’s,Linda… File Photo KDG

Gratuities for workers to be under employment standards…

The BC Government has made a commitment to strengthen worker’s rights in respect to the tips you give your server after a meal out. Tips have not been on the check in BC like other place like France, However electronic billing has come to be a big part of the collection and sharing of tips. Sharing tips with the cooking staff and the house is a current practice now in some places. The Government is working on this along with four other issues.
better protect children and youth from dangerous work;
make it easier for workers to get help when they feel their rights have been violated;
provide more job protection to people dealing with difficult personal circumstances; and
ensure people are paid the wages they are owed — and that those that violate the law do not have an unfair economic advantage…

On this Day: April 30th 1993

CERN declares world wide web protocols to be free.

Happy world Book and Copyright Day.

Since 1995 this day is observed to bring attention to publishing.

Visit your Library after work today…

The friends of the Library sell book bags. File Photo: KDG

On this Day: April 23rd 2005

Me at the Zoo is published by You Tube.

TGIF-Happy Easter

Buried with him, (our anger and failing), Waiting for resurrection to happiness and success.

Photo KDG

On this Day: April 19th 1987

The Simpsons first short appears on TV.

Coastal forest attention…

There is a series of webinars starting April 22nd 2019 , they are to promote the current attention given to the renewal of coastal forests.


Starting the week of April 22, these regionally focused webinars will provide for a two-way dialogue amongst local and provincial government representatives. Invitations to the upcoming webinar-based engagement sessions will be sent to local elected officials and senior level staff from coastal communities.

Source UBCM

Coastal forest first cousin to tanker traffic.

There are many stakeholders in resources and environment, good luck to all people of good faith.

On this Day: April 17th 1982

The proclamation of the Constitution of Canada by the head of state.

$1.47.9 a liter in Merritt, vote heavy in Alberta…

Crows at local gas bar !! File Photo KDG

Petro Canada 2 cents more down town.

Twenty- Five percent of Alberta’s 2.5 million qualified voters voted in the advanced pole. When the poles close at 8 PM tonite lets hope that their will be a better climate for all going forward. Good Luck!

BC gas price average $1.52.77 and rising.

On this Day: April 17th 1951

The peak district becomes a UK National Park.

Happy Mushroom Day…

Kept in the dark and feed crap…

Are you kept in the dark and fed crap,Then today may be your day.

Rainy weather brings mushrooms Are you poison and is your community clingy…

IS THE ONLY STEAK YOU SEE IS MISTAKE…

Today may be your redemption, its your day to associate up…

On this Day: April 16th 2012

No book wins the Pulitzer prize for fiction.

April 1st snow back 66% of normal: government.

This may not be our situation this spring…

The April 1st measurement of the snow pack shows 66 percent of normal in the Nicola Region, 79 percent elsewhere.

There is a 10 day variance in conditions from year to year as to the 1st April measurement date. Meaning that run off dates starts and finishes can be 10 days different from year to year. However the amount is what is significant to watch. Water content in snow can be different as well.


Snow is difficult to measure because it is subject to drifting, melting and natural compaction. Any point measurement may be quite different from a reading taken only a few metres away. Thus, to measure the quantity of snow in an area, a systematic method for measuring snow has been developed and this is generally referred to as a “snow survey”. Snow survey measurements have been made in British Columbia since 1935.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/water-science-data/water-data-tools/snow-survey-data/about-snow-surveys

On this Day: April 9th 1967

The first Boeing 737 jet is flown.

TGIF- April is Call Before you Dig Month…

Digging can get you a surprise if you hit some infrastructure!

Editors note: Calling is year round not just April.

On this Day: April 5th 1958

The Ripple Rock is destroyed.

Gas tax double election windfall…

Gas price, the availability of fuel File Photo KDG

The BC government is getting some millions from the Feds from gas tax.


The Government of Canada announced a one-time doubling of Gas Tax transfer nationally as part of the 2019 federal Budget. The $2.2 billion transfer will result in a one-time payment of $278.6 million for British Columbia to support local government infrastructure and capacity building priorities.
Local governments in British Columbia will see a bonus payment of Community Works funds  (~$109 million) that will effectively double the 2018 allocation.  Portions of this one time transfer will also be allocated to the Greater Vancouver Regional Fund (~$138 million) and the Strategic Priorities Fund (~$ 30.7 million) as per the federal Gas Tax program delivery model.
Although a transfer schedule has not been confirmed by Canada, it is expected that the first payment will align with the next scheduled Community Works Fund payment in July 2019. 

Source UBCM

Enjoy the election vote your conscience .

On this Day: April 4th 1923

Warner Brother pictures opens for business.

Happy National find a Rainbow Day…

Pot of gold

April 3rd is the day to look for your rainbow, your pot of gold may be hope!


There are people that see rainbows as an artistic masterpiece in the sky, to others it is a sign of hope and to many a sign of promise.
It can be all three; beauty, hope and promise.    (Jill Magnus) 

On this Day: April 3nd 1973

First hand held mobile phone call to Bell Labs.

TGIF- still married to the EU

UK and EU were happy once…

The UK is still parting from the EU. Today was the exit date preordained by the law that governs it. The UK is trying to get better terms for a split the EU is concerned about better terms for exit effecting the attractiveness of membership with other states. A European Union council election is coming May 22 2019. The UK has a soft exit date for mid April longer if some conditions are met.

On this Day: March 29th 2019

Brexit was to occur, it is deferred by a 3rd failed parliamentary vote.

The Nicola Naturalists will be having their April meeting on the 18th.

The Merritt-based Nicola Watershed Community Round Table has a new partnership with the Grasslands Conservation Council of BC, promoting education and research at the Laurie Guichon Memorial Grasslands Interpretive Site near Merritt. Thompson University Professor Lauchlan Fraser and FLNRO ecologist Rachel Whitehouse are leading this work and will give a joint presentation on the project. Controlling invasive weeds, like knapweed, is a huge problem across the grasslands of southern BC and this project is testing some innovative methods to maintain healthy grasslands. Exciting work happening right on our doorstep.

Nicola Naturalists

Laurie Guichon interpretive site.

Laurie Guichon a local rancher and environmental activist, husband to the widowed former Lt governor of BC Judy worked with the local roundtable on issues until his death by accident 1999. The Guichon family have been very active in the Nicola Valley including work with ground owls.

The meeting is in the NVIT lecture theater starting at 7PM. Free parking and no food or drinks in the theater. The Nicola Naturalists invite ” All welcome membership or donation requested.”

On this Day: March 28th 1959

The government of Tibet is dissolved.