To the seasons of life
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!
The peak district becomes a UK National Park.
Are you kept in the dark and fed crap,Then today may be your day.
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…
No book wins the Pulitzer prize for fiction.
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.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/water-science-data/water-data-tools/snow-survey-data/about-snow-surveys
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.
The first Boeing 737 jet is flown.
Digging can get you a surprise if you hit some infrastructure!
Editors note: Calling is year round not just April.
The Ripple Rock is destroyed.
Gas price, the availability of fuel File Photo KDG
The BC government is getting some millions from the Feds from gas tax.
Source UBCM
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.
Enjoy the election vote your conscience .
Warner Brother pictures opens for business.
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)
First hand held mobile phone call to Bell Labs.
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.
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 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.”
The government of Tibet is dissolved.
Sun sets at equinox week are more equal and faster to hemispheres, and spring shadows are shorter .
The proximity of the sun over the equator this week will bring sunset faster in terms of dropping below the western sky.
The fastest sunsets (and sunrises) happen at or near the equinoxes. And the slowest sunsets (and sunrises) happen at or near the solstices.
source: Earth Sky News.
The driving test is established in the UK.
Brain Drane presenter Eric Drane from Kelowna BC, Freedom of expression, File photo KDG
Freedom is a worthy cause…
New Zealand organizes a militia.
Make your own luck. don’t borrow trouble, keep short accounts and be prudent…
Peace and space
The University of Toronto is founded.
Larry Shaw in 1988 organized a day to eat pie and discuss its namesake math principle. Happy π to you…
Jack Ruby convicted of killing Kennedy assassin Oswald.
Hey Merit what do you say?
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