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Time changed at 2am Sunday

New Buses

Do not miss the bus on Monday…Be on PST

Happy National Liqueur day

File Photo: KDG

Grab your cocktail glass and raise your pinkies: It’s time to toast to National Liqueur Day. Sipped straight or mixed into a cocktail, liqueurs can add richness, sweetness, and warmth to nearly any cocktail hour.

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On this Day: October 16th 1793

Marie Antoinette loses her head

Happy Thanksgiving

Nicola river, bank stabilation,
Rip Rap installed at Central Park File Photo KDG

Trans Mountain hiring…

Pipe for oil field File:Photo KDG

4200 workers

The expansion project is following up on its notification to its contractors to gear up for the expansion that it issued in August. Fully expecting to get approvals on remaining permits and authorities they expect to be hiring about 4200 people in a phased project timeline.

Trans Mountain remains committed to prioritizing and maximizing Indigenous, local and regional hiring to the greatest extent possible. Hiring by prime contractors is underway, with approximately 4,200 workers expected to be employed in various communities along the corridor in the fourth quarter of 2019. 

Source Trans Mountain news.

Presumed offset

A broken sign was a distraction a few years ago, the station has recently installed quick chargers ( yet to be opened).

Petro Canada has installed quick chargers a the local outlet of Belshaw avenue in Merritt and is committed to a national highway of chargers,

On this Day: October 10th 1957

An atomic accident grips the UK.

Gardening on the moon.

First to land on the backside of the moon.

The Chinese rover carried a biosphere with a number of plants to try to grow on the Lunar surface. Initial reports said that the experiment failed, however it is being reported that they briefly grew cotton before the plants froze. The activity was in January 2019 and a mission from Israel and India since have had limited results and failed landings since.

On this Day: October 8th 2016

The death tolls hits 900 from Hurricane Matthew.

TGIF- registered to vote…

A hopeful federal candidate take part in a forum . .File Photo KDG

The registration cards are out this week for the federal election. A card with your address, name and polling places should be in this weeks mail. A 1-800 number is also included as is the address of an elections Canada office. You must also be able to prove your Identity and address to vote. Visit elections, ca to find out what ID is required they say!

On this Day: October 4th 1985

The free software foundation is organized.

National poetry day…

Three days to hang and to stay the fray.
Six months past the last true count.
Yet to see why a story of whoa, or a happy blow.
Years of slide to an end unclear, why the pry to undear.
Free but not, as blood still calls to many and few.
The price of wrath still abides, causing stow.
Now let go the dear is dear...
PP

On this Day: October 3rd 1995

OJ Simpson acquitted.

UBCM logging truck convoy…

Trucks from a distance working here in Merritt,In the past and present.
Logging trucks BC interior File Photo KDG

A convoy of logging trucks from the Prince George area have traveled to the UBCM general meeting. The convention is being held at the Vancouver Trade and convention center until the 27th.

Two dozen mill closures…

There have been two dozen mill closures in the province in recent times effecting ” thousands of jobs”. The hundreds of trucks are pressing the local governments for support in the industry.

On this Day: September 26th 1953

Sugar rationing in the UK ends.

Happy Mickey Mantle Day…

Play Ball!

Mickey Mantle a baseball great and record holder had a day named after him in the US. We wish more time was spent playing ball . Send good thoughts to all those in sports that include fans, players, broadcasters, parents, coach staff, and confectioners. More?

Record homeruns.

536 career homeruns in professional ball.

On this Day: September 18th 1997

The anti personal land mine ban treaty is accepted.

Loggers sports weekend…

Three days of games and displays…

The Chamber of Commerce hosted loggers sports for National Forest week on Friday though Sunday, September 13th-16th. Loggers skills, show and shine and 6 performances of the laughing logger along with games gave a sense of the scope of logging in the Nicola Valley.

On this Day: September 17th 2013

Grand Theft Auto Movie earns a half a billion dollars.

TGIF-loggers sport weekend, harvest moon tonight…

Aspen Planners
Lots of logging activity is a heritage trying to survive: File photo KDG

Today Saturday and Sunday is logger sports weekend in Merritt. Equipment, competitions and people are on display at Central park off Voght street.

On this Day: September 13th 1501

Michelangelo starts his work “David”

Monday September 16th First Tiff film of 2019/20

Film for 5

Merritt’s Tiff season starts next Monday at the NVIT lecture theater at 7 PM. The Society will present ” Grizzleys 2018″. Five dollars at the door with 2 dollar membership. Six films over 7 months. No food or drink in the lecture theater. Free parking!

On this Day: September 10th 2008

The CERN particle collider is powered up.