According to Observances.com the first Thursday in March is name tag day and it starts name week. Be proud of your name and display it where you can.
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On this Day: March 7th 1850
Daniel Webster gives his Seventh of March speech.
Category: Vegtable soup
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Stephanie Winton will be the guest speaker on March 21st 2019 as the Nicola Naturalist society present their regular winter presentation program.
Source Nicola Naturalists
Stephanie Winton is a conservation researcher with Thompson Rivers University and Environment Canada. She recently completed her Master of Science degree assessing the impacts of roadkill on the population of Western Rattlesnakes in the White Lake Basin. Roadkill is a major and worldwide threat to wildlife, particularly for species-at-risk like rattlesnakes that face existing natural constraints. Stephanie’s research highlights the severity of this issue for rattlesnakes and led to the installation of ecopassages for snakes. Her study has important conservation applications with the burgeoning human development in BC’s interior valleys. Excellent research on an enigmatic species.
NVIT Lecture theater
Start time is 7:PM college lecture theater, top of the hill Belshaw avenue in Merritt, free parking , no food or drink in the theater.
Nicola Naturalists, Merritt BC ,Ca
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On this Day: March 6th 1808
The first US college orchestra is founded.
Railway clubs left with only models after CPR is replaced by Coquihalla highway in Merritt in the 1980s
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The provincial government is developing policies ( guidelines) in respect to developing around rail corridors.
Source UBCM
The guidelines are designed to assist local governments and rail companies in reviewing and determining general planning policies when developing on lands in proximity to railway facilities. The guidelines also establish a process for making site-specific recommendations and decisions to reduce land-use incompatibilities for developments in proximity to railway operations. A key component is a model review process for new residential development, infill, and conversions in proximity to railways
Merritt experinced this when the CPR stopped operating here in the 1980’s. Merritt Building supplies infilled with a warehouse on Voght and Coldwater. The Garden center also infilled on Voght and what should have been Canford Avenue. The rails were taken out according to policy at the time that enabled the CPR to do that if the sevice was discontinued for 2 years and no one filed a complaint. The Coquihalla highway took up the freight sevice displaced by the lack of rail.
Editors note: Alberta is presently getting ready to deploy rail cars for moving up to 150 thousand BPD of crude. Corridors have abig impact for anykind of tranmission, power, rail. pipelines, roads, etc. The activity is called the Rail Proximity Initative, it is findable on the web PP
On this Day February 28th 1935
Nylon is invented by Dupont.
Turn your temperature down 2 degrees for International Polar
Bear Day February 27th 2019
International Polar Bear Day is observed today part is of its observance is a request to turn down your temperature control in your home by 2 degrees.
Source National today
Polar bears are some of the coolest creatures on the planet, and they live in some of the coldest places on Earth. Each year on February 27 we celebrate these magnificent creatures on International Polar Bear Day. The day was established by Polar Bears International, an organization devoted to preserving polar bears and the sea ice they depend on, to draw global attention to the plight of these magnificent mammals.
International Polar Bear Day is a recent observance for climate change and polar bear watches. They have an address in Montana and Winnipeg. Dropping your house temperature 2 degrees can hurt no-one, have fun BBW…
National Today is a publication that keeps track of fun observances, they list International Polar Bear Day as a cultural observance. BBW. They claim a million happy followers.
On this Day: February 27th 2016
Internatioanal polar bear day is celebrated.
February 26th -28th 2019
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Peace and good will to all those that have a lively hood in industry. Thanks for the memories…
London observances:
Source Welcome to Inrenational petroleaum week host London .
Hosted by the Energy Institute and put together by leading industry experts, International Petroleum (IP) Week is one of the biggest events in the oil and gas calendar. More than 1,500 senior executives from all over the world gather in London for three days of conferences, seminars, round-tables and social events, bringing together the knowledge, experience and expertise of the most senior figures from across the energy world.
On this day: February 26th 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte escapes Elba.
British Columbia Chinese culture…
The Chinese people have made significant contributions to Canada and its development as a nation. Recently the Government of Canada has been developing a museum to remember their input as well as the to provide a forum to enjoy the rich culture they brought with them.
The Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver are working together to have Vancouver’s Chinatown designated a United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site. As part of this, the Province and the City have also committed to establishing a Chinese Canadian Museum. You can read the B.C. Government news release on the commitment to establish a Chinese Canadian museum. http://www.engagegov.bc/canadainchinesemusum
Feedback collected…
The months of January and February were used to look at feedback collected up to January 4th 2019. A summary of the data will come public in the spring of 2019.
Working group.
The working group includes John Adams of UBC history, Wendy Au, former Vancouver city assistant manager, and Thomas Chan, accountant.
On this Day: February 19th 1985
The first successful heart transplant to leave the hospital.
The sentencing of a confessed multiple killer in Canada today is a serious matter. Gone is the equal value of life that criminal sanctions for 1st degree murder protected. The Harper government opened up an age old resource in 2010 when it allowed for popular reasons to be used in the penalties used in dealing with once capital crimes. Gone is the life sentence as defined as 25 years in jail with faint hope at 15, and with a life time of being on supervision. The jail release could be challenged by a ” Dangerous Offender” motion brought by someone to continue detention in jail beyond the 25 years.
Hardened criminals and hardened corrections…
The incentive for escape with its public jeopardy is multiplied greatly along with more hardened correction people, harder public and a jeopardy for parts of the public to be hardened by believing that justice is in part according to ethnicity good or bad.
Hope…
Hope is going to be with convicted one way or another wether its placed in escape revenge or some other vehicle humans can’t exist without it. Look at the example of Stephen Harper for misplaced hope.
An internal study by the Justice Department, never made public, praised Canada’s so-called “faint hope” clause for murderers even as the Harper government pressed for – and won – its elimination.
Source https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-study-praising-faint-hope-clause-for-murderers-never-released/article1322268/
The controversial clause, which allowed first- and second-degree murderers to request an early parole hearing after serving 15 years in prison, was repealed just two days before the federal election was called.
The repeal was opposed by the New Democrats and Bloc Québécois, but passed with the support of the Liberals after a difficult journey through committees of the Senate and House of Commons.
The man who paroqued parliament to steer Canada away from confidence in government to a emulation of the American system of fixed election dates. Is this another emulation of American style of desperate incarceration and hardened criminal manufacture by the system. Even the controversial Trump as done some reforms lately. Has Canadian justice turned to gambler effect balancing judgements off with other case popular sentencing of token minorities like gay or female, or oil producing rooted ethnics?
Aggravation
The question of how to deal with aggravation remains unanswered consecutive sentencing deals with more then one killing, how to deal with heinous single acts on one person, can the public stomach torture and faint hope or 25 years. YOU BE THE JUDGE!
On this Day: February 8th 1575
William the silent founds Leiden University.
February 19th 2019, Merritt Library
At 6 pm Alan Burger will launch a birders presentation at the Merritt Library. Alan is the current president of the Nicola Naturalists Society as well as BC Nature. The presentation is called Budding Birder Backpacks, using binoculars.guidebooks and information on birds The presentation was produced in most by the activities around the his evolvement in the naturalists club in the BC South Central Interior City of Merritt .
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On this Day: February 5th 1971
Apollo 14 mission gets on the moon.
Milk diminished
The government has replaced the old food guide. The new guide calls for plenty of proteins including plant protein, lots of vegtables, and drink water. Milk is waning, salt is diminished fruits recommended Choose whole grain foods. Farmers markets may be a good place to find things…
On this Day: January 23rd 1879
The Battle of Rorkes drift ends.
Have fun, totality in Pacific time will last 62 minutes here…
Moon over Merritt .
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Visible in North America
The month of January is shaping up good for sky watchers. One event is a full moon on the 20th – 21st with a lunar eclipse.
Totality, or total coverage of the moon, will begin at 11:41 p.m. ET on January 20 (4:41 UT on January 21) and will last for 62 minutes. The entire 3.5-hour event—including partial eclipses before and after totality—will be visible from the Americas, Greenland, Iceland, western Europe, and western Africa. Sky-watchers in eastern Europe and eastern Africa will witness only the partial eclipse, while people in most of Asia will not see any part of the sky show.
Source :National Geographic
Kamloops start,6:36 PM January 20th,19.6 degrees. Totality begins 8:41 PM, pacific time, altitude 38 degrees.
West of the Behive Cluster
The eclipse will take place in the Cancer Constellation, a little west of…
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The trans mountain pipeline project has a contact person with Clear Seas, Veronique Nolet. A marine biologist Veronique published a report with Transport Canada on the assessing and mitigation of underwater noise. One of three managers see her profile: https://clearseas.org/en/blog/research-spotlight-veronique-nolet/?fbclid=IwAR35hbPqQxaxJDnxIDaN1_pMpamwUe8wKf65a0JsV28LVJUq78FsEmCyvrI
I am one of Green Marine’s three project managers. We collaborate on all of our projects, but I primarily focus on underwater noise issues, community relations as it relates to environmental sustainability and waste management. For example, this year I am working on an initiative to improve waste management at ports and terminals. We hope to reduce waste by motivating employees to reuse and recycle items, as well as properly dispose of organic matter.
Source Clear Seas.
On this Day: January 4th 1912
The boy scouts are incorporated in the British Empire by the King.
The local Merritt Junior hockey team is having a Teddy bear toss at their game with the Nanaimo Clippers on Saturday the 8th of December 2018.
Be ready at the first goal.
Fans are to be ready to through their bears on the Ice at the first goal.
Start time 7PM
The game starts at the Nicola Valley Memorial arena at 7:PM
On this Day: December 7th 1982
The first lethal injection capital crimes remedy is used in the US.
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