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Maintenance contractors also test for weights and measures say a source Photo KDG
Today in history: January 10th 1870
John D.Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
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The local Fish and Game club is having a derby on Mamette lake in the Highland valley. The derby on January 12th is and is a “take part at your own risk event” and subject to “safe ice conditions.”
Entry fees are 15 dollars a person or 30 dollars a family. Prizes include a hidden weight prize . We hope that is for fish taken and does not have something to do with ice conditions.
There is a prize for coarse fish, coarse fish is something that the club doesn’t like and there are fines for transporting them between lakes. Mamette lake has trout and fresh water cod.
Ice conditions have not supported derbys in general in recent years.
Update: Sources say that one hundred and fifty people enjoyed the Derby on Sunday. Trout were landed as well as ling cod (which can’t be kept” . A estimated ice level of at the lake ( 50° 25′ 0″ North, 120° 49′ 0″ West) was over 40 centmete
There were gift bags for all young people who attended and the event operated at a break even level. A source says elections for the executive are coming up next month
The Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club holds its annual fishing derby at Mamit Lake on Sunday, starting at 8 a.m.
It has been running for 13 years and is one of the biggest ice-fishing derbies in the province.
Anglers of all ages are invited to bring their fresh-water fishing licence and fishing tackle to the event and participate for $15 per person or $30 for a family.
The derby runs until 2 p.m. and will award prizes for best fish, hidden weight and more.
Kamloops residents can access the lake via the Logan Lake turnoff. Derby organizers say the fishing site is about 10 kilometres south of Logan Lake and will be visible from the road, starting at about 7 a.m. (Source Kamloops Daily news)
Today in history: January 9th 1941
The first flight of the Arvo Lancaster
Gas prices have gone down here again, this time to a dollar twenty two.
The decrease came around the new year holiday abatement of traffic and seems to be sticking.
Sometimes the production of heating fuels cause a glut of higher octane gasoline products as a by product. Colder weather in the east may have caused that dynamic to occur.
We hope that alternate fuels are also making a difference.
Today in history: January 7th 1853
The HMS Beagle arrives and the Chonos archipelago
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Today in history: January 3rd 1999
The Mars polar lander lands on Mars.
Merry Christmas from the Proprietor Review.
Country Music Capital of Canada Tree
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Today in history: December 25th 333
The Roman Emperor Constantine makes his youngest son Caesar
English: Thomas Nast’s most famous drawing, “Merry Old Santa Claus”, from the January 1, 1881 edition of Harper’s Weekly. Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus’ current look with an initial illustration in an 1863 issue of Harper’s Weekly, as part of a large illustration titled “A Christmas Furlough” in which Nast set aside his regular news and political coverage to do a Santa Claus drawing. The popularity of that image prompted him to create another illustration in 1881. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The streets about Merritt are covered in ice this morning. Rain yesterday and freezing temperatures overnight have joined to make it very slippery . By 10 am sanding was near complete in the city and no powerline problems are clear.
Last evening nearly 200 thousand people in Toronto Canada were still without power, do to ice , and were expecting not to have any through Christmas Day.
Editors note:Ice can fall from roofs and although large icicles arte pretty they can seriously hurt or maim if they fall on you.
Today in history: December 24th 1955
Norad begins its Santa Claus tracking program.
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The city has acquired a new vacuum truck it wasat work at the Nicola Valley Aquatic Center on Tuesday.
A source says that for the last two years a contractor from Kelowna has done that service for the city. Before that the city used a local contractor to carry out things like cleaning out storm sewers .
The operator expressed confidence in its abilities and estimated it to be 500.000 dollars in cost
New vac truck gives the city of Merritt the work of cleaning out storm sewers.
picture KDG
Today in history: December 19th 1998
The United States president Bill Clinton is impeached by the US Congress.
Gas Natural (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Fortis BC utility people were here working on one of their isolation valves this week. The technician said that natural gas is sniffed for in residential areas once every 5 years for leaks, 1 yr in commercial areas.
Natural gas is odorless and colorless so the utility adds chemicals to make it smell like rotten eggs.
Editors note: it is not to be confused with Carbon mon oxide which is poisonous and a by-product of burning fuel. natural gas can cause suffocation by displacing oxygen.
For safety concerns:http://www.fortisbc.com/Safety/Pages/default.aspx
Today in history: December 13th 1979
The Canadian government of Joe Clark is defeated in a confidence vote bringing the 1980 election and Pierre Trudeau back.
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There was a city truck with a tank of beet juice in the back spraying some city streets this week. A source at the city said that this is the second year that it has been used and it is better then sand to suspend salt in.
Today in history: December 12th 1963
Kenya gets Independence from the UK.
The week of December 7th this artists pic went on the Merritt Legion
The mural project by Michelle Loughrey that had the downtown of Merritt and its business properties enjoy many country music stars murals has an apparent add on. A small replication of a star is on the Legion on Quilchena avenue. Some years ago the legion cleared its front of a façade in preparation for a full mural however the project ended before acquiring any mural.
Today in history: December 11,1962
Arthur Lucas is executed becoming the last Canadian to be put to death for a crime.
Today is the 60th anniversary of the parents of a principle at the proprietor review. The couple were married in Alberta today in 1953.
Congratulations from the Proprietor Review and hope for many more.
Today in history: December 9th 1956
Trans Canada Airlines flight 810 crashes near Hope BC killing all 62 people aboard.
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