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Jobber parts

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May 11, 2016

pats clutch
The cost of regular parts from manufactures can be a problem. However there are lots of jobber parts. These are made for replacement of vehicle factory parts that are expensive. Warranty as anything else is not effected by these things in a general sense because all parts are warrantied for ” manufacturers defect” and the failure must demonstrate that. Abuse can’t make warranties void if there was a defect.

Canadian Standards Association SA

CSA Group provides manufacturers of automobiles, automotive components and motorcycles testing and verification services for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electrical safety (for hybrids and electric vehicles), environmental requirements and industry standards.

Our laboratories are equipped with the necessary support and simulation equipment such as active chassis dynamometer, exhaust gas extraction, signal monitoring systems (CAN/LIN-Bus) and remote control systems, etc. With our EMC accreditations by the Automotive EMC Laboratory Recognition Program (AEMCLRP), the German Accreditation Body (KBA), the Luxembourg Accreditation Body (SNCH) as well the Taiwanese Body (VSCC), we are able to provide you with dedicated, knowledgeable experts who understand the necessary approvals to market your products worldwide.

This is the top of the line for comfort and confidence. Still for all the do it your selfers out there, thanks for keeping them honest by using Canadian Tire, Auto Par ,and others stuff .

On this day: May 11th 1910
Glacier National Park is established in Montana.

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Tesla and breakfast…

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April 26, 2016

A Tesla S, 85 charges up at Merritt, with an adapter to a DC 500 Volt 120 amp Quick charger, Aug /14
File Photo KDG

Al from Westbank was using the AC charger at the charging station on Voght here in Merritt on Sunday. A retired man and his wife he made the trip over to have breakfast at the Cold eater hotel. He was happy with the 400 thousand advanced orders that Tesla Corporation had taken on their new affordable model car. When asked why he bough this Model S 85 with the 500 K range he said he opened a Prius before and it seemed like a reasonable transition. I go to Arizona every year and like the Electronics for direction Al said. He leased the car to keep the initial price down including the 10 percent luxury consumption tax.

Growth, Coldwater hotel dome and flag
Photo KDG

On this Day: April 26th 1956

The world first successful container-ship goes into service.

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TGIF- No room in the Inn

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March 18, 2016

Local Motel, Merritt BC ,File Photo KDG

No room in the Inn,there is a large CP rail crew staying here in Merritt and a large bus pulled up to a local motel and let off a tired looking and soiled work crew on Thursday.
There is no Rail here in Merritt it was taken out decades ago when truck traffic started utilizing the new divided highway , the Coquihalla. After stopping running trains for 2 years the company removed the tracks. A local Building supply on Voght street was one of the first to expand over the right away putting in a large warehouse to solidify the removal. The local Rotary Club made a walking trail and spruced up a bridge at the junction of the Nicola and Coldwater rivers coming into Merritt on Highway 8 from the Fraser canyon.
According to a source the reason the crews are here is because they usually stay in motels in Cache Creek, close to the work, but no rooms were available to suit them. The reason being there is a film production going on at Cache Creek and they are taking the available rooms.
The regional district has a film commission that accommodates productions : http://thompsonnicolamoviemap.com/ the movie map shows a number of productions made in the Area of Cache Creek Ashcroft BC. The dry desert like climate is highlighted on the TNRD commissions web site.

On this day: March 18th 1985
The first episode of Neighbors is broadcast.

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TGIF- Daylight savings time

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March 11, 2016

Sunday morning on the 13th is daylight saving time once again. Clocks change at 2 in the morning.

Daylight saving time (DST) or summer time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that in the evening daylight is experienced an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions with summer time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time. ^[1] source Wikipedia.

An extra hour coming up for Rodders, this one was out trying earlier in the week. Photo KDG

DST was first proposed in 1895 by New Zealander, George Hudson. The global warming and energy crisis have made it more desirable over time.

On this day: March 11th 1932
Booming Ben the last Heath Hen is seen for the last time.

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Snow

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March 8, 2016

A move to the right shows level of water tables. File Photo KDG

Wayne a local artisan said of the snow that fell on Monday. ” need the water” . The sign shows the trend last summer as water levels brought a fishing ban on local rivers.

The TNRD is offering pre-ordered rain barrels 1/2 price. The 55 gallon white barrels must be paid for before hand for April 30th pickup. The barrels will be available for P/U at the Green living event, Sandman center 300 Lorne street, order deadline April 15th. : http://enviroworld.ca/kamloops

On this day: March 8th 2014

A Boeing 777 flight 370 disappears off the coast of Malaysia.

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Butterflies

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February 16, 2016

Bob Scafe is presenting at the monthly meeting of the Nicola Naturalists on Thursday February 18th.

Bob is a director of the Nicola Naturalist Society and one of our most prolific nature photographers. Lately, he and his wife Bev have become interested in butterflies and moths – getting to know and identify the local species. Bob will give us an introduction to the rich butterfly fauna of the BC interior. Later this spring he has promised to lead a few butterfly field trips so this presentation is a valuable primer. We’ll have lots of great photos too!

Bob recently presented on his trip to South East Asia , mostly highlighting people and lifestyle. He has titled this presentation The wonderful world of butterflies. The presentation starts at 7PM in the NVIT lecture theater in Merritt, no food or drink allowed in, free parking, and membership or donation requested.

March will see club president Alan Burger back from a trip to Antarctica. the meeting will be on the 17th titled: Antarctic Wild Life- Life in a changing environment .

Winter/Spring Programs – January to May 2016

Meetings continue through May.

On this day: February 16th 2005

The Kyoto protocol comes in to effect after Russian ratification.

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TGIF-92.9 a liter gas

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February 5, 2016

broken sign no contract….
Photo KDG

The price of gasoline is down again in Merritt BC to 92.9 cents per liter at the down town Petro Canada, corner of Nicola and Voght.
A check on Gas Buddy shows that it is a full 5 cents a liter less money here then 5 BC outlets are selling gas for. The BC average is 96.9 a liter national is 10 cents a liter less and prices are trending down.
The City of Merritt has just received delivery on two replacement 21 passenger Chevrolet buses, they are replacing two diesel units and are gasoline. Reasonably there can be no connection to this with gas price however we don’t have a gasoline levi for transit in the City such as Vancouver’s.
A referendum over transit tax was defeated in the lower mainland last year. That tax would have been a increase to the Provincial Sales tax like US cities Seattle and Los Angeles.
Merritt is part of the provincial transit system.
British Columbia Transportation Financing Authority (BCTFA)

The dedicated tax for the British Columbia Transportation Financing Authority on clear gasoline and clear diesel fuel sold anywhere in the province is 6.75¢ per liter.

Trans Link:Vancouver area.

The dedicated tax on clear gasoline and clear diesel fuel sold inside the South Coast British Columbia transportation service region (SCTA) is 17¢ per litre.

Frank Trenholm installs new license plates to new buses delivered to Merritt, Feb 3/ 16
Victoria Area:

The dedicated tax on clear gasoline and clear diesel fuel sold inside the Victoria regional transit service area (VRTA) is 3.5¢ per liter.
Total BC taxes including 7 (6.5) cent carbon tax is 21.17 cents for us here in Merritt. Most expensive is Vancouver @ 31.17 a liter.
The carbon tax element is supposed to be a neutral tax and is used to reduce personal and corporate income tax:

The tax puts a price on carbon to:
Encourage individuals, businesses, industry and others to use less fossil fuel and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions;
send a consistent price signal;
ensure those who produce emissions pay for them; and
make clean energy alternatives more attractive.

There is also federal excise tax of 10 cents and a 5 percent GST, there are no taxes dedicated to transit or road maintenance or construction on alternate energies. This in our view can make carbon tax regressive.
Tax on diesel fuel is slightly higher for BC but federal taxes are less then half that of gasoline.
Merritt’s total minimum tax on gasoline is 32.73 cents a liter,Vancouver is 44.28 cents. As taxes move toward 50 percent of the pump price it raises the specter and possibility of regulation and world market Alberta oil less attractive.

KDG.

On this day February 5th 1958
A hydrogen device is lost by the US Air force off the coast of Georgia never to be recovered.

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Budget discussions

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January 26, 2016

Budget discussions are coming up for Merritt. Policing ,is a number one cost and results matter.
The City has in the past taken retreats for discussions. There is a drop in session at the city with the Mayor on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month they are advertised for times in the city page of the local Newspaper The Merritt Herald.

Mayor Neil Menard says he’s available for inputs…

Old technology is heavy ! A nighttime attempted heist ended with the goods abandoned on the sidewalk. Coldwater Hotel, Merritt. File Photo KDG

Old technology is heavy !
A night time heist ended with the goods abandoned on the sidewalk.

Coldwater Hotel, Merritt.
File Photo KDG

On this Day: January 26th 1911

Glenn Curtiss has the first successful flight of a seaplane.

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TGIF- Pulling fiber

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January 15, 2016

Voght street Office of a local mine benifiting from new Hydro infrastructure. File Photo KDG

Voght Street office of a local mine benefiting from new Hydro infrastructure.
File Photo KDG

Robin a worker for Shaw Cable was pulling fiber through a pipe on Voght street here in Merritt Thursday. The laid off hydro worker said he had to change jobs when Hydro laid off a lot of people to accommodate apprentice trained workers.
The cable came from Parker Drive,Telus has lines on the poles above as well as Hydro lines in the top position on the poles.
When asked about site C he thought that that may be the reason for the lay off. He was aware of some of hydro’s activities in alternate energy including replacing some oil burning generators in small communities , working with distilling algae from sewage as well as some windmills.

BC Hydro’s Power Smart program encourages energy conservation among its residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The program also aims to promote energy saving retail products and building construction, and includes a “Sustainable Communities Program”. Its in-house Resource Smart program is used to identify and implement efficiency gains at existing BC Hydro facilities. BC Hydro also practices energy conservation at its generating facilities through the continuous monitoring and efficient use of the water resources used to power its generators.

BC Hydro is committed by the BC government’s Energy Plan to achieve electric power self-sufficiency in the province by 2016, with all new generation plants having zero net greenhouse gas emissions by the same year.[28] In 2013, BC Hydro released an Integrated Resource Plan which includes meeting at least 66 percent of the expected increase in electricity demand through increased energy efficiency.

BC Hydro has also entered into energy purchase contracts with a new category of company created by special legislation, Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to buy electricity generated from intermittent renewable sources, mainly from small capacity run of river hydro and more recently, wind power, wood residue energy, and energy from organic municipal waste. There has been some criticism of this policy on the basis that it will result in Hydro paying significantly higher rates to private producers than it would have if the power were self-generated.
BC has a policy not to develop nuclear power.

: source Wikipedia

BC Hydro operates 31 hydroelectric facilities and three natural gas-fueled thermal power plants. As of 2014, 95 per cent of the province’s electricity was produced by hydroelectric generating stations, which consist mostly of large hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Peace Rivers. BC Hydro’s various facilities generate between 43,000 and 54,000 gigawatt hours of electricity annually, depending on prevailing water levels. BC Hydro’s capacity is about 11,000 megawatts.

To be continued.

On this Day: January 15th 1892
James Naismith publishes the rules to Basketball.

Be safe on either side of the glass

Ice fish

Travelogue

TGIF- Pulling fiber

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Ice fish

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January 13, 2016

Soap stone carvings
by Ed Hendrix of Ponderosa Sports
a big supporter of local lake fishing.
file Photo KDG

The local fish and game group is sponsoring an Ice fishing derby on the coming weekend at Mammete lake. The time of the completion is from 8Am to 2PM on Sunday the 17th. there is free hot chocolate and coffee and hotdogs will be available. The entry fee is Fifteen Dollars a person and a max of 30 dollars a family.
Various prizes are offered.
FMI: http://www.nvfishandgameclub.ca

Editors note: Ice conditions may vary when recreating be safe carry a rope.
On this Day: January 13th 1942
Henry Ford introduces a plastic car 30 percent lighter then metal. The Soybean Car developed in part with George Washington Carver.