The Toronto International Film Circuit and the Nicola Valley Film Society will be starting up for the second half of their season on Monday January 18th with the film Wild ones. According to Terry Frizzel the societies Vice President posters will be up soon for the film, a full poster is usually displayed in the public library.
Screening time is 7PM at the NVIT lecture theater,free parking and no food or drink in the theater. 5 dollar admission at the door for members
Membership available at the door.
For a look at the trailer and trailers for the rest of the season go to:https://nicolavalleyfilmsociety.wordpress.com/
On this Day: December 30th 2006
Iraq leader Saddam Hussein loses his life for crimes against humanity.
Category: War and conflict
On this Day: December 16th 1995
The first official use of the name EURO.
Happy Press Freedom Day
From the Proprietor Review
This lady was demonstrating with a man about smart meters October 4 /12
not every one has confidence in the law to cooperate for a picture. Photo KDG
Osprey at the Nicola river.
Photo KDG
Thanks to all that remembered the occasions of the last two days.
Today in history: November 12th 1987
Born Canadian ice hockey player, Bryan Little
The National Film Board has a production available with free streaming through the 11th on the history of the 22d infantry regiment of Canada as it is 100 years old this year as well… Click the link below to see the 1 hour production.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/van_doos_100_years_royal_22e_regiment/embed/player
The Van Doos, 100 Years with the Royal 22e Régiment by Claude Guilmain, National Film Board of Canada
The Van Doos, 100 Years with the Royal 22e Régiment by Claude Guilmain, National Film Board of Canada
Today in history: November 11 1918 The armistice ending the First World War is signed.
On November 8th at 6 PM the Merritt Public Library is having a meet the author and a remembrance by the Merritt Community choir by the way of a singing of ‘ “it’s a long long way to Tipperary”
Please pre-register top the Library at 250-378-4737.
This will be one hundred years since the out break of the conflict that would end all conflicts. November 11th will be the 96th year since the signing of the armistice in the same railcar that once operated on the famed Orient express. The same car that the French were made to surrender Paris in two decades later, and then destroyed when it was in jeopardy of falling into allied hands.
Today in history: October 22 2008
India launch’s its first lunar rocket probe Cyahndriann 1
Have a great day, we are on holidays, for a week, please enjoy the day in history untill we return.
Today in history: August 19th 1940
The first flight of the Mitchell B 25 bomber
No person is an island to him self
Photo KDG
The Normandy invasion happened 70 years ago today almost but not quite passed from living memory, soon it will be! The veterans and people who made political office after to win the peace will be gone leaving only films and accounting in books and a skewed conversations and reminisces. Then will there be a re learning needed? We hope not.
In 1948 the United Nations published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the aspiration of a good future for the person and small nations put forward as a goal for humanity. The declaration was based on the thought that freedom and an inverted triangle might make sure a better future then dominance and compliance had done over the centuries.
Think of those that remember this event but better still use your freedom to better your life and in doing that better everyone’s by cooperating in an interdependent world.
Today in History: June 6th 1944
Seventy years ago today the battle of Normandy begins, with one hundred fifty-five thousand allied troops landing in France.
There is going to be an acknowledgement of the service of the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan on May 9th. The country lost 158 dead in its time in Afghanistan. The action was a debarkation from the policy of the Canadian government that came in the 1960s under Lester Pearson of peace keeping. Canadians saw their sons and daughters on a combat mission with engagement that also resulted in thousands of wounded .
Last week there was a report the last Canadian troops left that country. There have been a number of official retreats and can be confusing as to whether or not we are done in Afghanistan if you are not following it.
Since December 2001 Canadian troops have been deployed and various deadlines for deactivation came up in parliament and were extended including an extension announced by PM Stephen Harper that saw Canada remaining in a non combat role untill 2014.
Yesterday the last 90 some troops are reported as arriving in Canada. We look forward to May 9th when they are acknowledged for their service and hope that there is a clear closure and moving on to civil life that day.
We: think that Canada did a superlative job diffusing trouble and leaving it better then it was, which was an ideal that grade school teachers used to give to kids in decades past.
Today in History: March 19th 1962
Bob Dylan produces his first album Bob Dylan with Columbia recordings.
Object: Old railroad car in Kaliningrad railroad museum. Description: Author: created by Volkov Vitaly ru:Участник:Kneiphof Created: Photo taken in 2001 Source: uploaded by author Licence: CC-BY (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
They will no longer grow old…
Today in History: November 11, 1918
The Treaty that ended WWW 1 is signed in a railway car taken from the orient express, the railway that was suppose to unify Europe.
Editors note: the railcar was put in a museum until in was taken out and used to make the French surrender in WW 11. It was later destroyed when thing s turned against the Germans later in the war.
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