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Trans Mountain Feature update…

Media tour from 2018 Burnaby Terminal Expansion plans highlighted.

The Trans Mountain expansion is on going and the Burnaby tanker port will be expanded. with tanker loads going from five a month to about 34.

Panamax Tanker in service.

The Trans Mountain oil is taken with a Panamax tanker, meaning as the name implys the ocean going ship is for operation through the panama canal.

Panamax Tankers: The panamax tankers operate in the region of Panama, especially the Panama Canal. The tanker size is designed as per the size regulations set by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). The size aspect is very important when it comes to panamax tankers because if the size is not monitored while the tanker is being constructed, then it could pose a lot of problems while the ship is in motion. The operation of the first panamax tanker started in the year 1914 and they are still popular and useful as they were nine decades ago.

Marine

Indigenous Market to compete with.

The pipelines in Canada go north south to the US and there is no shortage of capacity to bring that Canadian product south or American north, the TMX expansion will serve the Californian and Asian market. Those two markets are Indigenous ones getting their oil from Alaska.

On this Day: Oct 5th 1970

The PBS station is created in the US.

Good Evening

Highlights

All important in school status.

Respiratory season coming…

Appropriate precautions for family indoor gatherings.

Third dose registration coming for moderate-severely immune compromised and others.( will be notified after identification by medical officials.)

Single one stop international travel immunization passport coming…

300.000 doses being returned to federal government to share in international vaccination…

Health care visiting require proof of vaccination, as of Oct 12th.

Thanksgiving, keep groups small, vaccination important, young people infection increasing (D Strain)

Mandate for vaccination for all BC Public service…

More….

There is almost double the amount of doses per 100 people in Canada as compared to the world’s 80.75. The number of 1st doses for the world is north of three and a half billion. This is taking pressure off the notion that there is an inequity in giving boosters to the vulnerable in the Canadian population.

Alberta September cases 15% of all cases since beginning of outbreak

Alberta reported 45,655 cases in September. The reason is purported to be because of unrestricted opening up that was to early and a large unvaccinated population.

Get vaccinated.

Now is the time for the resistant to be vaccinated. There is a lot of access including major grocery store pharmacies.

Large populations of young returning to school.

Six Hundred thousand children are returning to school in BC this fall and smaller doses of vaccine is on the cusp of being used for them. The amount world wide is a considerable part of the population and the undertaking would go better if the unvaccinated was not a complication.

Good luck as we hope for a return to normal living.

On this Day: October 4th 23 CE

Peasant uprising sacks Chinese capital..

Importance of school to children, Covid-19…

600,000 children in school learners, BC.

Regional orders the norm.

K-12 mask order, staff and students.

Everchanging pandemic; Bonnie Henry

Mild disease in children not a reason for less concern.

More testing sees more results.

Air ambulance sitting at air field .
Health care takes a lot of support
from many sources including
you keeping your own. File Photo

Friday October 1st the Nicola Valley Arts Center is hosting the artists from the Merritt Naturally Show. Between the hours of 4 and 7 PM, hear the artists stories and techniques.

The Arts center is at the corner of Voght and Nicola in Merritt BC, Canada. The pair are being billed as knowledgeable photographers and will answer questions..

On this Day: October 1st 1890

Yosemite National Park is opened.

Today is the first observance of national truth and recondition day in Canada. The federal holiday is being promoted by one of the worlds indigenous groups in Canada, the first nations peoples.

Collage of some of the faces that have been involved in this emancipation.

Give everyone a break today…

Editors warning …

This post is not meant to be a complete guide to poison safety. We only want to draw attention to the observance. More attention to poison safety then what is published here is required.

Some Black Berries can be poisoned,. You need to be aware of the colours of berries and other traits to be confident to eat them.


“Stay away from berries on plants with spines, bitter smells, or milky sap.
 In general, the following plants are not safe for humans to eat, including the berries. You should check for:”

According to Wiki Help here is a start for your diligence:

  • Milky or odd-colored saps.
  • Berries or nuts in pods and bulbs
  • Bitter or soapy taste
  • Spines or small pointy hairs
  • Pink, purple, or black spurs.
  • Three-leaved growth pattern (like poison ivy)[1]

Animals in the fall can be drunk..

The frost can ferment berries in fall and winter making large animals eating them drunken visitors.

Bear scat, Merritt BC and Mountain Ash berries,
Mountain Ash are usually in peoples yards .
File Photo KDG

On this Day: September 29th 480 BC

The battle of Salamis’; Persians defeated by Greeks .

Trans Mountain Expansion Update…

The TMX organisation took part in the UBCM, Union of British Columbia Municipalities Convention this September.

Ian Anderson, Trans Mountain president hosted a virtual breakfast for 23 mayors of impacted communities through Microsoft teams.; this was the sixth breakfast TMX has participated in at the

UBCM annual conventions.

A matched donation to the Red Cross, Registered Fire Appeals Fund was made by TMX in support of the wildfire situation during the fire season.

10,000 workers engaged…

Pipe for oil field
File: Photo KDG

On this Day: September 28th 1825

The first passenger breaks the 15 MPH barrier, causing fear.

Surgeries up against covid-19 bumping, ( over 5000 in most recent reporting range.)

World wide conditions changing daily. Appointments for Covid-19 use for international travel in flux.

Regions in BC drawing specific outbreak restriction remedies ( Fraser Health, including gathering limits)

Vaccinations still the front line remedy strategy.

Care to your neighbours health for ordinary care ( against Covid-19 bumping)depends on you.

One path forward Vaccinations:(Health Minister), questions will be answered.

Doses nearing 8 million in BC…

Air ambulance sitting at air field .
Health care takes a lot of support from many sources,
including you keeping your own. File photo KDG

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Haiku, Youku, we all Ku…

 Loves on this morning.

Raise a standard,  into the wind,

Doves fly to me, bring peace. KDG

Wind of Change,,,

TGIF- Happy National Punctuation Day…

Suffering is such sweet sorrow…

Today is National Punctuation Day, a day not to be on the wrong side of a gerund. Have a blast you can go back to Poetic Licence on Monday.

On this Day: September 24th 1975

The South West face expedition reaches Mt Everest peak.

Laoise

Cleo has been traveling the world for three years,
covering an estimated 40,000 miles File Photo

Have a good weekend! : weekending is good!

Freedom is not anti mandate…

Freedom is not an anti mandate.

Washington state is being sued by anti-vaccination interests. The State of Washington is mandating health workers to get covid-19 shots. The governor is saying that it is not unreasonable to require the workers to protect the health of the people they treat. The basis tenant  of jurisdiction remains true, that jurisdiction is the rule for the rule.

Freedom is an assault when it is the rule of the tenant over the owner. Or the owner over the tenant’s person, we get that. And so does history, as it unfolded in violent and terrible loss when lines are crossed.

Want to be asked, not told…

So peoples  ancestors fought to get jurisdiction for their freedom and overtime got some. We know that, however since a sense of place is more than legal rankling over jurisdiction, they both have merit. 

Jurisdiction cloaked by exclusive right is, at first glance attractive. However, the sense of place seems more inclusive. Yes, it makes you want to invite another to your liberty, a broader community, and give and take. So what is the difference between the two? They both make you do something, one seems to slip by unrewarded and the other generates pride and defensiveness. Why is that? When is it right?

Well, let’s just say defensive actions are not neighborly. Maybe it’s that simple! When you add mutual interests to the mix, its sells.

So what is the mutual interest in vaccines, for some, it’s a passing statement that blames the industry for taking  profit, or some other inconvenience Then a comment becomes an argument and away we go. So what is the answer to that, there is none, it’s a choice and you can choose not to as well.

Non withstanding a man with an experience is better off than one with an argument, that ‘won’t wash, unless the experienced is the one living in strife for so long that he never wants to see it again. That’s only happened completely a few times, so excuse us that apprentice in the endeavor, of whatever that is. Remember all those people that died and got radiation in the WW II atomic bombs drops? There was one victim that got his leukemia into remission along with a lot of burns. So that’s the answer next time you want to argue that the pandemic is good for something, and you need to be concerned, neighbor, it’s you that will survive like the Hiroshima cancer guy. 

Look around and survey the depth and breadth of your realm, you may be the only one there. And have burned and are in a lonely jurisdiction, in a crowd, a crowd of those ghosts of strife, and with a mandate for strife.

Peace out PP

On this Day: September 23rd 1806

Lewis and Clark return from explorations for the northwest passage.