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Comet neowise

October 1st 1958 NASA open for business...
File Photo KDG

There is a new comet coming to view in the evenings and morning. Comet C2020F3 was found March 27th. Visibility was strained by its relation to the sun, However viewing will get better right up to the 22nd if the comet survives. Comets are mostly ice and sometimes break up. Look to the northwest horizon at dusk, enhance with binoculars.

On this Day: July 9th 1816

Argentinian independence

BC considering auxiliary police.

The BC government is considering an auxiliary police option.

Following the recent decision by RCMP National Headquarters to terminate its previous Auxiliary Program on April 1, 2020, B.C. is evaluating options for the continued delivery of auxiliary policing services across the province.  Options under consideration are consistent with a recent motion made by the UBCM Executive. 

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The current option available for potential interim implementation is Tier 3, under the new Auxiliary Program, which is different from the previously implemented program due to new training and uniform requirements.

Editors note: Auxiliaries have been used in BC before with various levels of success and training with different level’s of success They are a consideration and should not be used to effect the replacement of regular police.

Some times known as reserve police or special constables they are unarmed and volunteers.

On this Day: July 8th 1874

The Mounties begin the march west.

Buck Moon…

Moon Waneing Antlers paradeing …

On this Day: July 7th 1978

Solomon Island Independence.

TGIF-Happy International Plastic Bag Free day…

Grocery stores here are giving free plastic bags because of the virus thing. But you can still keep them out of the environment.

Plastic bag sare a nusance to weed wackers File Photo KDG

On this Day: July 3rd 1913

Confederate reunion. of 1913

Transit forum…

Get used to it …

The UBCM is hosting a forum on transit. June 16th a forum was held on the state of transit in the world of CORVID 19. Coming out of the meeting was a further medd lding of minds do use thw 14B dollars allocated to provinces and territories to restate transit.

In follow up to the Forum, UBCM, in collaboration with the TransLink’s Mayors’ Council and BC Transit communities, offered to support a collective advocacy effort to provincial and federal government. With the latter announcing $14 billion to assist provinces and territories with restart plans, transit was identified as an area for potential funding. While funding details and allocations are still being worked out between the two orders of government, UBCM sees this a potential opportunity for transit communities.

UBCM

The Federal government is expected to do a fiscal update on July 6th, Monday. It may be that there is little alternative to the present government at this time with oppositions in flux. The present government had a budget on March 19th 2019. It projected a 20 billion dollar budget deficit. The expendaures were projected at 355.8 Billion.

On this Day: July 2nd 1898

First steam engine gets patent.

Canada 135…

The flag the flies atop the hill entering Merritt from the west highway 8, it is kept by the ready-mix company that owns the land and gravel pit. File Photo KDG

On this Day: June 30th 1960

Belgian Congo gets its independence.

Happy Camera Day

A ghost from the past film camera.

Today is Camera Day, the whole world is affected by cameras now. Enjoy the day its not going back. Thanks Steve Jobs RIP.

On this Day: June 29th 2007

I phone introduced by Apple.

It seems that the pandemic is what can slow down conflict better than charters. It is likely that travel can work against war better than diplomacy after all a disease stopped the mighty conquering Khan. Yellow fever sent Bonaparte packing to the old world and making the Louisiana purchase. Plaque stopped the reunification of Rome for Justinian and many other quirky historical moments around disease and pestilence.

Quirky moment Covid 19

This emergency moment has come many times before so don’t get your hopes up as man can’t seem to stand prosperity and when things get to good things often go ban. So as not to cast your pearl before the swine make a pact with your self to be self satisfied and RISE TO THE OCCASION FOR YOUR SELF AND NOT THE CAUSE. Be cause it sill not last.

The remains of your apartment building are as significant as those of Rome, Ancient Egypt, Persia, and alike. That’s because you lived out your life in peace and wisdom not inciting trouble or borrowing it from those that didn’t.

Peace Out!

All that remains of the an Apartments. File Photo KDG

On this Day: June 26th 1945

The UN charter is signed by allies in San Fransico

From the Earth…

A art show celebrating indigenous peoples at the Olde Court House Gallery in Merritt BC.

On this Day: June 25th 1993

Kim Campbell becomes Canada one and only Prime Minister

World Water Day:

Water File Photo KDG

Happy world water day! B ring life to the poor, bring clean water!

97.2 % of the water in oceans

The earths water is mainly in the oceans , 2.8 % in lakes, ground atmosphere, ice, rivers and inland seas.

60 % of bodies made of water

So your made of 60 percent water be happy as you can be renewed every day. refreshed every night as you cleanse in your sleep with the magic of water.

Water flows by in every life time. File: Photo KDG

I want to be like water slip through fingers but hold up a ship.

JHIeSS Krieg

On this Day: June 24th 1981

The Humber Bridge opens.

Happy International Widows Day…

Today is international widows day. The UN sanctions this day it is to bring awarness to the plight of widows and their children so far as poverty and isolation and the injustice that it causes. It is observed on June 23rd each year since 2010.

On this Day: June 23rd 1946

Vancouver Island earthquake.

TGIF- Happy Dads day weekend…

One hundren and ten years of fathers day. Those poor orphans pre 1910.

Be him ever so humble Dad endures !

On this Day: June 19th 1910

The first Fathers Day is celebrated in Spokane Washington.