To the seasons of life
There is a recital on December 8th at the local Merritt Library. The music starts at 1 PM , enjoy an afternoon of seasonal music, they say everyone is welcome.
The Grateful Dead have a concert performance under their new name.
Since 1988 today has been computer security day. Recommended day for updating malware etc.
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The Nicola Valley Community Arts Council is having a show of artisan works for sale. The show has a special musical guest Shirley Lindgren for the official reception on Friday 4- 7 pm.
The Gallery is at 1840 Nicola avenue in Merritt and the artisan show runs from November 30th to December 22 2018. Open from 12- 6pm Thursday through Saturday. Coordinator Yano Howorth.
Sand Hill massacre
Monday November 26th the 8th successful Mars landing by NASA was concluded with the transmission of a photo. The Craft has a 2 year mission and unlike rovers will do it from the same place. The lander is straight and level in what appears to be a flat plain. It will transmit data to two Nano satellites that followed the craft from earth. The 7 month trip from earth is part of a commitment to learn the secrets of rocky planets such as ours . A mole ground penetrator hammer will slowly punch a hole down while measuring temperatures to depth. The lander will also listen for geo disturbances such as quakes. Mars is estimated to be 4 billion years old, a little older then the earths 3. 6 billion and is considered relevant to knowing secrets of our type of planet. There are 4 rocky planets in our solar system Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. Uranus has been demoted to a planetoid, the remaining are gas giants.
Mars is imagined by some to have once been a blue planet with lakes and water bodies that were lost in time. The Earth keeps its water and atmosphere by the effect of the magnetic field on it in part. Gravity and the weight of clouds also keeps the sun from burning off the planet.
The Hopewell treaty noting Cherokee land’s
The annual Christmas parade in Merritt went off at 7 PM Friday the 23rd in Merritt, Forty nine entries braved the rain. Marked security and fire rescue people kept order and ensured clear and safe access,
The first Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
The price of regular gasoline took a big drop in price this week going down 10cents a liter. However it gained another cent today in time for the start of the holiday shopping season. All seven outlets in our South Central BC city of 8,000 are at the same price at this writing, leaving a net drop for the consumer of 11 cents to start the holiday shopping season.
On this Day: November 23rd,534 BC
Thespis becomes history’s first recorded stage actor.
The province of BC has a program for regional communities to promote immigrants to use business skills, The communities must be under 75 thousand people and able to be “leveraged “to provide resources and expert skills to have success in business.
Foreign immigrants must be able to have a local referral to use the program. This is a pilot program under the Ministry of Jobs, Trades, and Technology.
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In order to be eligible to participate in the Pilot, communities must have a population of fewer than 75,000, and be more than 30 km away from a municipality of more than 75,000. A central pillar of the Pilot is the role of the community in identifying foreign entrepreneurs to the BC PNP. A foreign entrepreneur must receive a referral from a community in order to register under this Pilot.
With the Beatles is released.
As reflected in NASA’s Exploration Campaign, the next step in human spaceflight is the establishment of U.S. preeminence in cislunar space through the operations and the deployment of a U.S.-led Gateway. Together with the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion, the Gateway is central to advancing and sustaining human space exploration goals and is the unifying single stepping off point in our architecture for human cislunar operations, lunar surface access and missions to Mars. The Gateway is necessary to achieving the ambitious exploration campaign goals set forth by Space Policy Directive 1. Through partnerships both domestic and international, NASA will bring innovation and new approaches to the advancement of these U.S. human spaceflight goals Source NASA
Nasa official site May 2018
The Paris club writes off up to a 100 billon dollars of Iraq’s debt.
The people at Nasa have recently reinforced their commitment to space, the moon, and other planets by a new public relations display. The above statement is from May and you tube video from last week.
The people of earth are enriched by knowledge aquired every day by the fellowship of the discovery of the unknown and we should be grateful for its free and unfettered access. It truly is a shared goal. Good luck to the people of planet earth and may all new knowledge find place in attending the problems of this world.
The Thompson Nicola Regional District is having a free public workshop on changes to the ECO-Depot and Transfer station. The event is on Tuesday, November 27th 2-3PM at the Merritt Public Library, 1691 Garcia street Merritt BC, Ca
A fire in Windsor castle causes 50 million in damages.
After many weeks of $1.40.9er liter the price of regular gasoline has dropped two cents per liter. The CBC has been reporting that Canadian crude price is low, 13 dollars a barrel low,and the Alberta government is concerned. Some oil officials are calling it an emergency as West Texas settlement prices are dropping as well.
Cushing Oklahoma is the contract settlement point for contracts and has been for 30 years. Grades and content makes a big difference in crude prices.
West Texas has been a benchmark price for settlement prices but lately has been discounting prices of entities such as OPEC Basket.
Western Canada Select dropped below 20 dollars a barrel last month and commentators are saying that Saskatchewan can not continue to rely on " quirky" pricing for budgets.
It seems that the people of Alberta may have demonstrated collective wisdom in their no vote for the 2026 Olympics last week.
The future market for benchmark oil in December is $56.77 at this writing.
We are not protected from tariffs on artificial price controls from the
Americans in the free trade agreement. It seems we need to tough it out in this market.
The local Chamber and Merritt Country Christmas is supplying artificial trees to business in town. They would like to coordinate a decoration program, especially along the Christmas parade route. Front window displays will attract prizes when trees are along the parade route or around town.Contact Megan Preston at the Chamber. mpreston@merrittchamber.com
The Future Colorado mountain Pikes Peak is sited by Zebulon Pike.
Tuesday and Thursday – 8:30 AM to 7:PM
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:30 AM to 5 PM
The post office remains closed Saturdays and Sundays.
Nellie Bly begins her 80 day trip around the world.
Post office Merritt BC
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