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TGIF-September 22 equinox-Indigenous summer?

Red Sky in the evening
File Photo KDG

Twelve  hours of light 12 hours dark, dark starts to win after September 22:

 The knowledge that summer is gone – and winter is coming – is everywhere now, on the northern half of Earth’s globe.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you can easily notice the later dawns and earlier sunsets.

Also notice the arc of the sun across the sky each day. You’ll find it’s shifting toward the south. Birds and butterflies are migrating southward, too, along with the path of the sun.

The shorter days are bringing cooler weather. A chill is in the air. In New York City and other fashionable places, people have stopped wearing white. Creatures of the wild are putting on their winter coats. source: Earth Sky News

On this Day: September 15th 1816
HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar (Dunbar)

A month and a half to go!

Farmers market on. Saturday 9-2pm

The local Farmers Market is into its after this Saturdays regular offering. The expression of home grown or farm to table produce is still under the leadership of Lucus Handly the proprietor of three bar farms.

The operation runs May to October at the corner of Voght and Merritt avenue in Merritt BC.
The lot is the parking for the curling rink and has two EV chargers in the corner.
The time is 9am to 2pm Saturdays. The Market is often used by local government with info booths as well.

On this Day: September 14th 1982

Born Soshy.

NVFS-Lion

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The Nicola Valley Film Society is having a film called Lion on Monday the 18th at  the local community college NVIT lecture theater. The  showing starts at 7:00 free parking and no food or drink in the theater. Five dollar admission with a two dollar season membership.

This is the first film of the 2017/18 season. Season tickets are available at the event.

The trailer is available at: Film

On this Day: September 13th 1898

Hannibal Goodwin patents photographic celluloid film.

Bev Veale:Artist profile

Bev Veale File photo KDG

Bev has an oxy moron in her use of art materials, water based  oils. Bev works in Watercolor, pencil, colored pastels, Acrylics, oil pastels Soapstone, and wood carving.

Bev Veale says that she is still expanding her knowledge and skills by attending workshops, trying new mediums  and subjects. She is expanding into photography as much as practical.

Born in Okanogan landing near Vernon she has returned to the Nicola Valley after 9 years in the air-force including Nato and the RCAF. Bev had some time and opportunity for arts in her job as a recreation director and had studied some as a teen . Bev turned to art seriously in the 1970s  having a studio at her homestead near Chataway lake , in the highland valley.

Bev’s focus is semi arid plants , animals and landscapes. Bev has a showing at the Courthouse Gallery 1840 Nicola Avenue in Merritt to the 23rd of September.

Gallery times are noon to 6 Thursdays  through Saturdays.

 

On this Day: September 12th  1940

Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux France

 

Chauvet cave: The rock paintings in the site date between 30000 and 32000 B.P, during Aurignacian period. The wall of the cave decorated with more than 1000 images of the ancestors of last stone age (between 50000 and 10000 years ago). The cave has remained hidden from the outer world since 20000 B.P. It was rediscovered by a group of speleologists in 1994.Source  You tube

 

 

TGIF-Goodbye to Phylis

new life

 

Condolences and support to her family and especially to Moses Edwards her beloved son and toastmaster.

To see a world in a grain of sand

and a heaven in a wildflower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand

and eternity in an hour.”

-William Blake

On this Day: September 8th 2012

Death of Ronald Hamowy Professor emeritus Intellectual history University of Alberta Canada:

 

Alexander the Great

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Al Horne at discussion of Alexander with a fan. File photo KDG

The local public library is having their Alexander the Great Illustrated Lectures again this fall. Wednesday, October 4 to the 25th at 6PM.

Al Horne a retired high school teacher is presenting the lectures captioned The Man and the Myth.

Registration required.  The public library is at 1691 Garcia Street in Merritt.

On this Day: September 7th 2011

A plane crash results in the deaths of the entire Russian hockey team  Locomotiv  Yaroslavi Kontinental.

Corn

Corn grown in the Nicola Valley
Photo KDG

The River Ranch has had a corn crop for the last few years, this year the bottom land was allowed to flood in part because of water management in the Nicola Lake system that saw the river at high records.

On this Day:  September 6th 2007

An airstrike takes out a nuclear reactor in Syria.

 

 

Schools back

Regrets
File Photo KDG

Schools Back!

Schools back today watch for speed zones, a moment of inattention can be a lifetime of regret.

On this Day September 5th  1836

Sam Houston becomes the first elected President of Texas.

TGIF-Live like Ty

Rodeo weekend in Merritt
File Photo KDG

The local rodeo is on this weekend, Labour Day. There are a few back widow signs saying in essence “live like the 25 year old star Ty Pozzobon. Ty died last year from issues coming from head injuries according to accounts.

The family of a 25-year-old Canadian bull riding champion, who died suddenly Monday, is warning about the dangers of concussions in the wake of his death. … Close friends and Canadians in the rodeo and bull-riding community are mourning the loss of the young bull rider.

Accounts also say he took his own life, something that should never be considered as good advise.

The truth is yes you may take risks to enhance your life . The law says not recklessly. This goes beyond most of us that may consider roller coaster rides as risk. The reality is many jobs and situations may cause additional risk for gain or to prevent loss and so long as reasonable efforts are made it is legal to take those risks.

We all lost something with the untimely loss of Ty Pozzabon last January. However it is complicated to enjoy life so yes live like Ty is a view to be balance, some it to be outright rejected.

You be the judge in your trade offs but never take that non reversible (taking your own life) step to preserve a persona at the cost of never making a personal decision again.

On this Day: September 1st 1905

Alberta and Saskatchewan join the become part of Canada.

 

 

Olympic torch…

Life follows art!

An object that had to be defined by a court as Art to escape duties and taxes as a piece of (metal for industrial purpose, with others). The piece called Bird in Space came to the US in the  1920s and  had duties applied. The matter went to court  in 1926. The controversy got this conclusion in favor of the artist:

The object now under consideration . . . is beautiful and symmetrical in outline, and while some difficulty might be met in associating it with a bird, it is nevertheless pleasing to look at and highly ornamental, and as we hold under the evidence that it is the original production of a professional sculptor and is in fact a piece of sculpture and a work of art according to the authorities above referred to, we sustain the protest and find that it is entitled to free entry.

This was the first court decision that accepted that non-representational sculpture could be considered art. Source Wikipedia.

The piece bears a striking resemblance of the olympic torch made for the 2011 Olympics in Vancouver Canada, No trouble came out of its use in a very fine event in Vancouver.

 

On this Day: August 31st 2006

Norwegian police recover the stolen painting  ” The Scream””!!!

Art walk wind up August 25th 2017

The local arts community had a wind up on August 25th at the court house gallery, Willard Wallace had top billing for the musical part followed by Ingrid and friends as the Strange Companions. They started the presentation with Wabash cannonball.

On this Day: August 30th 1994

Born South Korean singer Heo Young-jr.

Film schedule- NVFS

A sign displayed at a new local pre owned businees in the down town of Merritt.
Photo KDG

The Tiff film schedule for the 2017/18 Nicola Valley film society is out. The six films and the AGM date. Are published at the Public library. Admission is 5 dollars on a two dollar membership and a seasons ticket will be available to purchase on September 18th at the first film.

Schedule

On this Day: August 29th 1831

Electro Magnetic induction is discovered .