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Budget discussions are coming up for Merritt. Policing ,is a number one cost and results matter.
The City has in the past taken retreats for discussions. There is a drop in session at the city with the Mayor on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month they are advertised for times in the city page of the local Newspaper The Merritt Herald.
Mayor Neil Menard says he’s available for inputs…
Old technology is heavy ! A nighttime attempted heist ended with the goods abandoned on the sidewalk. Coldwater Hotel, Merritt. File Photo KDG
Old technology is heavy !
A night time heist ended with the goods abandoned on the sidewalk.
Coldwater Hotel, Merritt.
File Photo KDG
On this Day: January 26th 1911
Glenn Curtiss has the first successful flight of a seaplane.
With due deterrence to Leonardo DiCaprio Revennant!
On this day: January 22 1999
Australian Missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by Hindu Radicals while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
TV news Kamloops BC reports on a death in Voght Park, Merritt. File Photo KDG
Congratulations to Rick Arnish on his retirement after 46 years with the Pattison Group finish up as a chair. Good luck in your continued contributions to the community post retirement. (as reported by CFJC on Wednesday)
Channel Seven CFJC has transmitters in 8 communities in the BC interior including Merritt. It is also available as channel 25 on the Bell system.
On this Day: January 21 1915
The service organization Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit Michigan.
Government activity includes infrastructure File Photo KDG
The local Community Futures office hosted a 1 hour moderated webinar Tuesday morning. The program put on by Revenue Canada was targeted for new small business and had a number of points for start up of a small enterprise, including incorporation.
There was an aspiration that Canada wanted people not to fear failure when attempting small enterprise. A network of government support for start ups go’s across the country with outlets such as Community Futures and BDC. Over time the protocols of business have been established. Tax collection and generation amongst them.
Editors Note : Small business remains a serious challenge not to be undertaken lightly.
On this day: January 20th 1841
Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British
Saddle Maker festival era Corner of Nicola And Garcia, Merritt BC File photo: KDG
Al Clarke retired from local radio ran a small business for a time away from the mike. The import from Powel River BC to Merritt had a promotion company called media Management.
Well before social media and smart technologies Al had an office in the corner building at Nicola and Garcia avenue, Across from the Grand hotel in Merritt.
Customers included Sanders and Company and forest concerns. We remember a conversation back when the Hedley Blast, music festival, in Hedley BC was failing under the watch of the organizer (locals and noise). Al had a keen appreciation serving an enthusiasm to see possibilities that could bring a festival to Merritt in what was to become the successful Merritt Mountain Music Festival. ( defunct in2010) :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merritt_Mountain_Music_Festival
Al is retired now and is a fluent social media friend. Kudos to him for his insights and all the years of watching council and broadcast at Radio NL Merritt and Q101 FM Merritt. https://www.facebook.com/al.clarke.3910?fref=ts
Happy retirement Al you sure were an asset and still are! Al was bringing us up to speed on Blue Monday at his writing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedley
Voght Street office of a local mine benefiting from new Hydro infrastructure. File Photo KDG
Robin a worker for Shaw Cable was pulling fiber through a pipe on Voght street here in Merritt Thursday. The laid off hydro worker said he had to change jobs when Hydro laid off a lot of people to accommodate apprentice trained workers.
The cable came from Parker Drive,Telus has lines on the poles above as well as Hydro lines in the top position on the poles.
When asked about site C he thought that that may be the reason for the lay off. He was aware of some of hydro’s activities in alternate energy including replacing some oil burning generators in small communities , working with distilling algae from sewage as well as some windmills.
BC Hydro’s Power Smart program encourages energy conservation among its residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The program also aims to promote energy saving retail products and building construction, and includes a “Sustainable Communities Program”. Its in-house Resource Smart program is used to identify and implement efficiency gains at existing BC Hydro facilities. BC Hydro also practices energy conservation at its generating facilities through the continuous monitoring and efficient use of the water resources used to power its generators.
BC Hydro is committed by the BC government’s Energy Plan to achieve electric power self-sufficiency in the province by 2016, with all new generation plants having zero net greenhouse gas emissions by the same year.[28] In 2013, BC Hydro released an Integrated Resource Plan which includes meeting at least 66 percent of the expected increase in electricity demand through increased energy efficiency.
BC Hydro has also entered into energy purchase contracts with a new category of company created by special legislation, Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to buy electricity generated from intermittent renewable sources, mainly from small capacity run of river hydro and more recently, wind power, wood residue energy, and energy from organic municipal waste. There has been some criticism of this policy on the basis that it will result in Hydro paying significantly higher rates to private producers than it would have if the power were self-generated.
BC has a policy not to develop nuclear power.
: source Wikipedia
BC Hydro operates 31 hydroelectric facilities and three natural gas-fueled thermal power plants. As of 2014, 95 per cent of the province’s electricity was produced by hydroelectric generating stations, which consist mostly of large hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Peace Rivers. BC Hydro’s various facilities generate between 43,000 and 54,000 gigawatt hours of electricity annually, depending on prevailing water levels. BC Hydro’s capacity is about 11,000 megawatts.
To be continued.
On this Day: January 15th 1892
James Naismith publishes the rules to Basketball.
A visitor to the Nicola Valley ran a program with youth in 2015 Photo KDG
A member of the Nicola Naturalists is sharing a slide presentation at the Merritt Public Library on Thursday the 28th of January from 6-8 PM.
Billed as a travel-loque ” Armchair traveling through Cambodia and Vietnam”. Bob Scafe will share some pictures of flora and fauna from a trip to the near east.
Bob also was keen enough about butterflies to be involved in the Royal BC Museums program earlier this year.
There is a sign up sheet at the public library front desk at 1691 Garcia street in Merritt.
On this day: January 14th 1938
Norway claims part of Antarctica as sovereign territory.
Soap stone carvings by Ed Hendrix of Ponderosa Sports a big supporter of local lake fishing. file Photo KDG
The local fish and game group is sponsoring an Ice fishing derby on the coming weekend at Mammete lake. The time of the completion is from 8Am to 2PM on Sunday the 17th. there is free hot chocolate and coffee and hotdogs will be available. The entry fee is Fifteen Dollars a person and a max of 30 dollars a family.
Various prizes are offered.
FMI: http://www.nvfishandgameclub.ca
Editors note: Ice conditions may vary when recreating be safe carry a rope.
On this Day: January 13th 1942
Henry Ford introduces a plastic car 30 percent lighter then metal. The Soybean Car developed in part with George Washington Carver.
The Nicola Naturalists are having their January presentation meeting on the 21st of the month. Frank Ritcey of Wild Safe BC will talk about safety about wildlife and in particular bears.
Frank Ritcey is the Provincial Coordinator for WildSafeBC, based in Kamloops. Run by the BC Conservation Foundation this program focuses on how we can minimize our impact on the wildlife we observe and keep ourselves safe at the same time. Frank was raised in the wilds of Wells Gray Park by his pioneering mother, Clara Ritcey, and Park Biologist father Ralph Ritcey. Frank’s love of nature has been with him his whole life and he still spends much time filming and studying nature. Frank often contributes to CBC’s popular North by Northwest show.
The meeting starts at 7PM and is open to the public (membership or donation requested) , no food or drinks allowed in the NVIT lecture theater, however there is free parking. NVIT is a local community college founded in part by Grand Chief Gordon Antoine ( deceased) , Gordon was a member of the Coldwater Indian Band and promoted education for his people, he is survived by his wife Janice a principal of the Coldwater Indian Band K -12 school.
The Nicola Naturalists use the lecture theater at NVIT as a non profit and provide a bursary to natural resource students as a matter of consideration for its use.
With all deference to the the the Christmas bird count and all the environmental action we hold dear and should always continue, this bird was probably killed by a cat. Tracks around it and its proximity to cats and a feeding station conspire to an exercise in instinct.
It was probably a fat cat as well,as instinct didn’t lead to consumption.
On this day January 8th 1982
Break up of the Ma Bell system leads to 22 subdivisions shed by AT&T
There is a kiosk at a sensitive grasslands area here in Merritt. It is dedicated to a local, Laurie Guichion , a rancher and the former chair of the Nicola Valley Community Round table. Laurie lost his life in a motorcycle accident years ago, however his legacy remains as the grasslands he loved is somewhat guarded by the awareness to the sensitive area. The published information isat the kiosk at the entrance of the Lundbom Lake grasslands area at he top of Hamilton Hill leaving Merritt on the connector east of town.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline company owned by Kinder Morgan is reporting that another such facility is installed through a contribution to a Kamloops social action group.
The project was completed on a sunny day in early October. Constructed off-site, the structure transported to the Lac Du Bois Grasslands in two parts. KBRA volunteers worked to prepare the site by digging two holes to hold the kiosk posts. Once on-site, the kiosk frame was pieced together, placed in the holes and reinforced with concrete footings. After placing a roof on the structure, the map panel was incorporated.
The Kamloops Bike Riders Association has placed it at the head of its Lac Du Bois trail.
It is said to give awareness of the combined value of recreation and grasslands sensitivity and the ability to co exist.
Trans mountain is nearing the end of a process to get permission to twin its 60 year old line to Edmonton that passes north east of Merritt’s airstrip.
Editors note: Trans Mountain has operated here for 60 years without any serious trouble we think that the twinning will bring scrutiny to the aging infrastructure here producing a net security benefit.
A Quilt hangs in City Hall in Merritt by Local Andrea Rogers.
Photo KDG
The Local Arts Council is presenting a local.s show in January, at the Old Court House Gallery,Nicola avenue Merritt BC. Kim Le Clair is a publisher of a local one sheet newsletter as well as holding a job at Merritt Printing. If shes not eclectic see is industrious. Here is a view of her abilities and the DAT of the presentation from the gallery director.
January’s artist is Kim LeClair. Her show: A World of Influence- A Worldview of Quilts From a Small Town will begin on January 15-30 with a reception on January 15 from 5pm to 7pm and the public is invited.
Also…
There is a show within a show as Kim shares her textiles as, “A World of Fabrics Comes to Merritt.
This promises to be a fantastic show and very different than what we have had in the past. Kim is a wonderful artist who has chosen textiles as her main medium. I hope you’ll all come to see this show.
The Court house Gallery is a 1840 Nicola Avenue and is open Thursdays through Saturday Noon to 6PM. Kim’s show precurses the Community Art Show in February. According to Kathy Delquist Gray the February show is open to all that would enter and pay a 5 dollar entry fee for the first item entered.
Editors note: Three entries to the Community show seems reasonable to us.
On this Day: January 6th 1540
Henry the VIII th marries Anne of Cleves.
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