To the seasons of life
Have a great weekend!
The community college NVIT has placed gender neutral signs on the facilities next to the library refit. The slide in signage says ” rest room ” and joins Starbucks down the hill from them and others as first come first serve cans.
There is no connection to the fact that the Alberta Legislature elected an historic half and half gender mix in the election this week.
On this Day: May 8th 1990
The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of small pox.
Poles in place for the 130 KV line from the Merritt Substation to the Highland Valley
Photo KDG
A marker tells the place where a young a man was murdered and his body left in Voght park, the site of the Merritt Country run to promote diversion, for youngsters at risk…..
On June 14th the annual country fun run will take place. Starting a 8am, at Voght park in Merritt the event is a jump rope for heart endorsed event.The run is the 6th annual and it raises money to fight deprivation for children for activities like organized ball and hockey.
The MCR has grown to include over 350 registrations, 100 volunteers and well over 100 spectators. The race distances include Twice Around the Track, and a 5K, 10K and a 21.1K.
Merritt is located in the sunny Nicola Valley and conveniently accessed from Vancouver, Kelowna or Kamloops. Merritt’s rolling hills and cattle ranches, resort lodgings and fishing lakes combine a rich culture and history with outdoor adventure. Great location and wonderful climate are just two reasons to make Merritt a running destination or even a “runcation” for runners of all ages.
We are a registered non-profit society, and all profits from this race go directly to the local Jump Start program (of which Canadian Tire matches our donation dollar for dollar).
FMI:http://www.merrittcountryrun.ca/
On this Day: May 6th 1989
Coaster wars begins with the construction of a two hundred foot ride at Ceder Point, Sandusky Ohio.
On Saturday the regional district dealt with materials not allowed in the local landfill, the free pick up of toxic materials was at the parking lot of the Civic Center and included glycol products, paint, batteries and other household toxic s. The event is a yearly one and happens every spring. The local radio station was on hand broadcasting the event life. For results and information on what to do with toxics your home generates contact : The Thompson Nicola Regional District on their face book page: https://www.facebook.com/thompson.nicola.regional.district
The paint products and had produced a token amount at afternoon, however the local machine shop also takes paint as used motor oil , and Home Hardware will take cell phone batteries at any time.
Editors note: The government is attempting to bring in an adjudication process for bylaw enforcement that may effect your rights.
Press release from TNRD face book page April15
Illegal dumping is a concern of the district as well as maintaining reasonable fees for dumping.
On this Day: May 5th 1964
May 5th becomes Europe Day
This lady was demonstrating with a man about smart meters October 4 /12
not every one has confidence in the law to cooperate for a picture. Photo KDG
The local library ahs moved their talk on senior services to June 18th from the previous date in May. The talk is at 1 pm and is hosted by the TNRD library. : https://kevingriffiths.wordpress.com/?s=library+speakers
On this day: April 30th 1907
Honolulu Hawaii becomes and independent City.
A sparrow was sitting on the pavement a the start of the week, it was very still and quite it did not respond to my presence however it when move with the side of my foot it would flutter its wing it seemed content to stay and brood on the pavement.
To many people across the world, the house sparrow is the most familiar wild animal and, because of its association with humans and familiarity, it is frequently used to represent the common and vulgar, or the lewd.[230] One of the reasons for the introduction of house sparrows throughout the world was their association with the European homeland of many immigrants.[81] Birds usually described later as sparrows are referred to in many works of ancient literature and religious texts in Europe and western Asia. These references may not always refer specifically to the house sparrow, or even to small, seed-eating birds, but later writers who were inspired by these texts often had the house sparrow in mind.[39][230][231] In particular, sparrows were associated by the ancient Greeks with Aphrodite, the goddess of love, due to their perceived lustfulness, an association echoed by later writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare.[39][194][230][232] Jesus’s use of “sparrows” as an example of divine providence in the Gospel of Matthew[233] also inspired later references, such as that in Shakespeare’s Hamlet[230] and the Gospel hymn His Eye Is on the Sparrow.[234] source Wikipedia.
The bird and I parted company without any trauma and I enjoyed the closeness and sense of connection for as long as it lasted.
On this day: April 29th 1997
The Chemical Weapons Treaty of 1993 comes into force banning those weapons by signatories.
On Saturday there was a sun dog reported in the morning rrsulting in a heavy frost on Sunday morning and a higher ceiling withj brighter sunny weather after a week of mostly cloudy and noted by locals as ” cold for the end of April.”
Sun dogs are commonly caused by the refraction of light from plate-shaped hexagonalice crystals either in high and cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds or, during very cold weather, drifting in the air at low levels, in which case they are called diamond dust.[4] The crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22°. As the crystals gently float downwards with their large hexagonal faces almost horizontal, sunlight is refracted horizontally, and sun dogs are seen to the left and right of the Sun. Larger plates wobble more, and thus produce taller sundogs.[5]
Sun dogs are red-colored at the side nearest the Sun; farther out the colors grade through oranges to blue. However, the colors overlap considerably and so are muted, never pure or saturated.[6] The colors of the sun dog finally merge into the white of the parhelic circle (if the latter is visible).[7]
The same plate shaped ice crystals that cause sun dogs are also responsible for the colourful circumzenithal arc, meaning that these two types of halo tend to co-occur.[8] The latter is often missed by viewers, however, since it is located more or less directly overhead. Another halo variety often seen together with sun dogs is the 22° halo, which forms a ring at roughly the same angular distance from the sun as the sun dogs, thus appearing to interconnect them. As the Sun rises higher, however, the rays passing through the plate crystals are increasingly skewed from the horizontal plane, causing their angle of deviation to increase and the sun dogs to move farther from the 22° halo, while staying at the same elevation.[9]
It is possible to predict the forms of sun dogs as would be seen on other planets and moons. Mars might have sun dogs formed by both water-ice and CO2-ice. On the giant gas planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — other crystals form the clouds of ammonia, methane, and other substances that can produce halos with four or more sun dogs.[10] Source wikipedia
A lunar halo was seen in January and pictures of it are in the header video
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On this day: April 28th2001
Dennis Tito becomes the world first space tourist.
X mens Wolverine Photo KDG
This film is pure entertainment for Sci- Fi bunch, Hugh Jackman gives a great performance in playing a mutant used by government. When he tries to escape his duty he does it by going home to Canada and working as a $18,500 dollar a year logger,and when found his reply to his countries’ call by is” I am a Canadian.”
Rates : good for entertainment.
On this Day: April 25th 2005
Snuppy becomes the first cloned dog:
The dome of the Coldwater Hotel in Merritt.
Photo KDG
The Coldwater hotel built in 1908, is said to have been the sometimes abode of the gentleman bandit Bill Miner. Miner was credited in the 1907 Pinkerton s Detective convention as coining the term “Hands up”, he hid 300 thousand dollars of possibly useless Australian and American, CPR Railway securities, behind the dome of the Coldwater Hotel while he toured Europe spending the 7000 dollars take from a Mission train robbery.
The CBC made a movie of the thief, Miner, decades ago making for a persona like the title ” The Grey Fox”.
The Robin Hooding of outlaws is a long time dynamic resisted by authorities, although Miner an American had no murderous nature ( something to been regarded as good )he was still just a clever outlaw.He had what it took to be one , nothing worth losing,
The local communities of Princeton BC, Aspen Grove and Douglas Lake when embracing him as a local tourist draw,it has been an exercise in mixed metaphor The authorities like to own the legend even though he was a crook they give him grudging credit as a gentleman and claim that getting their man and giving him process established the peace officer persona of the North West Mounted Police. The Canadian sense of justice without gun play a value worth talking about.
Taking on the job of storytelling about this event always gets the teller in an awkward tedious position that may turn on him at any time for being aligned with either side in the ghostly story.There has only been one truly successful Robin Hood.
http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_grey_fox.htm
On this Day: April 23rd 1955
The Canadian Labour Congress is formed.
Nest gone
Photo KDG
On this Day: April 22 1977
Fiber optic cable is used for the first time in telephone transmission:
Hey Merit what do you say?
Kevin Griffiths
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