To the seasons of life
The Nicola Valley Film Society is presenting The Reluctant Fundamentalist on Monday January 20th at the NVIT lecture theater. Films start at 7:30, theres free parking , no food in the lecture theater. Addmission is 5 dollars with a 2 dollar season membership.
Today in history: October 29th 1983
A half a million people demonstrate against the cruse missile in the Hague.
Sculls
There was a trailer in Merritt this morning filled with rowing boats the trailer was marked Edmonton rowing club.
Not of lot of water around Edmonton it must be a challenge to find rowing venues there?
Today in History: October 28th 1017
Henry III Holy Roman emperor is born.
A disply at a local library promoting wood and value added. Photo KDG
The local library has gotten a dozen new soft and comfortable chairs. The black swivel global comfort series Obus chairs came with a Fabrique Au Canada or Made in Canada tag attached .
They have been placed at the computer stations in the Library. The original Computers were a gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and were replaced after years of grateful use.
Something new is a treat go to the library and email your buds this weekend on a new comfort chair.
Today in History: October 25th 2004
Cuba bans transactions in American dollars
The whole valley is filled with for this morning . Vehicles were driving with headlights on in the early morning hours.
Fog is a collection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth’s surface.[1] While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term “fog” is typically distinguished from the more generic term “cloud” in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated locally (such as from a nearby body of water, like a lake or the ocean, or from nearby moist ground or marshes).[2] Fog is distinguished from mist only by its density, as expressed in the resulting decrease in visibility: Fog reduces visibility to less than 1 km (5/8 statute mile), whereas mist reduces visibility to no less than 1 km.[3] For aviation purposes in the UK, a visibility of less than 5 km but greater than 999 m is considered to be mist if the relative humidity is 70% or greater – below 70% haze is reported.[4][citation needed].Wikipedia
Merritt remains foggy at mid morning and visibility is limited to the inner valley. Be SEEN
Today in History: October 24th 1229
The Stock market crashes in what comes to be called Black Thursday
Quonset Hut – Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society (Photo credit: NoJuan)
The Nicola Valley Society for Community living is getting a new roof on the Quonset shop and facility they have on Coldwater Avenue. Crews have been working since last week to sheet and single the building.
The facility provides work for challenged members making wooded stakes and pallets. The members also work at the library on Thursdays. The shop and yard is in Berta Fraser Yard a former city clerk and benefactor for many good works…. Late of Merritt BC
Today in history: October 23rd 1915
Thousand of women march for suffrage in New York City.
The Hitching post is a theme restaurant at Lower Nicola BC , a little unincorporated community about 7 km West of Merritt. Lower Nicola has a community hall, community water and Smith pioneer park. The cowboy themed Hitching Post was once a general store and Canada Post outlet; know as Bevan’s store.
Lower Nicola is a photographers paradise this time of the year with many interesting buildings fall colors of tress that grow around the Nicola river and local creeks.
They are offering steak and lobster on October 27th for $37.00 a plate in a featured evening including live music.
Today in history: October 22 2008
India launches its first unmanned lunar space mission.
The local elders of the First Nations people who run the local community college NVIT endorse a smug week days at the cafeteria at the school 8:30 AM ” everyone welcome”
A source says that it is a cleansing ceremony with some meditation. A smoke from a burning sage plant sometimes mixed with cedar or juniper is waved by an eagle feather fan.
There is also a boiled concoction made about the same with the addition of rose plant. It is poured over your body after a shower. ” makes you feel clean”.
Jimmy Fountain a local elder says that you will feel like running instead of walking after one of these cleanses.
Today in History: October 211977
The European patent office is opened.
The Angevin Empire, using description in Carpenter’s “The Struggle for Mastery”, p.xxi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The local first nations elders are having a yard sale today,from 9 am to 3 pm to raise money for an elders conference in Prine George in July 2014.
Today in history: October 19th 1216
King John dies and is succeeded by his nine year old son Henry.
Its good that it is friday….
There were some steel workers outside the local civic center this after noon . One of them said that they had a meeting about a vote as they had not had a contract with the Mill for 3 months.. A poster on the wall showed a letter from the union president saying a strike vote is put off as the employer had applied to the board for a ruling if the action would be legal.
Rody Rogers a member agreed that the climate for negotiations is better than decades ago when mortgage rates were high.
Today in history: October 18th 1648
Shoemakers in Boston form the first collective bargaining unit.
There is beading instruction offered at NVIT Wednesdays 12 -2 in room 067 .” every one welcome”
Beading is a beautiful way to make leathers and buckskin say something in art. It was a thing theat the first nations people took real advantage off when brought here by Europeans.
Today in history: October 17th 1979
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is awarded the Noble peace prize.
English: “PG” rating of Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Monday, October 21, 2013 the Nicola Valley naturalist Society presents The Sapphires Australia 2012 ,rated PG the non profit offers the film to members for 5 :00 dollars and a two dollar membership.Sapphires are one of 6 films that the group arranges for in a season that runs from September through March.
Films start at 7:30 PM at the NVIT lecture theater, free parking and no food or drinks in the theater.
Today in history: October 16th 1998
The Chilean dictator Pinochet is arrested on a warrant from Spain to face murder charges
The Nicola Naturalists are having a photography presentation on thursday October 17th. The evening begins at 7:PM at the nvit lecture theater on Belshaw avenue at the top of the hill.
Dr. Ian Routly ” photographing nature in BC” a family doctor and longtime resident of Lillooet . He is claimed to be an an amazing birder”
Today in history: October 15th 1878
The Edison Electric Company begins production.
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