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Choir

Choir visits a local church recently.

African Childrens Choir

Visiting Singers from Africa

Today In History, February 9, 1995

First American and British space walks take place in the Shuttle program.

regal

Today in History, February 8 1952

Elizabeth II proclaimed monarch.

Ice

Today In History, February 7, 1962

United States Bans all imports from Cuba.

The weather has returned to colder and snow with it  comes ice these things can be dangerous to you especially if your eves-troughs are full they can fall and do a lot of damage and from a height serious injury.

Winter has returned

Icicle

TGIF

 

Have a great weekend, and visit Merit and Malice and rate them

 

 

Today in History, February 4, 2006

71 die in a stampede in a stadium near Manila.

Paste

Paste costume jewelery

The glitz and glamor of doing yourself up can include paste, around here it would play well especially at high school. Probably not in Hollywood . They say  Hollywood is high school with money , so who else can we emulate on a budget, that’s a small town advantage .

Today in History, February 3, 1930

The communist party of Vietnam is organized.

Clean Fire Hydrants


The city ran and add to hire CUPE workers last week in on of the local weekly’s they were to fix potholes and keep up these things . Most all the fire hydrants were gone through and painted up starting after a local hotel burned down. The fire was reported as arson. In the middle of a labor dispute and some one had opened  a number of these about town diminishing the pressure to fight the fire.

The tag says no not connect without permit;2000 dollar fine, we think it’s not intended for arsonists but the responsible public.

The crime is yet unsolved.

Today in History, February 2 1901

Queen Victoria’s Funeral

Dry Goods

The old Chinese dry goods store’s front windows are now un-boarded displaying some of the dated goods inside. The new owners are said to be going to sell antiques there and live in the house next door.

Today in History, February 1, 1968

Eddie Adams video tapes execution of Viet Cong officer ,builds opposition to the Vietnam war.

Bug killing bird,merritt

In yellow pine Merritt, woodpecker.

This bird is significant as the mountain he is living on was one the was logged for bug killed trees.

Today in History, January 31 1995

US loans Mexico 20 billion dollars to stabilize it economy

CBC FM upgrade

FM radio

Source says a Contractor for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation is upgrading the FM broadcaster here and in a hundred other  communities. An employee says he is happy they got the work.” It  isn’t our regular job”; says a man on site.

The  current receiver is a wire antenna between two poles about 100 feet from this upgrade.

The closest CBC FM presence to here is Kelowna 88.9 Radio one you can listen to FM radio one on your computer, our local private FM station is Q 101.

Found property

A bicycle is said to be waiting to be picked up by the bylaw officer from the downtown policing station. Found property is kept 3 months then disposed of , by crown assets disposal in the past some bikes were given to non profits  for fund-raising. To have an insurance claim a bike needs to be stolen and a file given from the police. Most bikes found are under the 500 dollar deductible limit for insurance some bikes are really expensive. We think that it is a burden on police resources to be chasing these things. So keep your bike out of sight and out of mind.

Remember there is a six month limitation period on petty crimes and you always run a chance of being called as a witness to a prosecution in that period.

In general attention should be paid to terms of coverage of policies still loss prevention helps us all.

River ice

Ice melt on Coldwater River is fast a furious. Open earlier this year then last.

Today in history January 28, 2011

President Regan, lifts oil controls to end the 1979 shortage and creates the 1980 oil market glut.

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SUV

This SUV new to the local outdoor shop is one that has an option to run on four cylinders to save fuel. The owner says he needs it to pickup stock.

Today in History: January 27 2006

Western Union stops its telegram and commercial messaging service.

old mine

 

This sheve wheel likely sat on top a mine head frame at one time and is now an object of interest in someones yard.

I drilled at a place called mill creek some years ago and there was a flooded shaft with a wooded head frame on it that this would be right at home with. There were lots of these glory holes about in the last century great depression era.

Today in History, January 26th 1992

Boris Yeltsin announces that the Soviets would no longer target American cities with nuclear weapons.

Ravens

The ravens that fed Elijah are fed up and sitting atop a self serve sign at petro can.

Lots of ravens about here scavenging. I saw one take a golf ball and bury it in a field once.

Today in History,  January 25, 2004

Opportunity rover lands on Mars.