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There are two warnings from Environment Canada for the Merritt highway areas. 5am January 31 2025…
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Solar maximum continues. Many sources are predicting that there will be more opportunities for solar lights to be seen, photographed and enjoyed as magnetic storms provide
The trade agreement once called the North American Free trade agreement. Renewal is still a year away, and these tariffs would be illegal under that present trade agreement.
Dispute settling mechanism
The three countries in the trade agreement also have a dispute settling mechanism with the program. Between this and the US Senate, we have every confidence that these things may become reasonable as far as it relates to bonafide issues such as countervailing subsidies, anti-dumping, sanctions for cause. However It’s a scary announcement. Good luck!.
CUSMA
In effect now:
The optimal amount of sleep for most adults is between 7 and 9 hours per night. However, individual needs may vary slightly.
Here’s why adequate sleep is crucial:
* Physical Health:
* Immune System: Sleep helps strengthen your immune system, making you less susceptible to illnesses.
* Hormone Regulation: It regulates hormones like cortisol (stress hormone) and insulin (blood sugar regulation).
* Cell Repair: Your body repairs tissues and cells during sleep.
* Heart Health: Sufficient sleep reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.
* Mental Health:
* Mood Regulation: Sleep impacts your mood, reducing stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms.
* Cognitive Function: It enhances memory, concentration, problem-solving abilities, and creativity.
* Emotional Stability: Adequate sleep helps you manage emotions and react calmly to situations.
* Overall Well-being:
* Energy Levels: You’ll wake up feeling refreshed and energized.
* Improved Quality of Life: Better sleep leads to a higher quality of life, increased productivity, and improved relationships.
If you’re consistently not getting enough sleep, consider these tips:
* Establish a Regular Sleep Schedule: Go to bed and wake up at the same time each day, even on weekends.
* Create a Relaxing Bedtime Routine: Wind down before bed with calming activities like reading or taking a warm bath.
* Optimize Your Sleep Environment: Ensure your bedroom is dark, quiet, and cool.
* Limit Screen Time: Reduce exposure to electronic devices before bed, as the blue light can interfere with sleep.
* Manage Stress: Practice relaxation techniques like meditation or yoga to reduce stress.
* Watch Your Diet and Exercise: Avoid heavy meals and caffeine close to bedtime. Regular exercise can improve sleep quality, but avoid intense workouts late at night.
If you continue to struggle with sleep, consult a healthcare professional to rule out underlying medical conditions and discuss potential treatment options.
* https://listverse.com/2023/04/25/top-10-best-coping-mechanisms-for-mental-health/
Happy Sunday
Sleep therapy services
Your best option is still a Doctor if you believe it is affecting your health.
9th annual winter artisan sale.
Corner of Nicola and Voght, enter through Kekilui restaurant.
Come see: Open at this writing.
Check for times before investing
“Visit in person”
Wednesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Located: Corner of Voght and Nicola enter by Kekilui cafe.
Open late for Midnight Madness November 29th
Rates for experience 🌟⭐⭐⭐
The natural forces must cooperate to give you the power you need to make the impossible yours…
Weather statistics are indeed valuable for a variety of purposes, such as agriculture, transportation, and planning recreational activities. Understanding and interpreting weather data may seem complex at first, but with the right resources and guidance, a regular person can certainly make sense of the information. There are numerous user-friendly websites and apps that present weather statistics in a clear and understandable manner, allowing individuals to make informed decisions based on the data. Learning the basics of meteorology and familiarizing oneself with common weather metrics can also greatly enhance one’s ability to comprehend and utilize weather statistics effectively.
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At 3: 19 AM. July 21st of 2024. The Buck/ Thunder Moon was full. The event is prescribed to be a time of commitment and a serious business acumen is desired.PP
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The July full moon, known as the Buck Moon or Thunder Moon, is associated with attributes of strength, courage, and transformation. This full moon is believed to bring about a sense of determination and focus, encouraging individuals to pursue their goals with resilience and tenacity. Additionally, it is thought to carry energies of release and renewal, making it an opportune time for letting go of negativity and embracing positive change. Overall, the Buck Moon is said to inspire confidence and a proactive approach to challenges. Generated.
Single family zoning is an institution . Space is where you make it.
Bath a baby, make sure it’s not in the water when you throw it out…
When considering high-density housing developments, finding the best balance between buildings, setbacks, fire lanes, and minimizing crowding is crucial for creating a safe and comfortable living environment.
- Setbacks: Adequate setbacks between buildings are essential to ensure access for firefighting, natural light, and ventilation. Balancing high-density with sufficient space between structures is important for safety and quality of life.
- Fire Lanes: It’s vital to incorporate designated fire lanes within high-density housing complexes to ensure that emergency vehicles can access all areas efficiently in the event of a fire or other emergencies.
- Crowding: Managing population density within high-density housing is key to preventing overcrowding. Adequate common areas, parks, and amenities can help alleviate potential issues related to crowding.
Finding the best balance involves considering local regulations, safety standards, and community needs to create a harmonious and safe living environment for residents.
The Canada 2024 Day was observed on Monday at and about the band shell at central park. The Doug James band invited 3 hours of music ending at 3:00 p.m.. There were many kids that enjoyed the water and the playgrounds while some parents and grandparents took in the music and the displays including a Merritt Country Capital of Canada tent, face painting the mobile art van from the Arts Council. The park entrance was guarded by two fire trucks and a number of first responders welcomed people to the park in the parking lot. Symmetry seemed to be in vogue as people were often in red and maple leafs were abundant giving a sense of connection.
Have a great year
Former Merritt Bylaw officer and her husband hanging out at the A&W this week seems to have proved Canada’s virtues in the lifestyle that developed into a classic car and the joy to visit and drive about.
Screen shot merritt.ca
Happy Canada Day 2024, RULE OF LAW, citizenship, security of person, personal freedoms… Have a great day.
Bill Miner, AKA George Edwards
Photo source: Walkman Talk, Google Wikipedia, secondary sources.
Bill Miner the local bandit from the turn of the 20th century was a local legend here in the Nicola Valley. Known as Miner and old George Edwards, the gentlemen train robber he lead a double life for years between Merritt BC, Princeton and Coalmont. He also is reported to have worked the Douglas lake Cattle company for the owner JP Greaves.
Taking 7000 dollars in money and gold dust as well as about 250 thousand in US bonds and Australian securities in his famous Mission train robbery( first in Canada) he was on the lam here as a gentlemen and traveling abroad to Europe.
The local Coldwater hotel (1908) has a story of the securities being hid behind a mirror and in the dome of the three story building. There are no accounting of the securities ever being recovered but a strong interest in the CPR authorities to do that.
The timeline of Minors activities brought him to the 1907 Duck lake train robbery which netted Bill Minor, Shorty Dunn and Louis Colquhoun,( died of TB in the BC Penn was a teacher from Ontario) about 20 dollars and the registered mail that secured their conviction in a two week trail in Kamloops. The three had been arrested after one of them had lost his nerve when being talked to by searching posse members.
Minor and Dunn got life in the BC Penn the other 25 years. However Minor weighing in at less then 140 lbs acted in the way of a rabbit and slid out of prison under a fence within 13 months of the sentence. He died in Georgia in 1913 after at least one train robbery there. Noted as the picture of innocence it was reported that the locals there chipped in for a burial.
Nina Wooliams in her 1979 book Cattle Ranch says that while working as George Edwards, Minor was responsible for and accident where a Chinese laborer fell out of a wagon and died of head injuries. The mans brother a cook at the ranch was wanting to kill minor causing Greaves to let him go. This gave him the time and inclination to plan the Duck lake robbery. It is also noted that he was after the relief money going to the San Franciso earthquake victims in 1907. He got the wrong train.
This year is the 100th year since his death in Georgia and it marks an age that passed the authorities excepting of Robin Hood types like Miner. Even the 1907 attribution of credit in Miner with the catch words Hands Up by a the head of the Pinkerton agency would probably not be done today.People operating on the wrong side of the government and community face public relations and vilification that is hard to beat. Even political figures like Saddam and others must not have been all bad.
In the words of a favored son ,when talking of an arch villain Adolf Hitler the statement of innocence ” I heard he was good to his dog” gave a sense that borrowing trouble not your own is a pricey emotional and spiritual due.
Hating someone makes them bigger then they are and engaging them somehow lessens you. Though necessary sometimes, we hope that you are spared these episodes in you and yours lives. We wish that you escape like a rabbit under the fence the cost and confinement of ill will.
Ode to the Grey Fox may he continue to rest in peace. Watch out for PR on the other side.
Shorty Dunn drowned at 70 years of age involved in prospecting in northern Canada, its said that he lost his life in bravery saving another. Colquhoun is buried in the New West Minister Penitentiary grave yard with about 100 other unclaimed bodies. The NWP is torn down however the graveyard remains with unmarked graves and some concrete marker bearing prisoner numbers.
Although the stories are sanitized through the lens of history and belief, he is noted as having a career by the RCMP in their web site page”The Story of Bill Miner” it included over thirty years of prison time and is softer then the term ” Career Criminal”. The police also say that his capture gave then credibility. Two jurisdictions did the arrest here in Merritt. The CPR also lost a lot of chinese labourers building the rail road to nitro explosions ( transported in wagons)
In 1914 a year after Bill Miners death in Georgia the Government of British Columbia purchased two Chilean Navel submarines, this was covert against the law and against an American embargo. The constitutional authority for defence was the Canadian Federal Government who quickly acquired them from the province of British Columbia. The price that BC paid a reported 1.1 million dollars was bigger then the Federal governments navel budget. the clouds of war in Europe had been gathering foe some time and challenges to structure had occurred since the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. The time and setting fit the range of Miner in BC. Since the arrest in Merritt was done by a BC Policeman and a NWMP federal cop we can image politics and positioning even with the reports of Pinkerton cops coming up and the vilifying reports that Miner had been after the San Fransisco relief money going south.
He was a crook and a thief ( a long record) but some civility was clear and gave a mood that fit the time and sense of right and wrong here in BC.
His play was acted out some time after the Mcleans who were real murders and uncontrolled. They were hung at the BC Pen after holding off a large posse at the Douglas large ranch. The posse formed after they had killed a civil cop at the stump lake ranch north of Merritt. Still the conspiring context of these criminal acts were addressed by a need for credibility and country that did not fully get settled untill after the great conflict of the first world war and events like Vimy ridge and other.
Why is this relevant today, because the same passions are excited by insecurity now and in particular with young people they are the easiest group to blame for budget problems and malaise and political strife. Case in point the 15-year-old that was shot by police in Greece, that perception and movement against banks and globalization ran a gambit several years ago.
These guys were bad guys but where did it start, someone missed a opportunity to lead and it went to blame…..?
Its save to say that being civil has its rewards; sometimes.
Review: Nina Woolliams Cattle Ranch, 1979: For a frontier sense in Canada ***** excellent
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