Tag Archive: Makes and Models


Stop line

A source at the ministry says that there are sensors in the pavement at the street lights on highway 8 Nicola Avenue here in Merritt. The sensors will change the red light to green but you must be behind the painted stop line stopped to activate it, and not past it waiting to turn. He said that some lights have cameras that do the same thing but you can also be out of the field of view for them to work.

Some old street lights are on arbitrary timers as well.

Today in history: May 31, 1927

The first  of 15 million Ford Model T‘s comes off the assembly line.

Merit of Merritt

Its good that it is Friday….

TGIF

have a great weekend

have a great weekend

Trans mountain the subsidiary of Kinder Morgan that operates the pipeline from Alberta  to Burnaby has tabled another report in their diligence for permits to twin their line from Edmonton. A source says they will be transmitting some Tar Sand oils through it to  the  southern west coast. Their full report is available at the link below.

editors: note: there is a sence of possible gainfullness coming from first nations young people as recruiters for spin-off jobs visit .

Today in History: March 15,1906

The Rolls Royce company is incorporated.

No more for you Pontiac

Yesterday crews were at the local General Motors dealer ,Murray GM and they were changing the sign for the lot. No more does it sport Pontiac. Now there are three manufactures offered ,Chevrolet , Buick and GMC.

The free world owes a lot to the freedom of invention that saw people like Buick and ford and others the liberty to develop products and present them on the free market. General Motors corporation in later years consolidated lots of the original inventors in to a huge corporation and of recent interest is the fact that Medical insurance came along with employment. Three million in the retail part alone of that work had quality hospital insurance with there employment. Mobility and freeing of the individuals for time and efficiency came with it and it was a benefit to people in the macro sence. Because technology gave people a better share of a better life. We Cant imagine some one rejecting an ability to have products moved and barriers to travel lessened. But some did and even to extreme as in some religious communities.

We hope that new and better electronics have as much as an effect on quality of life as did the motor vehicle and that those that oppose have an ability to enjoy what they wish to keep without causing progressive people to be seen as threats.

Pontiac ,according to a salesperson is still producing cars but not under the GM umbrella for sales at least here in Merritt. the last dealer franchises for Pontiac’s were to expire October 31 2010.

Today in History, December 15,1892

Born: J Paul Getty American Millionaire

Editors note: many first nations people have told me that naming products like Pontiac and Winnebago their name sakes, is not desirable. As a point of interest neither do they like the term discovered as in Christopher C.