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November 9th, 2021, BC Covid-19 update…

Highlights

Public health response, influence 4 cases, flu shots free to everyone.

The reproductive number drops below 1, “This is encouraging”

Peak risk period.

Continue to be cautious, we need to reduce the risk.

Plan for smaller gatherings and be a respectful traveler.

BC Covid-19 update November 4rth 2021…

Highlights

Interior health good progress.

Booster doses to breakthrough areas.

The stark difference between fully vaccinated.

Fraser Health has the bulk of cases.

5-11-year-olds.

Confidence in information is important.

A cancer diagnosis of BC premier, John Hogan.

Natural world

LOCAL BIRDERS
NICOLA VALLEY NATURALISTS

The Nicola Naturalists are having their members photo night. The venue is tomorrow night at the NVIT lecture theater at 7PM.

NVIT top of the hill on Belshaw avenue in Merritt BC.

We keep the necessary business meeting short so there is ample time to enjoy local nature photos taken by our talented membership. We haven’t seen members’ photos on the big screen for many months so this will be a gala occasion.

NNS

On this Day: October 20 1879

Light bulb begins patent process..

Happy National Pharmacy Technician Day…

Today is National Pharmacy Technician Day, since 2015 the third Tuesday of the month is NPTD ” we thank technicians for their tireless efforts.”

  1. Buy a gift only we could tip pharmacy techs! Failing that, a teddy bear, balloon, box of chocolates, or a nice flower to brighten up their workplace (artificial, so as to keep things clean) is sure to light up their day.
  2. Get a flu shot, National Pharmacy Techs Day happens to land right in the run-up to flu season, and most pharmacies offer flu shots. Seeing your pharmacy tech for a flu shot now is a great way to ensure you don’t have to see them under less happy circumstances later.
  3. Just say “thanks”! Pharmacies can have hundreds of people in and out in a single day, and most of those customers aren’t there to socialize. Simply taking the time to tell a pharmacy tech you appreciate them can make a pharm tech’s day.

On this Day: October 19th 1386

The oldest German university has its first lecture.

Life’s a puzzle, but technicians make it work…

The missing piece Technicians got yo love them!
File photo KDG

Trains…

A fellowship of history and wonder.

June 19th 2010 meet,
Merritt Railway enthusiasts club

Railways are celebrated all around the world! Today is national railway day in Azerbaijan. You knew that!

On this Day: October 13th 1988

The book Spy catcher survives UK government attempt to squash.

Happy Thanksgiving (not an Oxymoron)

Thanksgiving music

Set table for goodness

On this Day: October 11 1492

Christopher Columbus men attempt mutiny.

Importance of school to children, Covid-19…

600,000 children in school learners, BC.

Regional orders the norm.

K-12 mask order, staff and students.

Everchanging pandemic; Bonnie Henry

Mild disease in children not a reason for less concern.

More testing sees more results.

Air ambulance sitting at air field .
Health care takes a lot of support
from many sources including
you keeping your own. File Photo

Editors warning …

This post is not meant to be a complete guide to poison safety. We only want to draw attention to the observance. More attention to poison safety then what is published here is required.

Some Black Berries can be poisoned,. You need to be aware of the colours of berries and other traits to be confident to eat them.


“Stay away from berries on plants with spines, bitter smells, or milky sap.
 In general, the following plants are not safe for humans to eat, including the berries. You should check for:”

According to Wiki Help here is a start for your diligence:

  • Milky or odd-colored saps.
  • Berries or nuts in pods and bulbs
  • Bitter or soapy taste
  • Spines or small pointy hairs
  • Pink, purple, or black spurs.
  • Three-leaved growth pattern (like poison ivy)[1]

Animals in the fall can be drunk..

The frost can ferment berries in fall and winter making large animals eating them drunken visitors.

Bear scat, Merritt BC and Mountain Ash berries,
Mountain Ash are usually in peoples yards .
File Photo KDG

On this Day: September 29th 480 BC

The battle of Salamis’; Persians defeated by Greeks .

First Day of Fall, September Equinox.

Fall colors, file photo KDG

Say Good Bye to Summer

The fall equinox marks the end of summer, it can be anywhere from September 21st to 24th, there has not been a September 21st equinox for thousands of years. this highlights the weight of time that went in to the orbit cycles and its consistency

Twenty one past noon, British Columbia

At 3:21 PM Eastern time the earth will enjoy 12 hrs light and 12 hours dark as the days start to move to the Winter Solstice, then the northern hemisphere tips its full 23 degrees away from the sun making the shortest daylight in that 24 hour cycle on December 21st 2021, in 91 days.

On this Day :September 22 1948

Candy drops begin in the Berlin airlift.

TGIF- Merritt Naturally…

On this Day: September 17th 2001

The New York Stock exchange opens after the 911 event.

Butterfly, UTM

On the walk still alive ..File. Photo KDG

Life has its challenges.

Trans Mountain Expansion,, TMX is a pipeline that is a twinning of an existing one that comes from the Edmonton Alberta area and brings Alberta crude west through Burnaby to refineries in the US that process and distribute oil products into the free market. Trans mountain works on a tariff system that it charges producers to transport the crude to destinations. They do not own the oil.

Know as the trans-mountain apartments,
Merritt BC File Photo KDG

Owned by the Government of Canada.

The 60 year oil company that was the Trans Mountain Pipeline was bought the Trudeau Government from US investors to ensure that the national interest of its bringing oil from Alberta was secure against the “oppression of the majority” and other dynamics of the provincial interest of big against small, wealth transfer, strategic supply of the needed chemicals for energy, food , medicines, and the sovereign Canadian ability to mange its own.

Trans Mountain pipeline was commissioned in March 1951, after an act of the Canadian Parliament created it.

Trans mountain pipeline was born in the public interest, moved in and out of public control over its life time and at this time remains steadily in Canadian public control, at least until completion of and the maturity of its role in the supply line. The standards of construction and maintenance may exceed what is generically called an oil pipeline elsewhere in the world, which is good we believe. The following videos are produced by Trans Mountain however they are film and can be easily verified by interested.

Climate Change Emergency.

The discourse of the current federal election has some candidates calling global warming as an emergency situation. We agree that the demands of human population is making for all kinds of emergency situations and they all need attention. The carbon thing is to be addressed by emissions controls after use and requires industry to do it if other needed dynamics are not to be neglected.

Insurance

Some are calling for the insurance industry to not give insurance to the TMX operations, in an effort to stop the construction. We have not researched who may be providing insurance to the operations. However for those that find comfort in the fact that insurance company’s often partner by under writing projects we would remind you that the Canadian Government self insures its operations as do some large corporations and because the TMX operations are government owned its a mute point to try to undermine its construction by that kind of boycott

Sense of place

The way the expansion and indeed the continuation of life on earth should not violate our peoples sense of place or belonging.. Three generations have come along of people that directly benefited from Trans Mountain operations, sense of place is well established with these, we hope that those that are not at arms length will try to and speak out when needed, to support the good things, that may come to the people in the macro sense.

Day 21, 2 PM.

Candidates have until day 21 at two past morning time to register as a candidate.

Take note on who was prepared as this is an election that was called to straighten out parliament 2 years before the regulated day. If many candidates did not get their parties nomination through a contest it is likely that they were not ready. Oppositions are there to oppose and provide an alternative to the ruling party. The official opposition is always in a state of some readiness coming from the fact they have official critics that get budget from parliament to be prepared as an alternative if their critics’ weaken the confidence in the governing party..

Independents

There are some that go through the necessary filing and obtaining of nominators to get a platform for there view point. There is all candidate forums and they get to present to the interested public, along with those with party nominations.

Good luck and good manners waiting your turn to present when ears are open,; to anyone who try’s.

Public service commission thoughts on being a candidate.

To minimize the risk to political impartiality, the PSC:

  • may make your permission conditional on being on leave without pay before or during the election, and if you are elected in a municipal election, for the duration of your mandate;
  • expects political activities in support of your candidacy to be conducted outside working hours;
  • will render a decision in writing within 30 days of receiving a completed request. A form well completed will minimize delays in the processing of your request.

On this Day: August 27th 1927

Five ladies in agreement, KDG

The person include female persons question posed to the supreme Court of Canada.

Election night Sept 20th 2021