Tag Archive: Merritt British Columbia


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

Seasons pass BCJHL…

Merritt Centennials

Game 7 Wednesday, September 22nd, Coquitlam . There are adult seasons pass’s available for $250.00. Thanks for supporting junior hockey; fans are essential to the style and demeanor of the game.

BCHLTV.ca

The local junior hockey team has a special on to August 31st for a “All access seasons pass to streamed league games.

#modernhockey

BURNABY, B.C. – The BC Hockey League (BCHL) announced today that they have rebranded their online streaming broadcasts to BCHL TV. The league has launched a new website – www.bchltv.ca – specifically tailored to BCHL fans, where viewers can browse the league’s schedule, go directly to a specific team’s upcoming games or view recent archives. BCHL games will […]

September 13th 2021,vaccination proof for ticketed events…

The ministry of health is requiring one shot immunization for certain public admissions on Sept 13th, this may includes seeing the local team, if outbreaks are relevant.

The certification will be online for downloading before the September 13th start. Three items needed”

Name

Date of Birth

Personal Health Number

On this Day: August 26th 1971

The first million dollar NHL contract goes to Bobby Oar.

Sweet Victory play list.

Cooking hamburgers for hockey
File photo KDG

Happy National Kiss and Make up Day…

Check for vaccination then smooch away!

Just do it; the kiss be good for you, it does not matter who was in the wrong! The point is you want that flawed person in your life. Space not withstanding.

Good luck

Show your resolve for them.

On this Day: August 25th, 1930

Actor Sean Connery born.

Every move I make.

English bull dog is glad for the off leash park.
File Photo KDG

TGIF- Friday the 13th, lost its charm!

You do not have to be afraid of Friday the 13th, why? Because its lost its charm to the fear of the unknown and gained by the liberty of the experienced and the prowess of the wise. Superstition is done, cause and effect is 98 percent explained. That leaves 2 percent for me ( how to win the heart of a fair lady) can someone explain in 3 paragraphs or less. That would end all wondering about phenomena.

Sometimes known as date night Fridays must be excused from the 13th’s energy and success with the smarter gender still needs a real world reason; or not. Who can explain love? No sensei trying unless maybe a wise God has given us a scientific control. But that can’t be ,as love is not an experiment , it is a power.

However in the clinical sense they have terms: Love sick, , Love struck, Amour de la malade and any other that might fit symptoms of that funny feeling! If indeed the term lucky in love should retain its meaning then what? Well lets bar Friday the 13th by statute, as superstition!

Good luck to you and to blazes with superstition and bad luck: click below for playlist.

Full August moon, Take my Breath


File Photo KDG

On this Day: August 13th 1905

Norway and Sweden split.

August 9th is International Indigenous day, worldwide.

Click below for colours…

North West Coast Art Mask
File Photo KDG

Each year, 9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It is celebrated around the world and marks the date of the inaugural session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at the United Nations in 1982.

As part of the commemoration, the Indigenous Peoples and Development Branch – Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/DISD/DESA is organizing a virtual event. Indigenous Peoples, Member States, UN entities, civil society, and the general public are all invited.

The 2021 commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will focus on the theme “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract” to be held on Monday, 9 August from 9 am to 11 am (EST).

Simultaneous Interpretation in English-Spanish and vice-versa is available thanks to the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC

Source Wikipedia

Music in the park.

The City of Merritt is hosting music in the park at this time The place is central park ( Rotary park) Thursdays at 6PM. Reservations for your place to sit with your own collapsible chairs may be needed. Call 250- 378 1050 FMI.

On this Day: August 2nd 1802

Napoleon Bonaparte becomes consul for life.

Click for playlist below

Princess Diana memorial band shell
File Photo KDG Merritt BC

Happy World Nature Conservation Day…

Hi my love!

Will the forest echo with laughter?

Bee mine…. File Photo KDG

Today is world nature conservation day.! It is a declaration of the United Nations assembly and observed by it’s members.

The purpose is to have people commit to preserving plants and animals from going extinct. “Every individual” needs to do this to ensure natures survival, in the view of the organization.

On this Day: July 28th 1996

Kennewick man is found.