The City of Merritt has a community theater society that is at work to build a live theater and film venue.
On this Day: October 13th 1773
The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
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Merritt BC incorporation
Photo KDG
On the corner of Garcia and Quilchena Avenue in Merritt BC Canada is one of the land marks of the 700 souls that made the City of Merritt at the top of the Victorian/ Edwardian age. In the side walk out side and across the street proudly displayed is a plug that tells the date of the cities incorporation in 1911. April first of that year saw a council in place that and a local doctor starting to take on his own, a 1908 graduate of Magill University and a medical Doctor John Joseph Gilles.
Invited by a CPR director to the wealth of coal, agriculture and timber and a microcosm of Victorian prosperity and with new world hope, the little city sported a couple blocks of enterprise anchored by the Adelphia and the Coldwater Hotel. The council found a life in this valley.
With only serious European contact from the mid 19th century a place of relative respite from long grudges of the past, Merritt developed and prospered with 2 diversions of old world strife drawing her resources and strength.
DR. Gillis had his practice in the Coldwater hotel and raised 8 children in a house on Garcia (a couple of blocks down from the Adelphia) street now a BB run by the Gillespie family.
At this writing the progenitry of JJ are planning a get together in early September. We applaud the effort to remember this families effort for our past and future. You may want to take an interest in the website.
http://www.gillisfamilyreunion2015.com/#!events/c1cb2
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On this Day August 4th 70 CE On this Day August 4th 70 CE
Rome destroys Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem.
The retail price of gas has remained stable here with 7 of the 8 outlets offering it at $1.23.9 cents a liter. All but is also the truck stop who offers at $128.9 reporting 20 hours ago instead of the others at 4 hrs. ago. The Husky station also has a compressed hydrogen( LNG Liquefied Natural Gas) outlet in the large lot behind the gasoline service.
Merritt is a small community in the South Central part of BC , and is in the center of the Coquihalla highway system connecting the cities of Kamloops, Kelowna and Princeton with the lower mainland and Vancouver.
http://www.bcgasprices.com/index.aspx?area=Merritt&dl=Y&fuel=A&intro=Y
On this day: June 19th 1961
Kuwait becomes independent form the UK.
A bird looks for food amongst the rocks of the Coldwater/Nicola river that required no sandbagging this year.
On this Day: June 6th 1933
The first drive in theater opens in Camden New Jersey.
Nest gone
Photo KDG
The poles that are on highway 8 have had their Osprey nests removed. The nests were occupied by Canadian Geese in 2010 and contained a lot of bailing twine. There is a serious strangulation risk for the young of geese from bailing twine.
The poles are on the entry to Merritt British Columbia from the west ( Spences Bridge) Osprey live of trout in the Nicola River.
On this Day: April 22 1977
Fiber optic cable is used for the first time in telephone transmission:
A demonstrator outside the public meeting for the information of waste dumping in the Sunshine valley
Photo KDG
Monday saw the Merritt Civic center with about 200 people listen to speakers talk of the Bio solids being dumped a the 300 acre Dry lake site in the Sunshine Valley area of Merritt. A trucking company has two five-year contracts to dump Class A and B bio solids from two municipality including Abbotsford in the lower mainland. The business has the use of a public access forestry road to the area that they improved from a four-wheel drive access to haulage truck.
An unincorporated association called Friends of the Nicola Valley ( a face book group) were on hand in an information room with information and a petition against the activity. The group says they have a lawyer to see to their interests. The biggest concerns were smell , the effect on property values and future demand for more such land.
The municipalities involved are not part of the local regional district and appear to have come in under the radar with the only regulatory obligation being to given notice to the environment ministry.
On this day: January 27th 1973
The Paris accord ends the American war in South East Asia.
The City of Merritt British Columbia has Canadian Flag at about 3000 Ft above sea level on the west side. Set on the hillside it commands highway number 8 below.
Placed and maintained by a local business the 8 by 16 foot flags last about 600 thousand “severe flaps of the flag by the wind and cost about 1000 dollars to replace”. The business has done this for the community since 1967.
Below at the highway level there is a concrete bin that offers free sand. The owner says its not construction grade or washed but it’s fine for walks and cat boxs etc… People are welcome to take amounts appropriate for those uses.
Today in history:January 15th 1892
James Naismith publishes the rules to basket ball.
The Nicola Valley Aquatic Center is having a new years eve ( after noon swim.) The swim will be on December 31st from 1 -3 PM at he facility on Mamette avenue in Merritt.
There is no charge for the swim and the pool is in walking proximity to 5 EV charging stations some of which take 2 hours to recharge an EV.
Today in history,December 30th 1948
The Tony award winning Kiss me Kate opens at the Cole Porter theater.
The Petro Canada is showing an offering of 1.09 a liter for regular gasoline at the pumping station at the junction of Highway 8 and 5A. There has been a dramatic drop in prices at the pumps in the last few weeks coming from mid $1.30 a liter to todays low. Petro Canada also offers a loyalty card program that gives you another 12 cents a liter making it possible to get regular gasoline at under the dollar a liter range. The CIBC is reporting that Canada has lost 5 billion in revenue in the recent drop in prices. We take that as lost revenue from exports. To balance the net benefit of lower gas prices to the consumer we must assume that a drop in price is a more broadly fare benefit to more people domestically then lost export revenue. Today in History: December 17th 1935 The DC-3 aircraft makes its first flight.
The people that are proposing the twinning of the pipeline through here are having a job opportunity meeting tonight at the Merritt Civic Center.Drop in starts at 5:30 PM the presentation starts a 6:30 PM.
Trans Mountain Pipelines have operated a pipeline to Burnaby from Edmonton Alberta for 60 years without serious incident.
The Merritt Civic Center is on Mamette avenue behind city hall on Voght Street.
Today in History: December 4th 1909
The first Canadian Grey cup game is played.
Merritt Post Office
Voght and Granite
Photo: KDG
There was an ocean effect snow fall(our term) here in Merritt last night, as witnessed by a confused seagull circling the Rail yard mall , we can only imagine that the megalomaniac looking down would think that his droppings were not usually that pronounced.
Seagulls come with air flows from the coast and signal wind and weather change. The forecast is now to turn colder after the next two days with over night lows going to well below freezing for Friday and Saturday. Hope the snow lasts.
http://www.weather.com/weather/5day/l/CAXX0830:1:CA
A tradition of Canadian Prime ministers is to go for a walk in the snow when contemplating calling an election.The PM still has that prerogative however elections have been put on a four year cycle with a semi fixed date. ( we don’t think it has anything to do with global warming) Jean Chretien went for a walk in the snow before risking trying for a 3rd term below. The fixed date is in May….
Today in history November 27th 2000
The liberal party of Canada wins a third term with an increase in members over the previous term.
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