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Alternative to fine

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January 13, 2015

The local public library is giving an alternative for fines, a new designation known as a convenience fee. They have a few suggestions for the use of the fee when your library item is late:

    I had two chapters to finish fee.
    I was having a breaking bad weekend and didn’t want to interrupt it fee.
    The mother in law was coming and I took three days to clean up fee.
    Woke up at three am and remembered my book but didn’t want to drive in my pj’s fee.
    My cat hid the gook under my bed fee .
    I went hiking and wound up on Gilligans Island fee
    It was my spouses fault fee X 2

The library located at 1691 Garcia street in Merritt is a member of the Thompson Nicola Regional District system and has corporate borrowing from all member libraries.

Convenience fees are 10 cents a day for books and magazines, 25 cents PD for DVDs and one dollar PD for quick reads and quick views.
Get those books back…. you can not renew a book that has a hold on it.
Today in history: January 13th 1968
Johnny Cash sings at Folsom prison.

 

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TGIF-Pacific Forest Rally

Filed under: -Photography, Cars, Environment, Sports and Leisure by Kevin Griffiths — Leave a comment
October 3, 2014

Every fall  there is a sports car rally in the Nicola Valley,The Pacific Forest Rally is the 4th stop on the national tour and is on October 3rd and 4th this year.Tenty eight competitors are featured in the rally guide and will compete for place and time beginning in a ceremonial start at 5:30 PM on Friday October 3rd, on Granite avenue downtown Merritt.
The rally has an offical charity, The Abilitas Foundation.
Best vantage points:
Lily lake, night special,815-830 PM, Friday October 3rd.


 

Today in History:October 3rd 1955
The Mickey Mouse club has its debut.

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Find Harry Potter

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September 10, 2014

The Nicola Valley Museum has a find Harry Potter activity, there are no prizes but for the sheer fun of doing it there is 3 inch Harry Potter figurine hidden at the museum.
The Nicola Valley Museum and Archives are tucked just behind Coopers in the Railyard mall in Merritt, of the corner of Coutlee avenue and Garcia street downtown. There is also access off Coldwater Avenue 2100 block. The museum has many local displays of the industries and people of the Valley including mines and mills, native contact, hospital, and military relics. http://nicolavalleymuseum.org/

Today in history: September 10th 1922:

Sunday, 10th Sept. 1922 : The Treasury in Washington has released new figures the per capita circulation of money is now $39.93 per person down from $42.99 one year ago. .
The total money in circulation is $4,393,506,927 and the total number of people in the US is 110,017,000
The total US dollars believed to be in circulation today is $700 billion

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Taxes 10 percent penalty

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July 3, 2014

Penalty

Merritt BC was incorporated in 1911, local business collect and remit a lot of taxes to keep a City running. Photo KDG

Merritt BC was incorporated in 1911, local business collect and remit a lot of taxes to keep a City running.
Photo KDG

July the 2nd was the last day for 2013 tax’s to be paid to keep you current, with the city starting today there is a 10 percent penalty added to the bill. After three years of non payment your property will go on the Tax sale list and will be offered for sale for the back tax’s. There is a further redemption period after a tax sale so it is only a done deal when the tax sale is set aside  by your redemption of  a current state.

There was a steady stream of people paying tax’s at the city hall yesterday morning. If you have a mortgage on your property most often your taxes are in your mortgage payment calculation and are paid by the mortgage holder. this arrangement keeps most properties out of tax tardiness.

Today in history: July 3rd 1884

Dow and Jones publish their first stock average.

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Boxing day :December 26th….-

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December 27, 2013

The day that starts the boxing week sales once the day to remember the poor. Help support the entry workers in retail that may get benefits after a years service.

Today in history: December 27th 2001

China gets permanent trade with the United States.

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5 million dollars

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December 2, 2013

There is a meeting coming up for a society that plans on raising a lot of money for a movie house.  Five million dollars is the top of the thermometer that is posted on the sold sign at the site. With the red marker now covering  from zero dollars to 300 thousand.

The not for profit society is not required to have a business plan that shows a profit but needs to have its articles of purpose prove a social good that they intent to fill as a group.

The contacts for the meeting are listed as Dorothy Molnar and Dana Egan, both are downtown business people one the proprietor of The Grand hotel the other a principle with the Brambles bakery on Quilchena avenue.

The plans show pictures of vintage movie houses with multiple showing venues something that may be considered archaic but in the realm of  historical interest. The cost of architects is about 150 thousand and is displayed in the in the red raised marker on the fundraising thermometer at the site.

The group has the support of two city councilors, Clara Norgaard and Kurt Christopherson.

The meeting is December 3rd at 5 PM at Brambles bakery, the group is called Merritt Community Cinema Society

Today in History: December 2nd 2001

Enron corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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TGIF- one cent a liter

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November 22, 2013
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Its good that it is friday….

The Petro Canada at the junction of highway 5 , 97c and eight is showing a drop in price by a cent to $1.26 a liter.

Editors note:There is a summer driving season that puts pressure on fuel prices. Winter road conditions may put serious  downward pressure on demand and use of highways.

Today in history: November 22 1987

A  pirate dressed as Max Headroom hijacks two Chicago television stations.

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Remember those that gave the ultimate….

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November 11, 2013
Object: Old railroad car in Kaliningrad railro...

Object: Old railroad car in Kaliningrad railroad museum. Description: Author: created by Volkov Vitaly ru:Участник:Kneiphof Created: Photo taken in 2001 Source: uploaded by author Licence: CC-BY (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

They will no longer grow old…

Today in History: November 11, 1918

The Treaty that ended WWW 1 is signed in a railway car taken from the orient express, the railway that was suppose to unify Europe.

Editors note: the railcar was put in a museum until in was taken out and used to make the French surrender in WW 11. It was later destroyed when thing s turned against the Germans later in the war.

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$1.27.9

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November 8, 2013
Merit of Merritt

Its good that it is friday….

The price of gasoline has dropped once again as the Petro Canada station  at the junction of 5A, 97C and highway 8 is selling regular gas at $1.27.9 down one cent a liter from last week.

A motorist was queried about his use of the premium grade gasoline at a shell outlet this week ” My new taurus requires it” ” I don’t get the power or mileage with the lower grades.” The man said, he also related experience in the trucking industry in the US.

Today in History: November 8th 1895

An experiment with electricity leads to the discovery of X rays

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Duct pack

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August 15, 2013

The hydro ( or a consultant) here in Merritt are checking old manholes for compatibility for water lines today. A source says the real work to is a duct pack in the Voght street  and the burial of the power lines  that now are on the west side of the road. He also says that the top like goes to a substation in the highland valley and is high voltage up to 63000 volts.

The single line sits atop some ageing power poles at this time.

Today in History: August 15th 1481

The Sistine Chapel is consecrated.

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TGIF the price of coffee

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July 26, 2013
Merit of Merritt

Its good that it is friday….

The Merritt Desert Inn was charging $2.09 for a cup of coffee during the short lived HST regime in BC. There was a backlash as restaurants were on a level playing field with the value added tax. The tax is gone and the PST took its place and is not charged on restaurant meals. This morning a coffee cost $2:15 with 10 cents in for the federal value added tax the GST,

Today in history: July 26, 2005

Mumbai India gets 40 inchs of rain in 24 hours stopping the city for 2 days.

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Music in the park: Ashcroft

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July 23, 2013

There is a pass the hat music in the park program in neighbouring Ashcroft this summer.Every 2nd and fourth Wednesday. Next session tomorrow, featuring Mark James Fortin.

Ashcroft is a small community on the Thompson River south of  Merritt.

Heritage Park Place Gazebo 7 to 9 PM. On Railway Avenue.

Presented by Winding Rivers Arts and Performance  Society.

 

Today in history: July 23,1840

The province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.

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