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Wednesday shopping days untill Christmas, Eight days

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December 17, 2025

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Thank you for your grace,and peace of the season…

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Happy Coupon Month…

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September 3, 2020
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September is Coupon Month in Canada, as a marketable observance, it is useful for buying to give advantage for discounts. Ask for coupons!

On this Day: September 3rd 1932

Saudi Arabia is unified.

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TGIF- gas price stable $123.9 a liter

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June 19, 2015

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.

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TGIF

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October 25, 2013

A disply at a local library promoting wood and value added. Photo KDG

A disply at a local library promoting wood and value added. Photo KDG

The local library has gotten a dozen new soft and comfortable chairs. The black swivel global comfort series Obus chairs came with a Fabrique Au Canada or Made in Canada tag attached .

They have been placed at the computer stations in the Library. The original Computers were a gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and were replaced after years of grateful use.

Something new is a treat go to the library and email your buds this weekend on a new comfort chair.

Today in History: October 25th 2004

Cuba bans transactions in American dollars

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Classic Cars

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July 29, 2013

The central park area of town saw a classic car show on Sunday. The admission to show your car and a chance for some recognition was 10 dollars. One hundred and forty-five entries showed their cars and trucks. Model T trucks, cars from the  1950s  and a mix of original restored and hot rods  filled the field as well as tables of parts and vintage signage.

The event was the 19th annual and there was representations to the drive in meet from Kamloops,Dog River Saskatchewan,Tappan BC, Courtney BC, any others.

The local crime stoppers had a booth selling 5 dollar tickets on a new Ford mustang GTO.

Today in history: July 29, 1996

The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is stuck down by a US Federal Court as being to broad.

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GM dealer donates

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May 9, 2013

The local Chevy dealer has given all their parts books to the local public library. On Wednesday two of the  GM staff were piling up parts and repair manuals for  the GM products.  A source at the library said ” I am not official but I think that there is a constituency here for these” and ” you need to be intelligent to be mechanical”

A full pick up truck load of manuals were delivered , the GM staff members willing posed for a picture.  A source in the parts department said “all our service manuals are on computer and we have a whole room full of books  we want to clean up”

Today in history: May 9, 1927

The Australian Parliament convenes in Canberra.

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Drumming and drum making

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April 16, 2013

About a dozen people were in a traditional drum making class at room 069 today ant NVIT the first nations administrated public , community college at 4155 Belshaw Avenue here in Merritt , starting with a bannock lunch the process takes about 2 hours to stretch raw hide over wooden rings. Deer skin is also used to make rattles of raw hide to go with drummers.

A drum stick is also made from a willow stick , ” medicine” ” willow has healing ” and a sowed skin covered foam pad. A participant said also that sand was used  before balloons were available to stitch wet rawhide over for  the rattle.

When asked Amy Strayer said it was her first one and tradition holds that she give it away. Her drum was drying and she had not yet decided who to give it to.

First nations people often sing ad drum their introductions to a meeting.

Today in history: April 16th 1881

Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle in Dodge city.

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5000 books: half done

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March 20, 2013

The Merritt  Public library is half way through their book sale, 50 cents for paperbacks 1 dollar for  hard cover. There are books such as the 2011 Writers Market, 2012 Martins Criminal Code, Strong’s concordance and a Copy of Emily post written by her daughter Elizabeth L..  As well popular pocket books are arranged in the multi purpose room on six tables, titles include Clear and Present Danger  by Tom Clancy, The Shadow Isle, Katherine Kerr, My Sister’s Keeper,Jodi Picoult and Judas Kiss , J.T. Ellison. A full table of children’s hard cover books are also available.

Magazines are 10 cents.

The book sale goes till the 23th of March, it started on the 12th with 10,000 books withdrawn from 13 district libraries.

Imelda Marcos goes on trial in the Philippines for bribery, embezzlement and racketeering

Today in history: March 20, 1987

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Yoga

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February 4, 2013

Lisa Hawkins is presenting Yoga for and hour on Tuesdays 12-1 at the NVIT lecture theater. She promotes her style as latin-inspired and calorie burning.

Lisa is a security guard and does Zumba dance and Ti Chi.

Students of the NVIT school are quite well served by supervised extra curricular activities such as these. (opinion)

Today in History: February 4th 2008

The London Low admission Zone begins to operate in the UK

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Persian rugs

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December 6, 2011

On the weekend there was a auction of distressed goods at the local civic center. A viewing at 1 pm was followed by an auction a 2pm.Connoisseur Heirloom carpets were shown with pedigrees as to origin. One that I viewed was presented as from Kazakstan and the tribe you made it was related. The auctioneer said that antiques of that pedigree ( over 90 years ) go for 35 thousand dollars at auction houses in New York. A small 4X6 went for 500 dollars on Saturday and a large carpet was taken of the floor when it did not get a 25 hundred-dollar reserve bid. A number of small rugs were acquired by buyers at the beginning of the show.

The Auction was cut short and the were loaded into white vans to go to another community. The prices were advertised in a local paper  as bid plus 15 percent  buyers premium and HST a contact number in Vancouver was also advertised as 604-229-1800. The men were well dressed and professional with little fuss or stuff.

Today in history, December 6th,2008

Greek riots break out because of  the murder of a 15 year old boy by police.

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The week in pictures 08/10/11

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October 8, 2011

The week that was.

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Canadian tire….

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Footprints

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September 27, 2011

There is an organic foods delivery service here at 11326 Voght Street. www.footprintsharvest.com  register on line for locals to get a week free bin service  of Organic produce. they deliver Wed and Thurs 10-6 ” for our environmental stewardship and community involvement”  they  seem ideal driven  and had a table at the last health  fair at the Baillie house.

They have a phone number 250-315-4743

Today in history, September 27, 1937

Balinese Tiger declared extinct.

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