Happy Wednesday!
Regular contributor Paul den Ouden submitted today’s featured image of a trumpeter swan on Cranberry Lake, taken at the bottom of Drake Street earlier this month.
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On this day:
In 1612, Galileo recorded the first sighting of Neptune, noting it as a fixed star, not realizing it was a planet.
In 1918, Montreal Canadiens’ goaltender Georges Vezina assisted on a goal in his team’s 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas, becoming the first National Hockey League goalie to do so.
In 1968, The Beatles White Album reached the top of the music charts and remained at number one for nine weeks.
Today’s weather:
Wednesday, December 28, is expected to be mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers. The forecast also calls for a high of six degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to three degrees in the evening. For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
BC Centre for Disease Control says preliminary findings show the influenza vaccine has cut the risk of the flu in half during the ongoing flu season.
Meanwhile…
School District 47 trustees have passed a motion to sign the Tla’amin Education Agreement and put it into effect January 1, 2023.
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