Happy Tuesday!
Joyce Carlson submitted today’s featured photo, which she took during a recent walk into the shores of Haslam Lake.
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On this day:
In 1633, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was found suspect of heresy and sentenced to a form of house arrest in Rome.
In 1932, Canada clinched its fourth Olympic ice hockey gold medal in a row, tying the United States 2-2 in the final round at Lake Placid.
In 2000, the last Peanuts comic strip from Charles M. Schulz was published, one day after its creator had died in his sleep. It was the 17,897th and last in the series.
Today’s weather:
Tuesday, February 13, is expected to be mainly sunny with a high of six degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to minus two 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…
While travelling to Savary Island over the weekend, Ann-Marie Delawsky was lucky enough to photograph an orca whale while taking a water taxi from Lund.
Meanwhile…
Powell River RCMP received a report on February 6 that a local resident had lost over $2,000 in a Bitcoin fraud.
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