Happy Saturday!
Alex Quinn submitted today’s featured image of a sunset, which he took from his sundeck in Wildwood earlier this week.
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On this day:
In 1918, the first confirmed cases of a deadly global flu pandemic in the United States were reported at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 would die. The worldwide outbreak of influenza claimed an estimated 20 to 40 million lives.
In 1990, Lithuania declare its independence from the Soviet Union.
In 2011, in the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Russia, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan’s northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station.
Today’s weather:
Clouds and a 70 per cent chance of rain is in the forecast for Saturday, March 11, as is a high of seven degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to five 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…
The Festival of Performing Arts’ Grand Concert took place earlier this month at Powell River Recreation Complex. Check out some of the photos.
Meanwhile…
Assumption School held a fundraiser to support victims of the recent earthquake in Syria and Türkiye.
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