Happy Tuesday!
Regular contributor Vanesa Acuto submitted today’s featured image, which she took from Willingdon Breach earlier this month as the sun was setting.
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On this day:
In 1976, Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars, took the famous “Face of Mars” photo of the red planet’s Cydonia region.
In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first person to be conceived using in-vitro fertilization technology, was born in England.
In 1994, a declaration signed by Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein ended a 46-year-old state of war between the countries.
In 1999, cyclist Lance Armstrong won his first of seven consecutive Tour de France titles. He was later disqualified for using performance enhancing drugs.
Today’s weather:
Clouds and a 60 per cent chance of showers are in the forecast for Monday, July 24. A high of 18 degrees Celsius is expected during the day, dropping to 14 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…
Kim Miller is retiring from her position as manager of Powell River Chamber of Commerce.
Meanwhile…
With the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup of Soccer now underway, a qathet-region resident has fond recollections of when she suited up in national colours for the 1999 women’s world cup.
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