Happy Saturday!
Regular contributor Ainsley Hannah snapped today’s featured image while taking a break during a cycling excursion around Inland Lake.
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On this day:
In 1951, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, considered one of the top fiction novels of the 20th century, was published.
In 1995, Amazon.com, which started as an online bookstore, sold its first book.
In 1999, a single-engine plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Kennedy, his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette died in the accident.
Today’s weather:
Saturday, July 16, is expected to be mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon and a high of 21 degrees Celsius. The forecast also calls for clouds in the evening and a low of 12 degrees.
For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
BC Hockey League is updating the names of several of its year-end awards, including the Top Goaltender Award, which will now be named after former Powell River Kings’ goaltender Michael Garteig.
BC Ferries customers travelling on the Comox-Powell River route have a pair of new options to enhance the travel experience.
Meanwhile…
The pre-campaign period for 2022 General Local Elections begins Monday, July 18. Election advertising rules come into effect at the start of the pre-campaign period and last until the election on October 15.
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