Happy Monday!
Regular photo of the day contributor Yolanda Gravnic captured today’s featured image while strolling through the serene surroundings of the Millennium Park Trails.
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On this day:
In 1956, Italian liner SS Andrea Doria, which capsized and sank the following morning, and Swedish passenger ship Stockholm collided in the Atlantic ocean; 46 Andrea Doria passengers and five from the Stockholm were killed.
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 2000, an Air France Concorde supersonic jet, on its way to New York from Paris, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
Today’s weather:
Monday, July 25, is expected to be sunny with a high of 27 degrees Celsius. A heat warning is in effect as of today, continuing through to the weekend. The forecast calls for clear skies tonight and a low of 15 degrees. For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
Food-service workers who were previously contracted out in health-care facilities in the qathet region are returning as Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) employees.
Meanwhile…
City of Powell River Council has approved a $17,480 expenditure to purchase four pole-mounted speed display signs to help reduce speeding in the city.
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