Happy Wednesday!
Lisa Hansen captured today’s featured image of a mural literally coming to life across from the Dairy Queen drive-through.
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On this day:
In 1675, the foundation stone was laid for London’s Royal Observatory Greenwich, which is famous for being the location marking where the prime meridian (defines 0° longitude by international agreement) passes through.
In 1990, the first spacecraft to be launched by a space shuttle, Magellan, went into orbit around Venus and spent eight months gathering data about its surface.
Today’s weather:
Cloudiness is expected to increase early in the morning on Wednesday, August 10, as is a 40 per cent chance of showers late in the afternoon. The forecast calls for a high of 24 degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to 17 degrees in the evening, when chances of showers increase to 70 per cent. For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
Powell River Division of Family Practice officially changed its name to qathet Division of Family Practice.
Meanwhile…
City of Powell River is starting a public engagement process to create a new vision for its downtown.
Traffic reminder…
There will be a closure of the Wildwood bridge in the early morning hours of this coming Friday.
Low on gas?
Here are the latest prices at local stations.
