Happy Monday!
Janet Hansen captured today’s stunning featured image of the sun setting in a smoke-filled sky over Westview on September 11.
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On this day:
In 1940, estimated to be 17,000 to 20,000 years old, the Lascaux Cave Paintings, images of animals and abstract symbols, were found by teenagers in France.
In 1953, Massachusetts state senator and future United States president John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
In 1959, the Luna 2 space probe, launched by the Soviet Union, made a crash landing on the moon.
In 1959, the first episode of western-genre television show Bonanza was broadcast.
In 1981, animated cartoon show The Smurfs debuted on television.
Today’s weather:
Monday, September 12, is expected to be sunny and hazy with a high of 23 degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to a low of 12 degrees in the evening, when cloudy periods are forecasted to start rolling in. For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
Candidates running for City of Powell River mayoral and councillor positions, qathet Regional District director positions and School District 47 trustees have been finalized and announced after packages for the October 15 municipal election were received and the deadline for filing them passed on September 9.
Meanwhile…
2022 Brooks Secondary School graduate Kaleb Parsons is heading off to university in New Brunswick, where he will study physics and work to acquire his commercial pilot’s licence, with the hope of flying for the Canadian Armed Forces.
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