Happy Wednesday!
Luci Hansen sent in today’s featured image, which shows snow covering a lot behind King Avenue and Columbia Street in Wildwood.
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On this day:
In 1891, based on rules created by Canadian James Naismith, the first basketball game was played in Massachusetts.
In 1937, the first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a Disney classic, premiered in theatres. The movie was based on a German fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm.
In 1966, Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland was born.
Today’s weather:
A mix of sun and clouds is expected on Wednesday, December 21, as is a high of minus six degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to minus eight 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…
City of Powell River councillors have adopted a bylaw that will see incremental increases in municipal solid waste collection rates.
Meanwhile…
Five lucky people received $2,000 worth of gift cards each from Canadian Tire, FreshCo, Pacific Point Market, Quality Foods and Save-On-Foods as winners of the 2022 Rotary Club of Powell River Great Grocery Raffle.
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Here are the latest prices at local stations.
