Happy Saturday!
Kris Carlson submitted today’s featured image of the sun setting over Wildwood, which she took from Lois Street near Sunset Park (How appropriate is that?).
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On this day:
In 1892, Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate a challenge cup for the best ice hockey team in Canada. The Stanley Cup is now the National Hockey League’s championship trophy.
In 1965, over a 12-minute span, Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became the first person to walk in space when he went outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, which was orbiting earth.
In 2017, rock ‘n’ roll guitarist and singer Chuck Berry died at his home near St. Louis at age 90.
Today’s weather:
Mainly sunny skies are in the forecast for Saturday, March 18, as is a high of 13 degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to four degrees in the evening, when clouds are expected to roll in. For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
School District 47 will be receiving more than $2 million for capital projects.
Meanwhile…
As an organic farmer for over 30 years and a permaculture practitioner for more than 15 years, Berezan thinks there is not only something special about growing your own food, but just having access to farm-grown food can be grounding.
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