Happy Wednesday!
Regular contributor Alan Maconnachie submitted today’s featured image, capturing a stunning sunset over Vancouver Island.
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On this day:
In 1977, legendary nightclub Studio 54 opened in New York.
In 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere, contaminating large parts of Europe. Although the number of deaths attributable to the disaster is difficult to determine, experts anticipate tens of thousands of deaths across Europe in the coming decades due to cancer caused by the radioactive fallout.
In 1989, actress-comedian Lucille Ball died in Los Angeles at age 77.
Today’s weather:
Morning showers and cloudy skies are in the forecast for Wednesday, April 26, as is a high of 12 degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to five degrees 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…
People travelling for medical reasons will no longer have to pay the $18 reservation fee on BC Ferries.
Meanwhile…
According to a report for City of Powell River’s committee of the whole from its CFO, the city tax rate assumes an average single-family dwelling value of $628,246, and a city property tax of $2,404.60 on that average dwelling.
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