Happy Wednesday!
Kris Carlson submitted today’s featured photo, which she took at the Blackberry Festival street party on Marine Avenue last Friday.
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On this day:
In 1913, the bronze Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, which was inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, was unveiled in the city’s harbour.
In 1966, the unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from the moon’s orbit.
In 2012, Ryan Jenkins, a contestant on a pair of reality television shows who was suspected of killing his wife, Jasmine Fiore, was found hanging in a motel in Hope, BC; it was an apparent suicide.
Today’s weather:
Wednesday, August 23, is expected to be cloudy in the morning with a 70 per cent chance of rain, they hazy in the afternoon. The high is forecast to be 18 degrees Celsius, dropping to 10 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…
Tla’amin Nation’s soccer mini-pitch has been officially opened, with members of the community and representatives of the Vancouver Whitecaps soccer club in attendance.
Meanwhile…
The heat wave passed just in time for runners to take on hilly Texada Island for the annual Run the Rock marathon on August 20. Here are the results.
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