Happy Wednesday!
Lily Dunbar took today’s featured photo from her vantage point in Westview as a thunderstorm lit up skies over the qathet region.
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On this day:
In 1146, with the intention to end war forever, the crossbow was outlawed by European leaders.
In 1954, after falling 8-6 to Winnipeg Blue Bombers in their first-ever Canadian Football League game at home two days earlier, BC Lions lost to Saskatchewan Roughriders by a score of 17-0, also at home.
In 1972, Rosemary Brown, the first black woman to sit in a legislative assembly in Canada, was elected as a provincial MLA in British Columbia.
In 1997, news about a motor vehicle accident that killed Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and the car’s driver Henri Paul, spread quickly in Canada on August 30. In Paris, where the crash happened in a tunnel, it was August 31.
Today’s weather:
A mix of sun and cloud is expected on Wednesday, August 30, as is a high of 21 degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to 15 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…
City of Powell River Council strongly supports having the city selected for implementation of a peer-assisted care team.
Meanwhile…
More frequent Sunshine Coast sailings starting next summer depend on a decision due at the end of next month from BC’s ferry commission.
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