Happy Wednesday!
Steve Short submitted today’s featured photo of a snow-capped Vancouver Island, which he took from Westview on Family Day.
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On this day:
In 1922, Great Britain declared that Egypt was a sovereign state.
In 1995, adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean by balloon, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan.
In 2002, Canada women's ice hockey team won gold at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics with a 3-2 win over the United States.
Today’s weather:
Clouds and rain is expected on Wednesday, February 21, as is a high of nine 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…
Author Leslie Davidson will give a talk and read from her memoir titled: Dancing in Small Spaces: One Couple’s Journey with Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia, at Powell River Public Library this Thursday.
Meanwhile…
Folks who are a part of an online photography group have been busy photographing young swans molting, preening, flapping and flying around the Cranberry Lake area.
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