Yearly Archives: 2017

FoxCreek Community News

Region of Queens to Sell Former School to Non Profit Organization

[Region of Queens Municipality, March 1, 2017] A local non profit organization received Council approval to pursue their plan to convert the former Mill Village School into an international boarding school.

At the February 28, 2017 Regular Council meeting, the Council of the Region of Queens Municipality approved giving notice of its intention to enter into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with The Devi International Boarding School Society for the sale of the former Mill Village School property, located at 227 Medway River Road, Mill Village, NS, for a sale price of $1.00. Continue reading Region of Queens to Sell Former School to Non Profit Organization →

Events, FoxCreek Community News

Tom Cochrane to perform in Liverpool

[Region of Queens Municipality, 28-Feb-2017, Liverpool, NS] The sounds of “Life is a Highway” filled the lobby at Queens Place Emera Centre as the summer concert event for Southern Nova Scotia was announced today. Eight time Juno Award winner Tom Cochrane will be performing with Red Rider at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, NS on 28-Jun-2017.

“With such chart topping hits as “Big League”, “No Regrets” and “Boy Inside the Man”, we are excited to have the iconic Canadian musician Tom Cochrane taking Continue reading Tom Cochrane to perform in Liverpool →

FOXweather News

DST starts in USA and Canada on 12-Mar-2017

Remember: Sunday, March 12, 2017

Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts in USA and Canada !!!

The term “spring forward – fall back” is meant to trigger your memory to set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST, and one hour back in the fall when DST ends.

DST+1In most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico’s northern border cities when local standard time is about to reach Sunday, March 12, 2017, 02:00h (2am) clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 12, 2017, 03:00h (3am) local daylight time instead.

Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour later on Mar 12, 2017 than the day before. There will be more light in the evening.

A different way to remember which direction to set your clock for Daylight Saving Time (DST) is that in the spring, you bring out (or forward) the garden furniture (clocks are set 1 hour ahead), and in the fall you put them back (clocks are set 1 hour back).

Is it Daylight Saving Time or Daylight Savings Time?

FoxCreek Community News, FOXweather News

Power Outage, 13-Feb-2017

The FoxCreek community experienced a power outage from 13-Feb-2017/4:01pm to 14-Feb-2016/6:27pm caused by a power line down from strong winds and heavy snow.

FOXweather was partially affected as data was collected but could not be broadcasted from 6:50am to 10:45am on 14-Feb-2017.

FOXlive data was collected but no broadcast took place as the system was shut down as a precaution at 9:30pm. FOXlive was up and broadcasting again at 14-Feb-2017/7pm.

No weather data was lost.

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FOXweather News

Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer

Doomsday Clock (3)The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, representing a countdown to possible global catastrophe. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the scientists believe the world is to global disaster.

Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight yesterday [25-Jan-2017] which makes it the closest it’s been to midnight since 1960!

Read the full story on USA Today, BBC News or The Verge.
Find the Wiki definition here or see the Doomsday Clock timeline in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.