In the Region of Queens, [household] waste collection is every second week as indicated on your 2023 Waste Collection Schedule. Green carts, blue bags and garbage (black) bags are picked up on the same day.
Place materials into the grey community garbage boxes by 8:00am on collection day … Continue reading Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2023
10 Facts about New Year
© 2022 By Anne Buckle and Vigdis Hocken
Did you know that people toast the New Year at 38 different times during 26 hours around the globe? Here are ten fun facts while you wait for 2023 …
Read the full story at timeanddate.com.
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The FoxCreek community experienced a two-part power outage on Friday, 23-Dec-2022/11:43pm which lasted into Christmas Eve, 24-Dec-2022/5:44pm (18hrs 1min) for the first part (which seems to be from 470 OKR to HVD) and to 24-Dec-2022/7:02pm (19hrs 19mins) for the second part (rest), likely caused by the trees in the power lines from the winter storm popping the line breakers.
The restoration estimate was beat by 4 hours for the second part of the outage … just in time for fixing a less fancy Christmas Eve supper …
Many of us would welcome more daylight on the shortest day of the year. So here’s some good news: the year’s shortest day is becoming longer (but only by a few seconds).
The December solstice—when the North Pole is at its maximum tilt away from the Sun—is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It can fall on December 20, 21, 22, or 23 ….
Read the full story at timeanddate.com.
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends 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.
In most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico’s northern border cities when local daylight time is about to reach Sunday, 6-Nov-2022, 02:00h (2am) clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, 6-Nov- 2022, 01:00h (1am) local standard time instead!
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on 6-Nov-2022 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.
The next Daylight Saving Time starts on 12-Mar-2023.
Is it Daylight Saving Time or Daylight Savings Time?
Click here for interesting facts about staying on DST in USA & Canada!
Wildfire Risk Season 2022 ended.
Burning restrictions are lifted as of 16-Oct-2022 until and including 14-Mar-2023.
The 2022 fire-risk season has come to an end and you no longer need to check daily for permission to burn (domestic) brush or have a campfire.
Although the season ended today and you can burn without permission, Continue reading Burning Restrictions lifted for Season 2022
Fall clean-up (Sperrgut) for the FoxCreek community takes place in the week starting Monday, 31-Oct-2021 on the regular collection day.
Place items next to the grey community garbage box by Monday morning.
Generally, items acceptable for pick-up are Continue reading Fall Clean-up 2022
The Fire Prevention Parade will be held on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2022 @ 6pm starting in Port Medway (Ragged Harbour Rd) and continuing through Port Medway, Mill Village, Charleston, East Port Medway , Danesville and back to Port Medway.
NFPA Fire Prevention Week 2022 website
Today’s homes burn faster than ever. You may have as little as two minutes (or even less time) to safely escape a home fire from the time the smoke alarm sounds. Continue reading Fire Prevention Week – 9 to 15-Oct-2022
There was another short power outage for the FoxCreek community as part of a bigger outage this morning, 26-Sep-2022 from 5:21am to 7:31am ADT (2hours 10minutes). Lightning was reported as cause.
Luckily the original estimated restoration time of 11pm was beat by 15 hours! Thanks NSP.
Find the hurricane #Fiona track animation !
Hurricane #Fiona Environment Canada summary:
Issued at 2022-09-25 9:08PM ADT by Environment Canada: Tropical cyclone information statement continued for: Queens County, N.S. (011500) Current details: Updated preliminary storm summary on Fiona. THIS IS THE FINAL INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR THIS STORM. 1. Full Discussion of the Event. Tropical depression Fiona formed over the central tropical Atlantic on September 15th[, 2022]. The tropical depression became better organized and its intensity gradually increased during the following day when the National Hurricane Centre reported tropical storm force winds near the centre of the cyclone. On September 16th Fiona reached the Leeward Islands while on its way to the western Atlantic. Two days later Fiona quickly intensified into a category 1 hurricane while turning to the northwest and passing through the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.
