From a bone-dry summer to a chilly and wet late October! The rain is certainly welcome, but the white stuff? As the clouds pulled back slightly on Monday, snow could be seen on top of Billygoat Mountain in Pateros. On Tuesday morning, we saw snow powdering Dyer Hill and other areas just a little closer to the valley.
If this keeps up, parents might have to bundle up their kids a bit more than usual for upcoming Halloween festivities. See the Bulletin Board for details on what's happening in Brewster and Pateros next Wednesday. The Legion has a report as well.
Unfortunately, Mansfield had to cancel this year's Harvest Carnival "due to lack of interest," according to Teresa Cook with the school district.
Pateros Museum news
The Pateros Museum is working on an exhibit of the town's relocation in 1965, when the Douglas County PUD began construction on Wells Dam, according to minutes from the Oct. 17 museum committee meeting.
The committee is also looking into securing historical, non-profit status for the museum.
Meanwhile, Pateros will celebrate its centennial next year, and Mayor Gail Howe reported that representatives from the sister city in Pateros, Philippines will come to town for the 2013 Apple Pie Jamboree.
The next museum committee meeting will be held Nov. 19.
This day in history - Oct. 25
2137 B.C.: Chinese Royal astronomers, Ho and Hsi, were executed after not predicting a solar eclipse caused panic in the streets of China.
1400: Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
1774: The First Continental Congress sent a respectful petition to King George III to inform his majesty that if it had not been for the acts of oppression forced upon the colonies by the British Parliament, the American people would have stood behind British rule. The king did not respond to the petition to Congress' satisfaction and eight months later on July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution written by John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson that laid out the reasons for taking up arms and starting a violent revolution against British rule of the colonies.
1812: During the War of 1812, the U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian.
1870: The first U.S. trademark was given. The recipient was the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.
1917: The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
1944: During the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deployed kamikaze ("divine wind") suicide bombers against American warships for the first time.
1955: The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1971: The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1983: U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
2001: It was announced that scientists had unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile which lived 110 million years ago. The animal, found in Gadoufaoua, Niger, grew as long as 40 feet and weighed as much as eight metric tons.
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