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These cliff-like structures appeared stretching up to gigantic heights behind Provost to the southwest, seen on Christmas Day and Boxing Day—although not really there—were a real phenomenon witnessed for several hours as they bent and morphed into different sizes and shapes. The images appear to be what is called a superior mirage, also called the Fata Morgana when distant objects and features at the horizon appear as spikes, turrets or towers, objects with great vertical exaggeration rising from the surface. According to Wikipedia: Alistair Fraser, an expert on atmospheric optics who was at Pennsylvania State University, (but is now retired and living in Kooteney Lakes B.C.) attributes the Fata Morgana to a situation where the temperature increases slowly with height from the surface until it reaches a shallow air layer where the increase in temperature becomes quite rapid. This layer is then topped with another layer of slowly increasing temperature. This atmospheric temperature structure will magnify objects whose light rays pass through the middle layer. Minor spatial variations in the inversion pattern can project a complex image pattern toward the observer. Variations in the degree, thickness or location of the layer may even cause relatively smooth surfaces of water or snow to appear as a line of irregular towers and spires.
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Man Dies in Chauvin House Fire
An investigation continues into the death of a Chauvin resident after a house caught fire and burned on New Year’s Day.
St. Paul’s RCMP general investigation section spokesman Const. Mike Black says that there were no other injuries and a fire investigator is still checking into the cause of the blaze.
Wainwright RCMP said that 26 year old John Christopher Taylor, who recently purchased the property came to the village from Manitoba.
The Chauvin fire department was called to the scene that day.
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Bleeding Internally, Rancher Has Narrow Escape
Rancher and M.D. 52 councillor for Division 4, Barrie Tripp is back home recovering from emergency surgery and injuries after being squashed by a cow at his farmyard on Boxing Day.
The mishap took place at 11 a.m. said Tripp who could only whisper during a telephone interview with The Provost News on the day after he returned home, January 5 from an Edmonton hospital.
As he was climbing out of a corral and was over top of a steel gate one of the cows jumped up on top of him and then both tumbled down from the metal enclosure.
Four family members were working tagging cows and calves at the time of the mishap.
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Vandals Back — Again
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Street Spokesman
This week we ask : "Would You Like to Play Professional Basketball?"
. . . and we heard opinions from Ben Hager, Brent Stempfle, Rebecca Allen, Travis Twa and Garrett Southoff.
Check out the January 10 edition of The Provost News for their answers.
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