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This page of
the family website will be used to post copies of Teena's family
newsletters
so everyone who visits our website may access this added family
news. Entitled Colville Update,
these newsletters have been mailed out to family and friends
every spring over recent years. The thumbnail to the right is just a
sample of the first page of the 2001 newsletter.
All the newsletters are in
PDF format so you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer to be able to open and see each individual newsletter.
Most people have this program already, but if you don't, it can be
downloaded free from the Adobe website. Click on their address
below to go to the download site and then return to this page
to click on various newsletter links to view one.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
Colville
Update 2016
***NEW***
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Bonus Information from
Colville Village:
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Colville
Village Sun Chart
Latitude: 70E 25', Longitude: 150E 24'
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Sun First up
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Sun up for
12 hours
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Sun up for
24 hours
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Sun first sets
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Sun down 12 hours
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Sun down
24 hours
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May 15th |
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July 29th |
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Sept. 23rd |
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(dates vary
several days depending year)
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Total number of days sun never sets = 75
Total number of days sun never rises = 56
The
sun
rises for the first time each year about January 18th. At first
it only tops the horizon in the southern sky and sets again
shortly. Each day it stays up longer and climbs a little higher
in the sky. The distance between where it rises and sets along
the horizon expands each day; its point of rising moves toward the east
and it sets more toward the west. By March 20th the sun is above
the horizon for 12 hours a day, and it spans half the distance around
the horizon. It makes
a low arc in the sky from sunrise to sunset, with the
pinnacle of the arc directly south and only about halfway
up in the sky. In the Arctic the sun never reaches
directly overhead. By May 15th the sun no longer sets.
It merely circles around the horizon, reaching
its highest point directly south and its lowest point directly north.
Picture a tilted circle compared to the flat circle of the horizon. On
July 29th the sun first begins to set again. It now reverses the
order it started in January, and slowly decreases the time it remains
above
the horizon and its movements around the horizon.
By September 23rd its time above and below the horizon
is equal - 12 hours. The sun sets its final time
for the year on November 24th. The sun is not seen
again until January 18th of the next year.
ABH
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