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by Patricia L. Cook Many people suffer from the blues during the winter months because of a lack of sunshine, but spring will bring us all warmth and sunny days soon! This Tidbits explores the gigantic star that our planet revolves around.

• The sun is a huge star that is the center of our solar system. Earth is tiny compared to the sun.

Our entire planet could fit inside the sun 109 times if it was a hollow ball! Of course, it’s not hollow; it is filled with hot gasses. How hot?

The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The core, or center of the sun, is estimated to be more than 28 million degrees Fahrenheit.

• The sun is 864,000 miles in diameter, almost 35 times larger than the diameter of the earth and is about 330,000 times the mass of earth.

• On a mountain summit on a hot summer day, it appears that the sun is really close to earth.

However, it is nearly 93 million miles away. It takes sunlight about eight minutes to reach us.

Even with that distance, the light and heat keep our planet warm, allowing plants to grow and even giving us a sunburn if we are not careful.

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• The closer you get to the earth’s poles, the more extreme the days are with and without sunshine.

The North Pole does not have sunshine for 186 days a year.

• Barrow, Alaska, doesn’t have any sunshine in December and January, but when summer rolls around, June through August, they are blessed with continual sunshine 24 hours a day.

• Today, much attention is focused on our need for vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin.

Being in the sun is the best way to satisfy your body’s need for vitamin D; it is produced in your skin when your skin is exposed to sunlight.

• A lack of vitamin D can put you at increased risk for the bone disease osteoporosis. Low vitamin D can also cause poor metabolism, a weakened heart and cause your body to heal slowly from broken bones and cuts.

You Know You’re In Alaska When… . .you have to put your sun visor down at 3:00 a.m • Even though Florida is nicknamed the “Sunshine State,” there are five other states that actually have more sunshine. According to the National Weather Service, Arizona, California, Texas, Nevada and New Mexico catch more rays.

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The word seems to imply happiness. However, there are a few places borrowing the name that haven’t turned out so sunny. How about ghost towns?

• Sunshine, Tennessee, is also known as Kinsel Springs, after S.J. Kinsel who established the town in the early 1900s. Located in what is now the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, at one time it had a large resort hotel, and people rode the train from Knoxville to enjoy swimming in the Little River and walking across the swinging bridge. After the hotel burned in the 1950s, and the railroad’s demand for the local lumber dried up, the company was discontinued and the town died. The swinging bridge has been renovated, but not much else is there today.

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• Two mines named “Sunshine” were located in Utah and Idaho, for gold and silver respectively.

• Sunshine Mine in Utah was expected to be a great gold find but proved to be disappointing and was abandoned after 15 years of work. Only about $400,000 in gold was extracted. Sunshine Canyon, where the mine was located, has been deserted since 1910.

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• Sunshine Mine in Idaho, located between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace in the Idaho panhandle, was a silver mine that produced almost 365 million ounces of silver from 1904 through 2001. Unfortunately, the Sunshine Mine has the distinction of being the spot of the worst disaster in Idaho history. A fire in the mine in 1972 killed 91 workers. A monument to the lost miners was erected near the mine and can be viewed there today.

• Sunshine Hill, Texas, near Wichita Falls, got its name from the fact that at 1,208 feet above sea level, it was the highest hill in the area.

The school that was established there in 1889 was the only structure left in the town in recent years. Unfortunately, the school burned to the ground in March 2011.

• North of the border in Alberta, Canada, is Sunshine Village Ski Resort, one of three ski resorts within Banff National Park. It claims to have up to 30 feet of snow in the winter! It also has summer hiking access and fun programs beginning in June.

• All of us need to be thankful for the sun coming up every morning and going down every night.

There have been numerous religions that have the sun as their centerpiece. The Egyptians, Aztecs, Greeks and Japanese all had major tenets of their beliefs based on the sun. The Aztecs actually thought the sun died every night and had to be resurrected each day.

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• Banff started as a small hot springs reserve.

When the Great Canadian Railway reached the Banff area in 1883, two railway workers discovered hot springs near an area referred to as siding 29. The hot springs quickly became an attraction for visitors, and the government established the Banff National Reserve in 1885. At that time, it was 10 square miles.

• When the Canadian government changed the designation of the area to Rocky Mountain National Park in 1887, it included the town of Banff and the hot springs. The size at that time was 260 square miles. The main transportation to the park was the Canadian Pacific Railway, which is still around today, more commonly known as CP Rail.

• Today, Banff National Park consists of 2,564 square miles of spectacular mountain scenery nestled in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The western border of the park runs for 149 miles along the Continental Divide.

• The most famous landmark in the park and in the entire Canadian Rockies is Lake Louise, a beautiful glacial lake 35 miles west of the town of Banff. Natives of the area were familiar with the lake when Edwin Hunter led Tom Wilson to his “discovery” of Lake Louise in 1882.

Wilson gazed at the site and said, “As God is my judge, I never in all my explorations saw such a matchless scene.”

• Lake Louise is referred to as the Hiking Capital of Canada, the Skiing Capital of Canada, the Romance Capital of Canada (tied with Niagara Falls), the Jewel in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies and the Diamond in the Wilderness.

All of the names are deserved! It is also the Highest Community in Canada at 5,020 feet.

• Just as railroads helped build and increase traffic to national parks in the United States, CP Rail helped with the popularity and growth of Canada’s first national park. In 1888, CP Rail built the Banff Springs Hotel. (At the time, the wealthy were the only ones who could afford travel.) The historic hotel remains a great attraction of the park for visitors from all over the world.

• A modest hotel geared toward adventurers was built at Lake Louise in 1890. With the lake in front and a mountain glacier behind, the hotel became a popular tourist spot. It was renamed Chateau Lake Louise in 1913 and after a fire, was rebuilt much larger. The area then went on to become a major tourist stop.

• Originally opened as summer-only resorts, Chateau Lake Louise and Banff Springs Hotel began opening for skiers during the winter holiday seasons in the 1970s. In 1988, when Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics, Banff National Park was showcased to the world.

• Banff along with Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho National Parks and the provincial parks of Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber are designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the largest protected areas in the world.

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