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October 7, 2019 9:35 am Published by

Parents will be able to send their children to school Monday as a tentative deal has been reached between the province and education support workers.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) was involved in contract talks with the province throughout the weekend in an attempt to reach a deal and avoid a strike.

The deal was reached Sunday, allowing schools across the province to remain open and have classes resume as normal on Monday.

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A family from Philadelphia took a road trip to a water park in New Jersey recently.

But when they got there, it was closed for the season . . . just like Wally World in “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”

Luckily they didn’t drive the whole way across the country though.  It turned out to be the park’s fault.  They’d closed a week earlier, but still had promotions running on social media.  So that’s how the family was able to buy tickets.

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ENTERTAINMENT

The“Joker” easily won the box office, with a $93.5 million take, which is a record for October.  The kids’ movie “Abominable” was a distant second at $12 million.

 

  1. “Downton Abbey”, $8 million.  Up to $73.6 million in its 3rd week.

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“SNL” alums Martin Short and Maya Rudolph were guests on David Spade’s show.  If you haven’t seen it, they let the guests make comments during David’s monologue.  Martin Short took full advantage by busting on him, the way he usually does on other celebs.  It was pretty funny.

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “Bathtub Day”, encouraging a luxurious long, hot bath to develop inner peace. Almost everyone nowadays takes showers.

 

  • “Blue Shirt Day”, also known as ‘World Day of Bullying Prevention’, takes place on the first Monday of October each year, the kickoff to “National Bullying Prevention Month”.

 

  • “World Habitat Day”, a UN observance on the 1st Monday of October since 1986, to focus attention on the state of our urban areas and the basic human right to adequate shelter.

 

2001 [18] Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 73rd home run of the season, setting a new (but tainted by steroids) Major League Baseball record

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 RANDOM REPORT

  1. The smell of fresh-cut grass is a distress signal. The grass is releasing a chemical that makes that smell to try to save itself from the mortal wound you just dealt to it.

 

  1. The White House was totally open to the public through the early 1900s.  Andrew Jacksonhad to spend his first night as president in a hotel because the 20,000 people partying at the White House after his inauguration were too rowdy.

 

  1. The phrase “blowing smoke up your [you-know-what]” comes from the late 1700s, when doctors would give tobacco enemas to drowning victims to resuscitate them.

 

  1. The Lakers and the Clippers both play at the Staples Center in L.A., but the arena has different capacities depending on who’s playing.  Because of the way they lay out the courtside seats, there are 63 more tickets available when the Clippers play.

 

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GOOD NEWS

There’s an eight-year-old near Knoxville named Daniel Hunt who lost ALL his stuff in a fire last month.  But his friends in third grade came up big for him.

 

After it happened, they were all extra nice . . . held doors for him . . . and hung out with him at recess to take his mind off it.

 

And the whole time, they somehow managed to keep THIS a secret.

 

After the fire, they started planning a toy drive with their teacher.  Then on Friday, they surprised him with a MOUNTAIN of new toys to replace the ones he lost.

 

When he walked into class, they yelled “surprise.”  And their desks were covered with board games, LEGOS, stuffed animals, a remote-control car, and dozens of other toys.

 

There’s a video of it.  And at first, it looks like he doesn’t realize they’re all for him.  Then his teacher says they’re HIS toys . . . and he asks the whole class for a group hug.

His teacher says it’s a great example of what a big heart he has.  Most kids would have just ripped into the toys.  But he wanted a hug first.

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BIRTHDAYS

[68] John Mellencamp, singer

 

[60] Simon Cowell,

 

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College Kid Figured Out How to Scam Scammers Into Giving You Money

A 22-year-old college kid in Ireland says he figured out a way to get scammers to give HIM money.  And he’s pulled it off three separate times.

 

Earlier this month, he got an email from someone claiming to be a “big business banker,” who was looking for an investment of about $1,200.  So here’s what he did . . .

 

First, he acted VERY interested . . . said he wanted to invest MORE than that . . . and asked if he could send them $60,000.

 

Second, he emailed them a fake PayPal invoice that made it LOOK like he tried to transfer them the money.

 

Then when the scammer didn’t receive the funds, he claimed his bank put a hold on the transfer, because they thought it was a scam.  And he told the scammer THEY needed to transfer a small amount of money to him first, so the bank would know it was legit.

 

They ended up sending him about $30.  Then he donated their money to a cancer charity, and sent them an invoice letting them know THEY’D been scammed.

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SECRET TO HAPPINESS……

The secret to happiness? Water. Drinking water.

 

A new study of 2,000 Americans found that you’re three times more likely to feel “very happy” if you feel you drink enough water.

 

The results showed that 67 percent of people who said that they drank “more than enough” water thought of themselves as “very happy,” while only 21 percent of those who said they “didn’t drink enough water” said they’re “very happy.”

 

Interestingly, while the “recommended amount” of water per day is eight 8-ounce glasses, the study found that those who drank 10-plus glasses per day were statistically the most likely to be “very happy”, with 80 per cent saying so.

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MONDAY OCTOBER 7TH                                             

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

John Mellencamp is 68 today!  It’s also a 40th anniversary of his first album, back when he was “John Cougar” in 1979.  A song from that first album kicks off this montage of some of his best

 

Say happy birthday to Simon Cowell!  You know him from “American Idol”, “X Factor”, and “America’s Got Talent”.  You can really tell he’s gotten nicer over the years, everyone’s favorite celebrity judge turns 60 today!

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  1. MLB

In American League playoff action, the Yankees beat the Twins 8 to 2 Saturday, and lead the series 2 games to none . . . and the Astros beat the Rays 3 to 1, to take a 2 to nothing lead.

 

In National League playoff action, the Braves beat the Cardinals 3 to 1, to take a 2 games to 1 series lead . . . and the Dodgers took a 2 games to 1 lead over the Nationals by beating them 10 to 4.

With their National League Divisional Series tied at a game a piece, the St. Louis Cardinals led one to nothing from the second inning, until the ninth, when the Atlanta Braves made their last-ditch effort.  With two outs and a man on second and third, Adam Duvall blooped a hit to center field, bringing in both runners.  Here’s that play that ended up winning the game for the Braves.

 

  1. The“Joker” easily won the box office, with a $93.5 million take, which is a record for October.  The kids’ movie “Abominable”was a distant second at $12 million.
  2. “Downton Abbey”, $8 million.  Up to $73.6 million in its 3rd week.

 

  1. A 93-year-old named Howard Fisher has lived in Florida for about 20 years.  And he lived in Alabama before that.  But he hadn’t been in the ocean since he was much, much younger.  So his daughter got a special wheelchair for the beach, and took him to swim in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time.  It’s a great reminder to stop and make sure you enjoy the little things in life.

 

  1. Jimmy Fallon read a bunch of “College in Six Words” Tweets from viewers on Friday.  (From “The Tonight Show” on Friday, October 4, 2019)

 

A single ticket bought by someone in Calgary won the Lotto Max worth $65 million dollars.

There were also eight Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up grabs, but only one of them was claimed — by a player in Ontario.

The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw tomorrow will be approximately $17 million.

 

There was no winning ticket for the $21.8-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.

However, the guaranteed $1-million prize went to a ticket holder in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw Wednesday will be approximately $25 million.

 

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LADY ANTEBELLUM TOOK ‘INTENTIONAL’ TIME WITH NEW ALBUM

Lady Antebellum took their sweet time in writing and looking for the songs on their upcoming album, Ocean. They had three years in between project, and as Charles Kelley tells us, their mission was to slow things down this time around. [“I think in the past, especially with the Heart Break record, we didn’t have much time before to write. So, it was very intentional — getting out of town and being able to write. With this though, we wrote a lot together, we wrote a lot separately, too, to see if something would come out. And there was definitely some honest songs that almost feel like I was able to come out with and you were able to come out with that, I think if it was all three of us, maybe we wouldn’t have come up with it that way.  And we just mixed up the process a lot.”]

Ocean will be released on November 15th.

 

 

TRISHA YEARWOOD – PIZZA

PEOPLE asked Trisha Yearwood what her game plan is when she wants to romance her husband, Garth Brooks.  She said all it takes is pizza, because “That’s the most romantic food.”

 

 

Eric Church Agreed to Sponsor a Girl’s Jog-A-Thon, After Reading Her Sign

ERIC CHURCH made one young girl the most popular kid at school last week.  10-year-old Makenna Wallace was at his recent show in San Francisco holding up a sign . . . asking him to sponsor her at the school’s jog-a-thon.

He had someone bring it up to the stage so he could read it out loud.  And then he pointed to her and said, “I will sponsor you for your jog-a-thon.  I like your shades, by the way.”  She was wearing aviator sunglasses, just like Eric does.

And later in the show he gave her a hug while performing her favorite song, “Springsteen”.

Wait, it gets even better.  After the information was exchanged Eric’s people sent an email to the school saying he and his wife would be sending a check for $10,000.  That was way more than the $735 she raised.

 

 

As expected, CARLY PEARCE and MICHAEL RAY got married over the weekend.  It was held at a Nashville-area farm and about 100 guests attended.  As far as celebrities, LINDSAY ELL was there, and JAKE OWEN performed his song “Made for You” for the couple’s first dance.  Michael is 31 and Carly is 29.

The honeymoon is being put on hold until December because of touring schedules and the CMAs where Carly has a New Artist of the Year nomination.

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer