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\u27a2 Ontario could be heading into another Provincial lockdown that would last 28 days. An announcement from Priemier Ford is expected later today and would take effect as of Saturday. Kids would still go to school after the Easter weekend then have their “March Break” but whether they would go back to in-school learning afterwards still hasn’t been decided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2<\/span> An employee at a Goodwill in Oklahoma\u00a0<\/span>found<\/span><\/a>\u00a0$42,000 in cash hidden in some old sweaters someone donated by mistake.\u00a0 And she made sure they got it back.\u00a0 Her name is Andrea Lessing, and said she’s just a big believer in karma.\u00a0 (Here’s an interview that ends with her being surprised with a $1,000 reward.)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 <\/span>An analysis of 44 recent studies of more than 9,000 seafood samples from restaurants, fishmongers and supermarkets in more than 30 countries found that 36% were mislabelled, exposing seafood fraud on a vast global scale. The UK and Canada had the highest rates of mislabeling at 40% of those tested, followed by the US at 38%. And some samples of prawn balls sold in Singapore were found to be entirely non-aquatic, containing pork and not a trace of prawn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 <\/span>A runaway shopping cart with a KID in it started\u00a0<\/span>rolling<\/span><\/a>\u00a0through a parking lot in Illinois the other day.\u00a0 So a quick-thinking employee named Ben Mazur broke into a sprint and snagged it right before it crossed into a busy intersection.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n George Strait<\/b>\u00a0claimed the Number One position on the\u00a0<\/span>Billboard<\/span><\/i>\u00a0country chart with “Baby’s Gotten Good At Goodbye” in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seven Things You Shouldn’t Be Putting in the Dishwasher<\/b><\/p>\n Here are seven things you shouldn’t be cleaning in the dishwasher . . .<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0_____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n Four Things to Look Forward to in April<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jamie Foxx’s\u00a0<\/b>new sitcom\u00a0<\/span>“Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me”<\/i><\/b>\u00a0hits Netflix on the 14th . . . and season four of\u00a0<\/span>“The Handmaid’s Tale”<\/i><\/b>\u00a0will finally premiere on Hulu April 28th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>(The last new episode aired August 14th, 2019.)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n A Pastor from Japan\u00a0<\/span>has<\/span><\/a>\u00a0been working as a hospital chaplain in Minnesota, and recently asked the public to send in paper cranes to cheer people up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He says linking 1,000 of them together is considered good luck in Japan, and helps you heal.\u00a0 Now 16,000 of them are hanging from the ceiling in the front lobby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He says visitors were always looking down at the ground when they walked in, and it seemed like a metaphor.\u00a0 So he wanted to give them a reason to look up.<\/span><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n [60] Susan Boyle, singer\/TV talent show contestant (\u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent\u201d 2009)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [35] Hillary Scott, country singer (Lady A)<\/span><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Past April Fools’ Day Headlines That Turned Out to Be . . . True<\/b><\/p>\n Today is\u00a0<\/span>April Fools’ Day<\/b>\u00a0. . . so browsing your newsfeed and social media apps CAN be a minefield, especially if you’re gullible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But even though you SHOULD be extra\u00a0<\/span>skeptical<\/span>\u00a0today, remember:\u00a0 Sometimes the things people THINK are jokes turn out to be TRUE.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Someone came up with a list of nine of them, from previous April Fools’ Days:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The news was so shocking and the timing was so unfortunate that even Marvin’s friend\u00a0<\/span>Smokey Robinson<\/b>\u00a0thought it was a sick prank by a disc jockey.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the time, the idea seemed like a fantasy, Gmail offered one GIG of space, at a time when the most popular free options, Hotmail and Yahoo, were offering two and four megabytes respectively.\u00a0 There are 1,000 megabytes in a gigabyte.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n PARENTS ARE NAMING THEIR KIDS AFTER HERBS AND SPICES\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Parents are fairly creative when it comes to naming their children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n They draw inspiration from all sorts of places, from TV shows to herbs and spices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Huffington Post looked at the most recent year of name data in the U.S., and found herbs and spices-inspired names were fairly popular:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Basil (71 boys, 28 girls), Saffron (26 girls), Sage (666 boys, 1,164 girls),\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ginger (57 Girls), Pepper (144 girls), Rosemary (760 girls), Cayenne (10 girls),\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mace (60 boys), Juniper (22 boys, 1,526 girls), Poppy (628 girls),\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Lavender (114 girls), Jasmine (2,092 girls), and Angelica (508 girls). <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n FOUR RANDOM FACTS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n THURSDAY APRIL 1<\/b>ST<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SJS 4 – MIN 2<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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