November 16, 2018

November 16, 2018 5:55 am Published by

Santa’s coming!

  The Chatham Santa Claus Parade is tonight through downtown beginning at 6:30. The parade stage on Sandy’s St., cross the Lacroix St. bridge, left onto King to the Wish Centre. Santa will be at the Wish Centre after the parade.

Several groups will be collecting tonight, bring your canned goods and teddy bears. Bring your letters to Santa, Canada Post will be collecting them and delivering them to the North Pole.

Santa will be in Wallaceburg for their 49th annual parade tomorrow at 2. Staging on Arnold, to Dufferin, to James, To Nelson to Elgin, ending at the Catholic School Board parking lot.

Bring your canned goods for the food bank and your letters to Santa.

Click here for a list of all the parades across Chatham-Kent.

The IODE Christmas House Tour is this weekend.

Visit homes beaufifully decorated for the holidays on Saturday and Sunday from 1-4:30.

Tickets are $20, available at The Purple Pansy Flower Boutique, Ross’ Nurserymen, Syd Kemsley Florist, Country Comforts, The Glasshouse Nursery, Laurie Clark Designs & Artisans, and BioPed Footcare. Call 354-0803 or 351-1406 for info.

A portion of the proceeds support the Butterfly Building Fund at the Children’s Treatment Centre.

Oxford Dictionary just released its Word of the Year for 2018, and they went with toxic.

They say they went with toxic because it was the word that did the best job, “reflecting the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and has lasting potential as a term of cultural significance.”

Toxic did come up a lot of different ways, from metaphorical use like “toxic political environment” and “toxic masculinity” to literal use like “toxic algae” and “toxic waste.”

Oxford’s runners up included gaslighting, incel, overtourism and techlash.

Facebook is going to roll out a new Unsend feature for Facebook Messenger.

It will allow users to delete messages within 10 minutes of sending. Facebook will retain unsent messages for a short period of time so if they’re reported, it can review them for policy violations.

The reciever will get a “tombstone” indicating a message was retracted.

The feature isn’t being rolled out globally just yet, but it plans to over the next few weeks.

There are a lot of stupid Guinness World Records. This may be the saddest, or at least the most recent.

It’s the record for “eating corn with a toothpick.”

David Rush of Idaho rate 241 kernels of corn with a toothpick in three minutes at a library in Illinois.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod