December 12, 2018

The monthly Blood Donor Clinic is today at the Spirit and Life Centre from 1-7.

Book your appointment now at Blood.ca, 1-888-2-DONATE, use the apps or just walk in!

New donors are needed.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol!

Come by the Chatham Capitol Theatre tonight to see The Man Who Invented Christmas at 7.

Everyone is welcome, $5 cash at the door. Concessions are available.

Time magazine chose its Person of the Year. They went with “The Guardians” a.k.a. journalists who are fighting the “war on truth” and standing up to governments that are trying to delegitimize them.

They particularly chose to honor those who’ve paid a price for speaking truth to power. Including Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who was butchered, most likely by the Saudi government, back in October.

Donald Trump was the magazine’s runner-up for Person of the Year.

The Kansas City Symphony set a Guinness record for World’s Largest Tuba Ensemble last Friday, when 835 players performed O Tannenbaum.

The previous record was 502.

To qualify, the song had to last at least five minutes. It was part of the Symphony’s annual TubaChristmas event, and the musicians ranged in age from 11 to 86.

Vitamin Water is offering $100,000 to the first person, who can last 365 days without using their smartphone.

The company will select one contestant in January to use a “dumb phone” for an entire year. The individual will be awarded $10,000 for lasting six months and $100,000 for lasting the full year.

Vitamin Water has not announced how they will monitor the contestant to prevent cheating. Applications are being currently accepted on Vitamin Water’s Twitter and Instagram pages.

we tried to get Brandon to make this deal, but he is too busy – will you turn off your phone for a year instead? #NoPhoneForAYear #contest https://t.co/RVTF0gytnv pic.twitter.com/wFFTXl0PBX

— vitaminwater® (@vitaminwater) December 11, 2018

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This post was written by Chris McLeod