December 18, 2018

The Chatham Goodfellows will pack food beginning this morning at 8 at the Spirit and Life Centre (184 Wellington St., Chatham)

Delivery will begin at 11:30. Volunteers are needed, just meet at the Spirit and Life Centre this morning.

Ken, Jan and Shawn Edwards of Leon’s Chatham are doing it again. They have bought up the remaining stock of the #19 Scouts Christmas Trees and will be offering them for free tonight.

For many years Leon’s Chatham has stepped up to support the Scouts, and to make sure families have a tree this holiday season.

Trees will be available, first come, first served, from the lot on St. Clair St., north of Oxley, next to Food 4 Less after 5pm.

For the first time, an object in our solar system has been found more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun. It is believed to be the furthest object orbiting Sun.

The discovery was announced yesterday; officially it is called 2018 VG18. But the researchers who found it are calling it Farout.

They believe the spherical object is a dwarf planet more than 310 miles in diameter, with a pinkish hue. That colour has been associated with objects that are rich in ice, and given its distance from the sun, that isn’t hard to believe. Its slow orbit probably takes more than 1,000 years to make one trip around the sun.

Farout’s orbit is yet to be determined.

For the first time, an object in our solar system has been found more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun. It’s probably a dwarf planet that takes more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun. And it’s called “Farout.” https://t.co/lc9lvHGc0Q pic.twitter.com/U8EMl7ebj3

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 17, 2018

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year is “justice.”

It saw a 74% uptick in searches this year, mostly because of the Justice Department investigation and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

Their runners-up this year include nationalism, pansexual, lodestar and laurel, because of the laurel/yanny debate.

Merriam-Webster is always the last major dictionary to announce its Word of the Year. Dictionary.com went with “misinformation” this year, Oxford Dictionaries went with “toxic” and Collins Dictionary went with the term “single-use.”

To help promote the noise-canceling technology in some Ford vehicles, they’ve invented a noise-cancelling doghouse that blocks the sound of fireworks.

The kennel detects explosions with microphones and counteracts them by pumping out frequencies that mitigate the sounds or eliminate them altogether. The body includes soundproofing cork panels, anti-vibration risers and even soundproofed ventilation, while an automatic door helps your pooch quickly take shelter.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod