February 19, 2019

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for all of southwestern Ontario for Wednesday, as freezing rain is in the forecast.

Precipitation will begin as snow Wednesday morning for southwestern Ontario, but will quickly change over to freezing rain and then to rain late in the day.

Due to the Family Day Holiday on Monday, garbage and recycling pickup is pushed back one day this week.

The Tuesday Movie @ Your Library is Bohemian Rhapsody, at 2.

Stop by the Chatham Branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library every week for the Tuesday Movie @ Your Library.

Everyone is welcome for a suggested donation of $2 at the door.

Researchers working with NASA say deep space missions like the one to Mars need to include a specific type of person to improve crew unity; the class clown.

They say it helps the group bond and work more efficiently to have a comedian on board.

NASA searches for ‘class clown’ to boost morale on human mission to Mars https://t.co/BkgxrgRKdD pic.twitter.com/aWHP06nLE1

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) February 16, 2019

There’s a fashion company in Italy that’s making clothes out of spoiled milk.

Millions of gallons of spoiled milk get thrown out every year, so this company takes the stuff, heats it, uses a special process to spin it into fibers, and uses them to make shirts.

They say the shirts are extremely soft and they’re selling them for $50 each. Right now they’re only available in Italy, but they say they’re going to take them worldwide later this year.

And if you’re wondering, the shirts don’t have any spoiled milk odor, but the company says that every time someone picks one up, “The first thing people do is smell it.”

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This post was written by Chris McLeod