March 29, 2019

A couple of indoor yard sales this weekend.

The Annual Garage Sale at the Spirit & Life Centre (184 Wellington Street West, Chatham) on Saturday, from 8:30-11:30. Refreshments are available.

The Spring Yard & Vendor Sale for The Salvation Army. Sale starts Saturday at 9 at the The Salvation Army on Orangewood Blvd.

The 5th Annual Maple City Feis is tomorrow at the John D. Bradley Centre.

A Feis (pronounced fesh) is a traditional Gaelic arts and culture festival, involving an Irish Dance Competition. It is a lot of fun with amazing dances and costumes.

The event is open to the public from 8-5. Nearly 2000 visitors will be in the area as Irish dancers, ages 3 and up, from across North America come to compete.

Microsoft has banned employees from doing April Fool’s Day jokes because they don’t want any unwanted attention or negative press.

Their marketing chief wrote in a memo, “Data tells us these stunts have limited positive impact and can actually result in unwanted news cycles, we have more to lose than gain by attempting to be funny on this one day.”

A few April Fools’ Days ago, Google added a GIF of a Minion dropping the mic to everyone’s Gmail, and it backfired so badly it even got some people fired from their jobs.

No April Fools’ Day pranks for @Microsoft employees, company issues memo https://t.co/21BkcTwc36

— Newsd (@GetNewsd) March 29, 2019

KFC is holding 300 “open kitchen” events on Saturday across the U.K. and Ireland where they’re going to teach people how to make their own KFC fried chicken. And in the process, apparently they’ll reveal their 11 hidden herbs and spices.

So if you’re dying to know, they should hit the internet almost immediately.

Breakdancing could be an Olympic sport in 2024.

The IOC plans to add the dancing as a way to make the Olympics more “urban.”

It’s far from official just yet — the full committee needs to approve the sports in June — it is a big step in the process. Skateboarding, climbing and surfing have already been approved for the summer games in Tokyo next year, part of the youth movement by the IOC to get younger people involved.

JUST IN: The International Olympic Committee Executive Board has recommended sports for the 2024 Olympic Games. It includes Breakdancing. It will now be discussed in June with a final decision in December 2020. Hopefully Synchronized Breakdancing isn’t far off… pic.twitter.com/iWp3PQ22xk

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 27, 2019

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This post was written by Chris McLeod