March 7, 2019

March 7, 2019 5:55 am Published by

Do or die for the Maroons tonight.

They trail the Komoka Kings 3 games to 1 in the first round of the playoffs.

Game 5 is at Memorial Arena tonight. Puck drop at 7.

 Tomorrow is International Women’s Day.

The Chatham-Kent Committee to End Violence Against Women and the Sexual Assault Crisis Centre are inviting everyone to the Chatham Cultural Centre for a screening of Miss Representation.

The film starts at 6:30 in Studio One at the Cultural Centre. Admission is free, all are welcome – refreshments included.

Chatham’s Bridget Carleton was named the Big 12 Player of the Year.

The Iowa State women’s basketball star becomes the first Cyclone to earn the prestigious honour, awarded by the league’s coaches.

Carleton was unstoppable in Big 12 action, averaging 20 points or more against every league opponent.

Jerry Merryman has passed away.

You probably don’t recognize his name, but if you’ve ever used an electric hand-held calculator in your life, you can thank him for helping make your math life easier.

He, along with two other men invented the little contraption that changed computing forever — has died at age 86.

The trio, working for Texas Instruments, produced a hand-held calculator, called the CAL-TECH. It was about four inches by six inches, featured a paper display instead of a digital one (to save power) and was heavy, weighing almost three pounds. That’s no surprise` because it was made out of an aluminum brick.

Merryman passed away February 27th.

The world’s tallest garden gnome needs a home.

For the past 21 years “Howard” has been living on the side of the road on Vancouver Island.

Howard was the mascot for a family run go-kart track and amusement park before a gas station took over the property. And the new owner says it’s time for it to go. They say it’s mostly an issue of safety and the costs involved to bring it up “to code”

Offers have been pouring in from across the country to give Howard a new home.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod