May 17, 2019

May 17th is the 137th day of the year. There are 228 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham-Kent Beach Bus hits the road today for the spring and summer bus routes.

The Seasonal Interurban Transit Route or S1, as it’s officially known, will serve Chatham, Erieau and Mitchell’s Bay, with stops in Grande Point, Pain Court, Charing Cross and Blenheim.

The service will starts today at 9am and will continue until Labour Day. Route S1 will run every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday between 9am-8pm.

Maps and schedules are available from local municipal centres or online. More info available here.

Chatham Kinsmen are selling fireworks until Sunday.

They’re set up on St. Clair St., at Chatham Marine (next to the Anjema Eye Institute)

Funds raised support Kinsmen projects.

The Boston Bruins are the first team to book their ticket to the Stanley Cup Finals.

They beat the Carolina Hurricanes to sweep the Eastern Conference Finals. They now wait for the winner of the San Jose/St. Louis series. The Sharks lead that one 2-1, Game 4 is tonight at 8.

EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS!!! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/HCapuk77Bl

— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) May 17, 2019

Taco Bell just announced it’s opening a new luxury hotel this summer.

It’s called The Bell, and it’s going to open in Palm Springs, California for a limited time starting on August 9th.

So what will they have at a Taco Bell hotel? Lots of Taco Bell food, including test items you can’t get anywhere else, a gift shop with Taco Bell merchandise and a salon that will do, “Taco Bell-inspired” nail art, haircuts, and braids.

There’s no word on how much the rooms will cost. Or how much those Taco Bell-inspired beauty services will cost either.

If you’re interested in going to the Taco Bell hotel, reservations are going to open up next month and they’re probably going to go quickly.

Monday is Victoria Day!

Observed annually on the Monday before May 25th, and commemorating the birth date of Britain’s Queen Victoria on May 24, 1819.

It’s a holiday that’s only celebrated in Canada (originating in 1845), and it’s often referred to as ‘May Two-Four Weekend’, the unofficial kick off to Summer.

The Weather Network says most of southern Canada will be colder than normal through the May long weekend, some of the best weather to be found will be across the Yukon and Northwest Territories!

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This post was written by Chris McLeod