September 19, 2019

September 19th is the 262nd day of the year. There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.

Stop by the Blenheim Branch of the Chatham Kent Public Library today for an ID Clinic.

There will be help available to assist in completing birth certificate applications.

Financial Screening is available to determine eligibility to have the cost covered for Birth Certificates or Photo ID cards. Service Canada will be onsite to answer questions related to their services.

There will be a lot of jets will be flying in to the Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport this weekend; remote controlled ones.

The annual scale-model remote-control event started yesterday, but is open to the public Saturday and Sunday from 10-5 and 10-2.

Some of the aircraft are worth upwards of $50,000.

Admission to the airport for ThunderThrust is $5, with children under 12 at no charge. There will be a concession stand on site. This is the 7th year for the event.

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

The idea for the day was born in 1995 on a racquetball court in Oregon. Two buddies began throwing around insults, just like pirates and the rest is history.

They selected September 19, simply because one of the guys had recently divorced, it was his ex-wife’s birthday, and he figured “the date was stuck in my head, and I wasn’t going to do anything with it anymore.”

What’s your pirate name? Find out here. 

Dryer Vent Wizard, in Farmington Hills, Michigan, will attempt to set a new world record today for the largest ball of lint.

The company and its 95 franchises have been collecting lint since April. They will weigh their ball today and expect it to be over 1,000 pounds. The company will then set the ball on fire to help raise awareness of the dangers of fires started by dryer lint.

Plenty of Fish is banning face-filtered pictures from their website and dating app.

The company is planning to audit 70 million images because users want more authenticity when it comes to dating. Many Plenty of Fish members post pictures they have filtered with Snapchat.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod