January 17, 2020

January 17, 2020 5:55 am Published by

January 17th is the 17th day of the year. There are 349 days remaining until the end of the year.

Environment Canada issued special weather statement for much of southwestern Ontario, including Chatham-Kent, London and Middlesex, Elgin County, Oxford County and Windsor-Essex.

The weather agency says snowfall amounts of 10-15 centimetres are expected. Highs starting Sunday will be in the negative single-digits.

The Polar Plunge in support of the Special Olympics Ontario is Saturday at the St. Clair College Healthplex.

Temperatures are around freezing for tomorrow when the first plungers hit the water at 2. The second round jump at 6.

The goal this year is $50,000. Register or donate at PolarPlunge.ca and come out to support. If it’s just too cold for you to jump in, use the Too Chicken to Plunge option, and jump in the hot tub.

The 19th annual Toy Show & Sale is Sunday at the John D. Bradley Centre.

Admission is $5 for adults, $2 students and under 6 is free.

Lots of collectibles; Farm toys, trains, sports cards, trucks, construction, model ships, books, planes, cars, action figures, dolls, collectibles, coins, and more!

Find out more at Facebook.com/cktoyshow. Chatham-Kent 4-H Farm Toy Club and Chatham Outreach for Hunger.

Next season isn’t shaping up too hot for fans of the Detroit Lions already.

The Lions have opened as 100-1 long shots of winning Super Bowl LV, according to BetOnline. That matches Miami, Cincinnati and Washington as the worst odds in the league.

Kansas City has opened as the favorite at 7-1, with Baltimore (8-1), San Francisco (8-1), New England (12-1) and New Orleans (14-1) rounding out the top five.

Detroit still hasn’t won a division title since 1993, the longest active drought in the league. It hasn’t won a playoff game since 1991, and is one of 12 teams to have never won the Super Bowl. It’s the only team to have existed for all the Super Bowls and not make any of them.

 Last year, for the first time since 1901, conversation hearts were not on sale for Valentine’s Day. It’s because Necco, the company that made them, had gone out of business, and the new owners couldn’t get production going in time.

The new owners are the Spangler Candy Company. Spangler says the Sweethearts conversation hearts will be back in stores this year, but with a few catches.

One, they say they didn’t have the production capacity to make enough. So their plan is to stock the big chains, but smaller and more regional chains could get limited supplies or none at all.

And two, they say the equipment that prints the words on the conversation hearts broke and they couldn’t fix it completely, so your bag of hearts is going to have a lot of blanks, or just red splotches where the words would normally be.

They’re hoping that by Valentine’s Day 2021 they’ll be ready to meet demand and print a message on every heart.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod