February 12, 2020

February 12th is the 43rd day of the year. There are 323 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham-Kent Police invite you to come out for Coffee with a Cop in Thamesville.

Come by Tim Horton’s this morning between 8-10 and chat with a cop.

Come out for a coffee with the local police department.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol!

Come by the Chatham Capitol Theatre tonight at 7 to see Casablanca on the big screen.

$5 cash at the door, or flash your pass. Everyone is welcome. Concessions are available.

A cruise ship is being built in Norway right now, and it’s planning to sail the Great Lakes in 2022.

The 665-foot-long (203-meter-long) Viking Octantis is offering four different itineraries, starting in January 2022. A sister ship, the Viking Polaris, is scheduled to launch in August 2022. The Viking Expedition ships will accommodate 385 passengers.

The cruise itinerary called Niagara & the Great Lakes, will shuttle between Toronto and Milwaukee, with stops at Niagara Falls, Point Pelee on Lake Erie in Ontario, Detroit, Alpena and Mackinac Island.

Find out more here.

The disease caused by the latest Coronavirus outbreak now has an official name from the World Health Organization: COVID-19.

It’s short for Coronavirus disease 2019. “We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, or an individual or group of people,” the WHO Director-General said.

The name of a deadly disease has the potential to have an impact on a country or a community politically, economically and socially. There are guidelines for naming emerging diseases. The monikers should never include proper names of the people who first identified it, animals associated with the illness, or places where they were discovered. Examples of how not to name an illness include the Spanish flu, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and monkey pox.

By yesterday afternoon, COVID-19 had claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, nearly all of them in China.

Some NHL hockey teams are having trouble getting new hockey sticks because the majority of them are manufactured in China. Many hockey stick companies are being hampered by the virus and are unable to produce and ship new gear on a timely basis. Around 75% of the hockey sticks used by NHL players are made in China.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

“We now have a name for the #2019nCoV disease:

COVID-19.

I’ll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine – COVID-19″

–@DrTedros #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/Kh0wx2qfzk

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) February 11, 2020

A sign of warmer weather.

The Toronto Blue Jays will report to Spring Training today. The Detroit Tigers arrived in Lakeland yesterday.

Both teams will play their first exhibition games next weekend. The regular season begins March 26th.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod