April 3, 2020

April 3rd is the 94th day of the year. There are 272 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Municipality will host another COVID-19 information session on Facebook Live today at noon.

The meeting will be livestreamed through the municipality’s Facebook page and include Mayor Darrin Canniff, Hospital President/CEO Lori Marshall, Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Colby and C-K CAO Don Shropshire. They’ll answer questions during the broadcast.

The Beer Store has announced it will resume accepting empties at 71 of its 450 stores on Monday.

The recycling program was suspended last month in order to better protect its employees from the coronavirus outbreak. But now a bottle shortage at some breweries has prompted the Beer Store to reinstate the program.

Customers are also being limited to bringing back only one cart of empties per visit and are advised to drop off during off-peak times.

Store hours at the 71 outlets that will be accepting empties have been modified to 10-4 Monday through Saturday. Sunday hours are unchanged.

The Richmond St. Beer Store will be accepting returns.

The Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection is tomorrow morning beginning at 9.

Blenheim’s Brady Stonehouse and Ridgetown’s Zander Veccia are two names that could be called early on.

Chatham-Kent Cyclones Jacob Julien and Ryan Gagner are draft possibilities as well. Other locals with a chance include; Ayden Blain, Alec Webster, Cameron Gardiner, Cameron Graham, and Noah Szabo.

The first three rounds of the 2020 OHL Priority Selection will be streamed live on the OHL’s YouTube channel.

NASA launched a free website this week called NASA at Home that has a TON of stuff to help keep your kids occupied.

If you click through, you’ll find lesson plans, videos, e-books, podcasts and STEM activities. That’s science, technology, engineering, and math.

They’ve got augmented reality apps that let you look at various NASA spacecraft like they’re right there in the room with you.

They even have a program called Citizen Science where kids can help search for new planets and stars that haven’t been discovered yet.

Here’s the link.

Cards Against Humanity has announced a new Family Edition of its phrase-matching card game, and you can download and print the public beta of the game for free right now.

You can download two PDFs of the game: one 21-page PDF with small square cards and one 47-page PDF with larger rectangular cards. If you want to play, all you need to do is print out the PDF and cut out the cards.

Many of the regular Cards Against Humanity cards aren’t appropriate for most children, but the company says this version of the game is designed “for people ages 8 and up” and that the content is PG-rated, “‘crap’ and ‘boobies’ is about as bad as it gets.

Cards Against Humanity had plans to sell the game this fall, but wanted to let families who might be quarantined because of the coronavirus pandemic play it now so that they have something to do.

Download the CAH Family Edition here.

We’ve been working for over a year on a family edition of Cards Against Humanity. Today we’re releasing a print & play version for free so kids & parents can play right now while they’re home: https://t.co/PuTfWuMPS0

— CardsAgainstHumanity (@CAH) April 2, 2020

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This post was written by Chris McLeod