June 11, 2020

June 11th is the 163rd day of the year. There are 203 days remaining until the end of the year.

Not everything in Chatham-Kent will be opening for Phase 2 tomorrow.

Chatham-Kent Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David Colby will not allow splash pads and municipal pools to open. Day camps and organized activities that allow close proximity to children will also continue to be banned.

Colby is concerned about Phase 2 opening locally, especially because C-K’s neighbours: Windsor-Essex and Sarnia-Lambton were not incluced in that list.

UPDATE: Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Colby has ordered services such as day camps and municipally operated pools to remain closed. #ckont https://t.co/GIKPR4anJZ

— Blackburn News CK (@BlackburnCK) June 10, 2020

The Wallaceburg Drive Thru COVID-19 Testing begins today, 9-5.

If there is a high demand for testing, the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance will add additional clinic days.

The testing will take place in front of the CKHA Wallaceburg site (325 Margaret Ave.) today, tomorrow and Saturday.

The humpback whale that swam through the St. Lawrence River near Montreal has died.

Veterinarians say boat strike may have killed the humpback whale.

The whale’s lifeless body was discovered drifting down the river on Tuesday.

A necropsy (like an autopsy, but performed on animals) will be able to tell if the whale had other health problems that could help explain the whole episode; why it was so far from its home.

A humpback usually eats krill or small fish, but “in Montreal, of course, it’s not the same species you’d find in the [St. Lawrence] Estuary or the Gulf.”

Scientists could also end up finding that the whale was healthy overall, with no clear reason to travel so far down the river. It’s possible it simply had an adventurous adolescent mindset that led it to “try and discover new habitats a bit.”

The carcass of the whale that had been spotted swimming in Montreal last week has been pulled out of the water ??-?? simon_nak #Canada #MontrealWhale #BaleineMontreal #Montreal #MTL pic.twitter.com/DymhF9IvzC

— Freshdaily (@freshdaily) June 10, 2020

Twitter is testing a new feature that suggests people actually read articles before they share links.

The feature is being tested on Android devices and will prompt users asking if they’d like to open the article before they share it if you haven’t opened the article on Twitter.

Sharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it.

To help promote informed discussion, we’re testing a new prompt on Android –– when you Retweet an article that you haven’t opened on Twitter, we may ask if you’d like to open it first.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) June 10, 2020

A 16-year-old named Phillip Angus from Boyertown, Pennsylvania just set the Guinness World Record for the Biggest Open Mouth.

His mouth is 3.75 inches from top to bottom when he opens it all the way.

He beat the previous record by a quarter of an inch.

He’s happy to have the record, “I never have been the best at anything, really, but I’m now the best at this, and it feels great knowing that I have this and no one else can have it until they beat me.”

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This post was written by Chris McLeod