June 15, 2020

June 15th is the 167th day of the year. There are 199 days remaining until the end of the year.

It was announced on Saturday that wedding and funeral ceremonies taking place outdoors can now have up to 50 attendees, and that the number of people allowed to attend an indoor service is being extended to a maximum of 30 per cent capacity of the ceremony venue.

The changes came into effect Friday.

The maximum number of people allowed to attend indoor or outdoor wedding and funeral receptions remains at 10 people.

Update on wedding and funeral ceremonies:

-indoor ceremonies: limited to 30% of venue capacity
-outdoor ceremonies: can have 50 participants

Physical distancing: For those not of your household or 10-person social circle

More details: https://t.co/aacXvXq9To#ckont@MunicCK

— CK Public Health (@CKPublicHealth) June 13, 2020

The PPE Drive Drop Off is open again today.

The Municipality of Chatham-Kent has set up a drop off site to gather personal protective equipment (PPE) for front line health care workers.

Thames Campus Arena is open for the public to leave their donations between 10:30-2 today, Wednesday and Friday.

Friday will be the final day at the arena, if you still have items to donate, they will be accepted at the Chatham Civic Centre Monday to Friday.

There will be no Brigden Fair this year.

A Thanksgiving weekend tradition was scheduled for October 9 through the 12th, it has been postponed until 2021.

The next fair will be the 170th and until this point had never been cancelled.

The ’90s childhood staple, Tamagotchi, is back and will be hitting stores this July.

The new Tamagotchi will feature enhanced graphics in colour, connect to a mobile app and will cost about $60.

You can pre-order yours now at Target, Walmart, GameStop, and Amazon.

Remember back when everyone was talking about an ancient Mayan prediction that the world would end on December 21, 2012? Well, the world didn’t end then, clearly.

But we may not have dodged the Mayan bullet yet.

A scientist in Knoxville, Tennessee named Paolo Tagalougin, who’s now deleted his Twitter, redid the calculations. And he says that the real date of the Mayan apocalypse is Sunday. As in this weekend.

Back when the Mayans made their prediction, he believes they were using the Julian calendar, which was the main calendar of the time. The world switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, and several days were lost.

So, “Following the Julian calendar, we are technically in 2012.” If that’s right, the date that they believed was “December 21, 2012” is June 21, 2020.

The only thing missing from 2020 is the Mayan apocalypse.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod