December 1, 2020

December 1st is the 336th day of the year. There are 30 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today is Giving Tuesday, a movement to create an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season after the commercialization of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The website Mashable championed the first Giving Tuesday in 2012, many more companies have jumped on in the years since.

There’s a Blood Donor Clinic at the UAW Hall in Wallaceburg today 2:30-7:30.

Appointments are required to donate; Book yours now at Blood.ca, use the apps or call 1-888-2-DONATE!

Eight new COVID19 cases were confirmed Monday by the C-K Public Health Unit.

There are 17 active cases, the second fewest in Chatham-Kent in the past five weeks. One person is hospitalized.

Ontario reported 1,746 new cases Monday. Majority of the cases still coming from Toronto, Peel and York. Toronto set a new single-day record as more than a third of today’s cases are from the city.

Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com both just announced their pick for Word of the Year for 2020. They both picked the same word.

The pick from both places is: pandemic.

Some of Merriam-Webster’s runners-up are: coronavirus, defund, mamba, which was Kobe Bryant’s nickname, kraken, asymptomatic and malarkey.

Some of Dictionary.com’s runners-up are: quarantine, social distancing, conspiracy theory, doomscrolling, superspreader and Karen.

Well, there was going to be Tuesday night football tonight; but because even more Baltimore Ravens tested positive, the game is now going to be tomorrow afternoon.

Get ready Wednesday afternoon football, at 3:40, as the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers, take on the team with the record number of positive COVID tests, the Baltimore Ravens.

They’ve had 22 players test positive. The game will be on NBC early, so they can guarantee their commitment to air the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod