May 28, 2021

May 28th is the 148th day of 2021. There are 217 days remaining until the end of the year.

Just one new positive COVID-19 cases reported Thursda by Chatham-Kent Public Health.

There was 5 recoveries, the total active cases is down to 16.

Public Health announced that a milestone was passed this week, 50,000 doses have been administered in C-K. To book your vaccination go to GetYourShotCK.ca or call 519-351-1010.

There were 1,135 positive cases across Ontario reported Thursday.

The Chatham-Kent Virtual Summer Market will be held this weekend.

Almost two-dozen artists, artisans and crafters will be selling their wares online. There will be 23 total. To shop, go to the market’s Facebook page Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 4pm to 10pm daily.

The market will also include a fundraising auction for Access Open Minds Chatham-Kent, which offers mental health support to young people and their families.

The Toronto Maple Leafs had a chance to win their first playoff series in 17 years last night. They lost 4-3 in overtime to the Montreal Canadiens.

The Leafs still have a 3 games to 2 lead in the best of seven series.

Toronto went down 3-0 before coming back to tie the game before London’s Nick Suzuki won it just 59 seconds into overtime.

Game 6 will be Saturday in Montreal with 2,500 fans now allowed back in the building. Puck drop is at 7:30 on Sportsnet and CBC.

Ford has filed a patent for a new technology that would put ads right on your dashboard.

Most new cars have lots of cameras now, like backup cams or ones that show your blind spots, Ford wants to use all those cameras to scan billboards. Ads for the companies would pop up on your dashboard’s “infotainment” screen.

Ford claims it would solve the problem of people seeing a billboard too late and not getting all the details, like which exit to take for McDonald’s.

A giant tortoise thought extinct 100 years ago is living on the Galapagos Islands.

Ecuador confirmed that a giant female tortoise found in 2019 is a species that was considered extinct a century ago. Now the Galapagos National Park is preparing an expedition to search for more of the giant tortoises in an attempt to save the species.

The last previous sighting of the species had been in 1906.

In the Galapagos Islands many varieties of tortoises live together with flamingos, boobies, albatrosses and cormorants, a family of species of aquatic birds.

“Hope is alive”

Giant tortoise found on Galápagos Islands is from species which scientists thought had died out more than a century ago, genetic tests confirm 🐢https://t.co/QBWRGLRQ5c

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 26, 2021

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This post was written by Chris McLeod