December 9, 2021

December 9th is the 343rd day of 2021. There are 22 days remaining until the end of the year.

Volunteers are still needed to help with the Salvation Army Kettles.

Volunteers are needed. If you have a couple of hours or more to spare, contact the Salvation Army at CKSalvationArmy.org or call 519-354-8353. All volunteers must be fully vaccinated.

The funds raised directly will support local families and children in need.

Seventeen new COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday by Chatham-Kent Public Health.

There were 11 resolved cases, the total active case count locally is now 146.

Ontario reported 1,009 new cases – the rolling 7-day-average is now over 1,000.

Damian Warner has won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s Athlete of the Year.

Warner won a gold medalist in the decathlon at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming just the fourth athlete to reach the 9,000-point mark in the Olympic decathlon, a series of 10 track-and-field events designed to test an athlete’s overall ability.

The London, Ontario native is the first Canadian to win a gold medal in the Olympic event.

The voting panel consists of sports media members from across the country.

Surprise, surprise – gas prices are on the rise again.

The average across the province jumped 4 cents on Wednesday to 138.9 cents per litre.

Prices are expected to rise again today. This morning in C-K the average is 131.6 per litre. Thunder Bay is still the highest price in the province at 154.9 per litre.

An international group is building a black box for for the world in Australia.

It’s called Earth’s Black Box, and it is designed to store data so future civilizations can see how the world ended.

The structure will be a oddly-shaped steel box about the size of a city bus, with solar panels to keep it running and indestructible shell to help it survive an apocalypse. Earth’s Black Box will be packed with hard drives containing climate change data, newspaper headlines and social media posts so that whoever finds it can see how civilization fell apart.

Construction is already underway and recording data. The box will hold a few decades’ worth of data, and that it’ll be stored in a few different ways so that aliens could decode it if necessary.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod