April 29, 2022

April 29, 2022 5:55 am Published by

April 29th is the 119th day of the year. There are 246 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Rise House International Rock-a-Thon is this weekend at Sons of Kent.

Come by tomorrow for all day music from 11am to 11pm on two stages from Walkin’ 47 , DTX, Dirt Country, Big Shiny Toons, Trifeckta, North Shore Folk, Acoustic FM, Cellar Door, Just Us, Glenn Smith, Cole Pereira and a few other surprises – including a live auction of a signed Kid Rock guitar and a Walkin’ 47 “Party in a Box” = a $2000 value!

Admission is by donation at the door.

Click here for more information.

Prices at the pumps jumped 4 cents per litre on Thursday and they’re going to jump another 4 cents today.

The average price per litre in the province should be about 186.9 on average.

Sudbury is the highest at 193.9 cents per litre, Cornwall the lowest at 171.9.

In Chatham-Kent the average price this morning is at 179.9 cents per litre.

On Thursday Health Canada approved Canadian Blood Services’ submission to eliminate the three-month donor deferral period for gay and bisexual men as well as some other folks in the LGBTQ2S+ community.

It’s a policy change years in the making.

Moving away from a blanket ban, the national blood donor organization will be able to screen all donors regardless of gender or sexuality. Instead, donors will be screened based on their sexual behaviours.

Canadian Blood Services is expected to introduce the new behaviour-based questionnaire by September 30th. It will apply to both blood and plasma donations.

The Raptors season is over.

Despite going down 3 games to none and battling back to force a game 6, Toronto ran out of gas and lost to the Philadelphia 76ers 132-97.

The Raptors were looking to become the fourth NBA team to force a Game 7 after trailing 3-0. No team has ever come back to win.

Philadelphia advances to play the Miami Heat.

We’re going to miss out on this, but those who live in parts of southern South America and the south Pacific and Southern Oceans will have a chance to see rare partial eclipse just before sunset tomorrow night.

The eclipse is set to occur during the new moon. It’s the second new moon of April, known as the Black Moon.

Solar eclipses take place when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align, casting a shadow on our planet. This extraterrestrial phenomenon will only be a partial eclipse, though, meaning that the sun will only be partially obscured when watching from Earth.

Black Moons are considered slightly rare as they typically occur about every 32 months (two to three years), according to the The Old Farmers Almanac. Here’s a link if you’d like to watch a live stream.

According to NASA, the next solar eclipse is in October 2023.

 

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This post was written by Chris McLeod