June 29, 2022

June 29th is the 180th day of the year. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham Concert Band returns to Tecumseh Park for the Summer Concert Series tonight.

Every Wednesday the band plays free in the park at 7pm. Bring your family, lawn chairs and pets. This is the 95th season of Summer performances from the band.

Conductor Vaughn Pugh will chat with CKMORNINGS at 6:50 this morning.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol Theatre.

Tonight at 7pm stop by to see Death on the Nile (1978) on the big screen.

Seats must be reserved. To reserve your seats click here. Admission is $5 or flash your movie pass for entry.

Chatham Kinsmen are selling Canada Day fireworks.

Funds raised will support programs and local projects such as playgrounds, soccer complexes, ball fields and local sport clubs.

The Kinsmen will be at Chatham Marine (725 St. Clair St.):

Wednesday, June 29 5-8:30pm
Thursday, June 30 5-8:30pm
Friday, July 1 10:00-8:30pm
Saturday, July 2nd 10:00-6:00pm

Garbage and recyling pick up for Friday will be pushed back one day for the Canada Day holiday.

Pick up for those effected will be on Saturday.

🗑️ If your garbage and recycling collection day is Canada Day – Friday, July 1st, your garbage and recycling will be picked up Saturday, July 2nd instead.

✳️ For more information see our 2022 Recycling and Waste Collection Schedule – https://t.co/4UPMAJhn5K. pic.twitter.com/LHkh7falw5

— Municipality of Chatham-Kent (@MunicCK) June 28, 2022

A team of biologists hauled in the heaviest snake ever captured in Florida.

The female Burmese python weighed 215 pounds (98 kg), was nearly 18ft long (5 metres) and had 122 developing eggs.

The discovery was part of the state’s python removal program. The team used radio transmitters implanted into male “scout” snakes to study python movements, breeding behaviors and habitat use. Male scout snakes are attracted to the biggest females around. The scout snake Dionysus – or Dion for short – was used in an area of the western Everglades. “We knew he was there for a reason, and the team found him with the largest female we have seen to date,” said the biologists.

Hoof cores were found in the snake’s digestive system, meaning that an adult white-tailed deer was its last meal.

Florida conservationists have captured a record-breaking Burmese python.

“We didn’t realize just how large the snake was until we weighed her at the lab.” https://t.co/06UwbcG0aN pic.twitter.com/189L2hiVM6

— CNN (@CNN) June 26, 2022

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This post was written by Chris McLeod