July 20, 2022

July 20th is the 201st day of the year. There are 164 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Third St. bridge in Downtown Chatham will not open this weekend.

This is the third time opening has been delayed.

The Municipality of Chatham-Kent said this time, the re-opening is being pushed back because pedestrian safety railings have not arrived on site yet.

No date for opening has been set.

The planned ribbon cutting marking the completion of the Third Street Bridge project this Friday has been postponed. The Historic Chatham Downtown BIA event Bridgerama will still be held Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For details visit https://t.co/2FRAF8PXmB pic.twitter.com/AyRTHMQxVq

— Municipality of Chatham-Kent (@MunicCK) July 19, 2022

Come by Tecumseh Park tonight for a free show by the Chatham Concert Band.

This is the 95th season of the Concert Band’s Summer Concert Series.

Every Wednesday the band plays free in the park. Bring your family, lawn chairs and pets.

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

Chatham-Kent Public Health is offering some pop up vaccination clinics for the COVID-19 Booster Dose until the end of the month.

All clinics are being held at Chatham Memorial Arena 9am-4pm.

• Wednesday, July 20th
• Thursday, July 21st
• Tuesday, July 26th
• Wednesday, July 27th
• Thursday, July 28th

By appointment only. Masks are required.

Book today at GetYourShotCK.ca.

Chatham-Kent isn’t the only place dealing with sweltering heat at the moment.

Britain just shattered its record for highest temperature ever on Tuesday. The national weather forecaster predicts it will get hotter.

A reading of 40.2 degrees Celsius (104.4 degrees Fahrenheit) was taken at Heathrow Airport — breaking the record set just an hour earlier. Before Tuesday, the highest temperature recorded in Britain was 38.7 C (101.7 F), a record set in 2019.

Rain is in the forecast for Britain, and that’s expected to bring the temps down.

Today is the 53rd anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20th, 1969.

Apollo 11 becomes the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot) and Michael Collins (command module pilot) were the crew.

The crew traveled 240,000 miles (386,000+ KMS) from the Earth to the moon in 76 hours.

An estimated 600 million people around the world watched it on TV.

At 4:17pm The Eagle lands. At 10:56pm – Armstrong says, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” as he becomes the first human to set foot on the moon.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod