September 29, 2022

September 29th is the 270th day of the year. There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

It’s Trivia Night at Sons of Kent in support of Rise House International.

Cost is $20 per person at the door. Trivia begins at 7pm with some awesome prizes to be won.

Tomorrow is Canada’s second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Friday from 10-2 at 25 Eighth St. (former courthouse parking lot) there will be arts & craft vendors, community information booths and Indigenous Drum & Dance demonstrations. Orange shirts will also be on sale.

Everyone is welcome.

The Royal Canadian Mint announced yesterday that a toonie is going into circulation to celebrate Team Canada’s victory over Team USSR in the 1972 Summit Series.

That game was played 50 years ago Wednesday.

This coin features a design by Canadian artist Joel Kimmel and the inner core has two Team Canada hockey players on the team’s maple leaf jersey emblem framed by “The Series” and “50 Years.” The coaches’ initials and the jersey numbers of every player surround the core. The profile of Queen Elizabeth II is still on the obverse side of the coin.

Three million 50th Anniversary Summit Series coins have been minted and two million of those feature a fully coloured inner core. Those that aren’t coloured red, white and black have the classic gold inner core that other toonies have.

All of the toonies went into circulation on September 28th.

On September 28, 1972, Canadians were united by sport unlike ever before.

Fifty years later, we celebrate this historic hockey event and @TeamCanada1972 with a new commemorative $2 circulation coin.

Learn how #Summit72 brought out best of our nation: https://t.co/yVzqWzAtic pic.twitter.com/x9Zozmrj2y

— Royal Canadian Mint (@CanadianMint) September 28, 2022

M&M’S is adding a brand new character to the mix; Purple. She’s peanut, she sings, and she doesn’t wear high heels (she sports lace-up boots). Purple has a specific personality — quirky, confident and just a little awkward.

The purple peanut M&M is the first new character in 10 years.

However, this doesn’t mean that a purple M&M is coming to bags of Peanut M&M’S. The new character will appear in stores, on the M&M’S website and on some limited edition packaging,

In the mid-90s, people voted for blue to replace tan in bags of the candy. In 2002, M&M’S once again asked people to vote, this time for a colour that would be added for just a limited time. Purple won, but didn’t stick around for long.

Prices at the pumps are expected to jump 5 cents today, bringing totals up to 153.9 cents per litre.

Peterborough, a city that usually has much cheaper gas rates than the rest of the province, will see its pumps go up by 15 cents on Thursday, shooting their totals from 135.6 to 150.6 cents per litre.

Thunder Bay will be the highest in Ontario, with prices up to 184.9.

Locally this morning it’s averaging 145 in Chatham, 143 in Wallaceburg, 146 in Blenheim and 141 in Tilbury.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod