November 29, 2022

November 29th is the 333rd day of the year. There are 32 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham Goodfellows Porchlight campaign was a huge success last night.

Volunteers were spread throughout the community collecting cash, toys and food to make sure No Child is Without a Christmas this season. $59,789 in cash was collected this year!

The Porchlight fundraiser is important because it helps purchase vital items for the food hampers that are given to families in need, like turkeys, hams and bags of milk.

The annual Goodfellows newspaper Street Sales are next weekend (December 9 & 10) outside of local businesses supporting the campaign. For more information or to volunteer go to ChathamGoodfellows.ca.

Donors are needed!

There’s a blood donor clinic Wednesday at the Portuguese Canadian Club from 1-7pm

No walk-in appointments are available. Book your appointment at Blood.ca, call 1-888-2-DONATE or use the apps.

Today is Giving Tuesday, a movement to create an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season after the commercialization of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The website Mashable championed the first Giving Tuesday in 2012, many more companies have jumped on in the years since.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first Giving Tuesday was in 2012. More than 85 countries are involved now. North Americans alone gave about $2.7 billion last year.

More Santa Claus parades in Chatham-Kent this weekend.

Santa’s in Blenheim on Friday! Parade begins at 6:30.

He’s right back to work on Saturday, visiting Wheatley at 6.

Next weekend is the Ridgetown Kiwanis Christmas Parade and Dresden Santa Claus Parade on Saturday.

Disney is trying to build the first ever roller coaster that jumps off the track and flies through the air.

The design was created by Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) which hopes to create this crazy ride in the near future, a patent was filed earlier in the month.

Engineers have said it’s possible, although it will take an insane amount of precision to nail it, “for a roller coaster to jump the track, it has to move at precise speed every single time, which can easily be impacted by the weather, humidity, number of riders, and many more elements.”

If this ever were to come to fruition, experts say it won’t even begin testing until 2030.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod