January 11, 2023

January 11th is the 11th day of the year. There are 354 days remaining until the end of the year.

The 2023 municipal budget process begins tonight.

The draft budget will be presented to council and municipal officials at 6pm, at that time it will become available online.

Any group or organizations that wants to provide a comment on the municipal budget can submit a written deputation by email to ckfps@chatham-kent.ca before noon today.

Public consultations to provide input are scheduled for January 18 from noon-1pm and January 19 from 7-8pm on the Municipality’s Facebook page.

Budget committee deliberation meetings will be in council chambers at the Civic Centre on January 25, 26 and 31 from 6-10pm. February 1 and 2 have also been set aside if needed.

All budget meetings will be live-streamed.

Join us live on our Facebook page tomorrow at 6:00 pm for our Proposed Budget Presentation.

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Blenheim’s Abby Stonehouse is representing Canada at the International Ice Hockey Federation under-18 women’s world championship in Sweden.

Canada won the opener on Sunday vs Finland, followed that up with another win on Monday against Sweden. Today will be a test, Canada faces off with Team USA at 2pm on TSN. That will wrap up pool play, with playoffs starting tomorrow.

The quarter-finals will be on Thursday, the semifinals on Saturday, and the medal games on Sunday, January 15th, all Team Canada games are on TSN.

Elon Musk has broken a Guinness World Record. He actually shattered it.

Elon has now holds the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history; His losses are up to US$124 billion more than the previous record.

Since November 2021, he has lost around US$182 billion. Some are even calculating his losses closer to US$200 billion.

That surpasses by far the previous record set by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son — who, in 2000, lost US$58.6 billion. Musk’s net worth, largely affected by poor performance of Tesla’s stock, plummeted from US$320 billion in 2021 to US$138 billion as of January 2023.

But don’t worry, Elon isn’t eating baked beans out of a can over the sink, he remains the world’s second-richest person.

Mars is offering all-female M&Ms for a limited time to honour successful women all over the world.

In case you haven’t seen the M&Ms commercials, each coloUr of M&M has a gender; the green, brown and most recently introduced purple M&M are females.

Not only will the wrappers feature the three female M&M’s, but each package in will only include the corresponding green, brown and purple candy-coated chocolates. The female only series will come in milk chocolate, peanut and peanut butter varieties.

M&M’s also announced its plan to donate $1 for every one of these packages purchased to two nonprofit organizations that support women in the music industry.

The all-female M&M’s will be available starting later this month.

BMW unveiled a concept car last week that changes colour based on the moods of the owner.

BMW showed off a “colour-changing” concept vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show last year but that only changed into various shades of gray. This year, the i Vision Dee changes through a full palette of colours with different parts of the car body showing different colours all at once. Even the wheels change colour.

A second i Vision Dee concept was built to show off new ideas for the “user interface,” which is how drivers and passengers interact with the vehicle. Even the outside, the front of the car, the area around the headlights and the “grille”, can exhibit different shapes and hues, creating something like facial expressions. The car can show different moods or reactions, such as approval, happiness or astonishment.

In the concept car, images can be projected, but onto the side windows, as well. For instance, the driver can select a digital avatar that can be projected onto the side window as part of a greeting display as the driver approaches the vehicle.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod