February 21, 2023

February 21st is the 52nd day of the year. There are 313 days remaining until the end of the year.

Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for Chatham-Kent and most of Southwestern Ontario for Wednesday.

The freezing ice storm will move across southern parts of the province on Wednesday night and continue into Thursday.

Freezing rain could be mixed with ice pellets and light snow.

An impactful winter storm is likely for S ON from Wed P.M. through Thu. Below is a loop of precip types from today’s Cdn model.
▪️For SW ON 👉 prolonged freezing rain w/ significant ice accretion possible
▪️Central + E ON 👉 accum. snow
▪️In between 👉 messy mix!#ONstorm pic.twitter.com/PpnwwsMQiR

— ECCC Weather Ontario (@ECCCWeatherON) February 19, 2023

The Chatham-Kent Public Library hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday at the Chatham branch.

Book your spot today to see Waves. Movies start at 2pm.

There is limited space, registration is required.

Garbage and recycling pickup across Chatham-Kent will be pushed back one day this week because of the Family Day holiday.

Friday pickups will be Saturday.

The new emojis are here.

We heard about them last summer, but now they’re available if you download iPhone’s new update.

They will be available in the new Android operating system that goes wide next month.

Most of them are things you’ll never use, like pea pods, a moose, a goose, a donkey, and a jellyfish. But a few of them might be useful.

The biggest update is there’s finally a way to high-five people. You have to use two emojis to do it. There’s a new right-facing palm, and a left-facing palm. So if you pair them up, it looks like two hands high-fiving. They come in five different skin tones, plus the classic yellow.

A few more new emojis you might use include a pink, light blue and grey heart, a Wi-Fi emoji and a wing that looks like angel wings.

There’s also a new “shaking face” emoji that looks like it’s in the middle of an earthquake. They say it can be used to convey “shock, fear, confusion, disbelief, anticipation, and excitement.”

Here are the rest of the new emojis include: Black bird, hyacinth flower, folding hand fan, hair pick, flute, maracas, and a new ginger emoji (food, not the hair colour.)

New emojis in iOS 16.4 beta https://t.co/dFHMY45TST pic.twitter.com/TEZOjwUDbo

— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) February 16, 2023

It’s Paczki Day! CKMORNINGS will be live at Maple City Bakery from 6-10 this morning.

Today is also known as Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras (french for Fat Tuesday) Pancake Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday.

Always celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent and traditionally the final chance to indulge.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod