April 4, 2023

April 4th is the 94th day of the year. There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year.

It’s do or die.

The Tilbury Bluebirds take on the Tillsonburg Thunder tonight in game 7. Puck drop at 8pm.

The Thunder have won 3 in a row to tie the series at 3 games each.

The series winner will face the Stratford Fighting Irish in the final.

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced the names of the four astronauts who will travel around the moon next year aboard the Artemis II rocket Monday.

Forty seven year old Jeremy Hansen, who was born in London and went to high school in Ingersoll will represent Canada. He’ll be a member of the Artemis 2 mission, the first journey to the moon by astronauts since the end of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. The Artemis 2 is planned for a November 2024 launch.

The other three astronauts on the Artemis II mission are all American: Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover and G. Reid Wiseman. Koch will be the first woman to travel to the moon.

The crew will orbit Earth before rocketing hundreds of thousands of kilometres into deep space for a figure-8 manoeuvre around the moon before their momentum brings them home. The plan is to put a man and woman on the moon in 2025 in service of the ultimate goal: eventually dispatching astronauts to Mars.

Here they are. @SenBillNelson announces the #Artemis II crew, the next astronauts to fly around the Moon:@Astro_Christina@Astro_Jeremy@AstroVicGlover@Astro_Reid

We go together. https://t.co/XdUizg2Wye pic.twitter.com/6Yo4I2lKeJ

— NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023

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

Book your spot today to see Three Thousand Years of Longing. Movies start at 2pm.

March Madness is over.

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Final was won by UConn by beating San Diego State 76-59. The Huskies were at +800 coming into the tournament to win.

LSU defeated Iowa to win its first NCAA women’s basketball championship Sunday.

WWE was sold to Endeavor Group Holdings on Monday.

WWE and UFC, which is owned by Endeavor, are merging to form a $21 billion “global live sports and entertainment company.”

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This post was written by Chris McLeod