June 15, 2023

June 15th is the 166th day of the year. There are 199 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Dresden Rotary Club Summer Concert Series begins tonight.

Come out for some free music at Dresden Rotary Park all summer, there are 10 Thursday dates to keep you entertained and it’s free!

Tonight Spirit of the Sixties takes the stage at 7. It’s also A Taste of Dresden- free food sampling from 5-8pm at many Dresden establishments.

Next Wednesday is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada.

There will be a celebration at 25 Eighth St., with information booths, food booths, children’s table and drumming and dancing.

Everyone is welcome to attend, it gets underway at 2:30.

Perfect TV watching for Father’s Day weekend.

The 2023 US Open tees off today at Los Angeles Country Club.

It is the third of the four major championships in golf; The Masters, PGA Championship and the British Open. It will be the first major championship after the announcement last week that the PGA Tour is partnering with the LIV Golf series, ending a feud that has dogged the sport for the past year.

The first group will tee off at 9:45am today, that’s 6:45am in LA. Last week’s Canadian Open winner, Nick Taylor will tee off at 5:05pm.

Matt Fitzpatrick of England is the defending champion. The 2023 winner recieves $3.15million.

The company that makes kitchen staples like CorningWare, Pyrex and the Instant Pot has declared bankruptcy.

The company’s current tough times 180 from the explosive growth a few years ago. Most of that popularity came from the Instant Pot, which was invented in Ottawa in 2009. Prior to the pandemic the company was selling hundreds of millions of dollars of the Instant Pots every year. It was one of the top sellers on Amazon’s annual Prime Day. According to the company, 90% of households in the U.S. have at least one of their products in them.

Sales declined by almost 22% in the first quarter of 2023, the seventh quarterly contraction in a row.

The iconic 7-Eleven Slurpee is getting a makeover.

Just the cups are changing, not the recipe. There’s a new Slurpee logo and a large “S” that resembles the swirly top of the drinks.

The Slurpee history started as a happy accident back in the 50’s.

A Dairy Queen owner named Omar Knedlik “discovered” the drink after he put soda bottles in the freezer when his soda fountain broke, resulting in a slushy drink. The drink was such a hit that he built a custom machine using his car’s air conditioning unit and created a drink that mixed soda, water and carbon dioxide to make it fizz. He asked customers to name the drink, and ICEE won. So, he created the ICEE-making machine. In 1965, 7-Eleven licensed the machine and changed its name from ICEE to Slurpee, because it described the sound drinkers made while sipping it through the straw.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod