August 14, 2023

August 14th is the 226th day of the year. There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year.

Unsettled to begin the week according to Environment Canada.

Sun and cloud today, with a chance of showers and a high of 24, it’ll feel like 29.

Rain expected tomorrow and Thursday. Temperatures jumping back up to the 30’s on the weekend.

The Tuukka Cup 3-on-3 charity ball hockey tournament is Saturday August 26 in Ridgetown, but the deadline to register is tomorrow.

The tournament was started in 2018 after Ronny Betterley passed away from DIPG, a rare childhood brain cancer. This is the fourth year for the tournament, with over $36,000 raised.

Kids between the ages of 7 and 17 can register a team. Teams of up to seven players for only $20 per player.

To register, email mike-boersma@hotmail.com, or visit the Facebook Page.

José Bautista signed a one-day contract so he could retire with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Prior to the game on Saturday Bautista’s name was unveiled on the club’s Level of Excellence at Rogers Centre.

Bautista played for the Jays from 2008 to 2017, his bat flip in the 2015 playoffs is an iconic Canadian moment in sports.

The Blue Jays then went out and lost to the Chicago Cubs.

That winning $70 million dollar Lotto Max ticket from last year has officially been declared unclaimed by the OLG.

They call it “a rare occurrence in Canadian lottery history.” The winning ticket from the June 29, 2023, draw was not validated at a terminal or presented to the corporation on or before the deadline of 10:30p.m. June 28, 2023.

The ticket was sold at a retailer in Scarborough and was never checked at a self-serve ticket checker or through the app.

After an awareness campaign lookin gfor the ticket holder, almost 2,700 calls and emails from people claiming to have lost the ticket were logged by OLG’s Customer Care Centre.

It is believed that the person lost the slip.

Twenty years ago today at 4:11p.m. 50 million people to lose power in the northeastern United States and Ontario.

It was the worst blackout in North American history.

A series of failures in Ohio triggered the blackout. A system monitoring tool was not working, then a generating unit tripped off in an overloaded portion of the grid, and then overheated transmission lines began sagging into overgrown trees and tripping.

By the time officials realized the system was in jeopardy, it was too late to intervene and the collapse sent unsustainable loads into neighbouring jurisdictions.

Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), while full power in New York City and parts of Toronto wasn’t restored until August 16th.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod