September 1, 2023

September 1st is the 244th day of the year. There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.

The 100th Annual Buxton Homecoming Weekend starts today.

This year the organizers have planned for a full 4-day weekend celebrating African Canadian heritage, family reunions, children’s activities and the best of small-town hospitality.

The weekends events begin Friday and end on Monday with the Homecoming Parade (starts at 12:30) Parade ends at the Buxton Playground with children’s activity stations, food vendors, beer tent, craft vendors and car show. Click here for the full schedule.

Check out the Facebook Page for more info.

Dresden’s Art in the Park is Saturday.

The event raises funds for CK Animal Rescue. There are 150 vendors and live entertainment. All vending areas are free admission for the public. Art in the Park opens at 11am at Stranak Park.

Check out the Facebook Page for more info.

C-K’s Summer Brewfest sponsored by Teksavvy continues this weekend.

Local breweries Bayside Brewing, Sons of Kent, Red Barn Brewing and Glasstown Brewing have teamed up all summer for outdoor parties hosted at the breweries.

Saturday at Red Barn Brewing will be FarmFest. Stop by the barn on Saturday for entertainment, vendors and beer (duh) Doors open at noon, entertainment at 1pm.

The final event will be RiverFest at Glasstown Brewing September 23rd.

Happy Labour Day Weekend, the unofficial end of Summer.

It is a day of rest and, for unions and labour activists, a day to celebrate the accomplishments of the labour movement and the benefits of having a union at work.

But, as is the case with most holidays, the origins of Labour Day come from the struggles of working people and the demand for fairness. In this case, it was the movement to establish a nine-hour work day (the standard was a 12-hour work day and a six-day work week) and a strike by printers in Toronto in the spring of 1872 to get it. Later that year, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald passed the Trade Union Act, which legalized and protected union activity in Canada.

In the U.S. they celebrated first in 1882. In Canada, pressure had been mounting to declare a national labour holiday. On July 23, 1894 the government of Prime Minister John Thompson passed a law making Labour Day official.

A 58-year-old woman from Knoxville, Tennessee named Tami Manis is now an official world record holder for longest mullet.

It’s down to her ankles, and measures an impressive 5 feet 8 inches. (Fun fact: They measure it while it’s wet.)

It could actually be longer now. That’s just what it measured when she entered the USA Mullet Championship’s “Femullet” division last year. She somehow placed 2nd in that.

Guinness didn’t have an official record for longest mullet at that point, but added it soon after. Tami applied when she heard, but didn’t know she owned the record until she got the official certificate in the mail recently.

If you want to steal the record from her, it takes some real dedication. She’s been growing it out for over 33 years. She started her mullet in the mid-’80s, but foolishly decided to cut it in 1989 and says she immediately regretted that decision. She started growing it out again the next year and never looked back. She considers February 9th, 1990 to be her mullet’s “birthday.”

She keeps it braided most of the time so it doesn’t get snagged in stuff. She rides motorcycles and has to tuck it into the front of her pants so it doesn’t get caught in the wheels.

The record for men is a little more attainable, by the way. A guy in Ohio had a mullet that measured 3 feet 3 inches long.

Congratulations to Tami Manis, whose mullet features as the world’s longest inside #GWR2024 👏 pic.twitter.com/SxzSWM19Hj

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) August 31, 2023

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This post was written by Chris McLeod