October 18, 2023

October 18, 2023 5:55 am Published by

October 18th is the 291st day of the year. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Learning, Earning and Living CK Career Expo and Job Fair is today at the John D. Bradley Centre.

Employers in the healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, trades, and other in-demand sectors will be in attendance. Bring their resumes and apply on the spot.

The Job Fair is open 3-7pm.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol Theatre.

Tonight at 7pm stop by to see Somewhere in Queens.

Admission is $5 or flash your movie pass for entry. Check here for more info.

The Chatham Goodfellows are getting set for their 69th year of providing food and toys to children and their families during the holidays.

Last year, No Child Without A Christmas supported 1600 families with food and gift baskets.

Thanks to a generous donation from the Myers, Tatro and Clarke ownership group the former Monsignor Uyen school will be used for packing and distribution again this year.

Some key dates for the 2023 campaign:

  • November 1 – Online Applications for those who have applied in previous years.
  • November 6 – First-time Applications: Must apply by phone. Applications close: Friday, December 1.
  • December 4 – Porchlight Campaign: Residents are asked to donate money, toys or food when a volunteer comes to their door, or reach out to the Goodfellows at 519-354-1146 to arrange pick up.
  • December 15-16 – Street Sales of Goodfellows Newspaper: Volunteers will fan out across Chatham to collect donations for copy of annual Goodfellows newspaper.
  • December 11-14: Toy Packing at former Monsignor Uyen school, 255 Lark St.
  • December 18 – Basket delivery: Any time after 5 p.m.

For more information on the annaul campaign, go to ChathamGoodfellows.ca.

Comedian Jeff Leeson will be returning to Chatham-Kent November 3rd.

Leeson will be at the Kiwanis Theatre on Friday, November 3rd.

Tickets are available now at CKTickets.com.

Jeff is going to chat with CKMORNINGS on Friday at 8:40am.

There’s a new record for World’s Hottest Pepper. It’s a small, yellow-and-green pepper called Pepper X.

It’s been the unofficial record-holder for years, but Guinness finally just weighed in. Tests showed an average of 2.69 million Scoville units. The old record was Carolina Reapers at 1.6 million. To put that in perspective, an average jalapeño is only 3,000 to 8,000 on the Scoville scale.

The guy who created them also made Carolina Reapers, so he broke his own record. He says it took over a decade of cross-breading.

If you’re a fan of spice and think you could handle a Pepper X pepper, you’re out of luck for now. You can’t buy whole peppers yet, or the seeds. To protect his profits, Ed doesn’t want anyone else growing them. For now, you can only buy Pepper X hot sauce.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod