December 4, 2023

December 4th is the 338th day of the year. There are 27 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham-Kent Film Group will screen Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about the television show Reading Rainbow, tonight.

Showings at 4 and 7pm. Admission is $10 and tickets can be purchased at the door.

The C-K Film Group screens independant films the first Monday of the month. Screenings are at Chatham Galaxy Cinemas.

The Chatham Goodfellows annual Porchlight Campaign is tonight.

Beginning at 5:30p.m., leave your light on and a Goodfellows volunteer (who will be identified as so) will be going door to door in the city seeking donations to make sure No Child Without a Christmas.

The volunteers will be wearing red Goodfellows aprons.

More information and how to volunteer online at chathamgoodfellows.ca.

Chris and Allanah are volunteering their time this morning at the Real Canadian Superstore with a Salvation Army Kettle.

The goal this year is $500,000 and that will stay local and support local initiatives.

Please make a donation (some kettles are equipped to take debit and credit cards) and volunteer your time to watch a kettle over the holidays. To help out call the Chatham-Kent Salvation Army at 519-437-1784 or 519-437-1769 or check out the Facebook page for info.

Stop by and see CKMORNINGS between 10-noon this morning at the Superstore.

Canada Post has released their holiday shipping deadlines for 2023 for local, regional, national and international deliveries.

If you want to send packages within Canada for the holidays, Canada Post’s shipping deadlines depend on whether items are going to a local zone, regional zone or national zone and how you’re shipping them.

For local deliveries, here are the deadlines:

• Regular Parcel — December 19
• Expedited Parcel or flat rate box — December 20
• Xpresspost — December 21
• Priority — December 21

The deadlines for regional deliveries are:

• Regular Parcel — December 14 to December 19
• Expedited Parcel or flat rate box — December 18 to December 20
• Xpresspost — December 21
• Priority — December 21

If you’re sending a package nationally, these are Canada Post’s holiday deadlines:

• Regular Parcel — December 8 to December 18
• Expedited Parcel or flat rate box — December 12 to December 19
• Xpresspost — December 20
• Priority — December 20

If you’re sending packages to anywhere in the U.S.:

• Tracked Packet/Small Packet — December 12
• Expedited Parcel USA — December 13
• Xpresspost USA — December 15

When it comes to cards, the holiday deadlines are much simpler; The deadline is December 19 if you’re sending cards locally, December 18 for regional deliveries, and December 15 if you’re sending cards across the country.

Some Iowa Lottery losers, ended up winners last week.

The lottery mistakenly posted incorrect winning numbers for Monday’s Powerball game online. During the roughly seven hours it took to correct the mistake, players with matching numbers were able to come forward and cash in on the incorrect numbers for prizes ranging from $4 to $200.

The Iowa Lottery chalked the fumble up to human error and did not specify how many people with the incorrect numbers cashed in.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod