March 18, 2024

March 18th is the 78th day of the year. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today is the final full day of Winter. Spring will officially arrives at 11:06 p.m. on Tuesday evening.

Not exactly Spring-like conditions expected today according to Environment Canada. Cloudy skies with showers or flurries today with a high of 3. Mid week sees highs of 6, with the first sign of sun for the week on Friday.

The hockey season came to an abrupt end for three Chatham-Kent junior teams over the weekend.

The Chatham Maroons season is done after falling to the Lasalle Vipers in OT at Memorial Arena last night. The Vipers win round one of the GOJHL Playoffs in 6 games. The series had four games go to overtime, and each game was a one goal decision.

In the Provincial Junior Hockey League playoffs, the Wheatley Omstead Sharks season is over, bowing out to the Lakeshore Canadiens in 4 straight games on Saturday. Sunday night was the end of the Blenheim Blades playoffs, falling to the Essex 73’s.

In the Western Ontario Super League, the Tilbury Bluebirds are tied with the Tillsonburg Thunder at 1 game each, losing in game two last night 3-0.

If you had trouble getting a Big Mac on Friday, we now know why.

On Friday McDonald’s had to deal with a global technology outage that affected some restaurants for close to 12 hours.

At some restaurants the mobile app and self-order kiosks were also down.

The Mega Millions jackpot for tomorrow is at $875 million U.S!

This is just the sixth time in the nearly 22-year history of the Mega Millions game that the jackpot has been this large. The Mega Millions jackpot has rolled over 28 times since December 8th.

The Powerball jackpot is huge right now too. It’s up to $645 million for tonight’s draw after there were no winning tickets was sold Saturday night.

**Reminder: There are no restrictions that prohibit Canadians from playing the Powerball lottery. Be aware and very careful of websites offering to sell to Canadians.

The inventor of karaoke has died.

Shigeichi Negishi was a Japanese businessman that lived to be 100 years old.

He invented the first karaoke machine in 1967, after one of his employees made fun of his singing voice. It was originally called the Sparko Box. Negishi never patented his invention, but his daughter says that never bothered him. “He felt a lot of pride in seeing his idea evolve into a culture of having fun through song around the world.”

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This post was written by Chris McLeod