April 10, 2024

April 10th is the 101st day of the year. There are 265 days remaining until the end of the year.

Come out and connect at the Chatham-Kent Chamber of Commerce BIZconneCKt Networking Event at the Red Barn Brewing, hosted by Red Barn and Chilled Cork tonight.

Complimentary admission, appetizers, and a chance to win a $50 gift card.

Formerly known as Business After Hours, you’re invited to come out from 4:30-6 tonight.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol Theatre.

Tonight at 7pm stop by to see Fast Charlie.

Admission is $7 or flash your movie pass for entry. Check here for more info.

The 8th annual Hike for Hospice CK is back to raise funds in support of Hospice residents and their families in Chatham-Kent.

You can go online now to register or donate to a team. Today is the deadline to purchase a T-shirt or memorial sign for this year’s Hike for Hospice.

The hike is at Mud Creek Trail May 5th. If you can’t make that date, come anytime between April 29 and May 4 to get your hike in.

Don’t throw away your solar eclipse glasses.

Astronomers Without Borders is accepting the leftover glasses to send to those in other parts of the world to safely watch an eclipse in their area, who otherwise couldn’t.

Glasses have been donated since 2008, going to areas like Africa, Asia, and North and South America.

In Chatham-Kent, you can drop off your used solar eclipse glasses at any library branch to be donated. The deadline is May 1st.

Click here for more information on Astronomers Without Borders.

Mattel just came out with a new version of Scrabble that is supposed to be more collaborative and accessible.

It’s meant for players that find regular Scrabble “too hard, too intimidating and uncomfortably competitive.”

The new version is called Scrabble Together, and it’s a lot different. In this version, players team up to complete mutual goals like: “Play a word containing two of the same consonant,” “play a word containing at least two different vowels,” and “complete a vertical word.”

If that isn’t easy enough, you can also flip helper cards, which introduce things like “Make ‘S’ tiles a blank.”

Mattel says the new game “brings people together for people who think word games aren’t for me.”

It’s also designed for Gen Z’ers. Their research shows competitiveness is declining in younger generations. They say younger folks “avoid competitive games,” in favor of “teamwork and collaboration.”

Scrabble Together comes with the original version on the other side of the board.

For now, the new version is only available in Europe. It’s being put out by Mattel, which owns rights overseas. Scrabble is controlled by Hasbro in the U.S. and Canada, and it’s unclear if they plan to follow suit.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod