April 23, 2024

April 23rd is the 114th day of the year. There are 252 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham-Kent Public Library hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday at the Chatham branch.

Book your spot today to see The Old Man and the Gun starring Robert Redford and Casey Affleck.

Movies start at 2pm.

Donors are needed!

There’s a blood donor clinic today at the UAW Hall in Wallaceburg 1-7p.m.

No walk-in appointments are available. Book your appointment at Blood.ca, call 1-888-2-DONATE or use the apps.

Advanced voting stations are open this week for the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex by-election.

The riding has been without an MPP since former Labour Minister Monte McNaughton stepped away from politics in September. It is one of the largest ridings in the province, about the size of Prince Edward Island.

If you would like to vote in person before Election Day, advanced stations are set up at County Fair Mall in Wallaceburg and Hidden Hills Golf Course in Oungah, until May 1st, Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.,
Sunday: noon – 5 p.m. Bring along one piece of accepted ID showing your name and current home address.

For a full list of advance voting locations, click here.

Election day is May 2nd.

April’s full moon revealed itself last night.

It reaches the crest of its full phase at 7:49 p.m. this evening. NASA says it will be visible from tonight until Thursday morning.

This month, April’s full moon is also known as the Pink moon. The name comes from the bloom of the ground phlox, a pink flower common in North America.

Nineteen years ago today, in 2005, the very first YouTube video was posted.

It was a clip of one of the co-founders standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo.

The domain name YouTube.com, which ultimately became the social media platform and website for sharing videos, was registered on February 14, 2005. The video was posted on YouTube a month before the platform’s public launch in May 2005.

YouTube was registered by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. They initially hoped to start a dating website but soon realized that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their home videos.

The company was purchased by Google just over a year later.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod