May 22, 2024

May 22nd is the 143rd day of the year. There are 223 days remaining until the end of the year.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol Theatre.

Tonight at 7pm stop by to see One Life.

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

This is the annual RetroFest weekend in Downtown Chatham.

The action gets underway Friday night in Tecumseh Park with entertainment, a beer garden and children’s activities.

The car show is on Saturday beginning at 7 a.m. on King St.

The Chatham-Kent Barnstormers have lost their first game of the season. C-K drops a 15-12 decision to the London Majors.

The game took 4+ hours and saw a ton of runs, hits and walks…but not a win. The Majors go to 4-0 and the Barnstormers drop to 2-1.

The Barnstormers are back at home for a pair of games this weekend. Saturday vs the Hamilton Cardinals at 7:05 and Sunday, the Guelph Royals at 1:35 p.m. Tickets online at CKBarnstormers.com.

The Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will close its doors this summer.

The hotel will close July 17th before a major renovation on the 80-acre property, which will reopen in 2027 as the Hard Rock Las Vegas. The new resort will feature a hotel tower in the shape of a guitar nearly 700 feet above the Strip.

The Mirage opened with a Polynesian theme as the Strip’s first megaresort in 1989, leading a building boom through the 1990s. The Mirage is accepting no bookings for after July 14 and said any reservations past that date will be canceled and refunded.

It’s the second Vegas Strip casino that is closing this year. The Tropicana Las Vegas closed in April after 67 years to make room for a baseball stadium for the relocating Oakland A’s.

It was this date in 1971 that Ontario Place opened on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto.

The theme park was centered around Ontario themes and family attractions until 2012 when the Government of Ontario announced that it would close for redevelopment. It has since reopened as a park without an admission fee but without several of the old attractions. The Budweiser Stage is still open and hosts concerts in the Summer.

The final cost of construction was $29 million, that’s well over $200 million in today’s dollars.

There currently is a controversial plan in place with the provincial government to redevelop the land for a privately owned spa.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod