August 28, 2024

August 28th is the 241st day of the year. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham Concert Band is back on stage tonight for one last time this season.

Tonight’s show will close out the 96th year for the Summer Concert Series. The free show begins at 7pm.

Conductor Vaughn Pugh will chat with CKMORNINGS at 6:50 this morning.

Chatham-Kent breweries have teamed up all summer for BrewFestCK.

Each brewery hosts an event with new beer releases, food, entertainment, vendor markets and more all summer.

This weekend is Red Barn Brewing Company‘s FarmFest.

Wallaceburg’s Glasstown Brewing Company will hold the final event with RiverFest on September 14th.

Entry fee is $10 and that includes drink ticket and the proceeds go directly to the charity of choice for each brewery.

The 2024 Summer Paralympics begin today in Paris. 4,400 athletes will be competing.

The Opening Ceremony is at 2 p.m. Patrick Anderson and Katarina Roxon have been named Canada’s Opening Ceremony Flag Bearers. They compete in Wheelchair basketball and Para swimming.

For the first time ever, Canadian athletes will be getting paid if they win a medal. That move makes Canadian Paralympic athletes equal to their Olympic counterparts. Gold medal winners will receive $20,000, silver will get $15,000, and bronze medal winners will score $10,000.

You can watch the games on CBC or stream on CBCSports.ca.

IKEA is launching a new website where customers will be able to sell their used IKEA furniture.

It’s called IKEA Preowned. They’re currently testing it in Spain and Norway, with plans to roll it out to other countries after that.

They already have a small program where they sometimes buy back used stuff and resell it. But this is a peer-to-peer marketplace, where you’ll be able to sell your used IKEA furniture to other people.

You’ll have the option of being paid in cash, or in IKEA credit with a 15% bonus.

Jason and Travis Kelce just signed a big ticket.

The Monday Night Countdown analyst, and former Philadelphia Eagle and the Kansas City Chiefs star (and T. Swift’s main squeeze) have signed a deal worth $100 million over three years to distribute their podcast New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce.

The new contract with Wondery includes global distribution rights to all audio and video episodes of the podcast.

Ranked as the #1 sports podcast on both Apple and Spotify during football season, New Heights has charted in the top 3 spots for podcasts overall.

This is a good time to remind you that the CKMORNINGS ICYMI Podcast is also available wherever you get your podcasts.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod