December 17, 2024

December 17, 2024 5:55 am Published by

December 17th is the 352nd day of the year. There are 14 days remaining until the end of the year.

Chatham Goodfellows toy hamper deliveries begin at 5:30 p.m. from the former Monsignor Uyen school at 255 Lark St., Chatham tonight.

Volunteers can arrive at 5:30, you’ll be given a route and hampers to deliver. Take as many or as little as you can handle.

Food hamper packing is tomorrow morning beginning at 8am, deliveries start at 11:30 a.m.

The final local blood donor clinic of 2024 is today in Wallaceburg at the UAW Hall, 1-7 p.m.

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

The next clinic locally will be at the St. Clair College Healthplex on January 7th 1-8 p.m.

After more than a month, mail will begin moving again today as Canada Post employees return to work after the federal government pushed to end the stoppage.

Mail delays are expected into January as workers clear the packages and letters that have been held up for weeks.

Canada Post won’t start accepting new mail until Thursday to prioritize existing mail. Service guarantees will stay suspended. They will prioritize a couple million backlogged parcels first on a “first in, first out” basis — meaning the oldest ones will get priority. Even once new mail starts getting through the company will prioritize rural and remote communities that have been without any deliveries since mid-November.

New packages sent on or after Thursday likely won’t arrive for the holidays.

NORAD is set to track Santa again this Christmas for the 69th year in a row.

NORAD is a United States and Canada bi-national organization which defends the homeland through aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning for North America. The military-run, all-volunteer tracking operation launched its NORAD Tracks Santa website, noradsanta.org on December 1st. The website features Santa’s North Pole Village, including a countdown until Santa’s annual December 24th journey, plus games, a movie theater, holiday music, a web store and more. The website is available in nine languages.

The tracker is available at NORADSanta.org. On Christmas Eve trackers worldwide can call 1-877-HI-NORAD for real-time updates on Santa’s location from live operators.

Parents can also download the official NORAD Tracks Santa smartphone app, available on the Apple App and Google Play stores.

It’s official: Terry Fox will be on the next $5 bill.

The federal government will pay tribute to one of Canada’s greatest heroes, the decision has been made to replace Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the $5 bank note, he will be added to the next version of the $50 bill. William Lyon Mackenzie King, who is currently featured on the $50 bank note, will be added to a different bill. The announcement was made on Monday afternoon, part of the 2024 Fall Economic Statement.

Terry Fox’s legacy saw him run 42 kilometres per day on his prosthetic leg, raising $24.7 million for cancer research by the time he was hospitalized in early 1981. His run across Canada was interrupted just past the halfway point when the cancer reached his lungs, and ultimately took his life. The 22-year-old showed Canadians the difference that an ordinary person could make through sheer willpower and determination.

According to the Terry Fox Foundation, the annual Terry Fox Runs have been held across Canada and in several other countries since have raised roughly $800 million more.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod