May 12, 2025

May 12th is the 132nd day of the year. There are 233 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham Maroons are Sutherland Cup Champions!

Chatham beat the St. Catharines Falcons 6-3 to win the cup in 6 games.

It is the second Sutherland Cup victory for the Maroons, the first was in 1999. The 6-3 score in Game 6 is identical to the final score in the Maroons’ win in Game 7 of the 1999 Sutherland Cup against the Stratford Cullitons.

Chatham-Kent council will meet tonight to vote on whether or not to proceed with a proposed multi-million-dollar community hub. The hub would be in the former Sears store at the Downtown Chatham Centre.

Supporters are saying it would be a long-term investment to help revitalize the downtown, but not everyone agrees. The consolidation of the Civic Centre, library, and museum to one site will allow the municipality to sell the other buildings in need of repair.

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Due to an expected large crowd, the meeting has been moved to the John D. Bradley Convention Centre (565 Richmond St, Chatham) beginning at 6 p.m. The meeting will be streamed on the Municipal Facebook Page.

The World Video Game Hall of Fame has announced its Class of 2025. Four new games are being honored.

They are:

• Defender, a 1981 arcade game that raised the bar on difficulty from simpler stuff like Space Invaders.
• Quake, the 1996 follow-up to Doom, which introduced a 3D engine that’s still used today.
• GoldenEye 007, which became one of the best-selling Nintendo 64 games upon its release in 1997.
• Tamagotchi, the digital pets introduced in 1996.

Games that did not make the cut this year are: Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Frogger, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, and NBA 2K.

The World Video Game Hall of Fame is inside the Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.

Today is International Nurses Day!

The day honours nurses for their contributions worldwide and marks the conclusion of National Nurses Week, which began on May 7th.

Today is also the birthday of the notable nurse Florence Nightingale. The International Council of Nurses has celebrated the day since 1965.

Nutella is set to introduce Nutella Peanut, the first new Nutella flavor in its 60-year history.

The peanut-infused hazelnut spread will hit store shelves in April 2026.

Ferrero Rocher announced a bunch of new products before the annual Sweets and Snacks Expo kicks off today in Indianapolis.

This year the Ferrero company is also set makeover to its iconic Ferrero Rocher (transforming into squares instead of balls) debut a new Butterfinger flavour, and release a collab with Dr Pepper in the Fall.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod