August 28, 2025

August 28th is the 240h day of the year. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Summer Concert Series continues tonight in Blenheim at Talbot Trail Place.

Stop by the park on Thursday nights during the Summer for live entertainment between 7-8:30.

Come by tonight to see After Midnight.

The 171st Harrow Fair opens today.

The four-day event features a wide range of activities including a horse show, a parade, the midway, lawn tractor races, live entertainment, and much more.

Admission to the Fair is $12 for adults, and children 12 and under are free to enter. More information and a schedule of the Harrow Fair events can be found by clicking here.

Tonight is Trivia Night at Sons of Kent in support of Rise House International.

Cost is $20 per person at the door. Trivia begins at 7p.m. with some awesome prizes to be won.

Spotify announced this week that it’s rolling out direct messages between users.

The feature is available to both free and premium subscribers as part of an effort to attract more users. Spotify used to have a similar messaging feature but it was removed in 2017 over low engagement.

The DM feature allows people to share Spotify content and react with text or emojis. Users have the choice to accept or reject message requests from friends and family.

The early response to this has been underwhelming among users.

Thousands of people took part in the 80th anniversary of Spain’s famous “Tomatina” tomato street fight yesterday.

The town of Bunol brings in 120 tons of overripe tomatoes, buildings are covered in tarps and a crowd of up to 22,000 participants have a massive food fight. Non-locals pay 15 euros ($17.50CAD) for a ticket and come from across the globe.

Always held on the last Wednesday of August, the event was inspired by a food fight between local children who pelted each other with tomatoes in 1945. The tomatoes are grown specifically for the festival and are not used for food.

There’s only one rule: To avoid injuries, participants are encouraged to squash the tomatoes before hurling them (and of course, refrain from hurling anything else).

Thousands of revelers threw tomatoes at each other during Spain’s annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, an event that has grown in popularity since its revival in the 1980s after being banned during General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship pic.twitter.com/jXtVMUGiOo

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2025

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This post was written by Chris McLeod