5 Things You Need To Know For September 24, 2025

September 24th is the 267th day of the year. There are 98 days remaining until the end of the year.

It’s Movie Night at the Capitol Theatre.

Stop by tonight at 7 p.m. to see Billy Elliot.

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

There is a limited amount of CK Dining Guides available.

The guides are available online now for $69 (+hst) and you’ll get over $950 in value at more than 60 restaurants across Chatham-Kent. Go to 943CKSY.com to view the participating restaurants and see what is being offered by each.

Purchase your CK Dining Guide here.

Major League Baseball will add robot umpires to help with balls and strikes in the 2026 season.

After years of testing, MLB will go ahead with a system that will give teams two challenges per game. Hitters, pitchers and catchers will trigger the system by tapping their head. Twelve cameras at every ballpark will monitor the exact location of each pitch, relative to the batter’s zone. The pitch will be replayed on in-stadium videoboards showing if the ball was in the strike zone, or not. The ball-strike call is then either confirmed or overturned, and the game goes on having only been briefly interrupted.

Robot umps wouldn’t have helped the Jays or Tigers last night. The Jays lost 4-1 to Boston, and the Yankees won. New York is now 1.0 game behind Toronto for the top spot in the division. The Tigers big series in Cleveland began with a 5-2 loss. Detroit has won one game in the last 10 and the Guardians are now tied for first. Both series resume tonight.

Instagram is testing artificial intelligence in Canada that will identify accounts it suspects belong to teens, even if they list an adult birthday.

The AI model will be trained on information including the dates accounts were created and interactions they had with other profiles and content. Because people in the same age group tend to interact similarly with certain types of content, the data will help the model make calculations about how likely users are to be an adult or a teen.

If Instagram suspects a teen of trying to deceive the company with an adult birthday, the platform will place the user in a teen account. Teen Account settings restrict who can message younger users and filter out explicit or damaging content from their feeds.

Previously they caught users lying about their age, when they input an adult birthdate after initially registering a teen birthdate but later inputted an adult one, or when they reported an adult age but then got birthday wishes showing they’re a minor.

It’s Fat Bear Week.

Fat Bear Week is an annual, single-elimination tournament.

The competition shows off the brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve as they complete their transformations from scrawny to “fat” for hibernation. We get to watch along on the live Bear Cams.

The competition has been around since 2014. The average midsummer weight of an adult male in Katmai is estimated between 700 to 900 pounds. Several large brown bears in Katmai can weigh in at over 1,000 pounds by the fall.

Until September 30th, the public votes online for the bear that they think best exemplifies fatness in brown bears. The bear with the most votes advances. Only one is crowned Fat Bear Week champion. The main goal of Fat Bear Week is to promote conservation efforts to preserve places like Katmai.

Fans can vote on Explore.org’s website every day of the competition between noon and 9 p.m.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod