5 Things You Need To Know For January 23, 2026

January 23, 2026 5:55 am Published by Chris McLeod

_{January 23rd is the 23rd day of the year. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year.}

Grab some skates and get the family out for some FREE Public Skating this weekend and over the holidays.

Friday, January 23
Ken Houston Memorial Agricultural Centre, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
Chatham Erickson Arena, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 24
Blenheim Memorial Arena, 7:30 – 9 p.m.

Sunday, January 25
Chatham Memorial Arena 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Ridgetown East Kent Memorial Arena, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Ken Houston Memorial Agricultural Centre, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Thames Campus, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Tilbury Memorial Community Centre, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Wallaceburg Memorial Arena, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Wheatley Area Complex, 2 – 3:30 p.m.

Click here for more information on the ice skating programs.

Time is running out to register to Win a Wedding.

You and your partner could win a civil wedding ceremony, and a $250 gift card to Charm Diamond Centres.

Enter online at 943CKSY.com and you could be getting hitched on February 13th!

Canada’s first WNBA franchise, will make its debut on opening day of the 2026 season.

The Toronto Tempo will open the season on May 8, hosting the Washington Mystics in the team’s first-ever game. This is the 30th WNBA season.

Each team plays 44 games. Toronto will play home games in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. The schedule includes a visit from Chatham’s Bridget Carleton and the Minnesota Lynx on July 30th and Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever on August 18th at Scotiabank Arena.

Ontario Parks is now hiring secondary and post-secondary students for summer 2025.

Rangers, maintenance, gate attendant positions and more are now open. Apply here to work at an Ontario Park this summer.

Tomorrow is an important day in history. Beer history to be exact.

On January 24, 1935, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company, in collaboration with the American Can Company, introduced Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale in cans to the public in Richmond, Virginia. It was the first day beer was sold in cans.

Krueger’s Cream Ale first went on sale in cans this date, but the beer can really made its debut 14 months earlier. The American Can Company had engineered a workable beer can, all that was needed was a brewer willing to fill it. The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, NJ signed on the dotted line in November 1933. By the end of that month, American had installed a temporary canning line and delivered 2,000 Krueger’s Special Beer cans, which were promptly filled with 3.2% Krueger beer – the highest alcohol content allowed at the time. Krueger’s Special Beer thus became the world’s first beer can.