5 Things You Need To Know For August 18, 2026

August 18, 2026 5:55 am Published by Chris McLeod

_{August 18th is the 230th day of the year. There are 135 days remaining until the end of the year.}

Donors are needed!

There’s a blood donor clinic today at the Portuguese Canadian Club 1 p.m. – 8 p.m.

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

If you’re unable to donate this week, the next clinic locally will also be at the Portuguese Canadian Club September 15th.

It’s Pride Week in Chatham-Kent hosted by C-K Pride.

There will be a flag raising at the Civic Centre at noon today with more events scheduled all week.

The annual Pride Parade is Saturday at 11 a.m.

The full schedule of events and the parade route can be found online.

The Chatham-Kent Barnstormers hit the road for Guelph tonight.

The Barnstormers take on the Royals, first pitch at 7:05 p.m. The game can be streamed here.

Manager Dom Dinelle will be In the Dugout with CKMORNINGS this morning at 8:40 a.m.

A winning ENCORE ticket worth $100,000 from last August’s Lotto Max draw remains unclaimed — and the winner has less than two weeks to come forward. The winning numbers are 7-8-4-8-8-1-6, and the ticket was sold in London, Ontario.

Under OLG rules, lottery prizes must be claimed within one year of the draw. If you bought an ENCORE ticket in London last August, check those old tickets — you could be sitting on $100,000.

The mail-order music club famous for offers like “12 CDs for a penny,” is shutting down for good.

Columbia House will stop accepting new orders September 15th, ending more than seven decades in business. At its peak in the 1990s, Columbia House had about 16 million members and generated $1.4 billion in annual revenue.

The company stopped selling music years ago and has survived mainly as a DVD and Blu-ray retailer.