November 2, 2020

November 2, 2020 5:55 am Published by

November 2nd is the 307th day of the year. There are 59 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham Goodfellows goal is to make sure there’s Child Without a Christmas this year.

Today they will be registering names for toy and food baskets online. Go to ChathamGoodfellows.ca to register.

Phone registrations will open next Monday. No referrals permitted.

Tickets for the All I Want for Christmas Raffle from Habitat for Humanity will go on sale today.

Tickets are available until December 18th. There will be 3 raffle items to choose from – An Apple Watch SE, a V7 Dyson Vacuum, and the CK Showcase Basket that contains gift certificates and prizes from businesses from across CK.

Tickets are available at the ReStore and are $5.00 for one or 5 for $20.00. All monies raised will assist with the building of a house for a local family.

The Royal Canadian Legion has launched its annual poppy campaign.

Veterans Week officially begins November 5; however, the poppy campaign is already beginning across the community. All donations are used to fund programs that directly help veterans and their families.

Poppy’s can still be purchased the traditional way, you may also come across some touchless donation boxes too. The boxes will accept fee-free touchless donations in two-dollar increments, from any tap-enabled device or card. Donors can also choose to take a lapel poppy from the box, as they would from a traditional box.

The digital poppy will also be available again this year at MyPoppy.ca.

The Legion’s Poppy Drop on Parliament Hill’s Peace Tower will feature a digital light show with 117,000 virtual poppies representing each of Canada’s fallen since the beginning of the First World War. The display run each night until November 11th, from 6:30-9:30pm, including until midnight on the 11th.

If you’d like to make a donation to the Royal Canadian Legion go here.

Funds donated across the country during the National Poppy Campaign support Veterans and their families. Funds donated locally stay local.

McDonald’s has announced they’re bringing back the McRib next month.

For the first time in eight years, it’ll be available at every one of their stores, in the U.S.

In a statement, McDonald’s Canada says:
“We are not bringing back the McRib in Canada at this time. Though we are always inspired by other McDonald’s markets around the world and are always looking for new flavours and menu items for our Canadian guests to enjoy.”

The McRib has been appearing periodically on McDonald’s menus since 1982, helping the chain attract customers during the holiday season.

The McRib will be available all across the United States December 2nd.

LEGO is looking for bricks that you’re no longer using. It’s a program called LEGO Replay.

If you would like to donate they’re accepting all LEGO, Duplo, small bricks, big bricks. They don’t need to be full sets. Just place whatever bricks you’d like to donate inside a box and print your free shipping label. You can then drop the box off at your local shipping office.

All bricks will be cleaned and donated to organizations such as Right to Play, True North Aid and the Nova Scotia Ministry of Education.

Fore more info go here. https://www.lego.com/en-ca/aboutus/replay/

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This post was written by Chris McLeod