{"id":29110,"date":"2022-12-22T05:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=29110"},"modified":"2022-12-22T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:41:07","slug":"december-22-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2022\/12\/december-22-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"December 22, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 22nd is the 356th day of the year. There are 9 days remaining until the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"Environment Canada<\/a> has now issued a Winter Storm Watch<\/a> for Chatham-Kent, Windsor-Essex and most of south western Ontario.<\/p>\n

A major winter storm expected Thursday night into Saturday.<\/p>\n

Precipitation is expected to begin as rain or snow late this afternoon or early evening before turning to rain tonight. Temperatures are expected to plummet tomorrow morning leading to a potential flash freeze. Rapidly falling temperatures will come with damaging winds along with snow heavy at times. Extensive blowing snow will develop Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Very cold wind chills are expected Friday and persist into the weekend.<\/p>\n

Take a second look at travel plans and keep an eye on the forecast.<\/p>\n

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\"\"A special Thursday night\u00a0\"\"Movie Night at the Capitol Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tonight at 7pm stop by to see How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/a> on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Check here for more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Admission is $5 or flash your movie pass for entry.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"The C-K Salvation Army<\/a> is closing in on its goal of $500,000 with the annual kettle campaign.<\/p>\n

The organization is about $70,000 short at the moment.<\/p>\n

Kettles remain out in Chatham, Wallaceburg and Blenheim until the afternoon on Christmas Eve. Every dollar raised at those kettles, goes to the community it was donated in.<\/p>\n

To volunteer your time working a kettle, call 519-354-8353.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Toronto skyline will have a slightly different look to it after the latest upgrade to the Rogers Centre was announced this week.<\/p>\n

The Rogers Centre<\/a>, opening in 1989 as the Skydome, is getting a $300 million renovation<\/p>\n

A big change to the stadium’s exterior was shown off on Tuesday, with a new colour-changing lighting on the roof.<\/p>\n

To go along with the colour changing CN Tower<\/a>, the TO skyline is lit.<\/p>\n

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The @RogersCentre<\/a> got a lights upgrade and put on a bit of a show ? pic.twitter.com\/EPNSu6fDkB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Little (@peter_little_) December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"\"\"Speaking of baseball…<\/p>\n

The new Chatham IBL<\/a> team is looking for a name.<\/p>\n

The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) is the top-level amateur baseball league in Canada. The Chatham team will start play in May 2024, at the Fergie Jenkins (Rotary Park) on Tweedsmuir Ave.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fans are asked to submit a name for the team. Team names should include a local connection, family friendly and over the top fun. The fan that submits the winning name will win a family seasons pass.<\/p>\n

Got an idea? Submit it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 22nd is the 356th day of the year. There are 9 days remaining until the end of the year. Environment Canada has now issued a Winter Storm Watch for Chatham-Kent, Windsor-Essex and most of south western Ontario. A major winter storm expected Thursday night into Saturday. Precipitation is expected to begin as rain or","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":29111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,35,3906,366,26,641,3907,3893,3894,90,3908,2499,860,502,66],"class_list":["post-29110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things-you-need-to-know","tag-5thingsyouneedtoknow","tag-chatham-capitol-theatre","tag-chatham-ibl","tag-chatham-kent-salvation-army","tag-ckmornings","tag-environment-canada","tag-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas","tag-ibl","tag-intercounty-baseball-league","tag-movie-night-at-the-capitol","tag-onstorm","tag-red-kettle-campaign","tag-rogers-centre","tag-salvation-army","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 21:42:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/943cksy.com\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2022\/12\/december-22-2022\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29112,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29110\/revisions\/29112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}