{"id":30781,"date":"2023-06-20T05:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=30781"},"modified":"2023-06-20T04:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T08:43:34","slug":"june-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2023\/06\/june-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"June 20, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 20th is the 171st day of the year. There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"There’s a blood donor clinic<\/a> at the UAW Hall in Wallaceburg today from 1-7pm.<\/p>\n

No walk-in appointments are available. Book your appointment at Blood.ca<\/a>, call 1-888-2-DONATE or use the apps.<\/p>\n

If you’re unable to donate this week, the next clinic locally will also be at the Portuguese Canadian Club on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Free live music this Thursday in Blenheim and Dresden.<\/p>\n

The Blenheim Rotary Club<\/a> Summer Concerts in the Park begin at Talbot Trail Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Higgi’s Country Music hits the stage at 7. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy some music Thursdays all summer.<\/p>\n

In Dresden, show #2 of the Dresden Rotary Club<\/a> Summer Concert Series is Thursday.<\/p>\n

Aaron Allen performs at 7.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"The Pain Court Truck and Tractor Pull<\/a> is this weekend.<\/p>\n

The pull gets underway Friday at 7, under the water tower. Admission is $20, kids 12 and under are free.<\/p>\n

Food and beer tent on site.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"Summer fun a day trip away, Bingemans waterpark, Big Splash<\/a>, opens for its 40th season on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Big Splash waterpark opened in the early 1980’s, and was Canada’s first wave pool, which still exists at the park today.<\/p>\n

Bingemans Big Splash is open 10am to 7pm daily, you can book your tickets on their website.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"IKEA Canada<\/a> has a new mascot and he needs a name, according to their latest TikTok video.<\/p>\n

The video is captioned with \u201cHighest vote by Friday wins!\u201d with four choices of names: Billy, V\u00e4n, Hex, and Blue.<\/p>\n

[tiktok url=”https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ikeacanada\/video\/7246391833016814853″]<\/p>\n

The Swedish furniture and d\u00e9cor company unveiled the new mascot\u2014a strangely tall, smiley faced human with Ikea-branded wide-legged overalls, a yellow t-shirt, chunky platform shoes, and what appears to be a yellow bowl haircut, or maybe a hat.<\/p>\n

Cast their vote by commenting on the TikTok post by Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 20th is the 171st day of the year. There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year. There’s a blood donor clinic at the UAW Hall in Wallaceburg today from 1-7pm. 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","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,4213,4212,2985,133,26,3568,811,4211,4210,1162,2736],"class_list":["post-30781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things-you-need-to-know","tag-5thingsyouneedtoknow","tag-big-splash","tag-bingemans","tag-blenheim-rotary-club","tag-blood-donor-clinic","tag-ckmornings","tag-dresden-rotary-club","tag-ikea","tag-mascot","tag-pain-court-truck-and-tractor-pull","tag-summer-concert-series","tag-tiktok"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 11:23:41","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\/2023\/06\/june-20-2023\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781","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=30781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30797,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions\/30797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}