{"id":33385,"date":"2024-03-11T05:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=33385"},"modified":"2024-03-11T05:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:13:37","slug":"march-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2024\/03\/march-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"March 11, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 11th is the 69th day of the year. There are 295 days remaining until the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After a chilly weekend, the temperatures for March Break aren’t looking as bad.<\/p>\n

According to Environment Canada, the week will start with some sunshine and a high of 10C on Monday. The sun should continue into mid-week with highs around 16C on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The double-digit temperatures will continue into the later part of the week, however we could see some rain showers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"If you’re staying in town for March Break, there’s plenty to do to keep the family busy.<\/p>\n

CKRecreation<\/a> is offering some free swim sessions in Wallaceburg and Blenheim.<\/p>\n

At the Blenheim Gable Rees Rotary Pool, free swims are happening Monday to Friday 2:30-4 p.m.<\/p>\n

There are also free swim sessions at the Wallaceburg Sydenham Pool Monday to Saturday 2:30-4 p.m. with some bonus swim times on Friday and Saturday from 6-8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Several free skates will also be happening across Chatham-Kent this week. On Monday you can come on out for a skate at:<\/p>\n

-Dresden Arena; 11:30 am – 1 pm<\/p>\n

-Wallaceburg Arena; 11:30 am – 1 pm<\/p>\n

-Tilbury Arena; 12:30 pm – 2 pm<\/p>\n

-Wheatley Arena; 12:30 pm – 2pm<\/p>\n

-Thames Campus Arena; 2:00 – 3:30 pm<\/p>\n

The full schedule of free skates can be found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Schedules have been released for Round 2 of PJHL play-off action.<\/p>\n

The Wheatley Omstead Sharks will take on the Lakeshore Canadiens starting Tuesday at the Atlas Tube Centre in Lakeshore at 7pm.<\/p>\n

The rest of the series schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n

Game 2: March 13 in Wheatley @ 7:30 pm<\/p>\n

Game 3: March 15 in Lakeshore @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

Game 4: March 16 in Wheatley @ 4:30 pm<\/p>\n

*Game 5: March 19 in Lakeshore @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

*Game 6: March 20 in Wheatley @ 7:30 pm<\/p>\n

* Game 7: March 22 in Lakeshore @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

The Blenheim Blades will take on the Essex 73s beginning Tuesday in Essex at 7 p.m. The rest of the series is:<\/p>\n

Game 2: March 14 in Blenheim @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

Game 3: March 16 in Essex @ 6:30 pm<\/p>\n

Game 4: March 17 in Blenheim @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

*Game 5: March 19 in Essex @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

*Game 6: March 21 in Blenheim @ 7 pm<\/p>\n

*Game 7: March 24 in Essex @ 2:30 pm<\/p>\n

*If necessary<\/p>\n

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\"\"Despite the lost hour of sleep from Daylight Savings Time over the weekend, there is some good news.<\/p>\n

Clocks sprung forward one hour on Sunday morning, ushering in six months of longer days. We now\u00a0won’t see another sunset before 7 p.m. until September 30.<\/p>\n

The sun will set in Chatham-Kent at 7:30 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The 2024 Oscars were held on Sunday night, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

The biopic\u00a0Oppenheimer took home the top statue of Best Picture.\u00a0 Christopher Nolan won for best director for\u00a0\u00a0Oppenheimer and\u00a0Cillian Murphy took home Best Actor for the film.<\/p>\n

Emma Stone took home Best Actress for Poor Things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 11th is the 69th day of the year. There are 295 days remaining until the end of the year. After a chilly weekend, the temperatures for March Break aren’t looking as bad. According to Environment Canada, the week will start with some sunshine and a high of 10C on Monday. The sun should continue","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":32236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3569,4517,4538,4537,4308,838,2779,672,4333,673,1449],"class_list":["post-33385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things-you-need-to-know","tag-ckrecreation","tag-cpjhl","tag-daylight-savings","tag-five-things-you-need-to-know","tag-forecast","tag-march-break","tag-oscars","tag-skating","tag-sunset","tag-swimming","tag-weather"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 22:08:29","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\/2024\/03\/march-11-2024\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33385","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33392,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33385\/revisions\/33392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}