{"id":35169,"date":"2024-08-06T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=35169"},"modified":"2024-08-06T05:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T09:27:02","slug":"august-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2024\/08\/august-6-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 6th is the 219th day of the year. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’ll be a wet start to the week, according to Environment Canada.<\/p>\n

Chatham-Kent is currently under a rainfall warning. Heavy showers are expected to start early Tuesday morning and last throughout the day and into the evening. It will be a little cooler on Tuesday as well with a high of 21C, feeling like 28C with a humidex factored in.<\/p>\n

The gloomy weather should be short lived with sunshine expected to return on Wednesday and last for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n

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There’s a blood donor clinic Tuesday at the St. Clair College Healhplex from 1 pm- 8 pm.<\/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\u2019re unable to donate this week, the next clinic locally will be at the UAW Hall in Wallaceburg on August 27.<\/p>\n

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It was a busy weekend for the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers with just a few more weeks left in the regular season.<\/p>\n

The Barnstormers won on the road 5-2 over Brantford on Friday, but fell at home 11-22 against Toronto on Saturday and 5-6 against London on Sunday. The team had no luck against London on the road Monday night, falling 0-7.<\/p>\n

The Barnstormers are on the road again Tuesday night to take on The Guelph Royals.<\/p>\n

The team only has one more weekend of home games for the regular season including a game against Welland on Saturday at 7:05 pm at Fergie Jenkins field and against Guelph at 1:35 pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris reached its halfway point over the weekend and Canada picked up some gold medals while also setting some new records.<\/p>\n

Swimmer Summer McIntosh became Canada’s first-ever triple gold medalist at a single Olympic Games. McIntosh won her third gold in Paris in the 200m individual medley.<\/p>\n

Ethan Katzberg also won gold in the men’s hammer throw on Sunday getting a 84.12m throw. Katzberg is the\u00a0first-ever Canadian to win Olympic gold in the hammer throw.\u00a0Canada won its last medal in the hammer throw at the Olympic Games 112 years ago.<\/p>\n

Canada has a total of 17 medals overall including 5 golds.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday morning, China and the U.S. are now tied with 21 golds a piece.<\/p>\n

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The Chatham-Kent Public Library<\/a> hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday at the Chatham branch.<\/p>\n

Book your spot<\/a> today to see\u00a0Meg 2: The Trench starring Jason Statham, Jing Wu, and Shuya Sophia Cai<\/p>\n

Movies start at 2 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 6th is the 219th day of the year. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year. It’ll be a wet start to the week, according to Environment Canada. Chatham-Kent is currently under a rainfall warning. Heavy showers are expected to start early Tuesday morning and last throughout the day and into","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":34036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4545,133,4308,4283,926],"class_list":["post-35169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things-you-need-to-know","tag-barnstormers","tag-blood-donor-clinic","tag-forecast","tag-movies","tag-olympics"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:07:39","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\/08\/august-6-2024\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169","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=35169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35176,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions\/35176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}