February 22, 2019
Blood Donor Clinic tomorrow morning from 9-noon at the St. Clair College Healthplex (1001 Grand Ave. West)
Book your appointment now at Blood.ca, 1-888-2-DONATE, use the apps or just walk in.
New donors are welcome!
NeighbourLink Chatham-Kent is hosting the Coldest Night of the Year on Saturday.
Come out for a 2, 5 or 10km winter walk.
The walk is from 4-7:30 at The Hub (the former Pines Chapel, 64 Ursuline Ave) on Grand Ave in Chatham!
To register or more information click here.
Retrofest 2019 will be the biggest yet.
It was announced yesterday at RM Sothebys that this years Retrofest will be pushed back to the weekend of June 21st to celebrate the 40th anniversary of RM.
It’ll be a two day party in downtown Chatham starting with a parade of cars and Juno winner Sam Roberts on stage Friday night. Rob Myers hopes to have “thousands of classic cars downtown” on Saturday and a concert at the Capitol that evening.
Big announcement today from RM Sotheby’s. To celebrate 40 years of operation they are bringing the @samrobertsband to play in Tecumseh Park during Retrofest June 21. #ckont @BlackburnCK pic.twitter.com/FekXLbcUY2
— Greg Higgins (@realgreghiggins) February 21, 2019
The world’s largest bee has been discovered. And it’s generating a ton of buzz.
A bunch of scientists went through the Indonesian forest in search of the Wallace’s giant bee — a species that hadn’t been spotted alive since 1981. It was feared extinct. It wasn’t. They found a female.
The female bee — the larger sex of the species Megachile pluto — is four times the size of the typical European honeybee with a wingspan of 2.5 inches. It’s the largest known bee on the planet. “This is the holy grail of bees.”
After 40 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered https://t.co/xmLwRpNtjV pic.twitter.com/eWk5nrkao9
— Mashable (@mashable) February 21, 2019
A Kitchener man has set a new Guinness World Record by wearing 260 shirts at once.
Ted Hastings ordered shirts up to 20 XL from India and attempted the record at a gym. The event raised money for Bridgeport Public School, where his son and daughter attend.
Hastings said after putting on the 260 shirts — three more than the previous record — that the experience was “generally awful.”
Here’s Ted Hastings from Canada keeping warm and snug wearing 260 t-shirts 👕
Congratulations Ted! https://t.co/SjePfU5yPA— GuinnessWorldRecords (@GWR) February 18, 2019
