May 11, 2020
May 11th is the 132nd day of the year.There are 234 days remaining until the end of the year.
Some more stores will re-open today across Ontario today.
Any non-essential retail store with a street entrance can reopen, with delivery and curbside service only.
Garden centres and nurseries were permitted to re-open on Friday and hardware stores opened on Saturday.
Starting this morning, C-K Transit Routes 1-4 will return to normal operating hours from 6:15a.m.-7:15 p.m. on a 30-minute basis, Monday-Saturday.
Route 5 will also resume normal hours from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. on an hourly basis, Monday-Saturday.
Municipal officials are reminding riders, CK Transit is to be used for essential travel only during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Essential travel includes trips to and from work and to get essential items. Social distancing measures will continue to be enforced on buses and no more than six riders are allowed on at once.
On Saturday Premier Doug Ford announced that Ontario Parks & Conservation Reserves will re-open for limited day-use as of this morning.
Parks will be available for walking, biking, and hiking. There will be no access to camping, playgrounds, beaches and washroom facilities. “I encourage people to get out and enjoy the outdoors, but please do so in a responsible way. Practice physical distancing and follow the rules set out by health care officials to stop the spread of this virus.” says Premier Ford.
Day visitors will be able to access all parks and conservation reserves for free until the end of the month.
Today, 520 provincial parks and conservation reserves across the province will open, and the remaining 115 will open on Friday.
Locally, Wheatley, Rondeau and the Pinery will re-open Friday.
Anyone planning a day trip is encouraged to visit ontarioparks.com to check the status of specific parks.
Ontario just announced the opening of Provincial Parks and Conservation Areas for day use! (May11-15 opening)
Limited activities will be permitted at this time but access with be FREE for the month of MayDetails: https://t.co/cBIo4EACbX pic.twitter.com/GwuBWpWUuz
— CKPublicHealth (@CKPublicHealth) May 9, 2020
If you missed it, on Friday the Chatham-Kent Fire Department announced that fireworks will be permitted this weekend.
Fireworks are permitted 3 days before, and 3 days after Victoria Day.
GOOD NEWS!
There is NOT a complete FIRE BAN in CK. We have only suspended Recreational (campfire) Permits.
This means you can safely enjoy and light off fireworks (3 days before, on and 3 days after Victoria Day)#StaySafeCKhttps://t.co/9ZCXEJIpNW pic.twitter.com/Ua7aSLIe6G
— Chatham-Kent Fire (@ckfiredept) May 8, 2020
Microsoft is adding a new feature to Outlook that blocks reply-all emails to huge lists.
It’s designed to prevent email storms (reply allpocalypse), when hundreds or thousands of people start replying to an email thread after someone forgot to BCC everyone or a distribution list was misconfigured.
The new block feature will mostly benefit large organizations, and is initially being rolled out to detect 10 reply-all emails to over 5,000 recipients within 60 minutes. Over time, that will be fine-tuned to your organization.
Microsoft’s new reply-all email block feature will stay in place for four hours after it’s automatically triggered, enough time to stop people from asking “why am I on this email thread?” hundreds of times.
