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January 25, 2022
January 25th is the 25th day of the year. There are 340 days remaining until the end of the year.
Chatham-Kent Public Health reported another deaths from COVID19 on Monday, the 41st in C-K.
There are now 14 patients hospitalized for COVID locally.
Ontario is reporting 3,861 people in hospital with COVID on Monday – another decrease from the previous day. There were 36 deaths recorded in the province.
There’s a blood donor clinic tomorrow at the Portuguese Canadian Club from 1-7pm.
Book your appointment at Blood.ca, call 1-888-2-DONATE or use the apps. No walk-in appointments are available.
Curling Canada announced the Tim Hortons Brier will be in London next year.
The event will be held at Budweiser Gardens from March 3-12, 2023. London last hosted the Brier in 2011.
The fan zone known as the ‘Brier Patch’ will be held at RBC Place London.
Information on how to get tickets will be coming soon.
Red Cross swimming program ending after 76 years.
The Red Cross swim and lifeguard program started in 1946 to curb the 1,000 deaths from drowning recorded each year, it will wind down by December 2022. The plan is to direct more attention to humanitarian demands, such as disaster and pandemic response, opioid harm reduction and care giving for seniors.
The Red Cross is working with other organizations to continue learn to swim programming.
The World’s Largest Cast Iron Skillet has been made.
The skillet is from Lodge Cast Iron. Lodge shared a short video showing the skillet on the road on its way to the Lodge Cast Iron Museum.
The Cast Iron Museum is currently under construction in Tennessee. The museum is expected to open in late summer 2022 in South Pittsburg where Lodge has been in residence since 1896.
The 18 feet wide and weighs 14,360lbs skillet is large enough to simultaneously fry up 27 ostrich eggs.
If you were driving down I59 yesterday, you might have seen something special headed north! The World’s Largest Cast Iron Skillet made its way to our campus to find its home in the Lodge Cast Iron Museum that is currently under construction. Learn more: https://t.co/ccaO9ysccD pic.twitter.com/eYO1VQH06g
— Lodge Cast Iron (@LodgeCastIron) January 13, 2022
