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February 1, 2022

By: Chris McLeod

1/2/2022

5 Things You Need To Know

February 1st is the 32nd day of the year. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year.

Environment Canada has issued a winter storm watch for Chatham-Kent.

The Watch covers most of Southwestern Ontario; London, Middlesex County, Elgin County, and Windsor-Essex.

After sunshine and above freezing temperatures today, a significant amount of snow will fall on the area from Wednesday to Friday.

Environment Canada is calling for between 20 and 30 centimetres of snow by Friday, along with wind gusts of 50 to 70 kilometres per hour.

The snow is expected to taper off Friday morning.

Chatham-Kent Council will continues budget deliberations tonight at 6pm.

After cuts last week, the proposed tax increase is down to 2.99%.

For C-K Budget info check here.

You can follow along on the municipality’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

If needed, Wednesday and Thursday have also been set aside for further budget deliberations

The New York Times just bought Wordle.

The purchase price as being described as being in the “low-seven figures,” but did no specifics have been released.

And now it won’t be free anymore.

The Times say they’ll be adding it to their line-up of online word games soon, and it’ll still be free at first. But it sounds like you’ll eventually need a subscription to play it.

Wordle was created by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn software engineer. He originally made it for his partner, but released it to the public in October. On November 1st, only 90 people had played it. Within two months, that number had grown to 300,000 after people began sharing their scores on social media. Now, the simple puzzle that lets players guess a five-letter word in six tries with no hints, has millions of daily players

They have not made it clear when the change-over is happening, but it’s still up at its normal website.

February is Black History Month.

The 2022 theme is – February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day.

Locally there will be a flag-raising at the Civic Centre in Chatham at noon today. The flag-raising is being held in partnership with the Buxton National Historic Site & Museum, The Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and Black Mecca Museum, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Historic Site.

The Buxton National Historic Site & Museum will be posting events on the Facebook page.

While Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Historic Site located in Dresden is closed to the public, residents can take virtual tours of the museum.

For more local events go here.

Happy Chinese New Year. It’s the year of the Tiger.

Known as Spring Festival in China, Lunar New Year is the most important time for families to get together, likened by some to Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years combined.

Every year, hundreds of millions of people who have left their hometowns to build a life in China’s fast growing cities pour into trains, buses and planes to see their family — a weeks-long travel rush known as the largest annual human migration on Earth. This year, China’s Ministry of Transportation expects 1.18 billion trips to be made during the Lunar New Year travel season, a 35% increase from last year — but still much lower than the 3 billion trips taken in 2019 before the pandemic.

A couple things you’re not supposed to do on Chinese New Year are: no sweeping or taking out the trash, because it’s like sweeping wealth away and dumping out good fortune. And washing your hair supposedly washes away your good luck too.

On the other hand, some things that are encouraged are: lighting fireworks, wearing red, gifting people cash in red envelopes, and eating dumplings.

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