February 22, 2024
February 22nd is the 53rd day of the year. There are 313 days remaining until the end of the year.
Reminder: Due to the Family Day Holiday on Monday, garbage and recycling is pushed back one day this week.
Friday pickups will be done on Saturday.
Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in Canada.
The baby boomer generation became the largest in Canada in 1958. They accounted for 40% of the population from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964.
StatsCan says the share of millennials and generation Z is increasing. Statistics Canada estimates generation Z could overtake millennials in numbers sometime between 2038 and 2053.
The Provincial Junior Hockey League regular season comes to an end this weekend.
Lakeshore is at Blenheim Memorial Arena to take on the Blades tonight at 7p.m.
Tomorrow night the Wheatley Omstead Sharks are in Lakeshore Friday at 7p.m. and the Dresden Kings face off against the Walpole Island Wild at the Ken Houston Memorial Agricultural Centre at 7:30p.m.
Walpole’s final regular season game is on Saturday in Mooretown.
Playoffs will begin next week. A couple series are already set: The third-place Blades will face the sixth-place Amherstburg Admirals and the fourth-place Wheatley Omstead Sharks will meet the fifth-place Mooretown Flags in another best of 7 quarter-final.
The Chatham Maroons regular season in the GOJHL will wrap up next Sunday (March 3rd) at Chatham Memorial Arena at 7p.m.
IKEA is coming back to London. Kind of, you’re not going to see the delicious meatballs in this store.
The IKEA ‘plan and order point’ store that previously was at Masonville Mall is on the move to a new location, in the south end of the city.
IKEA plan and order point stores allow customers to get support from IKEA experts to plan, order and purchase home furnishings for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and living room. Products are not available for immediate takeaway at these stores however. Once the order is placed, customers can have it delivered directly to their homes or to a local IKEA pick-up point. The new location will be on Wonderland Rd. South and will open its doors to customers on March 6.
About 3 years ago, there were plans to build a full IKEA near the new south end Costco in London, those plans have been scrapped.
Lyle’s Golden Syrup has the world’s oldest unchanged logo. Well it did. They are updating it to appeal to modern shoppers.
The sugar syrup is a baking ingredient in the United Kingdom. It was first produced in 1881. From the beginning, the tin containers have been branded with a dead lion surrounded by bees. The image comes from the Old Testament story of Samson and the lion. In the Bible, Samson kills a lion and when he sees the carcass later, it is full of bees who have made honey in the carcass. The tin received the Guinness World Record for oldest, unchanged brand packaging back in 2007.
The new logo features a golden lion’s head. The updated packaging will roll out throughout the year.
Tate & Lyle’s Golden Syrup rebrand drops dead lion https://t.co/WPhdn1EoR0 via @BBC @TateLyleSugars #branding #brands #logo #marketing #advertising #heritage pic.twitter.com/4vN3LCIzu3
— HistoryOfAdvertising (@HatAds) February 20, 2024
