February 23, 2024
February 23rd is the 54th day of the year. There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year.
The Coldest Night of the Year is Saturday.
Coldest Night of the Year is the family-friendly fundraising nation-wide walk-a-thon that raises funds for charities that serve hungry, homeless and hurting people in Chatham-Kent and beyond through NeighbourLink Chatham-Kent.
Register online and walk in person or virtually. You can also donate to the cause if you want to forego the walk itself.
A heads up that Pink Shirt Day 2024 is just around the corner.
Pink Shirt Day is set for Wednesday, February 28, about a week later than it has been over the past couple of years.
Plenty of schools and businesses in the area will be sporting pink shirts on Wednesday to stand up to bullying and to raise awareness of the issues.
The Pink Shirt Day anti-bullying movement started in 2007 after a Grade 9 student from a small town in Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink T-shirt to school. As a show of support and acceptance, two older students purchased 50 pink tank tops and handed them out to male classmates the next day, and Pink Shirt Day was born.
A detour that’s been in place in Chatham for several days is expected to wrap up today.
A detour’s been in place since Monday at Queen St. at William St. in Chatham near the VIA station.
CN Rail is upgrading the railway warning light system.
The area is expected to open back up again by 5 p.m. Friday.
It’ll be a mixed bag of the weather for the last weekend of February.
According to Environment Canada, we’re under a fog advisory right now. Once that tapers off we’ll see a high of 4C on Friday with a mix of sun and cloud and a chance of showers. Those showers could turn to flurries as the temperatures drop to -4C by Friday afternoon.
Saturday will be sunny with a high of 1C, then back to more mild temps on Sunday with a high of 8C and more sunshine.
An American spacecraft has landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
The robotic Odysseus lunar lander made history on Thursday night, becoming the first privately built spacecraft to touch down on the moon’s surface. It’s also the first American spacecraft on the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
The 14-foot spacecraft spent six days cruising in space until it reached its destination. According to NASA, Odysseus will spend a week on the moon collecting data to prepare for future human exploration of the moon.
Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦@Int_Machines' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under #Artemis. pic.twitter.com/sS0poiWxrU
— NASA (@NASA) February 22, 2024
