April 9, 2024
April 9th is the 100th day of the year. There are 266 days remaining until the end of the year.
The first household hazardous waste day of 2024 is today, hosted by Municipality of Chatham-Kent and Waste Connections of Canada Ridge Landfill.
The drop off is at one central location, Veolia Environmental, at 141 Prosperity Way near Chatham.
Today’s drop off will be from 8-1pm.
These are the household hazardous waste days for 2024:
- Saturday, May 11, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, June 11, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, July 9, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, August 13, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Saturday, September 21, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 8, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, November 12, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Residents can safely dispose of household hazardous material at no charge. A list of acceptable material can found here.
The Chatham-Kent Public Library hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday at the Chatham branch.
Book your spot today to see Judy starring Renée Zellweger.
Movies start at 2pm.
If you had U Conn in the office pool, you win.
The U Conn Huskies beat Purdue last night 75-60 in the NCAA Men’s championship.
The Huskies are the first team to win back-to-back NCAA men’s basketball championships in 17 years, the last was Florida in 2006 and 2007.
Meanwhile, the women’s National Championship game between Iowa and South Carolina on Sunday drew a record-breaking 18.7 million viewers. The game peaked at 24 million viewers. The game is the most-watched basketball game in the past five years.
The UConn Huskies have done it again 👏
Back-to-back National Champions 🏆🏆 #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/O3wKxvaAJL
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) April 9, 2024
The LCBO is bringing back single-use paper bags.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to rethink its bag policy that took effect last September.
The LCBO first announced plans to begin phasing out the free paper bags last April. It asked its customers to instead bring their own reuseable bag or request to reuse one of the store’s cardboard boxes or 8-pack carriers. Like all stores, reusable bags were also available for purchase at the LCBO. The new policy took effect last September. The date for the return of paper bags has not been announced.
The LCBO permanently did away with plastic bags 15 years ago.
Conan O’Brien will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight.
It’ll be his first time back since his short-lived stint as host ended 14 years ago. He replaced Jay Leno in June of 2009 and then was replaced by Jay in January of 2010.
Conan will be promoting his upcoming travel series, Conan O’Brien Must Go, where he visits new friends in Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and Ireland. The first episode premieres April 18th on Crave.
