Morning Coffee – By Aaron Hall
FREE community meals in Wallaceburg
Here is the FREE community meals schedule for the Wallaceburg in the month of May:
While the meals are alwways FREE, donations are always appreciated by the groups.
Indigenous storykits available at the CKPL
The Chatham-Kent Public Library is pleased to introduce some special additions to the popular storykit collection available at the library.
CKPL presents six new Indigenous kits for kids featuring resources from the Delaware Nation and Ojibwe culture. The kits include regalia and traditional clothing, stories, music, dolls, drums, language learning devices and more.
Kits may be checked out for 4 weeks from any CKPL branch with a library card. Chatham-Kent Public Library would like to acknowledge the support of the Chatham-Kent Children and Youth Planning Network in making these resources available to the public.
For more information about these storykits, or others in CKPL’s collection, please visit search.ckpl.ca and search “storykit”.
Fire and Safety Awareness Day in Port Lambton
The Optimist Club of Sombra Township and their affiliated Down River Junior Optimist Club will be hosting a Fire and Safety Awareness Day on Saturday May 13, at Brander Park in Port Lambton.
The day will start with a bicycle rodeo at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. a parade of antique fire trucks, ambulance and emergency vehicles will travel from Brander Park to Mooretown and back. From noon to 5 p.m. the parade vehicles will be on display at Brander Park. The firetrucks will be doing “water pumping” demonstrations throughout the day. During the afternoon, a Junior Fire Safety course for children 12 and under will be held.
Food and licensed refreshments will be available at the park.
Come out and join a day of family fun.
For more information about staging, pumping or the parade contact Brent at brent@denure.ca
If you have a suggestion, story idea, column idea, or if you want to say hello… drop me an e-mail at aaron@sydenhamcurrent.ca.
Photo of the day
Here is a beautiful photo of the sunset overlooking Running Creek and Crothers Park in Wallaceburg. It was taken from on top of the brand new playground equipment installed at Colwell Park in Wallaceburg, the future home of the Wallaceburg Splash Pad. Nice shot, Dana!
Weather forecast for Thursday, April 27, 2017
Today – Mainly sunny. Increasing cloudiness this morning then 60 percent chance of showers this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming south 40 gusting to 60 late this morning. High 23 except 18 near Lake Erie. Humidex 26. UV index 6 or high.
Tonight – Clearing this evening. Wind southwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light overnight. Low 8.
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