May 6, 2025
May 6th is the 126th day of the year. There are 239 days remaining until the end of the year.
The Chatham-Kent Public Library hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday at the Chatham branch.
Stop by today to see A Star is Born starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
Movies start at 2 p.m.
It’s Mental Health Week.
Mental Health Week is an annual event to celebrate and raise awareness about the importance of mental health. This year’s theme is Unmasking Mental Health.
It’s the 74th year of the initiative. For more info go to MentalHealthWeek.ca.
There are different events all week to support the cause.
The Toronto Maple Leafs strike first in their second round series against the Florida Panthers with a 5-4 win in Game 1. Game 2 is Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Toronto.
The Chatham Maroons and St. Catharines Falcons will play Game 3 of the Sutherland Cup Final tonight at Memorial Arena. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Box office opens at 5:30 p.m. for tickets, cash only. Gates open at 6:45.
The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation’s Igniting Healthcare 50/50 Fundraiser is back.
The 2025 edition of the lottery features $9,000 in early bird prizes, including $1,000 weekly draws every Thursday. A bonus $4,000 draw will take place on Tuesday, June 10th.
The Grand Prize Draw will take place on Thursday, June 12th.
Tickets can only be purchased now online or at the CKHAF office (9 Ursuline Ave, Chatham), Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m every Wednesday during the campaign.
All money raised will go towards the Highest Priority Needs at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
Skype is officially dead.
The video chat app was founded in 2003, and then Microsoft bought it in 2011 for $8.5 billion.
Microsoft announced it a month ago and started moving users over to their more modern Microsoft Teams platform. If you go to Skype.com, it now prompts you to “Start using Teams.”
It had around 150 million monthly users at that point. But then Zoom caught on during the pandemic, and it dropped to just over 20 million users.
Skype’s underlying software wasn’t really designed for mobile, so Microsoft decided to lose it as an effort to “streamline” their services. If you want to save your contacts or old Skype data, you have until the end of the year to export it.
