How many Jays games will you attend this year?
Spring Training baseball games start today, and the Toronto Blue Jays play their first game on Saturday.
With Rogers spending millions and millions on renovations the last two off-seasons, will you visit the ballpark this spring/summer/fall?
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What else did we talk about this morning?
ICYMI – Enjoy the ‘Taste of Downtown Milton’
With Valentine’s Day now over, many local restaurants will experience a drop off before spring. The Downtown Milton Business Improvement Area is hoping to counteract that with their new initiative. Taste of Downtown Milton will feature a bunch of local and diverse restaurants in the downtown core. They’ll offer deals for customers to enjoy awesome food. It starts FRIDAY, and runs until March 17th.
Daily WTF – 106-year-old man receives honorary diploma from high school
Most people when they graduate high school, they’re 17 or 18-years-old. There are some outliers, obviously, but none as unique as Fred Allen Smalls. Thanks to his granddaughter, the 106-year-old man was able to get an honorary high school diploma from Georgetown High School in South Carolina. With 100 people in attendance for the special ceremony, Smalls walked the stage and accepted the paper. It’s been an interesting life for the man who left school to work for a living. He worked odd jobs to get by before finding a career in DC. What’s more mind blowing than his age is that he retired young! He retired in the early 1960s when JFK was the President, and he’s just lived a quiet, peaceful life ever since. If you ever feel like you’re too old to do something, remember Fred Allen Smalls: the man who graduated high school 88-years later.
Daily Did You Know – Wendel Clark headlines fundraising Sports Celebrity Dinner event in Milton
One of the coolest events of the year is returning to Milton this spring. The Milton Chamber of Commerce has announced the line-up for their Sports Celebrity Dinner. Wendel Clark will headline the event, with Ernie Whitt, Tessa Bonhomme, and Joey Kocur among the others joining him. As always, it’ll be hosted by Sportsnet’s Ken Reid. Tickets are available now, with money raised supporting the Chamber Scholarship Fund. The Dinner is scheduled for April 3rd at RattleSnake Point Golf Club.
Japan’s millennia-old ‘naked man festival’ ending
It’s always fascinating to see what other cultures celebrate, and for Japan, the country has held a ‘Naked Man’ festival for more than 1000 years! What exactly is it? Well, CNN explains that a big group of men in loincloths wrestle each other in freezing cold temperatures in order to claim a talisman during Japan’s Somin-sai festival. Sad news: it’s coming to an end! It’s ending because Japan continues to experience a massive population decline. Many of the country’s residents are aging quickly and the people haven’t had children at the pace they were having them in the 1980s. The festival had been looking for younger people to take over the tasking duties of the festival, but they had no luck. And just like that, a 1000-year-old tradition will fade away. Pretty sad!
Tim Hortons testing plastic-free and recyclable hot beverage lids in all Tims restaurants across this Canadian province
We’ve gone through paper straws, and now, we might be going through paper lids. Tim Hortons is testing plastic-free lids all locations in Prince Edward Island. Plastic has proven to not be as easily recyclable as many thought, and so Tims is hoping they can move to these ‘fibre’ lids instead. They compare it to the wooden cutlery you now get for food. If it goes well in PEI, we can expect to see them pop up around the country pretty soon.
Beyoncé’s country music spurs Western style takeover
It seems the Queen Bee still has some sway over cultural trends. Experts are expecting a boom in what they call ‘Western Style’. With Beyoncé’s move to country music, fit with a cowboy hat et al, we could see a boom in mainstream cowboys. Places like New York City and Toronto could soon start to look like Dallas and Calgary. Pro tip to the men out there: cowboy boots give you a significant boost in height. If you’re self conscious about being 5’11”, just become a cowboy.
‘No Bryans allowed’: Ryan Rodeo to wrangle all Ryans in Austin, aiming for world record
Calling all Ryans! A rodeo is being held in Austin, Texas and the only people allowed to be in attendance are named Ryan. The goal is to break the Guinness World Record of the largest same-name gathering. The previous record is held by the Ivans of the world, as they gathered in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017. So, if your name is Ryan, there’s a rodeo out there with your name on it. I can’t wait for this to become an annual event. That way, people can say “This isn’t my first Ryan Rodeo…”
A “dino-mite” donation: Dinosaur fossils discovered at a Canadian Goodwill
Some people have a talent for finding cool, unique, and valuable things while thrifting. If you went to a Calgary Goodwill, you might’ve come across something that meets every single one of those qualifications. Someone donated what the staff first thought was just a bunch of rocks. Turns out, they were a lot better than some rocks: they were fossils. After staff realized this, they got them checked by experts and they were proven right. They range from 66 million to 145 million years old, from the Cretaceous Period. One of them even contained a piece of a dinosaur! With this discovery, the fossils were pulled from the shelf and will be donated to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Indiana Jones would be proud.
Cameron Wilkinson is the morning show host for FM 101 Milton. Listen to ‘Cameron in the Morning’ 6:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Monday – Friday, at 101.3 on the FM dial within Milton, and online here. You can also stream us live right from your phone.
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