Litterbugs fined

A couple of Kenora area residents have been fined over 12 hundred dollars for illegally dumping garbage.

The MNR says the duo went to the waste transfer station in Kenora to drop off a load of household garbage back in February.

The facility was closed by the time they got there, so they drove out to the Olson Road in Pellatt Township and threw five bags of garbage outalong a one kilometer stretch.

The bags either split open on impact or was spread about by birds.

Conservation officers were able to track down the culprits by talking to eyewitnesses and through evidence contained in the garbage.