Monday, September 14, 2009

Broncos Footbal

A good start to the regular season for Beaver Brae's football team.

The Broncos blanked the Fort Frances Muskies 44-0 Friday afternoon at Pete Fair Memorial Field.

Mark Gramenz was Beaver Brae's player of the game with 165 yards receiving and a touchdown.

He says the team made big strides in the past week to get ready for the regular season.

Billy Kitt had a pair of touchdowns for the Broncos and over 100 yards rushing.

Scott Morgan, and Michael Menzies also scored majors for Beaver Brae.

The Broncos next game is on Friday at home against the River East Kodiaksfrom Winnipeg.

Blood Donor Clinic

Canadian Blood Services needs your help.

A two day blood donor clinic will be held today and tomorrow at St. Thomas Aquinas High School.

Spokesperson Harvey Heather says their goal for the fall clinic is 300 donors.

The clinic runs from 4:30 until 9 today and 9 until noon tomorrow.

Anyone wanting to make an appointment to donate can call 1-888-2-DONATE.

Kenora Aging Forum

A forum on how to make local communities more age-friendly is being heldin Kenora next week.

Jennifer Rasmussen is helping organize the one day session and says theyare working with the province on the initiative.

Rasmussen says there is still space available for last minute registrations.

The forum will take place at the Minis Hall at the Super 8 Motel on Tuesday, September 15th.

Experimental Lakes Funding



The Experimental Lakes Area east of Kenora is getting 850 thousand dollars in funding from the federal government to build a new laboratory.

The money will be used to erect as new fish research facility.

Dr. Mike Paterson works out at the E.L.A. and says their current lab is about 40 years old and in desperate need of replacement.

The funding will be spread out over the next two years and is part of the federal governments 250 million dollar initiative to upgrade laboratory facilities across Canada.

Whiteshell Canoer

The RCMP in eastern Manitoba have located the body of a canoer who had been missing in Whiteshell Provincial Park since last weekend.

Police and a civilian boater located the body of the man in Big Whiteshell Lake,near where his canoe was found capsized last Sunday morning.

A post-mortem was conducted Thursday at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg and it determined the man died as a result of drowning.

Foul play has been ruled out.

The name of the deceased has not yet been released.

Fire hall tenders

The fate of a new fire hall in the City of Kenora is somewhat up in the air.

Council had hoped to award a tender for the project by the end of last month.

But councillor Charito Drinkwalter says the bids came in higherthan expected.

She adds that they are going back to the drawing board to try andreduce the cost of the project and bring it more in line with theiroriginal budget, which is about 4.5 to five million dollars.

Forest Fires Weekend

Despite fairly wet weather over the past few days, the Kenora district has been the busiest in terms of forest fires this week.

The Ministry of Natural Resouces says there have been three fires reported over the past couple of days.

The most recent was reported on Friday.

A pine tree was hit by lightning and ignited.

Local residents were able to put it out before it spread into thesurrounding bush.

The other two fires are located on islands on Lake of the Woodsand are being allowed to burn for ecological reasons.

NWHU Funding



The Northwestern Health Unit will be tackling illicit drug use thanks tofunding from the federal government.

The Health Unit has received 301 thousand dollars from the NationalAnti-Drug Strategy.

Dr. Jim Arthurs is the chief medical officer of health and says healthunit employees will work with local youth to come up with strategiesfor combatting drug abuse.

Dr. Arthurs says the Youth Action on Drugs program will be rolledout in communities across the Kenora and Rainy River Districts,including first nations.