Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Beaver Brae Bronco's Girls Hockey

Beaver Brae's girls hockey team lost its first game of the young NorWOSSA season.

The Broncos were upended 3-1 by the Dryden Eagles Tuesday night.

Ainsley Lindquist scored the first goal of the game, but Dryden responded with three unanswered goals to win the game.

Beaver Brae is back in action this weekend at the Dryden High School Girls Tournament.

Prescription Pill Problem

Dryden Police Chief Shayne MacKinnon says Government action to better control the highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin is long overdue.

The Health Ministry is looking to impose new rules before the end of the year to curb the abuse of prescription drugs.MacKinnon says it's a major issue in Northwestern Ontario.

Proposals include a computer system to track how much Oxycontin is going out and send out alerts if a prescription is received 2-days in a row.

Northern Growth Plan

Representitives from the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines have beengetting a lot of feedback on its Northern Growth Plan.

A public meeting was held in Kenora last night, with people coming from across the region to give their input.

Brian Brown is the Administrator of the Town of Machin and says one of the thing she's like the plan to address is increasing the number of cottage lots in northwestern Ontario.

Feedback on the Northern Growth Plan is being accepted until February 1st.

Another public session is taking place in Sioux Lookout tonight.

Rickford Abitibi Bowater Pensions

The Federal Government will be sitting down with Abitibi Bowater and its employees union to talk about their 1.3 billion dollar pension shortfall.

Kenora MP Greg Rickford says he's been working on finding a solution for pensioners.

Flaherty has encouraged the two parties to meet with the provincial government first, because pension arrangements fall in their jurisdiction, and then he'll sit down and meet with them.

Multi Skills Centre

A ribbon cutting ceremony has taken place at Thomas Aquinas School for its two new additions.

A special ceremony was held yesterday afternoon for the grand opening of the Multi-SkillsCenter of Excellence and the Grade 7 and 8 annex.

Principal at Thomas Aquinas, Paul White says they want to put the Multi-Skills Center to good use.

The Multi-Skills Center not only has space for a wood and metal shop, there is also a lecture theatre and a computer lab in the building.

Both additions have been in use since the start of the school year.

Main Street Tree

And its a sure sign that Santa Claus isn't too far away.

The big Christmas tree on Main Street South was erected byKenora Hydro employees earlier yesterady afternoon.

The tree will officially be lit up Thursday night as part of apromotion to get people to shop in downtown Kenora.

A number of smaller trees have also been installed in thedowntown area along Main, Second and Matheson Streets.

Innapropriate Poetry

A 45-year-old northern Ontario man is free after spending more than a month in jail over his poetry.

Daniel O'Neil had been in custody since his arrest October 10th for using rhyme to invite a girl under 16 to sexually touch him two days earlier.

O'Neil met the girl through her boyfriend, passed her ananti-depressant pill, and a note with a ``roses are red'' poem thatwasn't so sweet.

O'Neil was released for time served and will be on probation for18 months.