Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Kenora Monopoly

Good Work Kenora.

The City is now in the third spot in the top 10 wild card cities for the Canadia n edition of Monopoly.

Voting for the two wildcard spots on the board starts February 8th.

To cast your vote log onto www.monopolyvote.ca or log onto our website www.cjrl.ca and click on the monopoly link.

More Drugs NWO

A 55-year-old faces charges following a drug bust at a McGogy Road home.

Dryden Police recovered a quarter pound of marihuana and 47-hundred dollars in cash.

Police say the value of the drugs is nearly 3-thousand dollars.

David Plomp faces charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds obtained by crime.

He will appear in court next month.

Major Grow Op Dryden

Dryden Police have uncovered a major drug operation.

Officers executed a search warrant at a Jonasson Road home and recovered 31-marijuana plants, 6-pounds of dried marihuana, 28-grams of hash oil and 15-hundred dollars in cash.

Police say 70-year-old Wulf Bachmann has been charged with production of marihuana, production of hash oil, purpose for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds obtained by crime.

The street value of the drugs is nearly 45-thousand dollars.

Bachmann is scheduled to make a March Court appearance.

Legal Aid Ontario

Opposition critics say a promise to increase fees for legal aid lawyers does little to solve some of the keyproblems saddling the province's legal system.

New Democrat Howard Hampton says he's worried about how the government will pay
forbudget increases.

The province committed to a 40 per cent increase in lawyer fees over seven years, but says it's too early to tell what, if any, additional funding will be required.

Heart and Stroke Report Card

Residents of northwestern Ontario are more overweight and have higher blood pressure thanany other region in Canada.

That was one of the findings in the 2010 report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Dr. Greg Ross from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine says there are other disturbing trends contained in the report.

Ross says smoking, diabetes and physical inactivity are also risk factors that are putting younger Canadians at risk of heart disease.

Howard Hampton on Energy Deal

The provincial government is being hammered for a seven billion dollar green electricity deal it signed last week with Samsung.

Kenora-Rainy River M.P.P. Howard Hampton says the deal will have absolutely no economic benefit for northern Ontario.

Hampton says all the solar and wind projects will be located in southern Ontario and won't provide any employment opportunies for this region.

Train Derailment Waldof

No word on if Canadian Pacific has been able to clean up the mess left by a train derailment yesterday morning in Waldof, west of Dryden.

Spokesperson Michael LoVecchio says clean-up crews were expected to arrive at the site late yesterday afternoon and notes that the Waldof crossing was expected to reopen for motorists.

LoVecchio now says 17-cars, which were transporting grain, left the tracks, up from the previously reported 11.

He stresses no one was injured and there was no danger to the public.

Winter Weather System

Kenora residents are starting to dig out from the worst storm of this winter.

More than 20 centimeters of snow fell over the past couple of days, not including rain and ice pellets on Saturday.

Geoff Coulson is a severe weather specialist for Environment Canada and says to add insult to injury, the weather is going to get very cold this week.

Coulson says areas in the far north are still experiencing the brunt of the winterstorm, which is now centered north of Thunder Bay.