Thursday, March 11, 2010

T.A. OFSSA UPDATE

The All-Ontario Senior Girls Volleyball Championships had a silver liningfor Thomas Aquinas Saints.

T.A. lost the gold medal game last night in three straight sets to Monseignor Bruyere Secondary School from London.

Saints Head Coach Bob Kowal says while its disappointing tolose the game, this is the best ever finish for the Saints girlsat OFSAA.

The Saints only lost one set over the past two days en routethe gold medal game.

Meanwhile, in the OFSSA double "a" girls volleyball championships,Dryden also made it to the gold medal game, but lost to lastyears defending champions, General Amherst from Windsor.

Child Porn Charges

A province wide investigation into kiddie porn has resulted in 35 arrests including one in Thunder Bay.

Charged with accessing child pornography is 61 year old Michael Daniel Bewcyk.

City police detective inspector Phil Levesque says don't be surprised to hear about future arrests.

Levesque says a personal computer was seized as part of the probe.

Aboriginal Week

There's a call for special subsidies for Aboriginal university students in the province.

Brent Kelso the organizer of Aboriginal week activities at Lakehead University says it's important to have well educated native youth.

He says this way they can be prepared confront the new economic development that is taking place in the north

Kelso's call comes at LU celebrates Aboriginal Week.

HST Cariou

The tourism industry is not a fan of the harmonized sales tax.

Ontario's Sunset Country Travel Association Executive Director Gerry Cariou says it's going to impact rates for Outfitter Camps.

Cariou adds the HST is going to add more fuel to the fire and give Americans another reason to not travel across the border this summer.

Land Ambulance Site

There are still several things that need to be done before the City of Kenora can decide whether or not to rezone a piece of property on railway street from highway commercial to institutional.

The land beside Chrystal Clean Car Wash is meant to be the future site of a land ambulance base for the Kenora District Services Board.

City Councillor Wendy Cuthbert says the property developers need to conduct a vibration study.

The proposed site is located near the CP Rail yard but not near the tracks.