Friday, May 28, 2010

Saints Soccer Teams vie for NWOSSA crowns

The Thomas Aquinas girls soccer team is a win away from advancing to the

provincial Single A championships next week in Sudbury.

The Saints blanked Terrace Bay 4-0.

Julia Withers, Sammy Burkhart, Kristen Hancock and Melissa White
each scored for T.A.

Game two of the best-of-three series is 9:00 this morning.

Meanwhile, the Saints boys soccer team is taking on Marathon in a best-of-three NWOSSA final.

Game one is scheduled for 10 this morning, with game two at 6:00 tonight.

The winner of the series will earn a berth to next weeks all-Ontario single "a"
championships in Windsor.

Wunnumin Lake Fatality

A coroner has determined the cause of death of a young Wunnumin Lake First Nation man.


Nishnawbe-Aski Police and OPP found the body of the 15-year-old at his home on May 19th.

A post-mortum revealed that Jared Angees died from the effects of propane gas.

No criminal charges are being laid.

MNR Battles Large Wildfire

Ministry of Natural Resources fire crews are trying to get a

handle on a massive wildfire near Pikangikum First Nation north of
Red Lake.

Two waterbombers and 15 FireRanger crews are battling the
three-thousand-hectare blaze 15 kilometres northeast of the
community.

The blaze was started by lightning earlier in the week.

The fire hazard is moderate through the central areas of
northwestern Ontario, with pockets of high to extreme areas in the
Red Lake, Thunder Bay and Nipigon districts.

Fines for illegal fishing on Lake of the Woods

A Minnesota lodge owner and several american anglers have been hit with

over 4 thousand dollars in fines for illegal walleye fishing on Lake of the Woods.

Back in march, conservation officers were patrolling an area near Oak Island
at the border between Canada and the U.S.

They noticed a number of anglers ice fishing in Ontario waters and then saw
a snowmobile transport their limit of eight walleye to the Angle Inn Lodge.

The same anglers then caught and kept another eight walleye.

Angle Inn Lodge owner Anthony Wandersee and another person were fined
15 hundred dollars.

Three anglers were also fined 500 dollars each for catching an overlimit of
walleye.

Bring back Spring Bear Hunt


The provincial government is being urged to bring back the spring bear

hunt.

The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters says its concerned with the
number of encounters that have been reported so far this spring.

Terry Quinney is a spokesperson for the OFAH and says they are
particularly concerned with reports about a couple of bear attacks in
                                                       central Ontario recently.

Quinney says the BearWise program operated by the Ministry of Natural
Resources has been a failure and has done nothing to deal with the
growing black bear population in the province.

Electronics Recycling Day

Its the first event of its kind in Kenora.


Ontario Electronic Stewardship is holding an recycling day
at the Waste Transfer Station on Barsky's Hill.

Carol Hochu is executive director of the agency and says they have
a number of electronic recycling depots across the province, but
very few in northwestern Ontario.

Hochu says they will be accepting a wide variety of electronic items,
including old TV's, cameras, telephones, cellphones, printers, keyboards
and computer monitors.

The electronic recycling day will take place from 9 to 5 tomorrow.