OPP charge impaired boater

The OPP says a 19 year old Kenora man has been charged with impaired driving
after the boat he was driving overturned on Lake of the Woods.

Police were called out around 2:00 Sunday morning, after getting a report that
a boat had flipped over on the south side of Treaty Island.

When emergency service personnel arrived on the scene, they discovered five people
had been in the boat, but all made it to shore.

The OPP say further investigation showed the driver of the boat had been drinking
and also faces a number of charges under the Canada Shipping Act.

He's due to appear in Kenora Court at the end of July to answer the charges.

Public School Board Enrolment expected to decline

Enrolment is expected to decline in the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board once again this fall.

The board is projecting almost 300 fewer students for the 2010/2011 school year.
Superintendant of Business, Dean Carrie says that will have an impact on their
bottom line next year.

The school board expects enrolment will be just over five thousand students in
September, down from the current level of 53 hundred.

No Monopoly space for Kenora

Do not pass go and do not collect 200 dollars.

The City of Kenora has failed in its bid to earn a place on the newest
Canadian Edition of Monopoly.

Hasbro announced the 22 communities that will get a spot on the  newly designed board.

In the wild card race, Kenora was beaten out by        Beauceville, Quebec.

The only community from northern Ontario on the board is North Bay.

Keewatin-Patricia School Board expects to run a deficit

For the first time ever, the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board is planning to

run a deficit to operate its schools across the region this year.

Trustees approved the 2010/2011 budget at a special meeting last night and
it calls for a deficit of about 1.5 million dollars.

Superintendant of Finance Dean Carrie says there are a number of reasons why they
will be operating in the red this year, but the biggest cause is special education programs.

Carrie says they will be able to cover off their deficit through money they have
in reserve funds.

He adds that the Ministry of Education has approved their deficit spending estimates
for the next school year.

SIU investigates Red Lake fatality

The Ontario Special Investigations Unit has been called in to investigate

fatality involving a 41 year old man from the North Spirit Lake First Nation.

The SIU says the man was picked up by the OPP from the Red Lake Detachment
last Monday.

Later in the day he had to be taken to the hospital in Red Lake and then was
transferred to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Center.

Yesterday, the man died.

The SIU says four of its investigators are being sent to Red Lake to look
into the incident.

The SIU is called in any time someone dies while in police custody.

Eye Van Offers new programs this summer

There will be a new service offered when the Canadian National Institute for the Blind brings its Eye Van to northwestern Ontario next month.


Executive Director Monique Pilkington says people will able to screened for diabetes.

Pilkington says the service will be offered as a drop-in one when the Eye Van rolls through Kenora
the first week of August.

Rafferty on end of session

Thunder Bay-Rainy River M-P John Rafferty says the recent session of Parliament was filled with plenty of highs and lows.


M-P's began their 12-week summer break on Friday.

Rafferty says a positive for him was the approval of his private members bill on workers pensions to the committee level.

Rainy River Resources aquires more property

Rainy River Resources is purchasing more property south of Kenora.


The company is paying out 100-thousand dollars and 50-thousand shares for a patented claim covering 160 acres from an unnamed owner.

Rainy River Resources is conducting gold exploration in the area of Black Hawk, 25 kilometres north of Barwick.