Saints Split in Red Lake

Thomas Aquinas boys volleyball teams remain unbeaten in NorWOSSA league

play.

The Saints were in Red Lake yesterday and both the senior and junior boys
volleyball teams swept the Rams three games to none.

It was a different story on the basketball court as Red Lake dominated

T.A.

The Saints junior girls dropped a 34-21 decision, while the Thomas Aquinas

senior girls were upended 51-24.

This weekend, the Thomas Aquinas and Beaver Brae senior Boys volleyball

teams are in Dryden for the Eagles annual Invitational Tournament.

Healthy Workplaces Month

October is Healthy Workplace Month and the Northwestern Health Unit is encouraging area workplaces to implement job satisfaction initiatives.

Officials say when employees are supported at work to make healthy choices, research shows that they work more efficiently.

Workplace Health Promoter Jessica Brown says the Health Unit offers a number of services.

Brown notes that 52-percent of the Canadian workforce has little access to workplace health services.

Broncos Footballers Play in Steinbach

After a tough three game stretch, Beaver Brae's Football team gets a bit of a break in the schedule today.

The 3-2 Broncos hit the road to take on the winless Steinbach Sabres in Winnipeg High School Football League action.

The expansion team has an 0-5 record after losing 20-15 to Dryden last week.

It was the Eagles first victory of the season.

Game time is 3:00 this afternoon in Steinbach.

New Agreement for Kenora Forest SFL

Its being called an historic agreement.

The Kenora Forest is now part of a co-operative forest licence involving private business and several area first nations.

Eric Fisher, chief of the Wabaseemung First Nation, is the president of the Mitigoog Limited Partnership, and says it gives aboriginal communities a 50 percent stake in forest activities in the Kenora Forest.

Weyerhaeuser, which had the Sustainable Forest Licence for the Kenora Forest is also a member of the Mitigoog partnership.

Other partners include the Dalles, Whitefish Bay, Kenora Forest Products, Wincrief, and the Kenora Independant Loggers.

Police urge motorists to watch out for wildlife

Police are warning motorists in northern Ontario that more

wildlife are now on the roads.

They say there are 14-thousand reported collision involving

animals in Ontario every year, that's one every 37 minutes.

October, November and December are one of the peak times for

wildlife collisions since it is the mating and migration seasons.

Lac Des Iles Mine Re-Opens in NWO

Two-hundred people can go back to work now that North American Palladium`s Lac des Iles mine has reopened northwest of Thunder Bay.

North American Palladium says it's constructing a shaft that will extend below the existing pit into a recently-discovered ore body.

Company president William J. Biggar says that ore body could extend the life of the mine for another 10 years.

Nearly 400 employees were laid off when the mine ceased production two years ago because of falling palladium prices.

Renovations approved for Rideout Community Club

The Rideout Community Club is due for a 60 thousand dollar upgrade.

Kenora City Council approved funding yesterday to fix up the aging

building.

Councillor Chris Van Wallenghem says the city is providing about 31

thousand dollars in materials, while Sierra Construction has volunteered

the labor to fix up the community club.

Van Wallenghem says council was able to approve the spending, even though

they are considered a lame duck council, because the funding had already been

set aside in this year's capital budget.

Daytime break-in interupted

Three people have been arrested after breaking into a home on Park Street  during the day.

The OPP say a neighbor spotted three people trying to get into the house Wednesday afternoon and called police.

It turned out the owner was also in the house at the time of the break-in.

The culprits demanded food from the owner and ended up stealing a quantity of alcohol and food.

Officers located the suspects, two women and one man a short time later.

They have been charged with break, enter and theft.

Mixed EQAO results in local Public Schools

The Keewatin-Patricia District School Board says it has come up with a number of strategies for improving standardized test scores.

The latest round of reading, writing and math from the Education, Quality and Accountability Office show mixed results for grade three, six and nine students in the public school system.

Caryl Hron is the superintendant of education for the board and says one of things they've done to improve reading and writing test results is to put more of an emphasis on literacy.

Hron says they've increased literacy instruction in the class by 20 minutes a day.