New Years Baby born

Kenora's new years baby waited just six hours to be born in 2011.

Christine Wiebe was born early Saturday morning at Lake of the Woods

District Hospital to Lyndsay Wiebe and Brendan Orosi.

The baby girl was born at 6:07 A.M. on January 1st.

New Fire Hall almost ready to move into

The count down has begun for Kenora's Fire and Emergency Services Department.

Fire fighters are expected to move into the new fire hall on Barsky's Hill by the middle of this month.

Fire Chief Warren Brinkman says they are just putting the finishing touches on the building.

Brinkman says one of the issues that delayed their move was the need to re-paint the floor of the garage.

2010 wetter and milder than normal

2010 will go into the books as a wet and mild year.

Figures compiled by Environment Canada show that the average temperature in Kenora last  year was 4.6 degrees, which was almost two degrees warmer than normal.

Bill Laidlaw from Signal Weather Services says overall it was much warmer than usual.

Last year was also wetter than normal with 909.1 millimeters of precipitation.

That's about 250 millimeters more than normal.

Greyhound Passengers Furious after being stranded in NWO

Greyhound Bus passengers are furious at their treatment after being stranded for 15 hours in White River over the weekend.

Paul Hitchin says they felt simply abandoned by the driver and got no help from the company.

Some passengers are considering a lawsuit.

Greyhound is now apologizing, blaming weather for the delay, and says it is reviewing its protocols.

Passengers say Highway 17 to Thunder Bay was re-opened at 6:00 Sunday morning, but Greyhound
didn't have a driver available until 4:00 in the afternoon. 

Tough Start for the Broncos in 2011

Beaver Brae's girls hockey team has the first blemish on its record in

NorWOSSA league play.

The Broncos lost their first game of the year yesterday afternoon at the
Kenora Rec. Center, after being shut out 2-0 by the Dryden Eagles.

Beaver Brae now has an 8-1 record.

Meanwhile, things weren't any better on the court for Beaver Brae.

The Broncos just managed on win on the road in their first action of 2011.

Beaver Brae's senior boys basekball team held on for a 41-38 decision over the Eagles.

The Broncos junor boys were edged 40-37, while Beaver Brae's junior and senior girls volleyball teams lost in three straight sets to Dryden.