Friday, December 9, 2011

Midget Thistles host the Southwest Cougars this weekend

The Kenora Triple "a" midget Thistles will look to regain their winning ways at home this weekend.

The Thistles won a pair last weekend, but lost to the Winnipeg Wild in a mid-week contest.

Tonight, the Southwest Cougars are in town for the first of two games.

Game time is 8:00 tonight at the Kenora Rec. Center.

Meanwhile, the Kenora Double "a" PeeWee Thistles are hosting their annual tournament this weekend.

The Thistles first game is at noon against Sioux Lookout.

They are then back in action at 4:15 against Beausejour.

OPP tackles local Break and Enters

The OPP says its seen a dramatic increase in the number of break and enters in Kenora.

Inspector Dave Lucas presented his monthly statistics to the Police Services Board this week and it shows there were 22 B and E's during the month of October.

That's a big increase from 8 for the same month the year before.

Lucas says they have identified a group of people who were responsible several of the break-ins and they have since been charged.

The were over 11 hundred calls for service in October.

Police Board to get an increase in Per Diem

Members of the Kenora Police Services Board won't be getting a raise next year, but they will be getting more money when they go out of town on business.

The Police Board has approved an increase in its per diem.

It increases to 163 dollars a day, up from the current level of 125 dollars.

Board chair Colin Wasacase says their board policy states that their per diems shall keep up with with the city's rates.

City council approved an increase in its per diems last month.

Canfield says Police Increase Reasonable

Kenora mayor Dave Canfield says he can live with a proposed two percent increase in the policing budget next year.

Canfield says the OPP has been doing a good job of coming in under budget over the past couple of years and hopes they can continue that trend next year.

Canfield says considering salaries for OPP officers are going over five percent, the increase is reasonable.

A new tourism brand being developed for Kenora

The City of Kenora should have a new image to project to tourists by next spring.

Roger Brooks is helping spearhead the new branding exercise.

He says the goal is to come up with a unique vision for Kenora that can be sold to visitors.

Brooks is asking local residents to fill out an on-line survey on the city's web portal.

That information will be used as the base for the whole branding exercise.