Habitat For Humanity looking for family to move into new home

Wanted: a family to live in Kenora's first ever Habitat for Humanity home.

A meeting will take place tonight, for anyone interested in applying for the low income housing project.

Ralph Page is a spokesperson for the committee and says their goal is to start builing the home in 2012.

The home will be located on Main Street Rideout.

The meeting will take place in the Kenora Metis Center on Park Street starting at 7:00.

Thomas Aquinas takes three of four from Red Lake

The Thomas Aquinas senior boys volleyball team remains perfect in NorWOSSA league play.

The Saints were in Red Lake yesterday and cruised to a three sets to none win over the Rams.

The T.A. junior boys also had a good road trip winning three of four games played.

On the hardcourt, the Saints senior girls romped to a 36-8 victory over  Red Lake, while the Thomas Aquinas Junior girls suffered the lone loss of the day, a 16-10 decision at the hand of the Rams.

Minto Accident sends one man to hospital

A 46 year old Rat Portage man is recovering from injuries sustained in a single vehicle accident in the Minto area of town.

The OPP say a dodge pick-up had rolled over on Minto Crescent Sunday night.

Police say the lone occupant of the vehicle was partially ejected and sustained serious injuries.

Albert Gibbens was transported to the Winnipeg Health Sciences Center.

The OPP's Technical Traffic Collision Investigators were called in to look into the cause of the crash.

Trans-Canada Diesel Spill

Motorists are being urged to use caution driving along the Trans-Canada Highway in the Kenora area this morning.

The OPP say there is a diesel spill from the Manitoba border all the way to the Airport Road on the Kenora By-Pass.

The slippery conditions have already caused one transport to slide off the highway.

The MTO is currently putting sand down on the fuel, but conditions are still said to be be fairly slick in some areas.

AbitibiBowater

There's a new name coming to the mill in Fort Frances.

AbitibiBowater is changing its name to Resolute Forest Products.

The name was selected among 14-hundred submissions received through an internal company contest.

The change takes place November 7

Cross-Town Snowmobile Corridor

A final plan for the city's cross-town snowmobile corridor should be ready in time for next week's open meeting of coucil.

The operations department is still deciding on the best location for the trail with the Sunset Trailriders.

Operations manager Rick Perchuck says the costs associated with the new trail is also an issue council will have to address.

Some members of city council still aren't sold on the idea of reviving the cross-town corridor and don't think the city should have to pay any of the costs of re-developing it.

Whitedog First Nation School

A new school is about to be opened on the Whitedog First Nation.


The 55 thousand square foot school cost about 25 million dollars to build.

Kenora M.P. Greg Rickford will be joined by Chief Eric Fisher at the ribbon cutting.


A special ceremony will take place this morning at 11:00 to open the facility.

Keewatin-Patricia District School

Summer school programs run by the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board are getting the thumbs up.

A literacy camp was offered for grades 1,2 and 3 students, while a credit recovery program was run in some secondary schools.

Scott Urquhart says that program was particularly valuable for grade 8 students getting ready to enter high school.

A total of 212 students enrolled in the Summer learning for Secondary students, while 60 kids were signed up for the Summer Literacy camps.

Manitoba Man fined for illegal fishing on Winnipeg River

A Manitoba man faces 23 hundred dollars in fines for fishing illegally on the Winnipeg River north of Kenora.

Vincent Wiebe of Lake Frances has been fined for fishing without a licence and tresspassing.

Court heard last week that Wiebe had been fishing near the Caribou Falls Generating Station this past May.

He had caught seven walleye while on Ontario Generation property.

He had been fishing in an area that had been posted with the sign "Danger-no tresspassing".

JM Judo Club wins two medals at Quebec Tournament

The Jaffray Melick Judo Club brought back a couple of medals from a tournament in Montreal.


The club took four members to the Quebec International Open over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Ben Dennis went a perfect 4-0 in his matches over two days and won gold in the Under 17 male 50 kilo division.

Thomas Hertz took a bronze medal in the Under 15, 34 kilo division, finishing with a 2-1 record.

Police search for missing man near Dryden

A search continues in Dryden for a Winnipeg man who disapppeared just after he was released from custody for alleged impaired driving.

Lukas Whitmore was last seen near a wooded area on the edge of the community on October 2nd.

Ontario Provincial Police say the 25-year-old man was on his way to Thunder Bay to visit his sister before he disappeared.

O.P.P.  say continuing warm temperatures mean Whitmore should be able to handle the weather.

Air Canada

Air Canada's 68-hundred flight attendants could walk off the job as early as Thursday morning. Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt says the government's looking at a handfull of options, including back-to-work legislation. Air Canada says while it hopes to avoid a walk out, the company would still maintain a partial schedule in the event of a strike.

Harold Wilson

The Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce is looking forward to see the new Liberal Cabinet.


Chief Operating Officer, Harold Wilson says with a reduced number of seats the government will be forced to pay more attention to our two MPP's.


Wilson adds wood supply for the North will likely become a bigger issue in a minority government.

Dave Canfield

The Liberal minority government might actually be a good thing for northwestern Ontario.


That's the feeling of Kenora mayor Dave Canfield.

He says its time Dalton McGuinty finally started listening to the north.

Canfield says the minority government might mean Premier Dalton McGuinty has to

listen to the north instead of dictating what he wants to do.

Majesta's Trees of Knowledge contest

Sioux Mountain School is competing to get the green thumbs-up from Canadians for their 20-thousand dollar outdoor classroom.


The Sioux Lookout facility is one of ten finalists for the MAJESTA's Trees of Knowledge contest.

The School's objective is to create a garden area outside as well as a permanent outdoor classroom structure for students to assemble for lessons and reconnect with nature.

Voting is underway and you have until November 4th to help the school at : www.majesta.com

Flu Season

Cooler temperatures mean flu season can't be that far behind.


The Northwestern Health Unit is getting ready to roll out its flu shot clinics at the end of this month.

Manager of Infectious Disease, Donna Stanley says its getting more and more difficult to say when flu season will start up.

Stanley says initially they will be targeting the elderly and people who might be most at risk of getting the flu.

Campbell outlines her priorities at Queen's Park

She was elected less than 24 hours ago, but Sarah Campbell says she already knows what her priorities will be once she heads to Queen's Park.

Campbell won 50 percent of the vote in the Kenora-Rainy River last night and says she wants to continue some of the work she was doing at the constituency office.

Campbell won over 24 hundred votes than her nearest rival, Rod McKay of the Conservatives.

Police Arrest two in routine traffic stop

The OPP's fall seatbelt campaign is already paying dividends.

Police say they stopped a vehicle in Kenora on Wednesday for a seatbelt violation.

Officers noticed a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle and decided to investigate further.

In all, they seized 2 grams of marihuana, a small quantity of hash oil, $1800.00 in cash and 140 lbs of stolen copper wire.

20 year old Sebastien LaCasse of Quebec has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime

while Mathieu Hebert of Quebec has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime and possession of a narcotic.

Burning Permits cancelled in Eastern Manitoba

Fires are raging in tinder-dry conditions across a wide area of Manitoba.

The Long Lake fire north of Nopiming Provincial Park was 11 kilometres long and close to a kilometre wide by Thursday evening.

Highway 304 has been closed from Bissett to Wallace Lake after the fire jumped the highway.

There were also several other smaller fires in the region.

Burning permits have been cancelled in eastern Manitoba.