Friday, June 4, 2010

Hospital in the Black

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Lake of the Woods District Hospital managed to finish the 2009/2010 fiscal year in the black. The hospital posted a surplus of about 116 ...

Show Us Your Colors

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The first ever Show Us Your Colors fundraiser for local cancer patients gets underway this afternoon. Irma Milko is one of the organizer...

Hospital Chair Elected

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Debbie Baldwin is back as chair of the hospital board for a second year in a row. The executive of the board was elected last night at t...

Northern Ontario Party a go

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The Northern Ontario Heritage Party is one step closer to gaining official party status. Party spokesperson Ed Deibel says they're wa...

Pikangikum fire grows

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Sun and windy conditions  over the past couple of days continue to fan out a large forest fire burning northeast of Pikangikum First Nation....
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Three local soccer teams at All-Ontario's

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Three local high school soccer teams are in action today at the all-Ontario championships. The Thomas Aquinas boys are in Windsor for the s...

Wet May weather

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A year-long trend towards warmer weather came to a halt last month. Environment Canada says temperatures in the Kenora area were pretty m...

Coronor Investigating Child's death

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The Regional Coroner's office is investigating the death of a four year old Thunder Bay kindergarten student. Willow Scott Hannam was...

Four arrested in brutal assault

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Four men are in custody following a brutal beating on a remote first nation in northwestern Ontario. The Nishinabe Aski Police says 25 ye...

MNR conducting Lake Surveys

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The Ministry of Natural Resources says it will have staff out on area lakes once again this summer conducting fish surveys. This year, ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Hospital Foundation AGM

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Despite a sluggish stock market, the Lake of the Woods District Hospital Foundation has been able to generate hundreds of thousands of dol...

OPP officer charged

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A veteran O-P-P officer in northwestern Ontario has been suspended from duty with pay while he answers to charges of uttering threats and ...

Internships for Northern Youth

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Keeping our young people in the north. That's the goal of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund's co-op and internship programs. ...

Couchiching pleased with progress in talks

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Couchiching First Nation is claiming victory after taking down a toll booth on Highway 11 Monday night. Councillor Sarah Mainville says t...

Old Fort William Tragedy

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The coroner is investigating the death of a four-year-old girl following an accident at Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay. Will...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Lake levels stable despite rain

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Despite all the rain this weekend, water levels on Lake of the Woods aren't expected to rise very much in the next few days. Rick Co...

Couchiching Toll Booth removed

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Members of the Couchiching First Nation have brought down a toll booth on Highway 11 near Fort Frances. Band members removed the booth Mon...

Big Fine for Building on Lake of the Woods

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A Winnipeg man has been fined a total of nine thousand dollars for illegally building in the Clearwater Bay area. Ian Rentz was fined a t...

Fire Hazard Dropping

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Rainfall over the weekend in much of Northwestern Ontario has helped ease the forest fire hazard. Ministry of Natural Resources Informati...

Cancer Rates in the Northwest still high

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Residents of Northwestern Ontario still live a lifestyle that poses a cancer risk. The latest report card from Cancer Care Ontario indica...