MANITOUWADGE, ON – Wednesday, June 21st, the Township of Manitouwadge hosted it’s Annual First Day of Summer festivities from the lawn of the Recreation Centre outside their outdoor facility, the Oasis Swimming Pool. The evening ran from 5-8pm including the usual barbecue and pool games [Read more]
Manitouwadge Public School Students Help To Fill The Community Garden MANITOUWADGE, ON – Recently, the grade 4/5 class brought their shovels to school so that they could plant the wonderful vegetables that the grade 2/3 students had grown in their classroom for the community garden. These [Read more]
January 6, 2011 McGuinty Government Promotes Healthy, Active Living For Students Students are being encouraged to show how they can make their schools healthier. Now in its fifth year, the Healthy Schools Recognition Program encourages school communities to pledge to do something healthy, such [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Wednesday, December 22 Long-Term Care residents of the Manitouwadge General Hospital (MGH) had a special visit from members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 242 and the owner of Rouselle’s Valu-Mart as the trio joined by MGH Director of Finance, Adenola Bodunde [Read more]
RED ROCK, ON – The Junior and Senior Kindergarten students at St. Hilary School sure enjoyed learning about pumpkins from Deacon Leo Marchand recently. Deacon Leo brought in pumpkins from his own pumpkin patch and talked to the students about the growth of a pumpkin from beginning to end and [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Students from JK-Gr.8 at Ecole Publique Franco-Manitou walked, with teachers and parent volunteers Friday morning, October 22nd, to visit Joan and Neil Mongrain, parents and co-gardeners with Dean Mongrain. The Mongrain family are well known in Manitouwadge for their [Read more]
Manitouwadge Community Memorial Garden by Marlene Turner November 2008 a Use Agreement for the vacant property at the corner of Wenonah Ave. and Shingwauk Ave. was signed with the Township for ‘Proposed Community Memorial Garden for vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees’; [Read more]
Katimavik volunteers in Schreiber Puppet Show The Katimavik volunteers went to Holy Angels School in Schreiber to perform a puppet play written by Katimavik’s own Richard Spidel of Hamilton Ontario. The play featured a skit on Schreiber’s canine Hero Duke the Dog, Hollywood Dom [Read more]
Good Things Continue To Grow In Ontario May 17, 2010 12:45 PM McGuinty Government Celebrates Local Food And An Open Ontario Ontario is boosting grassroots marketing efforts for Ontario foods and strengthening the economy by encouraging more people to buy locally grown food at farmers’ [Read more]
Community Gardens Initiative Video Conference Thursday, May 6th at 2 p.m. Manitouwadge General Hospital Telehealth Conferencing Room If you are interested in gardening or in assisting with the Community Garden Initiatve this video conference will be a must see! [Read more]
Schreiber’s Little Sprouts April 22nd, first Little Sprouts Community Garden Meeting of the 2010 was held at the Schreiber Public Library. During the meeting, Pam McKeever shared gardening tips and tricks for growing locally. She spoke about plants that thrive in the area and of the [Read more]
Landscape Ontario compiles research on social benefits of Green Spaces MILTON The following are a few research highlights on the benefits of green spaces compiled by Landscape Ontario: · Lowers Crime and Enhances Self-esteem: A 30 year study conducted by researchers at Morton [Read more]
