MANITOUWADGE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS Pharaohs, mummies, tombs and construction was the order of things at Manitouwadge Public School this week. As part of their unit on Ancient Civilizations, Mr. Jones’ grade 4/5 class used cookies, cement and various other concoctions to build their series of [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE PUBLIC SCHOOL Seen here are only two of the community minded young people we have in our little town. On the hottest day we have had this year all the students at Manitouwadge Public School ventured outside to rid our streets, ditches and roadways of thoughtlessly discarded [Read more]
May 21, 2010 NEW DEMOCRATS WELCOME GOVERNMENT’S INTENTION TO NEGOTIATE HST WITH FIRST NATIONS Elliot Lake – Months of repeated requests from Northern Ontario New Democrat MPs paid off late Thursday as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty agreed to meet with the leadership of Ontario First Nations [Read more]
Dredging Shorelands on Lake Simcoe Proves Costly A Thorah Island landowner and a marine contractor pled guilty to dredging a boat slip on the shorelands of Lake Simcoe. Court heard that on October 22, 2008, conservation officers observed a boat slip that was excavated without the authority of a [Read more]
Eight Ontarians Appointed To Lead College of Trades May 21, 2010 8:28 AM McGuinty Government Modernizing Apprenticeship Training Ontario is taking the first step to create a governing body for the province’s apprenticeship training and skilled trades system. Eight industry leaders have been [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE PUBLIC SCHOOL As part of a unit on measurement, Mrs. Meagher’s JK/SK/1 class had fun learning about ‘area’. Even the JK students enjoyed using blocks and playing cards to see whose ‘island’ had the greatest and whose island had the smallest area. [Read more]
MPs Tour Canadian Forest Industry Success Story Employee-owned Harmac mill to increase production despite decimated sector, MPs find NANAIMO – Nestled on Canada’s west coast is a rare pulp & paper success story that could serve as a model to revive other struggling mills across Canada, say [Read more]
Life at Our Lady of Lourdes Future JKs explore OLOL This past week, the soon to be JK’s at Our Lady of Lourdes came for a visit. The children and their parents were invited to spend the afternoon exploring with their new teacher, a new initiative called Welcome to Kindergarten. “The [Read more]
Superior District 3B Senior Summer Games begin! by Karina Hunter MANITOUWADGE, ON – 05.21.10 The Superior District 3B Senior Summer Games kicked off in Marathon yesterday. Etimated swimming competitions at the Porothole Pool were cancelled due to insuficient numbers, however bowling did go [Read more]
Local Angler Wants Boaters to ‘Get it On” THUNDER BAY – This week, professional angler, Gord Ellis, urged boaters to “Get it On!” in a new campaign aimed at encouraging people to wear a personal flotation device (PFD), also known as a life jacket. Ellis is the logical choice to promote [Read more]
Mike Brown, M.P.P. Algoma-Manitoulin BROWN: NEW REPORT FROM ONTARIO’S CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH SAYS THERE IS NO DIRECT CAUSAL LINK BETWEEN WIND TURBINES AND ADVERSE HEALTH AFFECTS QUEEN’S PARK – [Read more]
FROM/DE: Highway Safety Division OPP Ready to Use all Available Resources for UPCOMING May Long Weekend (Marathon, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will use all its available resources [Read more]
Outdoor Burning Restricted In Areas of Northeastern Ontario May 20, 2010 McGuinty Government Implements Restricted Fire Zone A Restricted Fire Zone has been declared in Northeastern Ontario north of the French River to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires. Effective 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, [Read more]
New Energy Credit Available For Northern Residents McGuinty Government Helps Northerners With Energy Costs Ontario has passed legislation that will provide relief for low to middle income northern Ontario residents who are facing high energy costs through an annual credit. The annual Northern [Read more]
Irresponsible & Reckless Feeding of Bears, Compromises Children’s Safety Two large bags of sunflower seeds mixed with molasses and dumped fifty feet from the Nursery School couldn’t have been more reckless and irresponsible by the individual(s) who placed this “meal” for the bears in [Read more]
