Posts Tagged ‘Northwestern local news’

Potluck Farewell Luncheon for Pastor Gary and Joy Burt (Incl. Video interview)

Potluck Farewell Luncheon for Pastor Gary and Joy Burt (Incl. Video interview)

  MANITOUWADGE, ON – Sunday, November 4th, just a few weeks after announcing his impending departure following the Thanksgiving Sunday Worship, Pastor Gary Burt, and his wife Joy, began a new chapter in their Christian ministries saying goodbye to their friends and members of the Bethany [Read more]

Healthcare Delegates From Around the World Visit Marathon

Healthcare Delegates From Around the World Visit Marathon

 MARATHON, ON –  Friday, October 12, 2012, several delegates from the Rendez-Vous 2012 world conference visited Marathon, one of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) partner communities that hosts medical learners undertaking Northern rural placements. During the community [Read more]

Young Students Learn About Safety At OPP Detachment

Young Students Learn About Safety At OPP Detachment

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Kindergarten and Grade 1 students from Ecole Publique Franco-Manitou, with their teacher Mme. Tina and a parent volunteer, visited the Manitouwadge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police this week as part of their Social Studies. Constable Rollie Smith and Sergeant [Read more]

SPECIAL OLYMPICS “BE A FAN” EVENT A SUCCESS

SPECIAL OLYMPICS “BE A FAN” EVENT A SUCCESS

MARATHON, ON – The Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) paid tribute to the Special Olympics “Be a Fan” Day on Thursday October 25, 2012 by hosting a skating party at the Marathon Community Center. Students from the local schools attended and donated any loose change they had or found. [Read more]

Littlest Ghouls, Ghosts and Princesses Parade Through The Halls

Littlest Ghouls, Ghosts and Princesses Parade Through The Halls

MANITOUWADGE, ON – October 31st, Mrs. Kuczynski’s Junior and Senior Kindergarten Class took the halls of Manitouwadge Public School to share Halloween greetings with their peers in other classes. Everyone had fun identifying what the little ones were disguised as. The grown-ups of [Read more]

Parents Launch Rubber Duck Hockey in Manitouwadge

Parents Launch Rubber Duck Hockey in Manitouwadge

Submitted by Nickie Chik MANITOUWADGE, ON – A group of parents in Manitouwadge recently launched “Rubber Duck Hockey”, a parent attended ice time during which parents or caregivers take to the ice with their children to skate and play with hockey sticks. Both pucks and rubber [Read more]

MALE ARRESTED DOMESTIC ASSAULT IN White River

MALE ARRESTED DOMESTIC ASSAULT  IN White River

WHITE RIVER, ON – On Saturday September 29, 2012 White River officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a domestic disturbance that had taken place on Winnipeg St, White River.  The 43-year-old male was arrested for assault and will appear in Sault Ste Marie bail court.  [Read more]

Special weather statement for: Manitouwadge, Hornepayne, Wawa, White River and others

Special weather statement for: Manitouwadge, Hornepayne, Wawa, White River and others

Manitouwadge – Hornepayne – Wawa – White River – Pukaskwa – Agawa – Lake Superior Park – Kapuskasing – Hearst – Timmins – Cochrane – Chapleau – Gogama. Snow, ice pellets, and some freezing rain. An area of snow associated with [Read more]

CROSSOVER INSIDER – This week’s Trailers + BIG NEWS…Read it here 1st!

CROSSOVER INSIDER – This week’s Trailers + BIG NEWS…Read it here 1st!

INSIDER REVIEW If you’ve been watching any American TV stations lately, it seems as though every second or third commercial is centered around the upcoming Presidential election. The attack ads, the promises and everything else that goes into a typical political campaign is front and center.  [Read more]

Best Start Hub Helping Toddlers Communicate Before They Can Speak

Best Start Hub Helping Toddlers Communicate Before They Can Speak

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Wednesday, October 24th, the Manitouwadge Best Start Hub welcomed Early Literacy Facilitator Karin MacKenzie for a workshop about Infant Sign Language. Parents and caregivers learned about the benefits of pre-verbal communication, infant sign language basics, and fun songs [Read more]

Thunderhawks Women’s Hockey – October 27 Game Recap

Thunderhawks Women’s Hockey – October 27 Game Recap

The Thunderhawks women’s hockey team faced a tough opponent in the Manitoba Women’s Junior Hockey League Predators and, despite entering the third on even terms, went down to defeat 6-2 in the squad’s second game of the Rainy River Community College Can-Am Tournament in International Falls, [Read more]

NSSSAA Finals around the Corner

NSSSAA Finals around the Corner

West Finals host still to be determined… The North Shore Secondary School Athletic Association (NSSSAA) finals are around the corner and a host team has yet to be determined. The Geraldton Composite High School Knights senior basketball team is in front at the moment. However, with [Read more]

Annual Cardboard Boat Race Results, Marathon & Longlac Teams Top 3

Annual Cardboard Boat Race Results, Marathon & Longlac Teams Top 3

MARATHON , ON – The annual Skills Canada-Ontario’s Cardboard Boat Race was this week at the Marathon Porthole Pool with fifteen schools from across the Northshore and Greenstone competing. Tuesday, October 23rd  parents and friends came out in large numbers to welcome the students [Read more]

Shutting down the Legislature won’t make gas plant scandal go away: NDP

Shutting down the Legislature won’t make gas plant scandal go away: NDP

QUEEN’S PARK, ON – NDP House Leader Gilles Bisson condemned Dalton McGuinty for shutting down the Legislature as the committee to investigate the gas plant scandal was to commence.   “Today was the last day the hearings into the gas plants scandal could have started. However, instead of [Read more]

CROSSOVER INSIDER – Plenty of New Releases for the Over 18 Crowd

CROSSOVER INSIDER – Plenty of New Releases for the Over 18 Crowd

From the Editor of OntarioNewsNorth.com: Every week Tyler Davis, Owner Crossover Video & Games in Marathon, writes the Crossover Insider for OntarioNewsNorth.com. Published Tuesdays, The Crossover Insider is your source for the week’s movie & video game releases, store news, details of [Read more]

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