Morning News – September 30

Sept 30, 2021 at 07:56

Weather

Sunny. Fog patches dissipating late this morning. High 18. UV index 4 or moderate.
Tonight – Clear. Low 8.

 

Status of COVID-19 cases in Algoma

There are 8 active cases of COVID-19 in the Algoma District today. 83,008 people (72.5%) in the Algoma District are fully vaccinated (Last Updated: 1:53 PM, September 29, 2021).

 

2021 Forest Fire Status – Northeast Forest Fire Region:

Active Fires	Not Under Control	Held	Under Control	Observed
				2

The fire hazard is low across the Northeast Region.

 

Northwest Forest Fire Region

Active Fires	Not Under Control	Held	Under Control	Observed
10		2	2	6

The wildland fire hazard is mainly low to moderate across the northwest region with areas of high hazard in the districts of Red Lake, Kenora and Fort Frances.

 

News Tidbits:

Today is Orange Shirt Day /National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Wawa will host a Walk for Wenjack beginning at 4 p.m. at the Wawa Post Office and heading to the Wawa Goose. There will be a stop at Young’s General Store for a break. Everyone is asked to honour this day with walking, wearing orange or to donate.

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove 23 species (11 birds, eight freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat and a plant) from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) due to extinction. Based on rigorous reviews of the best available science for each of these species, the Service has determined these species are extinct, and thus no longer require listing under the ESA.

Nearly a dozen of the species were native to Hawaii and Guam. One of the mussels did exist in Canada – Tubercled-blossom Pearly Mussel in Southern Ontario.

Ivory-billed woodpecker (1944), Bachman’s warbler (1988); from Hawaiʻi the Kauai akialoa (1969), Kauai nukupuu, Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, Large Kauai thrush, Maui ākepa, Maui nukupuʻu, Molokai creeper, and Po`ouli. From Guam, the Little Mariana fruit bat.

Flat pigtoe Mussel (Mississippi), southern Acornshell Mussel (Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee), Stirrupshell Mussel (Alabama), Upland Combshell Mussel, (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee), Green-blossom Pearly Mussel (Tennessee, Virginia), Turgid-blossom Pearly Mussel (Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas), Yellow-blossom Pearly Mussel (Tennessee, Alabama) and the Tubercled-blossom Pearly Mussel (Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Southern Ontario, Canada).

San Marcos Gambusia, Scioto madtom (Big Darby Creek, a tributary of the Scioto River, in Ohio).

The Phyllostegia glabra var. lanaiensis (plant) from Hawaii is also declared.

 

Bears are on the roam in Wawa. Please make sure that you have nothing available for them to eat, as they are foraging everywhere due to the short blueberry season this year. For personal protection, Young’s General Store does have bear bangers and bear spray back in stock.