Author Archives: Brenda Stockton

BIA Holds Annual General Meeting

Mar 9, 2018 @ 11:07   The Wawa BIA held their annual general meeting February 28th. After the minutes were accepted, Mayor Ron Rody (Council representative on the board) gave a short report on municipal happenings. He touched on the KPMG Water Report, and advised that the rates for consumption would be set shortly. Council will be conducting interviews from ...

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Friday Morning News – March 9

Mar 9, 2018 @ 07:57 Weather Today Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 4. Tonight Mainly cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 12.   Roads 101 Timmins to Highway 144 bare and wet road with partly snow covered sections. 2018-03-09 2:25 101 Highway 144 to Shawmere River bare and wet road with partly snow ...

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Thursday Morning News – March 8

Mar 8, 2018 @ 07:57 Weather Today Flurries. High minus 2. Tonight Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 11.   Roads 101 Timmins to Highway 144 bare and wet road with partly snow covered sections. 2018-03-08 2:27 101 Highway 144 to Shawmere River partly snow covered with snow covered sections. 2018-03-08 2:28 101 Shawmere River to Highway ...

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Happenings at Wawa First United – March 7

Mar 7, 2018 @ 08:32 The congregation welcomes everyone to Worship at First United Church. Services are held on Sunday at 11:00 a.m. If anyone has a question or concern please leave a message on the answering machine at the Church 705-856-2926 CHURCH OFFICE HOURS – Thurs. 1 -3 p.m Roberta requests that an appointment be made. Please call 705-856-2926 ...

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Wednesday Morning News – March 7

Mar 7, 2018 @ 08:13 Weather Today Periods of snow ending near noon then cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Amount 2 cm. Wind northeast 20 km/h. High minus 2. Tonight Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 10.   Roads 101 Timmins to Highway 144 partly snow covered with snow covered sections. 2018-03-07 2:27 101 Highway ...

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Tuesday Morning News – March 6

Mar 6, 2018 @ 07:57 Weather – Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of flurries this afternoon. Wind northeast 20 km/h. High minus 5. Wind chill minus 25 this morning. Tonight will see periods of snow. Amount 2 cm. Low minus 13. Roads – The warm weather over the weekend and Monday has made all the roads bare ...

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Gélinas: CHEO overcrowding hurts Ontario families

Mar 5, 2018 @ 14:41 NDP Health critic MPP France Gélinas again took Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to task this morning about the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis – this time taking aim at the capacity issues at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).   Last week CHEO announced historic overcrowding, saying that the hospital ran over 100 ...

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Monday Morning News – March 5

Mar 5, 2018 @ 07:52 Weather Today Sunny. High minus 3. Tonight A few clouds. Low minus 16.   Roads – bare and dry road   News Tidbits – The Fifth Estate has found that a report by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) into the investigation of the death of Stacy DeBungee, 41 in the fall of ...

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Winners of the Firefighters Cash Draw!

Mar 4, 2018 @ 20:51     This is the 16th or 17th Annual Michipicoten Volunteer Firefighters Association Cash Draw. This year by 1 p.m. the firefighters had sold out their tickets. They will be back later this year with tickets for the 2017/18 Cash Draw. Proceeds from this go to the firefighters Equipment Fund.  

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Wawa Emergency Services Make Donation to ‘Lift for the Legion’

Mar 4, 2018 @ 11:17   Rob Sanderson and  Sam Rowe presented Maryanne Pearson and Albert Nichols with a cheque representing the funds that were raised during the Annual Wawa Emergency Services Hockey Game. $1,850 was raised and will help the Legion in their ‘Lift for the Legion’ accessibility fundraising campaign.

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Picture of the Day

  This snowmobiler is one of two that passed by the Goose as I was wondering if there would be a sunset to photograph. The sun disappeared behind the clouds and what appeared to be fog, just as the snowmobiles went by.

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Friday Morning news – March 2

Mar 2, 2018 @ 07:42 Weather Today Mainly sunny. High minus 2. Tonight A few clouds. Low minus 15.   Roads 101 Timmins to Highway 144 bare and dry road 2018-03-02 6:26 101 Highway 144 to Shawmere River bare and dry road 2018-03-02 6:26 101 Shawmere River to Highway 651 partly snow packed with bare and dry road, bare and ...

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