May 16, 2018 @ 11:14   This Friday is the beginning of Safe Boating Awareness Week (May 19th-25th, 2018). Safe Boating Awareness Week provides boaters key reminders as they prepare to embark on another boating season. Wear Your Lifejacket – Legally you must carry one on board, appropriately sized for each passenger. But don’t just carry it, WEAR IT. Boat Sober ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers this morning and early this afternoon. Clearing this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm this morning. High 16. UV index 6 or high.   News Tidbits – Tonight is registration night for soccer, t-ball and softball at the MMCC from 6 – 7 p.m. Register your child for $25 per sport (Season is ...

May 15, 2018 @ 08:11 (1)  CALL TO ORDER & NOTE MEMBERS PRESENT (2)  REVIEW OF ADDENDUM & APPROVAL OF AGENDA 2.1 Approval of Agenda (3)  ANNOUNCEMENTS / DEPUTATIONS 3.1  Presentation – Municipal Environmental Award to Mr. Jozin 3.2  Presentation – Algoma Power Inc. (4)  DECLARATION OF PECUNIARY INTEREST AND THE GENERAL NATURE THEREOF (5)  APPROVAL OF MINUTES 5.1 Approval ...

May 15, 2018 @ 07:45 Weather – A mix of sun and cloud. Wind northeast 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High 13. UV index 7 or high.   News Tidbits – Don’t forget Summer hours for the MMCC begin this Friday, May 18th. Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre: 6 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pro-shop: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Weather – Mainly sunny. High 18. UV index 7 or high. News Tidbits – Wawa will be the host for the Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) Mid Term Meeting this week. Welcome to all! Andrea Horwath announces yesterday, Mothers’ Day that for the first time in Ontario history a political party—hers—has surpassed 50% women candidates.

May 10, 2018 @ 07:40 Weather – Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers early this morning. Clearing this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40. Temperature falling to plus 3 this morning then rising. UV index 6 or high. News Tidbits – The power has been out in Dubreuilville since before 5 this morning. ...

May 9, 2018 @ 08:10 Weather – Periods of rain. High 15. News Tidbits – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne today announced that the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, has accepted the Premier’s advice to sign a Proclamation dissolving the 41st Parliament of the Province of Ontario, effective as of 2 p.m. today. Pursuant to the provisions of the Election Act, ...

The Wawa Lions Club is holding their annual “Carns… Because We Care” campaign. Show that special someone in your life how much you care. All proceeds from the sale of these carnations will enable the Wawa Lions to provide bursaries to this year’s graduates. A bouquet of 12  carnations delivered in time for Mother’s Day is $18.00. Please contact any of the following Lions ...

May 8, 2018 @ 07:57 Weather – A mix of sun and cloud. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h this morning. High 18. UV index 6 or high. News Tidbits – Yesterday and for the remainder of the week – Canada is testing a cell alerting system. Due to a space in the message, residents of Quebec did not receive the alert. ...

May 7, 2018 @ 17:28   Hwy 11 approximately 14.2 km west of Geraldton at the Microwave Tower Road is currently closed.  A culvert has failed causing both lanes to be blocked.    

May 7, 6:55 a.m. Highway 11 was reopened late Saturday night. A temporary fix was put in place, and it is anticipated that there will be lane closures on Monday to effect a permanent repair. Hwy 11 was closed in both directions approximately 15 km West of Hwy584 junction due to flooding late Sunday evening. It was reopened about half an ...

May 4, 2018 @ 07:48 Weather – Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h this afternoon. High 13. UV index 5 or moderate. News Tidbits – May the Fourth be with you! Today is Star Wars Day, May 4, which celebrates George Lucas’ Star Wars saga. The Star is ...

May 3, 2018 @ 09:31 Last week the EDC of Wawa held an Open House to launch the province’s new Wood Heat Pilot Program. The Ontario government will use proceeds from the Ontario Carbon Market to fund four new programs for communities without access to natural gas that relies on a mix of wood, propane, fuel oil and diesel-generated electricity ...

May 3, 2018 @ 07:01 Weather – A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 12. UV index 7 or high.   News Tidbits – Dr. John McCrae of Guelph, Ont., wrote in 20 minutes, the the most famous English poem of the First World War, In Flanders Fields in Ypres, Belgium.

May 2, 2018 @ 08:28   Nurdles on the beach? What are nurdles?   Nurdles are tiny, lentil-sized and shaped pieces of white plastic. Parents might be familiar with them as they were the stuffing in Beanie Babies. People in the plastic fabrication industry know them as the building material for nearly all our plastic products.   These photographs were ...