Aug 30, 2017 @ 16:2 It is back to school time and Sault College will be officially welcoming more than 1250 new students to campus at its upcoming 2017 Orientation! With activities beginning Friday, September 1, our orientation week will kick-off the new academic year and offer our newest students a week of exciting activities to help introduce them ...

Aug 30, 2017 @ 08:21 The Wawa Figure Skating Club is gearing up for the 2017-2018 skating season and we can’t wait to see what our skaters will achieve this season! Last year the club ran several different programs and trained skaters of many ages and abilities. From CanSkate, which is Skate Canada’s “learn to skate program”, all the way up to ...

Aug 30, 2017 @ 08:06 The Congregation welcomes everyone to worship at First United Church. Services are held on Sundays at 11 a.m. If anyone has a question or concern please leave a message on the answering machine at the Church 705 – 856 – 2926. We have enjoyed sharing Morning Worship with  the Congregation of St. Paul’s during the months of July ...

  Aug 30, 2017 @ 08:06 A Celebration of Life for Norman Roussain will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 429 on September 6th, 2017 from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. The Legion ladies will prepare a light lunch. There will be a short Legion service and an opportunity for folks to share memories and laughter and tears with ...

In response to a letter sent to Premier Kathleen Wynne by more than 700 health care workers on Ontario’s opioid crisis, Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown issued the following statement: “The Ontario PCs have been very clear, Ontario is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Between 2006 and 2015, fentanyl overdose deaths in Ontario have soared by 548 per ...

Using the right child car seat is the best way to prevent serious injury or death to children in collisions. Make sure that your child is buckled up right, whether it is in an infant car seat, child car seat, booster seat or with the seatbelt.   Legislation makes it mandatory for anyone transporting children to make sure children are property ...

Aug 28, 2017 @ 10:32 – The transport has been removed. Highway is now open. The highway had been closed for 2 1/2 hours.   Aug 28, 2017 @ 09:36 – Updated with photos, courtesy of Stéphanie Ouellet.     Aug 28, 2017 @ 08:51 Just after 8 a.m. a transport tried to turn around on the highway and ended up ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. High 21. UV index 5 or moderate. Marine – Wind southeast 15 knots diminishing to southeast 10 near noon then becoming light near midnight. Wind becoming southwest 10 Tuesday evening. Waves one metre subsiding to one half metre or less this afternoon. News Tidbits – Business is almost back to normal after a ...

Aug 27, 2017 @ 09:45 At 9:11 a.m. another update to the situation at John’s ValuMart was posted to FB. Johns Valumart is open for business today. We ask the public to please be patient as there is limited access to the produce area. We are working as quickly as possible to restore the produce department back to normal. Please ...

Une voiture qui fonce sur des contre-manifestants antiracistes dans un rassemblement de militants pour la suprématie blanche à Charlottesville, en Caroline du Nord, montre bien à quel point les tensions raciales s’intensifient au sud de la frontière. La réaction du président Trump — qui a blâmé les deux côtés — n’a rien fait pour apaiser la situation. Les propos du ...

The car attack on counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, North Carolina highlights the rising temperature in race relations that is taking place south of the border.  The response from President Trump – assigning blame to both sides – did little to calm the situation.  Instead, the President only ratchetted up the idea that America is increasingly divided ...

The Kirkland Lake Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reminds parents that they have an important role to play in ensuring their children’s safety with strangers. The obvious conversation that parents should have with their children is to teach them stranger danger. Strangers don’t always have a rough appearance and can appear to be perfectly normal. Here are some important tips for ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this afternoon. High 20. UV index 5 or moderate. Marine – Strong wind warning in effect.Wind southeast 10 knots increasing to southeast 15 early this morning and to southeast 20 early this evening. Wind diminishing to east 15 overnight. Wind east 15 Monday.

  The Great Trail is a trail that goes from one end of Canada to the other, and we are lucky that here in Wawa, Ontario, we have a section of the trail that passes through us. There are land and water trails, and our section is a beautiful water trail that goes from Naturally Superior Adventures (NSA) to Buck’s ...

Ontario is securing jobs in Sault Ste. Marie by supporting upgrades to the Tenaris Algoma Tubes seamless pipe mill. Glenn Thibeault, MPP for Sudbury, made the announcement yesterday in Sault Ste. Marie on behalf of Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development and Mines at Tenaris Algoma Tubes. The province’s investment in plant upgrades will help to lower operating costs and improve ...