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Tuesday Night Mixed Bowling League – January 22

Team Standings: 1st – Friends and Roxy Rollers tied with 33 points, 2nd – Black Thunder with 31 points, 3rd – Mafia with 29 points, 4th – Incredi-bowls with 27 points. Bowler of the week:  Tiffany Berthiaume with 77 pins over average. TEAM LEADERS:  High Series: Mafia 3821 High Single: Incredi-bowls 1338 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS: Men’s Series Flat: Jake Casavant 733 ...

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The Wawa Ladies Bonspiel Registration is Open!

The registration for the Annual Wawa Ladies Bonspiel is now open.  The bonspiel will be held March 29 – 31, 2019.  The registration fee includes a delicious meal and live entertainment. The theme this year is Game Night, so start thinking about your costumes for the parade. Get your registration in before March 5, 2019 and your team will be entered ...

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Trillium Party supports the Yellow Vest Movement

After much deliberation the Trillium Party of Ontario would like to announce its formal support of a peaceful “Yellow Vest Movement”. We feel the movement reflects not so much a regional concern such as a pipeline project or infrastructure funding but has come to represent a more worldwide phenomenon of protesting the indifference of our political leaders to the wishes ...

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The Yellow Vests – Pros, Cons, and perhaps the reason

Sometime in November 2018 Canadians started to notice that more and more of their fellow Canadians started to wear Yellow Vests. I have also taken notice and have been watching this unfold over the past few months. This wearing of the “Yellow Vest” has become synonymous with the events taking place world wide – albeit, in Canada we are relatively ...

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North East LHIN’s Bay Street Office Re-Opened

Further to an office closure on January 21 due to burst frozen water pipes, the North East LHIN’s Home and Community Care office located at 390 Bay Street (Elgin Tower) in Sault Ste. Marie has re-opened today. The office is open for its usual business hours (8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) and all regular services are available for area residents ...

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Men’s Curling Standings – January 22

Team Rank Wins GP FAHRER, Tom 1 8 10 McCOY, Joe 2 7 10 TERRIS, Tom 3 6 9 ECOLE ST. JOSEPH 3 6 10 LESCHISHIN, Mark 5 5 10 MITRIKAS, Eric 6 3 10 DERESKI, Louis 7 2 9 MOORE, Bruce 7 2 10 GAMES SCHEDULE – January 28, 2019 Ice 1 Ice 2 Ice 3 Ice 4 Leschishin ...

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From Far and Wide

With the release of the second issue in the From Far and Wide series, Canada Post once again invites you to take a fantasy trip to some of the most amazing and picturesque places in Canada. According to stamp designer Stéphane Huot, it’s a privilege to work on a stamp series over an extended period of time. He adds, “The challenge ...

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Friday Night Bowling – January 18

Men’s High Single – Dave Casavant ( 318 ) Women’s High Single – Mary Ellen Douchamie ( 283 ) Men’s High Triple – Dave Casavant ( 717 ) Women’s High Triple – Mary Ellen Douchamie ( 695 ) Team High Single ( Hdcp’d ) – Wilderness Helicopters Strike Force – ( 1412 ) Team High Triple ( Hdcp’d ) – ...

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Extreme Cold Cancels School Buses

Jan 21, 2019 @ 07:09 Sault Ste Marie Area No alerts at this time.  All transportation is running. Central Algoma Area Due to the extreme cold temperatures.  Transportation is cancelled today.  Schools remain open. Parents are advised to ensure their children are dressed accordingly. North Shore Area Due to the extreme cold temperatures.  Transportation is cancelled today.  Schools remain open. Parents ...

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Sault Area Hospital back online after 0-Day Virus

Late last night, Jan. 18, 2019, Sault Area Hospital’s (SAH) IT team received confirmation from Health Sciences North (HSN) that they were able to find and remove the zero-day virus that had infected their systems. HSN, together with an independent third-party IT security firm, assured SAH that the threat had been removed and that our systems could be brought back ...

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Extreme Cold Warning Continues

4:47 AM EST Saturday 19 January 2019 Extreme Cold Warning in effect for: Wawa – Pukaskwa Park White River – Dubreuilville A prolonged period of very cold wind chills is expected. Wind chill values of minus 40 to minus 45 are occurring over much of Northern Ontario this morning. This bitterly cold Arctic airmass will remain in place through the ...

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Maamwesying Opens Wawa Clinic

Maamwesying North Shore Community Health Services & Michipicoten First Nation are excited to announce the opening of their new North Clinic located at 3 Maple Street in Wawa, ON. Through the community based health clinic, a Primary Health Care Team affords opportunities to provide services to on-reserve citizens and to the urban Indigenous population residing in Wawa and the surrounding ...

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