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The East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind the motoring public to practice safe winter driving habits. Snow and freezing temperatures will create hazardous driving conditions. Motorists are reminded to completely clear the snow off their vehicles and to ensure visibility in all directions before heading out onto the roadway. A buildup of snow on your vehicle ...

  Canada Post has unveiled a stamp paying tribute to one of Canada’s most successful singer-songwriters – Buffy Sainte-Marie, C.C. Believed to have been born on the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan in 1941, Sainte-Marie is internationally renowned for her unique vibrato vocals and emotionally charged songs, which have been covered by hundreds of artists, from Elvis Presley and Neil ...

Has the former Davidson fuels location become the new Wawa landfill site? When the Algoma Ore Division closed its doors, the rail line at the end of Government Road was torn up and created a beautiful trail for family walks, pet walking to ATV enthusiasts. A few years later, Davidson Fuels relocated its fuel operations and offices to Pinewood Drive ...

In-Person Worship Services will continue on November 21, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Reign of Christ Sunday, All are Welcome. Covid-19 protocols will be followed. Sat. Nov. 20   PRAYER  SHAWL 3 p.m.    . The U.C.W. request  that all donations for the next Thrift Shop be held at home as no date has been set yet.

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario améliore le dépistage de la COVID-19 en augmentant le nombre de lieux de dépistage et en rendant plus pratique l’accès au dépistage financé par les fonds publics pour les personnes qui en ont besoin. Ces nouvelles options de dépistage sont déployées alors que de plus en plus de personnes se réfugient à l’intérieur et participent à ...

The Ontario government is enhancing COVID-19 testing by expanding the number of testing locations and making it more convenient to access publicly funded testing for those who need it. These new testing options are being deployed as more people head indoors and attend family gatherings during the colder winter months. “While vaccination remains the best way to protect against COVID-19, ...

Tonight is the longest partial lunar eclipse in almost 600 years. The eclipse will last a total of 208.4 minutes, just shy of the partial eclipse on Feb. 18, 1440, that lasted 208.8 minutes. The entire eclipse will be visible from Wawa (provided the skies are clear tonight). For those who go out to look, at mid-eclipse, just 6.5° separate ...

On November 15, 2021, at approximately 12:45 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of two individuals walking on Highway 17 south of White River. Officers attended and determined that one of the individuals was breaching their court-ordered conditions. As a result of the investigation, a 30-year-old person, from White ...

On November 16, 2021 at approximately 4:58 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop on Second Avenue in Wawa. During the investigation, the driver was found to be prohibited from operating a motor vehicle. As a result, Blake KOMARNISKI, 38 years-of-age, of Wawa was charged with the following: Operation While ...

On November 13, 2021 at approximately 3:28 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received multiple traffic complaints regarding a possible impaired driver on Highway 17 in Lendrum Township. The vehicle was located and, through investigation, Phillip LAMBIE, 52 years-of-age, of Thorold was charged with the following: Operation while impaired – blood alcohol concentration ...

Our Remembrance Service at the arena was scaled down but it worked out fine. Comrade Eric Mitrikas did a fine job at centre ice. Also our Chaplain was well to be heard and I am sure everyone enjoyed it and left happy. I enjoyed my birthday and it was nice to have some time with my family and friends at ...

Due to freezing rain and icy road conditions in Dubreuilville, Route N6 servicing Wawa schools will be cancelled today.   Route N6 services students living in Dubreuilville who attend Sir James Dunn, Michipicoten High School, St. Augustine, Ecole Saint Joseph.

Sudbury NDP MPP Jamie West re-introduced his private member’s bill which would raise the wage floor for all personal support workers (PSWs) in Ontario. “Personal support workers have taken care of the people who raised us, the people we love,” said West. “They should be able to support their own families and not have to worry about putting food on ...

1950-2021   It is with great sadness that the family announces her death in Sudbury on November 11, 2021, after a short, but tough fought battle with cancer.   Judy leaves behind her loving husband of 53 years Lucien and precious daughters Denise Bussineau (Lane) and Lisa Bouthillier (Dan Mayotte). Loving daughter of Peter and Betty Medynski, both predeceased). She ...

Born December 12, 1921 in Kauhajoki, Finland passed away at the Lady Dunn Health Centre LTC, Wawa, Ontario on Friday, November 12, 2021 exactly one month shy of her 100th birthday. Beloved wife of the late Jack Lahti (1993), They were married on August 2, 1942. Loving mother of Alli McCormick (Ric), Kathy Miller (Cliff) and the late Sylvia Girard-Keveren ...