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Now May is gone and it is summertime and even though we have Covid 19 around, let us be happy and enjoy the weather but obey all the rules. Usually at this time we have our last meeting at the Branch before summer recess, but let us hope we will be back in September with the doors open. It was ...

Starting June 1, 2020, electricity prices are changing for residential and small business customers as well as farms on TOU pricing under the Ontario Energy Board’s (OEB) Regulated Price Plan (RPP). The same fixed price of 12.8 ¢/kWh applies to all of the electricity that they use, no matter the time of day or the day of the week. The ...

A very happy 14th birthday and well wishes for Madison. Her mom has decorated the front yard and arranged for a birthday parade. If you would like to help Madison celebrate this very special day meet at the Wawa Fire Hall for 5:55 p.m., parade at 6. Happy Birthday Madison!

Sault Ste Marie and surrounding area Métis Citizens will be watching closely on June 1 when the results of the Métis Nation of Ontario’s (MNO) provincial election are released. This year’s MNO election is a historic one. It is the first in which the opportunity to achieve full Métis self-government is front and centre on the ballot. In 2019, Métis ...

On the 27th of May 2020 at 3:08pm officers with the Thunder Bay detachment of the OPP responded to a report of mining incident at the Impala Canada mine located on Highway 527 north of Thunder Bay.   One male died as a result of injuries he sustained underground. Currently the OPP, the Ministry of Labour and the Regional coroner’s ...

Following the announcement by the Ontario government regarding the reopening of select businesses and organizations, health and community service providers, including those in the violence against women sector, are permitted to reopen or provide in-person services as of Tuesday, May 19, 2020. For Centre Victoria pour femmes (CVF), the safety and health of employees and the women who access services ...

À la suite de l’annonce des nouvelles consignes du gouvernement de l’Ontario, les organismes du secteur de la violence faite aux femmes peuvent rouvrir leurs portes et offrir des services en personne à partir du 19 mai. Pour le Centre Victoria pour femmes, la sécurité et la santé des employées et des usagères sont prioritaires. C’est pourquoi l’organisme continue d’offrir ...

75 years ago the country was free and as evacuees, we were living in someone elses house, and when they returned we had to move. The Canadian Regiment de la Chaudierre had moved further up the Ijssel River and we were to move in a house that had been used by soldiers in that regiment.  One problem. A grenade had ...

Motorcyclist fatalities on Ontario Provincial Police-(OPP)-patrolled roads are up 300 per cent this year over last year, with all four 2020 deaths occurring in the month of May. OPP investigations into the collisions revealed that in separate incidents, two of the four motorcyclists who died were driving properly at the time of the collision. The incidents mark the latest reminder ...

Mayor Rody and Wawa Council are pleased to share that with 100% of project funding provided by the Government of Ontario, received from both the Connecting Link and the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund programs, the reconstruction and resurfacing of Mission Road from Chris Simon Drive to Main Street/Highway 101 at the Gladstone Street intersection will begin May 27, 2020. J. ...

On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 approximately 1:00 am, members of the Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision (MVC), involving a signal motor vehicle on Highway 17, approximately 70km east of Marathon near Green Lakes.   An eastbound 2019 Honda Civic lost control after hitting the east bound shoulder on a corner. ...

And 75 years ago our veterans were the talk of the town in Holland and there were parades, local music sounded all over. Dances were arranged and always “Ladies Free” and it was music and more music. Local companies and farmers got good deals on  army trucks and other equipment. Canadian soldiers helped with cleanup and rebuilding until they were repatriated back to ...

On May 16, 2020, at approximately 12:00 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to the report of a missing person in the White River area. A 61-year-old person was reported last seen on May 15, 2020, at approximately 1:30 p.m.. The person’s pickup truck was located approximately 11 km east of Highway 631 ...

After many years of serving the local community as a volunteer, and after hearing from countless Métis citizens, Mitch Case has put his name forward to become the Region 4 Councillor on the Provisional Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario. “When your elders encourage you to do something, in our culture, you don’t say no. So many of our ...

On April 24 we lost another Comrade with the passing away of our Veteran Les Calkins. We will remember him at our next meeting. So the 75 years of the end of WW2 is now past and hopefully we can celebrate next year 75+1 with more events. The laying of wreaths at the Amsterdam national monument was attended by 6, the King ...