Passed away peacefully at the Lady Dunn Health Centre with her family by her side on Friday, November 25, 2022, at the age of 81 years. A Celebration of her Life will be held on Saturday, May 6, 2023, beginning with interment of her cremated remains at the Pine Grove Cemetery, Hawk Junction at 11:00 a.m. A eulogy and ...
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Superior Children’s Centre, doing it for the Dunn!
Congratulations to Superior Children’s Centre for becoming the first organization/business to sign up for the Lady Dunn Health Centre Foundation Payroll Deduction Plan. This plan allows employees to have donations to the Foundation taken directly off their paycheques. They can choose the amount and how often. At the end of the year, employees receive a tax receipt that ...
Read More »Ontario Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Protect the Great Lakes
The Ontario government is investing nearly $1 million to support Indigenous-led projects and increased collaboration with Indigenous organizations and youth to help protect and restore the Great Lakes. David Piccini, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, made the announcement today at the seventh annual meeting of the Great Lakes Guardians’ Council, which Ontario co-chaired with Anishinabek Nation. “Our government ...
Read More »L’Ontario introduit de nouvelles règles pour assurer la sécurité des travailleurs miniers
Le gouvernement de l’Ontario œuvre pour les 29 000 travailleurs miniers de la province, en mettant en place de nouvelles règles pour améliorer les exigences de ventilation dans les mines souterraines et réduire l’exposition aux émissions de moteur diesel nocives au seuil de protection le plus élevé d’Amérique du Nord. L’exposition à long terme aux substances nocives présentes dans les ...
Read More »Ontario Introducing New Rules to Keep Miners Safe
The Ontario government is working for the province’s 29,000 mine workers by introducing new rules to improve ventilation requirements in underground mines and lower exposure to harmful diesel exhaust to the most protective levels in North America. Long-term exposure to diesel exhaust can be a significant cause of lung cancer in miners. “Miners have been the backbone of Ontario’s economy ...
Read More »OPP Easter Weekend Stats – 5,186 Speeding Charges
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers faced a busy Easter long weekend as they conducted their province-wide seatbelt campaign and worked around the clock to keep the motoring public safe. Sadly, three people lost their lives in motor vehicle collisions over the weekend and one person was killed in a snowmobile incident. Over the four-day campaign, officers laid 1,507 seatbelt charges ...
Read More »Wawa Public Library Receives Grant
The Wawa Public Library is very excited to have received a grant from the Government of Canada, New Horizons for Seniors. This grant will allow the library to purchase additional Large Print books and Audio Books for the library. Large prints and audio books make reading easier for seniors who may have difficulty reading small print. The focus of ...
Read More »SE OPP Wawa – Impaired Driver charged after traffic complaint
A concerned citizen helped police take an impaired driver off the road. On April 5, 2023, shortly after 9:00 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a traffic complaint for a possible impaired driver on Broadway Avenue in Wawa. Police located the vehicle and investigation revealed the driver to be impaired. As a ...
Read More »Happenings at Wawa First United Church – Palm Sunday
“The passage from Matthew (21:1-11) described Jesus entry into Jerusalem. As he went the city was in turmoil, he entered to shake the foundations of the people. Jesus was shaking their despair, Jesus was shaking their nihilism. Jesus was shaking their powerlessness. Jesus was shaking their blind optimism. Jesus was shaking their narcissism. Jesus was shaking their forgetfulness Today, Jesus ...
Read More »FAIRBROTHER, Douglas George
November 20, 1928 – March 28, 2023 It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Douglas George Fairbrother, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. He is survived by Avice, his loving wife of 69 years, his children Andrew (Carla), Jacqueline (Peter), Lindy (Jeremy), grandchildren Jaysen (Cindy), Joshua, Gabriel (Christine), Jenna (Braden), Alexa (Dave), Kinsey, Jacob (Taylor), Matthew (Lauren), 6 ...
Read More »Wawa’s 5-Year Tourism Plan is Completed
The Municipality of Wawa is pleased to share that the Wawa Tourism Five-Year Tourism Plan has been completed with funding support from the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor) Tourism Relief Fund. The financial contribution from the federal government was used to hire the consulting firm of Bannikin Travel and Tourism to oversee the creation of the Plan ...
Read More »MPP Michael Mantha: Statement regarding removal from NDP Caucus to sit as an independent Member of Provincial Parliament
April 3, 2023 MPP Michael Mantha: Statement regarding removal from NDP Caucus to sit as an independent Member of Provincial Parliament “As a lifelong believer in safe workplaces, I have been and remain fully committed to participating in the independent process now underway. I will continue to serve the people of Algoma – Manitoulin. I will not be commenting ...
Read More »DIFILIPPO, Gennaro “Jim”
After a brave struggle with pancreatic cancer, Jim passed away peacefully on April 1, 2023, at the Sault Area Hospital at the age of 81. He decided that it was time to go with the sun shining and his wife Carolyn by his side. Devoted and loving husband of Carolyn. Adored father of Cathy Kiley (Michael), Jody Tulloch (Mark) and ...
Read More »KERR, Harold “Glenn”
Feb 15, 1928 – Apr 2, 2023 Glenn passed away peacefully at Brierwood Gardens. He was predeceased by his wife Irlma Kerr (Sutton), his parents Roy and Levona Kerr, and sister-in-law Isabell May Kerr (Gammack). He is survived by his brother William Murdock Kerr of Hamiota. He leaves to mourn his daughter Glenda-Lee O’Shea and her husband Kerry, of Brantford, ...
Read More »St. Monica’s Parish Holy Week Mass Schedule
The schedule for Holy Week at St. Monica’s Church in Wawa is as follows: Holy Thursday – April 6, 7:00 p.m. Good Friday – April 7, 3:00 p.m. Holy Saturday – April 8, 7:00 p.m. Easter Sunday – April 9th, 9:00 a.m.
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