Local & Area News

Bold Ventures Inc. (TSXV:BOL) (the “Company” or “Bold”) is pleased to announce it has signed the formal Option Agreement to acquire the Farwell Gold and Base Metal property (“Farwell”). The Farwell claims are located approximately 55 km northwest of Wawa, Ontario. They are road accessible and consist of 103 Cell claims, 6 Multi-Cell claims and 6 Boundary claims comprising approximately ...

Northern Policy Institute (NPI) partnered with the North Superior Workforce Planning Board, your Local Employment Planning Council to provide insight into current and potential future labour market shortages in Thunder Bay.   “With retirement and out-migration coupled with an already ageing population, it is important now than ever to understand the occupations in which these shortages fall,” says author Alex ...

Weather – Mainly sunny. Wind up to 15 km/h. High plus 4. Wind chill minus 8 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight – Partly cloudy. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 4. Wind chill minus 6 overnight. Statistics – March 26:   News Tidbits – The Conservative party has suspended its leadership race in the face of ...

Open letter to Mr Duncan Middlemiss, President and CEO of Wesdome Gold Mines Dear Mr. Middlemiss: I read your press release dated Mar 23, 2020, in which you say, “Our vigilance will go a long way to keeping everyone safe”. I couldn’t disagree more. I would have liked to discuss this with you today, but I was unable to reach ...

last updated – Mar 26, 2020 at 09:33 Changes due to COVID-19 in community events, businesses for residents of Wawa and the area. This article was begun March 14, 2020 at 08:25:51. If you would like your notice added to this list, please contact [email protected] The Lady Dunn Health Centre has information about COVID-19 – click this link to read. To see the ...

Weather – Clearing early this morning. Wind northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light near noon. High plus 3. Wind chill minus 15 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight – Partly cloudy. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 7. Wind chill minus 10 overnight. Statistics (March 25 – Midnight) – Algoma District – 1 Sudbury/Manitoulin – ...

On March 24, 2020, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Northeast Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) and the OPP Northeast Region Canine Unit executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a residence on Brunswick House First Nation. During the search, officers seized a quantity of drugs suspected to be ...

Good morning Algoma-Manitoulin, I hope you are doing well. As I and my team have been taking in and returning calls to people throughout the day, I have been finding most people in good shape but there is no doubt that this is not an easy period. However, as I have noted before, it is impressive how neighbours and communities ...

Weather – Periods of snow or rain changing to periods of rain or drizzle near noon. Fog patches dissipating early this morning. Wind south 20 km/h gusting to 40. High plus 3. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – Periods of rain or drizzle ending near midnight then cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h ...

The Easter Cross of Lights will again be placed above the front door of our Church.  If you wish to purchase a bulb in memory of someone the cost is $5.00 a bulb.  Please contact Maria Reid @ 705-856-2861.  The Cross will be lit on Palm Sunday. The U.C. W. requests that ALL items for the next Thrift Shop be saved at ...

Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (March 23, 2020) would like to inform all stakeholders of its response to the current COVID-19 Pandemic.  To date no employees, contractors, or consultants directly involved with Wesdome, whether at corporate or at sites, have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Mr. Duncan Middlemiss, President and CEO stated, “These are unprecedented times and information and government actions are ...

Alamos Gold Inc.  today, (March 24, 2020) provided an update on the measures it has instituted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 including a 14 day suspension of operations at Island Gold. To date, Alamos has not had any confirmed cases of COVID-19 among any of its employees or contractors and has not experienced any impact to its operations or ...

Weather – A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High plus 3. Wind chill minus 10 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight – Partly cloudy. Becoming cloudy overnight then periods of snow. Wind becoming south 20 km/h gusting to 40 this evening. Low zero. Statistics – News Tidbits – ...

This was posted by Garry Crawford, now retired, who was an officer at the Wawa OPP Detachment on FB. Wawa-news has shared it with his permission.     The Hunter’s Story If Memory serves me correctly it was on October the 9th, in the late 1970’s. Carl Norman, 36 and Ronald Frese, 28 of Akron, Ohio were flown into a ...

We will be open during our usual hours: Wed Mar 25th from 2-4 pm. Clients will be directed to enter one at a time, wash their hands, and keep a 2 meter distance from each other and our volunteers while waiting in line and inside the food bank. Clients will be able to leave their contact info with a Wawa ...