Local & Area News

Jul 7, 2017 @ 07:52 MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. announces that it has completed a surface Max-Min EM survey on its Wawa-Holdsworth Project. The survey was conducted to map the extent of the gold-bearing Oxide Sands. The Company has begun exposing the Oxide Sands for sampling at different locations along strike identified by the EM survey. Quentin Yarie, MacDonald’s President ...

Jul 7, 2017 @ 07:45 Weather – Mainly sunny. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 20. UV index 8 or very high. News tidbits – The death of a man in Spanish has now been classified as a homicide.  

Jul 7, 2017 @ 07:40 On July 4, 2017, shortly after 12:00 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from East Algoma Detachment, as well as the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), the OPP East Algoma Crime Unit and Forensic Identification Services (FIS) responded to an unresponsive male located outside a residence in the Town of Spanish.   On ...

Jul 6, 2017 @ 11:51 Six Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) students will wear Ontario colours at the upcoming Jeux de la francophonie canadienne (Canadian Francophone Games). Some 1,200 students from the 13 Canadian provinces and territories will compete in the Games that are being held in Moncton (New Brunswick) from July 11 to 15. The Canadian Francophone Games are among the largest ...

Jul 6, 2017 @ 11:41 Le Réseau local d’intégration de services de santé (RLISS) du Nord-Est invite les résidents du nord-est de l’Ontario à siéger au Comité consultatif des patients et des familles qui sera bientôt mis sur pied. En donnant aux résidents du Nord la possibilité de participer davantage à l’amélioration de l’expérience des patients, le Comité consultatif des patients ...

Jul 6, 2017 @ 11:30 The North East Local Health Integration Network (North East LHIN) is inviting people living across Northeastern Ontario to sit on a soon-to-be established Patient and Family Advisory Committee. With a long-standing tradition of engaging with Northerners on priorities needed to strengthen the system of care in Northeastern Ontario, this Patient and Family Advisory Committee is a ...

Jul 6, 2017 @ 10:59 Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Kenora Detachment Marine and Trails Unit (MTU) are investigating a missing boater on Lake of the Woods. On Tuesday, July 4, 2017, OPP were notified that a 67-year-old California man was missing on Lake of the Woods. Police learned that two men from ...

Jul 6, 2017 @ 08:14 Weather – Increasing cloudiness this morning. 60 percent chance of showers this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Fog dissipating near noon. High 19. UV index 6 or high.   News tidbits – OPP from Mantoulin & East Algoma Detachments,  as the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT) responded to an unresponsive male, located outside a residence in ...

The first goose was designed by Franz Koci of Alberta in 1960, to celebrate the opening of Highway 17, the TransCanada Highway. It most important purpose though, was to act as an attractant to draw the anticipated crowds of tourists to visit the Goose and then Wawa. Three men, Al Turcott, Mel Phillips and Jerry Spreng; members of the local ...

If you ask questions you sometimes get a real surprise like the man in Holland who visited the Oosterbeek War Cemetery and he wondered how 33 Canadians were buried with the thousands of British Paratroopers from the battle of Arnhem in 1944. So the answer was that the RAF was short some officers and the RCAF had a surplus; so ...

Jul 5, 2017 @ 07:51 Weather – Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. High 24. Humidex 26. UV index 6 or high. News tidbits – Barbara Kentner, 34, required surgery after being hit in the abdomen by the trailer hitch on Jan. 29, in Thunder Bay. By March it was known that the internal damage ...

Jul 4, 2017 @ 08:02   July 15, 2017 will mark the beginning of the 3rd year without passenger train service throughout remote areas of Algoma District. As a consequence, the Coalition for Algoma Passenger Trains (CAPT) will hold a special media event on July 12 at 10 am in Sault Ste. Marie at the Civic Centre and on July ...

Weather – Mainly sunny. High 23. UV index 8 or very high.  

    Wawa-news has created this slide show portraying the transformation of Dick Vanderklift’s Wawa Goose into the 2017 Wawa Goose as recreated by Research Casting International. Photos were taken from the Wawa Webcam at the Tourist Information Centre. There has been a goose upon the monument since 1960, when Al Turcott commissioned Franz Koci to build the first Wawa ...

  Thanks once again to the Wawa Fire Department, and volunteer firefighters who give up their time to plan, organize, setup and set off the annual Canada Day Fireworks. This show was even more special to Wawa as we celebrated the unveiling of Wawa Goose III. Wawa-news would like to thank the individuals who dedicated their time to make this ...