THUNDER BAY, ON – Officials at the Thunder Bay District Health Unit and Grandview Lodge have declared a facility-wide outbreak of a respiratory illness which has been identified as Influenza A. The facility is located at 200 Lillie Street North. All admissions, transfers and discharges [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – February 9th at the Recreation Center in Schreiber, a group of Holy Angels School caregivers and children gathered to cook and eat dinner together. When we introduce children to cooking and encourage them to help out in the kitchen, we are saying, “You are a big help, [Read more]
*PLEASE NOTE: Prior to beginning any new diet or excercise regimen please speak with your family physician. Fun with Fitness Keep it FUN! People don’t always want to hear “Join for $20 a month”, or “”FREE gym-bag with membership”, or “Friends enjoy 1 FREE week”. I am a [Read more]
Photos courtesy of Holy Angels School, Schreiber SCHREIBER, ON – Acts of love and showing compassion have both been evident throughout the last month at Holy Angels Catholic School. Holy Angels has shown love by participating in a school fundraiser for The Ladybug foundation. The Ladybug [Read more]
TODAY IS Safer Internet Day 2011 ORILLIA, ON, CNW- The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are commemorating Safer Internet Day 2011 by urging young people and their guardians to recognize the risks associated with the wonders presented by the online world. Safer Internet Day is an international [Read more]
Greenbelt Fund Announces First Round of Grants TORONTO, Feb. 8 /CNW/ – Exciting changes are taking place in Ontario’s daycare kitchens and school cafeterias. More Ontario food will be served to children and students in these broader public sector institutions, thanks to funding from [Read more]
McGuinty Government Improves Services And Supports In Eastern Ontario Ontarians who have a developmental disability in eastern Ontario are one step closer to having a better, more streamlined way to apply for services and supports. The province is creating nine new regional contact points for [Read more]
February 4, 2011 McGuinty Government Expands Training For Francophone Frontline Service Providers Ontario is helping Francophone women who are victims of violence by expanding training for the front-line service providers who work with them. Over the next three years, workers in shelters, sexual [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Friday, January 28th, Our Lady of Lourdes School invited parents and guardians to join a day of fun with their children, dress code for all: pyjamas. Everyone grouped into their school families to participate in an afternoon spent at Literacy Day centres, organized [Read more]
CAUTION STILL NEEDED THOUGH SNOWMOBILE SAFETY WEEK HAS ENDED With the OPP reporting one death and 4 injuries since November due to snowmobile collisions in the Northwest region, and several incidents of property damage, Thunder Bay’s SAVE (Snowmobile ATV Vessel Education) is urging sledders of [Read more]
Hip and Knee Replacement Surgeries Being Added in Dryden, Kenora and Fort Frances In order to minimize wait times for hip and knee replacement surgery at the hospitals in Dryden, Kenora and Fort Frances, the North West Local Health Integration (LHIN) Board has approved $275,280 in additional [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Thursday, February 3rd, Chelsea DeGagne, Volunteer Coordinator for North of Superior Programs presented 2 information sessions at the Golden Age Club and was very pleased with the number of Manitouwadge seniors who stepped up to offer themselves as volunteers. DeGagne [Read more]
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre Piloting Cafeteria Program THUNDER BAY, ON – Starting today, employees, patients and visitors to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) will be seeing more healthy options in their cafeteria and the cafeteria vending machine [Read more]
*From the Editor: The hearing in Dryden referred to below is the same which caught OntarioNewsNorth.com’s attention in a provincial gov’t press release January 12th titled “Improving Rural and Northern Health Care”. Get the rest of this story by CLICKING HERE; I am [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Thursday, January 27th, Public Health Nurse Shirley Saasto-Stopyra, accompanied by Community Health Promotion Resource Person Reene Warren, from the Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) Manitouwadge Office, attended Our Lady of Lourdes School to instruct 4 students, [Read more]
