Capital Funding Ensures Continued Access to High Quality Care for Patients The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is investing in infrastructure renewal projects for hospitals in Northwestern Ontario to ensure they continue to offer high quality care to local residents. The North [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – The Northshore Stars Girls’ Bantam B Hockey Team, including 13 and 14 year olds from Dubreuilville, Pic River, Marathon, Terrace Bay, Schreiber, Nipigon, Geraldton and Longlac, has returned home this week from Mississauga, Ontario where they faced off, against 17 other teams, to [Read more]
Montreal, PQ– April 12, 2011 – A Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) study commissioned by KWG Resources Inc. (TSXV: KWG) on the Big Daddy Chromite deposit (Project) in the remote Ring of Fire area in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario, recommends the Project be advanced to the [Read more]
Geraldton, ON – On the April 11, 2011 members of the Greenstone Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment and the North West Region Forensic Identification Unit investigated a break and enter at the Get In Gear/ Sears outlet in the Town of Geraldton. Various electronic equipment and Canadian [Read more]
*Video, Paul Gareau talks about the NOSP’s Senior Volunteer Recruitment succes in Manitouwadge. As we get older, our social networks tend to shrink and we may find ourselves interacting less and less with others, and losing our connections to the community. A rising concern in Canadian [Read more]
GERALDTON, ON – The St. Joseph Catholic School students from Grades 5 to 8 were lucky enough to have a visit from “Let’s talk Science inspiring discovery”. This workshop involved a series of activities relating to the human body and how it works. At each station students [Read more]
LONGLAC, ON – April 2nd, OntarioNewsNorth.com Editor, Karina Hunter, spoke with Geraldton Jamboree volunteer Alan Ouellet (Owner of Footstomp Fightwear) about planning underway for the 2011 Geraldton Jamboree. This year’s Jamboree is gearing up to be bigger and better than ever with a [Read more]
FROM: Greenstone OPP DATE: December 28th, 2010 Snowmobile Fails to Stop for Police – Driver Charged GERALDTON, ON – December 27, 2010, an officer with the Ontario Provincial Police Greenstone Detachment was on patrol in the town of Geraldton when the officer observed a Motorized Snow [Read more]
Longlac, ON – On October 1, 2010 the Ontario Provincial Police sent a media release which advised that police were looking for anyone who may have information about a theft from a motor vehicle in Longlac on September 22, 2010, where a camera and GPS were stolen out of an unlocked truck [Read more]
GERALDTON VEHICLE STOP LEADS TO ARREST November 5, 2010 On October 26, 2010, Scott Smith of Sylvan Lake, Alberta was convicted of possession of 690,000 unmarked cigarettes in the Geraldton Provincial Offences Court. Smith was charged by the Ministry of Revenue’s Special Investigations Branch [Read more]
Updated forecasts for Northern Ontario issued by Environment Canada at 5.45 pm edt Thursday 27 May 2010 for tonight Friday and Friday night. Lake Nipigon – Wabakimi Tonight..Clear. Becoming cloudy periods after midnight. Low 8. Friday..A mix of sun and cloud. High 24. UV index 8 or very high. [Read more]
To read the version of this story submitted to The Echo (local weekly paper)including more photos and active links, visit www.karinahunter.com/?p=6266 . The article below is a revised, shorter version sent to the Chronicle Journal (regional daily paper). 50th anniversary at Our Lady of Lourdes [Read more]
Our Lady of Lourdes celebrates Golden Jubilee by Karina Hunter Parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Manitouwadge gathered at their church Saturday celebrating its 50th Anniversary. They enjoyed a spaghetti supper accompanied by the Most Reverend Bishop Brian Joseph Dunn, [Read more]
