Press Release STOP On-the-Road, a successful stop smoking program, is returning to Northwestern Ontario after a two-year absence. The week-long stop smoking tour targeting six communities will offer up to 350 qualified smokers advice on how to quit and five weeks’ supply of free nicotine replacement therapy. STOP stands for […]
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Press Release Everyone is encouraged to wear pink on Oct. 22, which has been declared “Pink Out Day” by the Rainy River District Breast Health Network. “It’s a special year for us,” explained network chair Teresa Hazel. “The Riverside Breast Health Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we want […]
Press Release Janice Beazley, chair of the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), is pleased to announce that Dennis Gushulak of Ear Falls has been appointed to the board of directors. Gushulak’s three-year appointment by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council was endorsed by Health and Long-Term Care minister Deb Matthews. A […]
Press Release In the next few weeks, the Northwestern Health Unit will be receiving seasonal influenza vaccine from the provincial vaccine depot and making plans for distribution across the region. Before vaccine can be given to the public, health unit staff must ensure the vaccine is transported and stored at […]
Press Release Ontario is providing the most support to Northern Ontario on record with energy rebates to northern families and industry to help reduce electricity prices and boost economic activity. The new Northern Industrial Electricity Rate Program is providing industry electricity price rebates of two cents per kilowatt hour, averaging […]
Duane Hicks Work on the deck of the Noden Causeway will take longer than expected after the Ministry of Transportation reported the bridge rehabilitation work, scheduled to be complete by mid-October, is behind schedule. “The construction work on the deck of the west low level structure is currently behind schedule, […]
Duane Hicks Asking for clean, quality items only After requesting last month that the community hold off on donations to the local Salvation Army’s thrift store, Capts. Angel Sandoval-Silva and Marlene Sandoval are welcoming the public to give clothes and household items once again. But while the two-week break gave […]
Duane Hicks An inquest here last week into the August, 2009 death of a man at the Fort Frances Jail determined he died accidently of opiate toxicity, with the jury making recommendations aimed at preventing similar deaths in future. The inquest examined the death of Atikokan resident Dylan Wreggitt, 21, […]
Peggy Revell Teaching youth about self-esteem and self-respect is the goal as 21 police officers and other community members gather this week for training to run the OPP’s “Walking the Path” education curriculum. “We find that once [the program] comes into an area, people just snowball—they want it everywhere because […]
Duane Hicks A new program called Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (SALT) is off and running in Rainy River District, with a growing membership and a starting focus. Becky Holden, a health educator with the Northwestern Health Unit office here and chair of the local seniors’ coalition, said that as […]
Staff While snow, winter, and Christmas probably are the farthest things from many people’s minds heading into Thanksgiving, planning already is underway for the 53rd-annual Christmas “Parade of Lights” here. Slated for Nov. 27, the theme this year is “The Lights and Sounds of Christmas,” said Robin Payeur of Causeway […]
Duane Hicks Work on the deck of the Noden Causeway will take longer than expected after the Ministry of Transportation reported the bridge rehabilitation work, scheduled to be complete by mid-October, is behind schedule. “The construction work on the deck of the west low level structure is currently behind schedule, […]
