Staff At its regular meeting Tuesday night, town council: •approved the renewal of the town’s insurance policy with Aon Reed Stenhouse, at no rate increase, for the period of Nov. 1, 2009-Oct. 31, 2010; •approved a travel expense claim for CAO Mark McCaig in the amount of $151. This is […]
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Duane Hicks A Thunder Bay man is making headway in his mission to create dialogue about building healthy food relationships through education, awareness, and advocacy. Touting the message “Against Obesity, Not Against Obese People,” Paul Murphy, a recovering binge-eater, is continuing to try and raise awareness of obesity-related issues through […]
Press Release The Northwest Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce Helen McKay has been appointed to the newly-created mathematics facilitator position. This September, the Ministry of Education, through the Literacy & Numeracy Secretariat, awarded funding to the Northwest Catholic District School Board to support math instruction for teachers […]
Press Release Ontario will continue its efforts to reduce workplace injuries by focusing on construction site electrical hazards during an October workplace safety blitz. Ministry of Labour inspectors will visit construction sites across the province looking for electrical hazards that could cause workplace injuries or fatalities. Inspectors will check that […]
Press Release Breast cancer receives an amazing amount of attention in October–it’s not easy to avoid messages about the importance of breast screening. However, only half of all eligible women in Northwestern Ontario have regular mammograms through the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP). A new challenge from the OBSP-Northwest aims […]
Press Release Ontario is enhancing patient safety by requiring all hospitals to use a surgical safety checklist, beginning in January. The checklist will build on the government’s patient safety indicator initiative that was launched in May, 2008 and currently includes eight indicators. One of those indictors is C. difficile, which […]
Press Release Ontarians once again can get support from the Species-at-Risk Stewardship Fund for voluntary projects that protect and recover species-at-risk and their habitat. Applications are now being accepted from individuals and groups for the fourth year of the fund. The deadline is Nov. 16. Over the last three years, […]
Duane Hicks After being named this week as one of 61 Ontario public hospitals that ran a deficit in 2008, the CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. said the $950,191 shortfall was a one-time occurrence and that Riverside is on track to break even in 2009. “Things are looking […]
Peggy Revell Kathleen Mueller admits she doesn’t like to be in the limelight. But for the area’s Catholic community, she’s a shining star. As an educator with the Northwest Catholic District School Board, over her 31 years of education Mueller has taught everything from JK to Grade 8 and co-ordinated […]
Duane Hicks Whether they’re helping a person re-adjust to their every-day life after a stroke or aiding a young child with a physical disability, occupational therapists see a wide range of clients and help them in many different ways. But what exactly is occupational therapy? With October being Occupational Therapy […]
Heather Latter With the strike of nearly 600 unionized “DriveTest” employees now into its eighth week, local residents are really feeling the impact. The strike means those needing to complete a written test or a driving test to obtain a new class of licence (i.e., G1, G, D, or A), […]
Duane Hicks Under the federal government’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program, AbitibiBowater has qualified for “black liquor” credits in the amount of $33,213,351 thanks to its mills in Fort Frances and Thunder Bay. AbitibiBowater was among the 24 companies, representing 38 pulp and paper mills across Canada, that qualified […]
