News

Some 20 district municipal and business reps headed to Wausau, Wis. by bus at 8 a.m. today for the annual “Northern Networks” trade conference.

“Riley” didn’t do too well in the fishing derby held last Friday by the staff and residents at the Training and Learning Centre on Couchiching.

It could have been dubbed “the great escape” as 25 women from across Northwestern Ontario set up camp at Trail’s End Lodge last weekend to focus on their favourite pastime--quilting--without having to put up with the normal day-to-day interruptions.

Parents and teachers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder are being urged to attend the first session of what facilitators hope will become a regular coping support group for anyone dealing with ADD.

After spending more than a year just finding out if it could become a reality, the Community Care Access Centre’s 310-INFO call centre should be up and running by January.

Negotiations are underway here between the two striking Communications, Energy, and Papermakers locals and Abitibi-Consolidated Corp. after the two sides agreed to a modified bargaining process.

If you haven’t been busy collecting pledges for this year’s Terry Fox Run, you’ve only got four more days left to do so.

The hunt is on for someone to review what the town is going to be paying for the auditorium project at Westfort because councillors aren’t satisfied with how much the cost has jumped from what they thought was the original estimate--nor the answers they’re getting as to why.

After 18 months of writing and nine more waiting on revisions and typesetting, local resident Calvin Morrisseau can now say he’s a published author.

When considering what “kits” one might have lying around the house, first aid and bicycle repair models probably are among the first which come to mind.