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About 1953 my good friend Drew Beck invited me to his birthday party on March 10. The two of us were about nine years old.
I don t remember much about the party, itself, but I must have loved being there. For a few years after, as March 10 approached...
Having purchased the winning lottery ticket as a workplace group play, four Sioux Lookout residents, Rick Young, Meredith Culham, Jody Morin, and Aaron Haagsma took home the jackpot of $40,268 in the March 10 Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre...
The Sioux Lookout Chamber of Commerce has preparations underway to conduct its Pop-Up Markets for this year, enabling space to sell for local, home-based businesses. The Chamber s Executive Assistant Kayleigh Bates said, The main idea behind them was...
This pair of lynx were sighted at the entrance of a snowmobile trail on Sturgeon River Road last
Friday evening.
Struggles with remote learning persist as Pelican Falls First Nations High School (PFFNHS) students near the end of this pandemic-struck academic year. Director of Education for Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC), Dobi-Dawn Frenette shared...
The Municipality of Sioux Lookout s Waterfront Development Project at Farlinger Park (the town beach) is scheduled to be completed by the end of May and the beach is expected to be open to the public this summer...
The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) expects to begin appointment-based clinics in early April, starting with residents over 80 years old.
Appointments cannot be booked yet, however NWHU expects that online and telephone appointment booking will begin...
Since returning from Ottawa last month, I ve been taking meetings with constituents in my Dryden and Kenora offices as well as travelling to Ignace, Red Lake, and Sioux Lookout.
Over the past few weeks, I ve appreciated the chance to meet with Mayor...
The Rotary Club of Sioux Lookout s International Camp, which hosts students from across the globe for a Wilderness Canoe Experience, has been cancelled for a second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Club s International Youth Camp (IYC) Chair...
The Sioux Lookout Environment Committee is seeking to explore community input on composting, via an online survey. The Environment Committee shared that every year the committee reviews its work plan, which lists several areas that the Committee members..
Sioux Area Seniors Activity Centre members Charron Sippola, Sandra Lockhart and Joan Kydd, have created their latest artistic display to observe St. Patrick s Day this month. The display is on the Front Street facing windows of the senior centre...
Indigenous Culture and Media Innovation (ICMI) and The Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO) have collaborated to launch Digital Equity and Community Control in Northern Ontario Launch of Community Conversations, a project to bring community control...
February was a month of big temperature swings in Sioux Lookout, according to Warning Preparedness Meteorologist with Environment Canada, Steven Flisfeder...
The two municipally operated daycares, Sioux Mountain Children s Centre, and Biidaaban Children s Centre, continue to hold long waitlists for infant and toddler intake...
We have over 300 members this year, which is record setting for us. We had lots of people out skiing, shared Ron Laverty, president of the cross-country ski club...
Zoe Howlett, Christine Morellato, Madeleine MacLeod and Toni Miles answer this week s question
Photo identified as Chutes with (log) boom. Taken at the Abram Lake Chutes from the Minnitaki Lake side, circa 1950s.
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After a full life, Phyllis Yvonne Henrikson died peacefully on Saturday, February 20, 2021 at the age of 85. Phyllis is survived by four sons - Shayne Turner, Robert Turner (Marla), Doug Turner (Lori), Chris Turner..
This pair of horses spotted at the Cedar Bay stables riding ring on Feb. 28 were observed curiously watching the goings on as people trekked up and down the trail to the lakefront, cross-country skied, snowshoed and fat biked.
Sioux Lookout municipal council has directed that a second planning report be presented at a subsequent council meeting, taking into account the feedback received on Official Plan Amendment Application No. OP01-2021 and Zoning By-law Amendment...
Effective March 1, water and sewer rates have now increased in Sioux Lookout and Hudson.
Municipal council made the decision to move ahead with the rate increase at their Feb. 17 regular meeting...
A recent blast of cold weather has helped jump-start this year s winter roads season.
Sioux Lookout Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors member Christine Hoey said, The winter roads opened later than normal. It was quite cold for that three week...