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Where do I begin in lauding TryLight Theatre Co. for the fantastic, superb, delightful, endearing, and first-rate presentation of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady? Three Kenora area First Nations have filed suit against the City of Kenora and the Government of Canada to …
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Aug 27, 2024 · City Council approves five-year lease agreement for Keewatin Medical Clinic. Patients and care providers at the Keewatin Medical Clinic can rest assured that the longtime clinic will remain under business as usual; during Sept. 20’s city council meeting, councillors voted in favour of a new five-year lease agreement between the clinic and the City, with the potential to carry on into the future.
Several lives lost in tragic Kenora by-pass crash, police say
1 day ago · At approximately 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 25, officers from the OPP’s Kenora Detachment, along with Kenora Fire Service and Northwest Emergency Medical Services (EMS) staff responded to a collision between three commercial motor vehicles (CMV) on Highway 17A between Beryl Winder Road and Highway 596.. According to the police, as a result of the accident, two drivers from separate vehicles were ...
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Onigaming councillor saw an ‘awfully divided’ AFN meeting during controversial vote. A recent rejection of a settlement on child welfare reform was disappointing but not entirely surprising, says the band councillor who represented the Ojibways of Onigaming at the Assembly of First Nations gathering in Calgary from Oct. 16-18.
Bag tags, other transfer station fees going up on January 1
2 days ago · The City of Kenora has announced a sweeping series of increases for charges accrued at local Transfer Station. With a new Solid Waste Utility Budget having been recently approved by Council at City Hall, on January 1, 2025, all fees at the Transfer Station will go up by a rate of 3.5 per cent. The ...
Doctor shortage puts Kenora health care in a pinch
Sep 10, 2024 · The hospital has gone from having 20 physicians who worked in emergency in early 2022 to just nine part-time ER docs today, according to a news release on Wednesday.
Local flooding situation goes from bad to worse quicker than …
May 19, 2022 · On May 10, the City of Kenora declared an official state of emergency following a recommendation from its Municipal Emergency Control Group, owing to high lake and river water levels putting significant pressure on the potential for local floods.
Shutdown of Dryden’s mill 'would be devastating' for Kenora, …
Oct 15, 2024 · “If it was closed down now, that would be a significant blow to our community,” Mayor Jack Harrison said in an interview this week. Furthermore, he said, “it would really collapse the forest industry in the Dryden area – well, Northwest Ontario, because (of) …
Extreme flooding challenging Ministry, City, and Control Board
May 12, 2022 · On Tues. May 3, the MNDMNRF issued a watershed conditions outlook advising residents of LOTW that a flood outlook is currently in effect. “Residents in Kenora, Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls and surrounding areas throughout the district should exercise extreme caution around less travelled roads, bridges, water-crossings, lakes, rivers, and areas of high runoff potential, as water levels in ...
Gears in motion at City Hall to double water and sewer rates over …
Oct 16, 2024 · The average rate increase is somewhere around 4 per cent annually, but some have also implemented increases as high as 10 per cent, he said. Based on decisions made in Sept. 2020, up until now the City of Kenora has been leaning on a year-over-year increase of 3.1 per cent for its water and wastewater utility rates, which were originally planned to be locked in through to the end of 2026.