The Red Lake Rams have their first win of the young Boys High School Hockey season.
The Rams outlasted the Beaver Brae Broncos 4-3 Wednesday afternoon.
Red Lake went on to split the two game Kenora series with the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints and Broncos.
The next regular season game is Tuesday, November 26th.
It’s the Rams opener against Sioux North.
Game time is 7:00pm
A marquee match-up in High School Hockey as the Dryden Eagles face the Muskies in Fort Frances.
Both the Girls and Boys will be in action.
Both the Dryden and Fort Frances Boys sit with a 1-0 record, while the Girls are playing their first league game.
Puck drop for the Boys is at 7:15pm and CKDR will have the call.
The Girls game starts at 7:30pm.
Meantime, the Red Lake Rams Boys are in Kenora to face the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints.
Game time is 6:30pm.
Provincial Police in Kenora need public assistance to locate a missing man.
OPP say 29-year-old Mitchell Wickman was last seen in the north side of Kenora on November 14th.
Wickman is described as 5’10, 190-pounds, with blonde short hair, a beard, green eyes and an athletic build.
He was last seen wearing a black shirt, a jacket with the word “HERD” on the back and black pants.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact OPP in Kenora at 1-888-310-1122.
It was another tough weekend for the Kenora ‘AAA’ Midget Thistles hockey teams as they dropped a pair of games to the Central Plains Capitals.
Kenora fell 7-0 on Saturday and 8-1 on Sunday.
It was a Dryden connection on the lone Thistles goal as Jeff McMenemy found the back of the net.
Colin Lapointe and Peter Zilkalns picked up the assists.
Provincial Police in Kenora investigated two calls involving firearms on Saturday.
OPP say around 9:00am officers responded to a report of a shooting outside an apartment building in the north end of town.
A victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Police say they are searching for a male suspect.
A second call came in at 2:00pm.
OPP responded to a break and enter on the same side of the city and learned that two suspects armed with a firearm had forced their way into a home and stole electronics.
Police say the suspects were located and arrested around 7:00pm the same day.
An investigation into both incidents is still ongoing.
A new committee has been set up to look at the possible amalgamation of the board offices of the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board.
Superintendent of Business Richard Findlay is on the committee along with one other staff member and three trustees, not from Dryden or Kenora.
Findlay says by next June they will probably have a final decision to move the Dryden office and Kenora office to Keewatin.
“Our funding has been reduced about 4%. That’s going to continue on in the future. Probably not going to change with this government. We have to be prepared for that. In order to save front line jobs in the classroom, we have to look at efficiencies outside the classroom. Merging board offices would help us accomplish that perhaps.”
He adds a merger would also help in efforts to secure provincial funding for a new Valleyview School in Kenora.
Findlay says their first job is to decide whether a consultant is needed and the costs involved.
A summer resident of Rice Lake Road west of Kenora is lucky to be alive.
Dave Schwab was attacked by a black bear at the end of September.
Schwab says if it weren’t for the quick thinking of Steve Halvorson and Jacob Fafard, he would be dead.
Fafard and Halvorson were presented with a token of appreciation and a certificate for their heroic efforts by Kenora mayor Dan Reynard this week.
Schwab says “According to the MNRF and biologists I talked to, this bear displayed all the characteristics of a predator. He was after a meal, he wasn’t curious, and I was it. I fought the thing off three times.”
He states “I started yelling for help when I got about 200 metres from my cabin, and miraculously these guys heard me. They somehow sensed an urgency in my shout for help because they didn’t come walking up the road to see what was going on, they came ripping up the road in the truck.”
Schwab says “When they arrived I was totally spent physically and emotionally. This bear caused significant wounds to my leg and my elbow. I don’t know if I could have fought the bear off again.”
He adds Halvorson and Fafard drove very quickly on Highway 17 to bring him to hospital for treatment.
The High School Hockey season is underway.
The new campaign opened Tuesday in Kenora with the Beaver Brae Broncos and Fort Frances Muskies.
It was a tough start to the host team as the Girls lost 3-0, while the Boys fell to the Muskies 13-0.
Dryden opens the season next Tuesday in Fort Frances.
Northwestern Ontario hospitals are getting an increase in funding for overall operations.
The Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre is welcoming an additional $341,000, while the Dryden Regional Health Centre will see a $185,000 bump.
The Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital in Red Lake is getting an extra $68,000, with the Lake of the Woods District Hospital receiving another $292,000
Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford made the announcement today. (Tuesday)
Rickford also pledged an additional $1.4-million for land ambulance services for the Kenora District Services Board.
The investment includes funds for an additional paramedic crew in Kenora 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Rickford says it’s part of a government strategy to end hallway health care.
Dryden Mayor Greg Wilson attended the ceremony in Kenora.
Wilson says “EMS, of course, that affects everybody in our region. So, anything we can do in Dryden to support the whole area, it means everybody wins.”
He adds “Quickly that EMS can respond, the better. Both with proper vehicles but also staffing. That’s huge for our area because you have one area trying to cover another area and it doesn’t work in the north.”
“And I think that the geographic distances aren’t really appreciated in southern Ontario. So, I think this attempt at addressing it, it’s taking us in the right direction.”
Wilson says the City of Dryden supports the efforts of the Kenora District Services Board, the provincial government and the direction that they are going as well as local MPP Greg Rickford.
The Kenora ‘AAA’ Midget Thistles are still looking for their first win of the season.
The Thistles were hammered 10-0 and 7-2 on the weekend by the Yellowhead Chiefs.
Dryden’s Nathan Ho and Colin Lapointe scored the lone goals for Kenora.
The Thistles are now 0-14 and will be back in action against the Bruins in Winnipeg.
