Archive for August, 2011

To the Expositor: I note that Mary Nelder of LAMBAC has ‘volunteered’ to facilitate Billings Township’s attempt to pull together a Strategic Plan for the township. Good choice! After all, LAMBAC is largely funded by FedNor, and it is FedNor and the province that Billings council looks to when they [...]

July 26, 1933 – August 24, 2011 Alex Theodore (Ted) Nahwegahbow born July 26, 1933 passed silently on August 24, 2011 at Iroquois Lodge in Ohsweken (Six Nations Reserve). Will join daughter Roberta, brother Clarence, sisters Viola and Vina in the Happy Hunting Grounds. Sadly missed by brothers Robert and [...]

MANITOULIN—Manitoulin Island can now boast it has its own clever board game, ‘Back in the Day on Manitoulin Island’ thanks to the perseverance of collaborators Marion Seabrook of Mindemoya and Richard Edwards of Kagawong. The game—with myriad pieces and cards—is off the press and interested people (guaranteed there will be [...]

by Robin Burridge LITTLE CURRENT—Construction of the new hotel in Little Current being built by a consortium of area First Nations represented by the Great Spirit Circle Trail (GSCT)—is well underway. “The project is moving along well,” reported GSCT manager Kevin Eshkawkogan. “Permits are in place, work tenders are out [...]

To the Expositor: Another Providence Bay Fair has come and gone and I am sending congrats to the Fair Organizers for a job well done. I especially wanted to thank you for supporting our local musicians. At any given time on Saturday especially, all seats outside where filled unlike the [...]

It’s troubling that sub-surface styrofoam products, currently being used to enhance the base of areas of Highway 6 that pass over habitually swampy areas, are being associated with frequent black ice when the styrofoam product was used in the same application in another regional highway repair. A letter from an [...]

ALTONA, NY—Hurricane Irene has claimed the life of 23-year-old Wikwemikong man and well-known athlete, Mikita Fox. According to a report from the Press Republican on Monday, Mr. Fox and Danine Swamp of Nedrow, New York, were travelling along Devil’s Den Road in Altona, New York, on Sunday night when witnesses [...]

Beloved husband of Verna. Loving father of Isadore Jr. (Terry) Pheasant, Vivian Recollet, Muriel Wakegijig, Robert(Mary) Pheasant, Deborah Pheasant, Roger Corbiere, Raymond (Jennifer) Abel, and special children: Rennie Jacko, Tambrey, Lorna, Sonny, Deborah (Todd) Cooper, Mary (Evan) Luloff, Wendy (Greg) Bezanson, and Arthur (Carla) Wigglesworth. Special grandfather to 30 grandchildren [...]

by Alicia McCutcheon HILLY GROVE—It was brought to the Expositor’s attention that Pioneer Construction, the company awarded the $5.3 million contract for construction along Highway 6, north from South Baymouth, is installing polystyrene (Styrofoam) along sections of the highway. Bill Olfert of Espanola contacted The Expositor last week after he [...]

To the Expositor: In your last issue, I read a letter from one of our youth in regards to swimming off and around our town docks (‘Northeast Town decision to ban swimming downtown is uncalled for,’ August 24, Page 4). As a taxpayer of our fine town, I find it [...]