LITTLE CURRENT—After months of deliberation and review from the Ministry of Environment (MOE), Northland Power’s (NPI) McLean’s Mountain wind farm project’s Renewable Energy Approval (REA) was granted last Wednesday (October 31), giving the project the green light in moving ahead on its 24-unit wind farm. “We are pleased,” commented McLean’s Mountain wind farm project manager Rick Martin regarding the REA. ...

MANITOULIN—Just in time for Christmas, the Little Current Lions Club commemorative medallion has arrived hot off the mint and is available for sale. With preparations well underway for the 100th anniversary of the Manitoulin swing bridge this coming July, the Little Current Lions jumped at the opportunity to create a celebratory medallion, which not only marks the historic bridge’s centennial in 2013, but a ...

One of Manitoulin Island’s charter industries, farming, has lately not held much attraction for young people considering a career. In fact, the number of young (age 40 and under) full-time farmers on Manitoulin can be counted on less than 10 fingers as young men and women raised on Island farms choose post-secondary education leading to other careers or to trades rather than following in the paths of their ...

To the Expositor: It was time to book my flight to San Jose, California to attend my yearly Writer’s Conference. And for some reason, I only booked one way as I was staying to visit friends in San Francisco after that. Being a former travel agent, I still like to play with fares, and during the always exciting, challenging conference, where the theme this year was vulnerability of life; how our world, healt ...

MANITOULIN—Fresh from a $60,000 donation at the Manitoulin Health Centre in Little Current on Thursday toward the Tree of Life fundraising campaign, The Expositor had a chance to sit down with David Fraser and Jim Martin of Blue Goose Cattle Company to learn how plans for Manitoulin were shaping up. David Fraser, chief operating officer of Blue Goose, explained that Blue Goose is a community-minded organiza ...

LITTLE CURRENT—The first Little Current hotel in over a 100-years, since the Huron House, built in 1906 (which burned in a fire in 1949), is nearing completion. “Construction of the new Manitoulin Hotel and Conference Centre being built in Little Current is now 75 percent compete,” was how Great Spirit Circle Trail (GSCT) manager Kevin Eshkawkogan described the current status of the new hotel in an intervie ...

To the Expositor: Once again Remembrance Day will soon be upon us. A time for Canadians of all ages to remember the more than one hundred thousand fellow citizens who fought, bled and died protecting our freedoms along with the countless others who have served our country. But Remembrance Day should not only be reserved to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It should also be a practical remembr ...