SPRING BAY—Having been harassed by one bear two years ago was enough for a Spring Bay couple, but they were recently paid a visit by four more bears. “We had four bears on our front lawn this morning,” Vincente Belenson told the Recorder last Friday (August 24) afternoon. “It was amazing—there was the mother bear and three cubs.” Mr. Belenson had written in an email to the Recorder earlier in the day, “ever ...

MANITOULIN—A delegation from the Manitoulin Municipal Association (MMA) met with the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) annual meeting last week in regards to concerns it has to the implementation of the 1990 land claim agreement with First Nations—notably with taxation and the downloading of costs on municipalities. “We met with Kathleen Wynne, m ...

TOBACCO LAKE—Another Haweater is going to be receiving a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Marianne Knight will be receiving the prestigious medal for her long time volunteering services to the Meals on Wheels program in Toronto. “It certainly is something alright,” stated Ms. Knight at her cottage on Tobacco Lake last Friday. “There are lot more people more deserving of this than I am.” “I was born ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder MANITOULIN—Representatives of the Manitoulin Area Stewardship Council (MASC) are upset with Ministry of the Environment (MOE) officials for creating the Great Lakes Protection Act and forming a non-government guardian council to lead this project. MASC had been invited to hold a public meeting on Manitoulin to get input, but the MOE has now cancelled it. “We are talking about the Gr ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder GEORGIAN BAY—An official with the Georgian Bay Forever (GBF) group agrees with a representative of the Manitoulin Area Stewardship Council (MASC) that with the pressure put on by area residents in opposition to a ‘do nothing’ approach to decreasing water levels in Lakes Huron and Michigan recommended by the International Upper Great Lakes Study Board (IUGLSB) will change and that so ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder ESPANOLA—The Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board (DSB) will be getting an appraisal on a piece of Gore Bay it owns, prior to considering a proposal from a local group for developing senior citizens housing in the town. The West End Seniors and Support Interest Group made a presentation to the board (at a meeting last week), asking the DSB to consider selling or giving the pro ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder GORE BAY—A Gore Bay area girl has been notified of her having qualified for the Ontario Winter Games in the (ski-shoot) biathlon event. “Mackenzie (Turner) has just been informed she has qualified for the Ontario Winter Games being held in Collingwood in March in the (ski-shoot) biathlon,” said proud mother Heather Turner last Friday. Her daughter will be representing the Walden Ski ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder M’CHIGEENG—An agreement has been reached between the Manitoulin Snowdusters and representatives of the Mother Earth Renewable Energy (MERE) project, that will continue to allow for a major snowmobile trail that that links all the major trails located on the Island, located on Tower Hill Road in M’Chigeeng, to remain open, while also allowing for all work and maintenance on the wind ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder GORE BAY—While the Town of Gore Bay has formally requested the United Chiefs and Councils of M’Nidoo Mnising (UCCMM) to reconsider its position, (on its claims and concerns with the proposed divestiture of the Gore Bay municipal marina facility to the town, from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada), it appears $1 million that would have been provided from the federal minis ...

by Alicia McCutcheon SHEGUIANDAH FIRST NATION—On Thanksgiving weekend, a mother and daughter, members of the Sheguiandah First Nation, felt the need to share their gift of thanks and a strong message with family, friends and the people of the community. Last Friday, Sharon and Jen Waindubence held a Thanksgiving feast at the community centre in Sheguiandah, which saw 60 people attend, and although not every ...