GORDON—Along with concerns raised on issues such as development being restricted on agricultural lands, relinquishing the deer yard designations on Manitoulin, identification of hamlets and settlements as settlement cluster areas and the designation of an area parcel of land as parkland, there was the recommendation in the first working draft of the Manitoulin Official Plan (OP) to designate Mindemoya a rur ...

MINDEMOYA--On Tuesday April 02, 2013 at 12:15 pm Manitoulin Ontario Provincial Police responded to a complaint of possible gunshots being heard in the vicinity of Central Manitoulin Public School in Mindemoya. A school staff employee heard what appeared to be gunshots while on yard duty and advised administration of the school who called police. As a precautionary measure the Central Manitoulin Public Schoo ...

MINDEMOYA—The board of directors of the Espanola and District Credit Union have chosen the location for its new branch office to be located in Mindemoya. Lindsay Liske, chief executive officer of the Credit Union, told the Recorder (after a Credit Union board meeting Tuesday evening), “the board looked at the two proposals we had received, and felt the best site would be the one offered at the Bondi (family ...

MINDEMOYA—Central Manitoulin followed in the footsteps of the Northeast Town and the Township of Assigniack, addressing their bylaws in regards to methadone clinics by passing an interim control bylaw to temporarily halt the establishment of methadone clinics in the municipality for one year to allow for a planning study. Last Thursday, Central Manitoulin council passed an interim control bylaw to “temporar ...

MINDEMOYA—A Mindemoya resident has done what a lot of people only dream about. Marie Celeste Cranston has written her first book, and what a book. Titled ‘Life Loss and Friends,’ this page-turner shows how friendship can help people cope with even the most devastating events. Set in the town of Sugardale, the story revolves around the friendship between Fred and his grandmother as well as his buddy John and ...

SUDBURY––An ice fishing trip across the ice of Lake Panache could have led to a tragic end for 72-year-old Don Dowdall were it not for the quick thinking and actions of former Mindemoya resident Colin Jewell. The treacherous nature of ice in the early winter was demonstrated as Mr. Dowdall headed across the lake. In a story that was first reported in the Sudbury Star, the avid fisherman with decades of expe ...

To the Expositor: The Mindemoya Minor Hockey League is selling raffle tickets for which second prize is a high-powered rifle. We would like to express our disapproval of having a gun as a prize. It is not appropriate to have young people selling tickets on a rifle. A rifle is a weapon that should be taken seriously, not promoted as a prize in a fundraiser for our youth. Sincerely, Jan McQuay and Sally FordM ...

MINDEMOYA—It is easy to see that the Abbott family of Mindemoya absolutely love Christmas as their yard and house is done up spectacularly for the festive season. Actually, Frank and Janice Abbott and their daughter Shanelle start well before December with their decorations as they want everything to be ready by the deer hunt and the Journey to Bethlehem—and decorations there are! The large yard is filled e ...

MINDEMOYA—With at least one appeal to be made concerning proposed assessments in the McDonald-Bond system drain project, and a court of revision date already set for this and other appeals to be heard, Central Manitoulin council has passed the first two readings for this bylaw. Staff member Denise Deforge told four members of the public who attended a special meeting of council earlier this month in regards ...

MANITOULIN--How many times has one heard the lament that a YMCA-type facility is not available for residents of Manitoulin? Petra Wall, a member of the Central Manitoulin Economic Development Group, is hoping to make such a facility available, and she needs your help. The Aviva Insurance Company has accepted a proposal for a feasibility study for a "mini YMCA" through its Aviva Community Fund, however, it i ...