Susan Farrar, Executive Director for the Madawaska Valley Family Health team (MV FHT) has news for Valley residents. Since its launch just over six months ago, MV FHT has expanded to include a social worker and dietitian. The FHT has also formed partnerships with other health care program providers. Many …
At its Council in Committee meeting on June 4 Council discussed correspondence forwarded by John Yakabuski Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. Yakabuski had sent Mayor Kim Love a letter from Steve Clark Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing citing a Municipal Act 2001 requirement that all municipalities adopt a …
Please respect the flashing green light Volunteer firefighters en route to an emergency display a flashing green light. In Ontario some 19,000 volunteer firefighters drive their own personal vehicles and use these flashing green lights. While not mandatory (yet), fire departments ask that you respect the flashing green and pull …
Madawaska Valley Council has taken the unusual step of passing a By-Law appointing two Integrity Commissioners to carry out on a joint basis the duties relating to Transparency and Accountability imposed by the Municipal Act. At its Council in Committee meeting on June 4, Council not only re-appointed the current …
Madawaska Valley Fire Department responded to a fire on Bay Street in the early afternoon on Saturday June 8. The fire occurred next door to Co-Operators Insurance. (All photos: Mark Woermke) RV burns on Bay Street The owner of an RV was trying to start the vehicle when it caught fire. …
There is good news if you are among the “orphaned patients” looking for a Primary Health Care Provider here in the Valley. There is now only one telephone number that you need to know and that is the number for the Madawaska Valley Family Health Team (MV FHT) — 613.756.9888 …
On Saturday May 11 all roads led to Madawaska as former residents and descendants of Madawaskans headed home to the “Growing Up in Madawaska Reunion.” I was one of them. It felt like a homecoming even though I didn’t grow up there and only spend a few hours a year …
Killaloe OPP have this morning disclosed the identity of the individual killed in Wednesday’s crash on Round Lake Road as being 54-year-old Randy NEFF of Golden Lake. Neff was an occupant of one of the two passenger vehicles struck by a pickup truck. As reported previously, the pickup truck was …
On Wednesday June 5, 2019 at approximately 5:00 p.m.,members of the Killaloe Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a three vehicle collision involving a pickup truck and two passenger cars on Round Lake Road, near Jack’s Lake, in the Township of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards. Preliminary investigation …
A Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon attended by 140 volunteers was held at the Barry’s Bay Legion on May 29. Barry’s Bay & Area Home Support, Valley Manor, St Francis Valley Healthcare Foundation, St Francis Memorial Hospital Auxiliary/Hospital and MV Hospice Palliative Care planned the event, at which the Legion served a …
Update June 3: OPP Killaloe Detachment confirm that this person remains missing. They have asked us to share the following photographs submitted by family members on social media in the hope this may assist with the investigation. On Thursday May 30, 2019 members of the Killaloe Detachment of the …
Township of Madawaska Valley now has two Integrity Commissioners According to the Committee in Council Agenda for the meeting on Tuesday June 4, MV now has two Integrity Commissioners. In addition to Guy Giorno who has been in the role since May 2017, MV has engaged the services of Sudbury …
Twenty-five Grade 11/12 students from Madawaska Valley District High School (MVDHS) got interactive hands-on experience on May 28 of what First Responders deal with during typical emergency calls. The day-long program focused on accident scene recreation, extrication, and suppression training. MV Chief Fire Official Corwin Quade, six other members of …
Dear Editor, What a delight and relief to see someone show up with a few baby cannabis seedlings to give away at the Killaloe Library Plant and Book sale on May 25. This will be the first Spring that “common” “ordinary” Canadians will be able to plant and grow cannabis …
Note: The Current’s editor was in London at the time of the lecture, so seized the opportunity to attend. Dr. Richard Shaw, Barry’s Bay resident and Chairman of History at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College (SWC), gave the inaugural St. Augustine of Canterbury Feast Day lecture in collaboration with …
