Gary Lawrence Kilpatrick ("Killer")
(October 26, 1934 to December 7, 2012)

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

News Release
NWHU

By Walter Wagner
President

Dear Santa,
I have been really good this year! For Christmas, I would like a Toy Story train track and I like smurfs.
Love, Jacob
Dear Santa,

Last week I wrote my column based on the information available on the Ministry of Health’s NHTG website regarding the Travel Grant program. The Ministry has clarified the changes they have made, by finally providing some clarity on their website and through media releases. As it turns out, the Ministry of Health did make changes to the NHTG program which resulted in the requirement that receipts be produced in order to receive the accommodation component.

In keeping with the giving spirit of this wonderful Christmas season I’d like to shed light on an important development being felt throughout Canada. The use of food banks in Canada is rising dramatically to the point where widespread shortages are now occurring. It is a national problem, but one that can be addressed at the local level.

It is Christmas letter writing season again. Both John Rafferty and Sarah Campbell have sent out letters to all of their constituents wishing them a wonderful holiday season and showing how active that they have been in their ridings. They have also addressed another letter to Santa. Both are again looking for Santa’s intervention on behalf of the Resolute mill in Fort Frances.
Losing over 200 jobs on your watch is not an enviable record to run again on and Sarah is already feeling the heat of a looming provincial election in 2013.

As I sit and write this I am thinking about how many years I have been doing this job.

Peacefully at the Rainy River Hospital on Friday, November 30, 2012, Aulis Ahonen of Rainy River passed away at age 87. Aulis was born July 31, 1925 in Puumala, Finland.