sept./oct., 2020 minaki news bargefest 2020...mer fun in a safe man-ner. thanks again to every-one...

The Minaki Community

Association and the Local

Services Board of Minaki

would like to extend a big

thank you to Benjamin

Barber for his years of

service on our boards.

Ben spent countless

hours conducting board

activities and volunteer-

ing at community events.

Besides organizing vari-

ous upgrades to our facil-

ities, while also volun-

teering on the Minaki Fire

Team, Ben was the main

driving force behind the

building of the play-

ground and the new rink

structure. He not only

developed the funding

proposals for these initia-

tives, but also saw both

projects through from

start to finish. Since step-

ping down from the

boards, Ben continues to

volunteer his services,

and his continued contri-

bution to our community

does not go unnoticed.

Thank you, Ben! Your

dedicated service to our

community is greatly ap-

preciated.

M i n a k i C o m m u n i t y A s s o c i a t i o n

Sept./Oct., 2020

Issue #18

MINAKI NEWS

Bargefest 2020 Bargefest typically

takes place on Octo

Island, but this modi-

fied format allowed for

families to come out

and enjoy some sum-

mer fun in a safe man-

ner.

Thanks again to every-

one who comes out to

Bargefest year after

year.

Donations for this local

event can be made at

any time at either the

Minaki Marina or

through e-transfer:

[email protected]

See you next year!

Abby Bennett

Organizer

Ba r g e f e s t 2 0 2 0

looked a little different

this year due to a glob-

al pandemic, but that

didn’t stop us!

An estimated 125 wa-

tercrafts gathered in

Billing’s Bay in Minaki

on Sunday, August

2nd to enjoy some live

music while practicing

physical distancing.

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The Minaki News

welcomes classified ads at

no charge:

for sale/rent

wanted

for give-away

Submissions can be made

to:

[email protected]

The deadline for

submissions for our

upcoming issue is

November 19th, 2020.

Minaki 596 Run Group

"Any runners in the group?"

That's how the Minaki 596 Run

Group came to be. A simple post

on the Minaki News Facebook

page. A time (7am), a date

(Saturday morning), and a meeting

place (community centre parking

lot) was organized. Most of us did-

n't know each other, but our pas-

sion and love for running and Mina-

ki brought us together. So, we

showed up and continue to show

up, every Saturday morning.

We will carry on through the fall/

winter/spring for anyone wishing to

join up. There is no sign-up, just

show up. We welcome runners of

every age and pace.

The great thing about our run group

is meeting the people of this com-

munity and forming friend-

ships. We share a sense of cama-

raderie as we lace up and face the

imposing 596 with its never-ending

elevation of hills. We take in every-

thing the 596 offers along the way:

nature, wilderness, beauty, and

peace.

Thanks to everyone who has run

with us this summer. We have seen

13 different runners over the

course of the summer and would

love to see more.

To contact us:

Email:

[email protected]

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/

minakirunners/

Follow us on Instagram:

@minaki596rungroup

Lorraine Manson & Austin Taylor








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Attention Business Owners!

Would you like your local business to be included in the Business Directory in the upcoming issue of the Minaki News? Simply send us your information, including: business name, d e s c r i p t i o n , c o n t a c t information, and hours of operation. Send info to: [email protected] Submissions can be made as written text or attached as a picture file. The deadline for submissions for our upcoming issue is November 19th, 2020.

Minaki 596 Run Group—cont.


Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Burning Regulations

The new regulation describes conditions for outdoor fires that are relatively safe and do not require a permit. Fire permits will not be required for small scale burning of wood, brush, leaves or wood by-products if these conditions are followed:

No Day Burning From April 1 to October 31

Piled material: tended by a responsible person until out

a single pile less than 2 metres in diameter and less than 2 metres high

the fire is ignited two hours before sunset, or later, and extinguished two hours after sunrise or earlier

the fire is at least 2 metres from any flammable materials

the person has adequate tools or water to contain the fire

Grass and leaves: the fire is tended by a responsible person until out

the area to be burned is less than 1 hectare

the length of flaming edge is less than 30 metres

the fire is ignited 2 hours before sunset, or later, and is extinguished 2 hours after sunrise, or ear-lier

the person has adequate tools or water to contain the fire

Incinerators: enclosed device

at least 5 metres from any forest

at least 2 metres from flammable materials

covered by mesh less than 5 millimetres in size

a responsible person monitors the fire until out

If a Restricted Fire Zone is put in place because of high fire hazard, these fires will not be allowed.

Forest Fire Reporting: 310-Fire (3473)

Satellite Phone Users Call: (807) 937-5261

Share your special

announcements in the Minaki News:

Birthdays

Graduations

Anniversaries

Weddings

Sporting Achievements

Special Events

New Arrivals

Obituaries

Submissions can be made to

[email protected].

The deadline for submissions

for our upcoming issue is

November 19th, 2020.

Find your GPS Coordinates to Assist With Fire Call Response

When fire calls come in, having GPS coordinates to provide dispatch is a big help in locating the fire quickly, especially if MNR crews are also being called in to help. If you are unaware of the GPS coordinates of your location, you can determine them using Google Maps.

open Google Maps in satellite view

locate your property and press/click on your building/location to “drop a pin”

google maps will display the coordinates of the pin you dropped

record your coordinates for future reference

it’s a good idea to post your coordinates—along with emergency numbers—near your phone or in a cen-tral location that all family members are aware of


Calling All Minaki Gardeners! Let’s connect! While our

growing season is coming to

an end for this year, it’s a

great time to make connec-

tions for next year.

If anyone is interested in

swapping seeds or plants,

sharing produce, exchang-

ing ideas and information,

or visiting one another’s

gardens—flower and peren-

nial gardeners and vegeta-

ble gardeners alike—let me

know.

To be included in an informal

group, send an email to Ra-

chel Taylor at:

[email protected].

We can decide on a way to

communicate in time for next

spring (maybe a WhatsApp or

other chat group). 

Happy gardening, everyone!

Rachel Taylor

Message From The Minaki Conservancy

It has been such an unusual summer—few visits with dear friends (sometimes none at all), few of our

lake get-togethers and much angst over what might happen next in this new world of COVID-19. Thank

goodness the weather was wonderful! The Conservancy Board would like to wish all Minaki residents

and cottagers a very safe and peaceful fall and winter. Hopefully, next summer will be back to normal

so that we all will be able to enjoy everything this magnificent place has to offer.

The Minaki Conservancy

From all of us in Minaki, we would like to

thank Shelley Christie & Greg Omeniuk of

Minaki Marina for all the years of great

service, friendship, and laughs along the

way. Wishing you both a happy and well-

deserved retirement!


We have returned to a new school year.

The summer visitors are slowly returning

to their regular lives as the local residents

are preparing for another fall. We have

been seeing more intense weather pat-

terns with high winds and rain as the last

of the warm weather vanishes. Each of

these changes also creates changes in

our fire safety planning and preparation.

With the students returning to school with

masks and safety precautions, they will

also be doing fire drills at school. This is a

great time to remind them of your home

escape plan. Remember your rally point

and 2 ways out of every room. I would

suggest you can make practicing your es-

cape plan a way to get them out of the

house in the morning for the school

bus. You can even involve the whole fami-

ly as you get out.

Words of Advice from Minaki Fire

With preparation for the fall, we need to en-

sure all things are ready. Those with fire-

places should be checking their chimneys

and getting them cleaned as necessary.

Those with furnaces need to check their

filters and change them as neces-

sary. Many will be doing some work around

the home and yard in preparation for win-

ter. This might include burning, but remem-

ber the no day burning regulation is in ef-

fect until November. Please ensure you

burn safely. Have a method of extinguish-

ing your fire at hand, and stay clear of oth-

er flammable items.

With Halloween coming up, we will see out-

door decorations, trick or treating and cos-

tumes with masks. This year, be sure to

check the safety precautions that are ad-

vised closer to that date. That time of year

also comes with bad weather and power

outages, so check your batteries and can-

dles. Remember that you should grab ex-

tra batteries for smoke and CO2 detec-

tors. Candles should be used with care by

adults as we need to remember our fire

safety.

Our outdoor cooking moves into the kitch-

en at this time of year. That is the theme of

fire safety week in October. We need to

keep an eye on what we are cooking and

practice proper safety. Be safe and enjoy

the fall as we look forward to Thanksgiving

coming soon.

Robert Creedon

Minaki Fire Educator

For readers who wish to stay in-

formed through email, we welcome

you to sign up for our community

email list. If you are interested, con-

tact us with your name & email at:

[email protected]

Include “Community Event Email

List” in the subject heading.

Community Event Email List

Our department has been quiet for a while as

many changes have occurred. We originally

looked at creating a co-chief situation but the

OFM ended up wanting just one as chief. At this

point, Robert Creedon is the Fire Chief and Rog-

er Beauchamp is the Deputy Fire Chief. Robert

will be handling the administration while Roger

will be handling the operational side. We have a

lot to learn and have been busy working on that.

I will be open to all the advice I can get.

We had a challenging night with the fire truck at

a recent call, but we were able to call in support

of mutual aid from Pellatt United Fire Fighters. It

was discovered that we had a starter issue with

the fire truck that has now been resolved with

an ignition bypass switch.

Message From the Minaki Fire Chief Due to the pandemic, we have had a number of

our normal inspections postponed and are work-

ing through them now. The pumps are being

checked later this week, and this will complete

all the checks for the year.

The pandemic has also been limiting our gather-

ing and training. We will be working on changing

that soon. We have two new recruits, and we will

be updating some courses online for the entire

team in the near future.

Please be safe and remember our unique phone

number for emergencies: 224-1100. Thanks.

Robert Creedon

Fire Chief

The Ojibwe refer to themselves as

‘Anishinaabe’, which has been

translated and defined as

‘spontaneous man’. In the Minaki

and Kenora region the familiar

translation used is ‘man lowered to

earth’. The term ‘Indian’ is no long-

er acceptable, in today’s world, to

identify the Native Peoples in Cana-

da; but it is solely used in this his-

torical writing to accurately reflect

the reporting of the time.

The Winnipeg River. The lifeblood

for all who live along its banks. For

thousands of years, since the last

Ice Age, it has drained over

106,000 sq km of land over its 235

km length from Lake of the Woods

to Lake Winnipeg. Its watershed

formed the Southeastern portion of

the lands granted to the Hudson’s

Bay Company [originally called The

Governor & Company of Adventur-

ers of England Trading in Hudson

Bay] on May 2, 1670 by King

Charles the Second of England. Ac-

cess to the Saulteaux lands in pre-

sent day NW Ontario and SE Mani-

toba was provided to the Federal

Government by Treaty Three, and

was signed by Her Majesty's Com-

missionaires and the First Nation

Chiefs at the Northwest Angle on

Friday October 3, 1873. It is report-

ed that Chief Papoonakeejic, Chief

of The Dalles, Rat Portage and Mac-

kenzie Portage Reserves attended

the signing of Treaty 3.

Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation—The Dalles Part One: Memories of the Elders

From there, tourism took hold

first in Lake of the Woods after

1880, and by 1906 it was begin-

ning at Winnipeg River Crossing -

which became Minaki in 1911.

Meanwhile our Indigenous neigh-

bours at The Dalles were strug-

gling hard to maintain their tradi-

tional way of life during those rap-

idly changing times. An important

aspect of the relationship be-

tween the Indigenous Peoples

and Europeans was the support

they gave to those early explorers,

fur traders and settlers; and from

the turn of the twentieth century

to the residents, commercial tour-

ist operators, and cottagers. In

the early days they were instru-

mental to the success of the

The centuries of

travel and settle-

ment by our Indige-

nous Peoples, both

local and from far

away, are partly

evidenced by ar-

chaeological finds

such as stone tools

and arrow heads,

some dating from

almost 7,000 years

ago, in the Lake of

the Woods. Over

the millennia the

river has also been

the provider of re-

sources that al-

lowed the Indigenous Peoples

living along its banks to travel,

survive and prosper.

The arrival into Northwestern On-

tario of European explorers and

settlers in the early 1700’s

brought both cultures together to

form the region that we know

today. The river continued to act

as the natural highway and food

provider for the area, but to also

serve the demands of western

exploration and the fur trade.

Forts were built along its route,

and with the coming of first the

Canadian Pacific Railway in the

late 1870’s, and then the Nation-

al Transcontinental Railway in

1910, settlements such as Rat

Portage and Minaki developed.

Niisaachewan

Anishinaabe

Nation

source: google.com/maps

gather as much of

the unwritten his-

tory as possible at

The Dalles. Sec-

ondly, to provide

clues and insight

into the effects on

their community

of river flooding,

water pollution,

illegal timber har-

vesting inside the

reserve by non-

native outsiders,

and incursion

across their lands

by infrastructure such as The Dalles

rapids east channel bypass and hy-

dro transmission lines. He has gra-

ciously given me permission to quote

from that paper and the memories of

many of their Elders.

From the information gathered in the

report, it was clear that life on the

Dalles Reserve began to change –

not for the better - when the first dam

was built at Rat Portage, and when

the pulp and paper mill, followed by

the lumber mills, began operation.

The problems claimed included the

contamination of pickerel and other

fish by pollution, the need to boil wa-

ter before drinking, the wild rice

crops diminished due to flooding, and

lives were lost due to the changing

currents and uncertain ice condi-

tions.

Using maps, the 16 Elders inter-

viewed helped to locate rice fields,

sacred sites, blueberry picking sites,

camping sites, residential sites, sa-

cred offering sites and portage

routes. Most of the Elders confirmed

that the bays around Dalles were al-

ways filled with wild rice crops. It was

also learned that, for a time in the

1970’s when Dalles had no road,

there was no one living there except

Clarence Henry Sr. and his uncle Roy

Henry; after Roy passed away then

only Clarence returned to Dalles in

the summer. When it was thriving,

some of the residents also lived on

islands around Dalles.

It is important to understand that

reserve communities such as The

Dalles have little written historical

records, so capturing the stories as

passed down through the genera-

tions and told by the Elders is so

very important. The Dalles area was

originally chosen by their ancestors

mainly for the wild rice crops; which

used to grow in every bay in and

around the area. Neighbouring na-

tive peoples would travel long dis-

tances to pick both rice and blue-

berries.

Much of the Elder’s interviews are

included here almost word for word

from the report provided to me by

Barry.

Elder Moses Henry told how his

family would sell their fish catch to

the Shoal Lake Fisheries of Kenora.

They had an ice supply on the Re-

serve, so they could cover a box of

fish with a layer of long grass/sod/

ice; and kept adding layers to keep

the ice from melting too quickly dur-

ing the one hour paddle to Kenora.

He also mentioned that the unnatu-

ral water levels killed off the musk-

rats but not the beavers; saying the

winter muskrat dens were affected

by dropping water levels. As a child

growing up his family lived on Tun-

nel Island in the summer, while his

parents sold fish, wild meat and

crafts such as moccasins and bead-

ed work in Kenora. Moses also re-

called his time as a lumberjack. The

planting of significant gardens was

also commonplace.

Elder Marjorie Nabish described

how her parents moved their family

from Swan Lake, part of the Wa-

baseemoong Reserve, to Dalles as

her parents wanted to be closer to

she and her brothers while they at-

tended the Cecilia Jeffrey Residen-

tial School in Kenora. She lived at a

cross Canada missions and indeed

the very survival of the Europeans, in

terms of teaching local ways for food

and shelter, acting as guides, trading

fine furs for trade goods, and provid-

ing much needed transport support

as paddlers and packers. Since set-

tlements were developed in the

1880’s they also sold the fruits of

their harvests, whether they were

fish, wild rice, furs or blueberries;

they helped to build and maintain

many of the cottages and settler

homes along the river; they acted as

hunting and fishing guides to the

tourists of the world; worked as lum-

berjacks; formed the core of many

fire fighting crews; and were always

available to help in wilderness

search and rescues.

With thanks to Peter Barber of Mina-

ki, we were introduced to Allan An-

derson and Barry Henry of Niisaache-

wan Anishinaabe Nation. Barry, who

is their Economic Development Of-

ficer, has been instrumental to help-

ing me start to tell some of their sto-

ries by allowing me access to their

history, and for the pleasure of inter-

viewing several of their Elders a cou-

ple of years ago. As well, Barry pro-

vided me with a copy of a summary

p a p e r o f t h e i r O c h i i c h -

agwe’babigo’ining Oral History Re-

search Project from 2013. That re-

search project was undertaken to

achieve two goals. First, it was to

The Dalles on the Lodge Boat (courtesty: Nancy Gates)

baby diapers. Her family also had a

large garden, and great stews were

very popular. The vegetables were

kept in underground storage and

would last part way through the win-

ter. The commercial fishing in the

area was mainly for whitefish and

walleye, and was monitored by the

Ministry of Natural Resources from

both boats and planes.

Elder Roberta Jameson remembered

when life in the Dalles area was

good, and all was fine. Like most na-

tive peoples they lived off the land.

For her family, like many others, their

lifestyle started to turn sour when

resources like wild rice began to di-

minish and fishing restrictions were

imposed; and as a tragic result alco-

hol became a relief from their ever

evolving new

reality.

From oral histo-

r y s t o r i e s

passed down,

by the 1970’s

the residents of

the Dalles were

only able to

move back to

the reserve in

the summer to

allow them to

pick wild rice,

and to hunt and

fish. In his Feb-

ruary 19, 1977

letter to the

Department of

Indian affairs, Chief Alfred Sinclair of

the Rat Portage and Dalles Band out-

lined the reasons why no members

were living at The Dalles in the win-

ter; including no road access, no

health care easily accessible, and no

employment. There was a desire by

band members at the time to move

back to their ancestral homes. That

re-settlement began in the 1980’s.

Elder Larry Kabestra Sr. was the

Chief of the Dalles Reserve in the

1980’s, when he, Paul Kabasta Sr.,

Clarence Henry Sr. and Alfred

Wagamese held their Council elec-

tion. He was proud of his accom-

plishment as Chief to get the devel-

opment of an access road from the

Redditt Hwy. west into the Reserve

started. It was Jerry Perrault, who

became Chief after Larry, who was

able to have the road completed in

the late 1980’s. Before the access

road was built, access to the Dalles

community was limited to water

and, in winter, by travelling over

ponds and swamps. It is believed

that, after the Redditt highway was

first completed in July of 1924,

there was a horse trail through the

bush that connected the community

to the highway. He remembers that

his father Bob Kabastra had an ice

house; the ice was used to keep

fish fresh during its transport to Ke-

nora. Bob Kabastra was well known

in the Minaki area; and had a trap-

ping cabin in the bay at the south

end of Gunn Lake.

Elder John Henry was instrumental

in separating the Dalles Reserve

from the Rat Portage and Macken-

time when Dalles Reserve and sur-

rounding Reserves were free from

alcoholism; before then the commu-

nities were full of life. She recalled

how she picked blueberries in the

Ena area, and wild rice which was

abundant in the neighbouring bays.

Elder Joe Nabish worked as a lum-

berjack in the winter months of the

1950’s and 1960’s, selling the tim-

ber to the mills around Kenora and

as firewood to local farmers. During

his time at Dalles, it appeared that

wood harvesting was the main em-

ployment opportunity at Dalles. They

chopped, sawed, piled and hauled

logs all during the week; and on the

weekends they danced to the music

of Elvis.

Elder Archie Wagamese worked as a

fishing guide in the summers, and

recalls seeing water pollution north

of Minaki, in the Roughrock Lake

area. He, like Joe and many other

Elders, was also a lumberjack during

the winters. His parents and grand-

parents lived off the land in and

around Dalles Reserve, trapping and

selling fish, blueberries and wild rice.

This was probably typical for many of

the native people in the Treaty 3 ar-

ea. Archie lived in Minaki for some

time, but kept in touch with the Re-

serve by working on housing projects

there.

Elder Danny Strong remembered

when the price paid to pickers for

wild rice was $ 1.00/pound; and he

was able to pick 3 bags of rice per

day. It was an annual harvest that

normally lasted about 4 weeks; with

school kids heading home early to

attend school.

Elder Doris Henry recalled how river

flooding affected the moss that

grows on the shore’s edge of

swamps. That particular moss was

used by the native peoples; once col-

lected it was cleaned and used as

Sturgeon Release Program (courtesy: ONAN)

tive peoples who were travelling

through the area would stop and

make offerings, which went missing

during the channel’s construction;

and that to this day no one knows for

sure where that rock is.

Elder Laurie McDonald’s grandfather,

Pete Savage, operated a portage ser-

vice on the well-used portage on the

west side of the Dalles rapids; using

teams of horses to haul the bigger

and usually under-powered boats and

barges as they struggled upstream

against the strong currents during

high water in particular.

In the late 1800’s Thomas Lindsay

was the Chief of the combined The

Dalles, Rat Portage and Mackenzie

Portage reserves. From articles pub-

lished in the Kenora Miner & News,

Chief Lindsay’s granddaughter Mrs.

Matilda Martin provided stories of her

time growing up at The Dalles and

being raised by her grandparents.

She was born in 1885. A natural

medicine she described is called

“Weekai”. It was so powerful, she

said, that you could only administer it

to a sick child by rubbing it on their

skin. One of her fondest memories

was when her grandfather, Chief

Lindsay, insisted that the Department

of Indian Affairs provide a school for

the communi-

ty; and they

agreed to send

a teacher if the

c o m m u n i t y

built a school

building and

provided a

place for the

teacher to live.

The school

was built and a

teacher was

indeed sent to

The Dalles.

T h i s w a s

sometime be-

tween 1890

and 1910.

From Mr. Henry’s report it appears

that patches around Ena became

the centre of the area’s summer

blueberry picking for decades.

There are reports of over 100 ca-

noes paddling for a half day north,

where camps were set up during

the pick either along the Macfarlane

River or on Ena Lake.

A few fun Ojibwe language words as

told by some of the Elders of The

Dalles:

Ice cream: Ka–tikog

Space aliens: Ka–shebeeg ni-

kayacht

Jello: Ka–ning saig

The community has been active for

the past several years in a program

to re-introduce the sub adult lake

sturgeon into the Winnipeg River.

The river bed has recovered suffi-

ciently, from the mats of bark and

other pulp and paper wastes that

coated it and choked out food

sources for decades, to allow the

bottom feeding sturgeon to survive.

After 10 years of planning, and in

partnership with the Ontario Minis-

try of Natural Resources and Forest-

ry and the Ontario Power Genera-

tion Co., The Upper Winnipeg River

Lake Sturgeon Recovery Program

was launched in 2017 with the ini-

tial release of 12 juvenile fish. The

sub adult fish were introduced into

the Winnipeg River at The Dalles in

2017, with 15 fish released in

2018, and 12 released in 2019.

Unfortunately the program had to

be suspended this year due to the

Covid-19 virus. The fish are all

tagged, and you may have seen the

orange tracking buoys at various

locations along the river channels.

My thanks to Barry Henry for his

help on this article.

Chi—miigwetch.

Garry Bolton

Minaki History Society

zie Portage Reserves in the 1970’s;

at which time he became its Chief.

He then began the process of situat-

ing the Community to a suitable loca-

tion and had survey work com-

menced. As others had told, the loss

of the fishing industry and the dimin-

ished wild rice crop were instrumen-

tal in the decline of the Dalles com-

munity’s morale, as livelihoods were

lost and the options to replace those

losses were very limited. With that

decline many left the community;

and some have never returned de-

spite current and ongoing efforts to

rebuild their community.

Elder Agnes Paul is one of the few

community residents who remem-

bers when there was just one chan-

nel at Dalles rapids, the rock lined

west channel we are all familiar with;

before the excavation of its east

channel begun in August of 1949.

Her father would stand on a platform

above the west channel and used a

scoop to catch whitefish. Her memo-

ries told of many families who had to

move out of the area to make room

for the channel’s construction, and

that many houses nearby were dam-

aged from the flying rocks launched

by the blasting. Both she and Elder

Margaret Muckle told of a sacred red

and brown coloured rock, where na-

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Phone: (807) 464-4268




Emergency Numbers Ambulance – (807) 468-3311

OPP – 1-888-310-1122

Hospital – (807) 468-9861

Fire – (807) 224-1100

Forest Fire – (807) 310-FIRE (3473)

Poison Control – 1-800-268-9017

Minaki Nursing Station—(807) 224-3531 Clinic Hours: Mondays – Fridays, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Please call (807) 224-3531 or (807) 467-8770 to schedule appointments.

Telehealth Ontario—1-866-797-0000 Telehealth Ontario is a free, confidential service you can call to get health advice or information. A Registered Nurse

will take your call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When you call, a Registered Nurse will ask you to answer

questions so they can assess your health problem and give you advice. Telehealth Ontario nurses will not diagnose

your illness or give you medicine. They will direct you to the most appropriate

level of care or may put you in contact with a health professional who can

advise you on your next steps.

The nurse will help you decide whether to:

handle a problem yourself

visit your doctor or nurse practitioner

go to a clinic

contact a community service

go to a hospital emergency room

Minaki Landfill Site Operation

Summer Hours – Sundays or Holiday Mondays 4 to 8 PM

Winter Hours – Sundays or Holiday Mondays NOON to 4 PM

Tippage fees will be collected at the time of

dumping and are:

$3.00 per bag

$25.00 per ½ ton truck or small trailer

FOLLOW SIGNS FOR DESIGNATED AREAS:

Brush – no exceptions

Domestic Garbage

Fish Guts

Metals

Due to demands from the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Ministry of Environment (MOE) restrictions are as follows: ABSO-

LUTELY NO: Wood of any kind, fibreglass insulation, shingles, plastics, tarps, styrofoam, glass, furniture, mattresses, tires, appliances, elec-

tronics, paints, batteries, or hazardous chemicals. There is a $500.00 fine for anyone caught dumping these items at the Minaki site.

These items must be taken to the Kenora Waste Transfer Station for proper disposal. Non-compliance will result in the rescinding of dump-

ing privileges. All fees go towards the costs of operating the site in accordance with MNR and MOE guidelines. The Minaki Waste Manage-

ment Board is a volunteer group working for the benefit of the community to keep the landfill site open. We appreciate your co-operation in

maintaining the Minaki dump site.

We are now on

winter hours!

Local Services Board of Minaki

Barbara Mach—Chairperson

Kelly Beauchamp—Secretary/Treasurer

Roger Beauchamp—Member

Cathy Gilbert—Member

Rachel Taylor—Member

Minaki Community Association

Rachel Taylor—President

Kelly Beauchamp—Secretary/Treasurer

Lara Barber—Member

Cathy Gilbert—Member

Barbara Mach—Member

MINAKI NEWS [email protected]

Minaki Roads Board

Bryan Rheault—Chair

Malcolm Reid—Trustee

Mike Turcotte—Trustee

Jennifer McPhearson

Secretary/Treasurer

Minaki Waste Management Board

Lorraine Muncer

Bryan Rheault

Kane Turcan

Minaki News Scope of Content: The Minaki News is a bi-monthly newsletter intended to

update residents in the Minaki Local Services Board area of community events and

activities. It is distributed to the community free of charge, and paid for by the Minaki

Community Association as part of its mandate to create and support recreation oppor-

tunities in Minaki. The scope of content as agreed upon by the volunteers who organize

and distribute the newsletter is as follows: reporting on community events, reporting on

activities of the local fire team, local boards & community groups (Minaki Foundation,

Minaki Conservancy, Minaki History Society, etc.), along with announcements, classi-

fieds, and business directory. Paid advertising will not be included. Submissions are

reviewed to determine whether they are in line with the above scope, and if they benefit

the health and wellbeing of the community (promoting physical/social activities, healthy

living, etc.). Feel free to contact [email protected] for more information. We

look forward to your submissions!

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