Members of the Sturgeon Falls Richelieu Club will be donning their cooking gloves on June 1 as they prepare to boil up a mess of lobster. “This is the fourth year that we have been holding the dinner to raise funds to support the DARE program,” said club member Pierre Marchand, who stresses that the event is more than just ... Read More »
Screams of terror, cries of pain and the wail of sirens knifed the air at the Complex on May 16 as West Nipissing’s Peer Power Committee staged a mock car crash for area students. The annual drinking and driving awareness event took the young people through a always too common scenario of teens drinking before going to the school dance; ... Read More »
During the week of May 10-16, 2013, the West Nipissing Police Service logged 177 calls for service. Among those were 35 (thirty-five) 9-1-1 calls, 32 (thirty-two) Police Assistance calls, 18 (eighteen) Police Information calls, 3 (three) Impaired calls, 3 (three) thefts, 1 (one) Theft and 1 (one) Drug Offence call. On April 29, 2013 a complaint was received from a ... Read More »
A 3.1-magnitude earthquake was reported in western Quebec Monday morning, just across the river from Hawkesbury, Ont. Earthquakes Canada reported the quake at about 9:32 a.m. ET about 11 kilometres north of Brownsburg-Chatham, Que. That is about a 90-minute drive from Ottawa, near the Quebec-Ontario border and close to the halfway point between Montreal and the National Capital Region. No ... Read More »
Retired Sergeant Norm Gingras was recognized by his colleagues and the community yesterday in appreciation of his 26 years of dedication to the people of West Nipissing. He began his policing career as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in May 1979 as a Special Constable. He was posted to a surveillance unit of the RCMP Security Service. ... Read More »
More than a quarter of a kilogram of cocaine along with hundreds of oxycodone pills and a variety of other drugs were seized on Tuesday May 14th 2013 by West Nipissing Police. A traffic stop in West Nipissing resulted in the arrest of 51 year old Leonard Ratelle of Quesnel Road in Sturgeon Falls. A subsequent search of his vehicle ... Read More »
Four officers of the West Nipissing Police Service received Chief’s Commendations yesterday as a result of their response to an incident last summer. On August 24th 2012, Sergeant Nathalie Rifou, Constable Al Renaud, Constable Charles Goulard and Constable Trystan Gagne came in for a night shift at 7:00 p.m. Shortly after reporting for duty, they received a call regarding a ... Read More »
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