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The 17th Annual Wawa Black Fly Run committee would like to thank our sponsors, our volunteers and the participants for another successful event!
Article by Barb Fisher
To our Race Sponsors: The Shoe Fits, Municipality of Wawa, J Provost Contracting, The Wawa Physicians, Wesdome Gold Mines, and Kulsum Rashid To our local artists, business and organizations that continually donate to help make our run a very special event: Subway Michipicoten Memorial ComAlgoma Highlands Blueberry Tim Hortons munity Centre Farm Tracey Laing, Arbonne Millette General Contractors Carole Styres Wawa Area Victim Services The Blue Canoe / Davidsons Fuels (WAVS) Laura Mitchell Fenlon’s Pharmacy Naturally Superior Adventures Wawa Dentists Gilmartin Funeral Home Young’s General Store Paula Provost Janet Besner Anj Oberai Petro Canada JJAM Agency Sault Stryders Michipicoten First Nation To our wonderful volunteers: Doris Zagar Lois Dorey Brittany Sauriol Madeline Besner Carol Chalykoff Dorothy Egan Cassee Provost Ed Nyman Matt Trudeau Chris Stamler Jack Aitkenhead Mike Cotterill Christy Reid Janet Besner Randy Klockars Colin Blackmore Jennifer Gatz Ray McGregor Jamie Kusic Ray Parisee Dan Bruno Ruth Davidson Dannette Mathais Jim Hoffmann Daryl Dereski Kent Spreng Susan Switzer Dave Robertson Kiff Reid Terry Switzer Liz Talian-Clarke Tom Kenerknecht Dean Hammond We would also like to acknowledge: • Judy Moore for hosting this year’s spaghetti dinner • Janet and Yvan Besner for hosting the post-race BBQ • Steve Richardson, from The Shoe Fits to help us with the chip timing We apologize if we’ve missed anyone. As you can see, it takes many, many people / organizations to make our Annual Black Fly Run such a huge success. Our Sincere Thanks from the organizing committee Yvan Besner, Katherine Boyd, Silvana Dereski, Ron Hale, Helen Lamon, Anjali Oberai, Paula Provost
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Business Directory . . . . . . Pg. 2 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 9-12 Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg.9
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Golf Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 3 Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 9 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 5 Storytime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 8
Pg. 7 - Dream Catchers Coming to Wawa
Pg. 6 - Michipicoten Chronicles - Alex Ross
likes to eat small but often, asked him if it was difficult for him seeing his buddies wolfing down hotdogs, chips, and anything edible the entire day? He explained that his body has adjusted, and is used to it. Then Feisal from Saudi Arabia, who smoked like a chimney and liked Canadian beer. He was a ‘firecracker’ always joking. Luckily he brought his own supply which only lasted one day; and by the second day asked, “where the next smokeshop was?" I think he learned that day what ‘withdrawal’ was. Yes, there was another Japanese student, whose name I cannot recall; who explained to my question, “are sauna’s popular in Japan?” "Yes, but everybody goes in nude!” was his response, which caused a chuckle amongst the others. I cannot ignore, Diana, a pretty oriental looking Canadian girl whose parents were Chinese/Korean. A horrific story followed about her grandmother who fled from a brutal regime with her children, with only the clothes on their back. Fair skinned Jamie, who was born in Canada, but her parents came from Scotland with a name starting with Mc. Last but not least, Jordan
claimed Berlin as his birthplace, and as I proclaimed it also as my place of birth and continued in German; he put up his hands and said, “When my grandparents came to Canada it was Berlin, now it is Kitchener. My parents spoke German, but my knowledge is flawed.” Before this interesting weekend ended, I insisted on a groupshot with hats of their choice from my collection — and this is what they chose: from ball caps, hardhat, fedora, sombrero, to Russian army cap, all covered by a Canadian Flag. That’s what I call unity. Skin colours from pale to the deepest brown, languages from all over the globe. Why can’t life be that harmonious every day? Happy Canada Day!
My Canada Day Article and Photo By Karin Grundt It was the last week in June when the neighbours at my camp on Loonskin Lake brought in an international ‘delegation’ from Sault Ste. Marie into the wilderness to experience the Canadian outdoors. The weather did not cooperate, it was raining on and off, foggy and lots of bugs which made a sauna on my end a refuge and a place to sweat and bond in international unity. A dunk after each session in the refreshing lake make kids out of young adults again. The laughter and joyful squeals were infectious. The youngest was nineteen, his name Santa (really!); he came from Japan just two weeks ago, but he took to the water like a seal. I was not sure if he could swim, because his English was so, so, and my Japanese – NIL. He put on a life vest, took another as a skateboard and dog-paddled fearlessly for hours… he was in his own world. And then there was Cheikh from Senegal, a Muslim on a fast. He did not participate in munching, or drinking like the others with their hollow legs. He explained that only after sunset would he eat. I, who
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