Published Tuesday, May 11, 2021 7:30PM EDT The trial of a Toronto school teacher, accused of criminal negligence in the drowning death of a 15-year-old student, has begun. On July 4, 2017, Jeremiah Perry was on a school canoe trip when he drowned in Big Trout Lake at Algonquin Provincial Park. “He wanted to learn to swim, but I could not afford it,” his mother, Melissa Perry told the court on Tuesday morning. “As a single mother, yeah, it was hard, because I had bills to pay. Perry testified that her son lived in the Caribbean with his grandmother or with her until September 2016, when Jeremiah and his brother moved to Toronto to live with their father.
Projects aim to correct stormwater runoff issues.
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Ann Wessel | Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources | 9:00 am, May 4, 2021 ×
In Crosslake, a stormwater retrofit for Island Loon Lake replaced drainage that sent stormwater directly into the lake. The Crow Wing SWCD project involved the county highway department, the city, the Whitefish Area Property Owners Association and the Crosslakers. It drew from Clean Water Funds from BWSR. Photo Courtesy of Crow Wing SWCD
The Clean Water Fund project that protects Big Trout Lake’s cold-water fish habitat by treating pollution-carrying stormwater became a catalyst for similar water quality work at two more sites along Crow Wing County Highway 66.
Projects aim to correct stormwater runoff issues.
Written By:
Ann Wessel | Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources | 7:00 am, May 2, 2021 ×
In Crosslake, a stormwater retrofit for Island Loon Lake replaced drainage that sent stormwater directly into the lake. The Crow Wing SWCD project involved the county highway department, the city, the Whitefish Area Property Owners Association and the Crosslakers. It drew from Clean Water Funds from BWSR. Photo Courtesy of Crow Wing SWCD
The Clean Water Fund project that protects Big Trout Lake’s cold-water fish habitat by treating pollution-carrying stormwater became a catalyst for similar water-quality work at two more sites along Crow Wing County Highway 66.
Seven First Nation communities in the Kenora district are receiving federal funding to build affordable homes.
Locally, the Rat Portage First Nation has been earmarked 3.8 million dollars for 10 new homes and Shoal Lake #39, $600,000 for six homes.
Families, Children and Social Development minister Ahmed Hussen says this is part of the Rapid Housing Program launched by the federal government.
“These homes will be completed and ready to be occupied by this summer and fall,” says Hussen.
“So when we talk about rapid housing, we mean housing built very quickly.”
Hussen the Trudeau government is spending 21.1 million to immediately construct housing on first nations in the Kenora District.
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