Kenora

Rogers Communications Inc. will compensate its customers for the massive outage that crippled its network last week by crediting them with the equivalent of five days of service as a first step.

In a statement, Rogers spokesperson Chloe Luciani-Girouard says the company has been listening to its customers and Canadians from across the country who have shared how significant the impacts of the outage were for them.

Rogers wireless and internet customers were left without service in the outage that began early Friday morning last week and led to widespread disruptions.

In Kenora Slo-Pitch - on the men's side it was the CarStar Rockies taking down the Neechies, and Lakeside Dental outscoring the Legends.

On the women's side, the Royals defeated Dunit, CUPE took it over the Wreckers and Northern Harbour dominated Bat Intentions.

The family of a five-year-old Saskatchewan boy whose body was found 81 days after he was reported missing said Tuesday he will be buried this week.

RCMP said Frank Young was located Saturday in the Carrot River, about two kilometres downstream from where he was last seen playing on the Red Earth Cree Nation in April.

Frank's grandmother Teresa Whitecap, the matriarch of the family, said they have have been participating in ceremonies and prayers to prepare for his burial on Friday.

Canada's premiers have wrapped up talks in Victoria, B.C., frustrated that a date has yet to be set for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau focused on health care.

The 13 premiers were unanimous in calling for the meeting to chart a path forward for working with the federal government on funding the modernization of what they say is a "crumbling" health system plagued by severe staffing shortages.

The Kenora area experienced two unplanned power outages between Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon. In both instances, power was restored within 10 minutes of going out.

In recent years, it's been uncommon for the City of Kenora to lose power during a thunderstorm, and indications are there is not a bigger issue with the power grid. 

"The outages stem from Hydro One transmissions and appear to be weather-related," said Christina Groulx, Public Relations & Communications for Synergy North.

Northwestern Ontario got pelted by over 30 mm of rain through yesterday afternoon’s thunderstorms, but we didn’t break a record.

Environment Canada says 31.5 mm of rainfall was recorded at the Dryden Airport yesterday, but the rainfall record for July 11 was set in 2008 when the area saw over 43 mm of rain.

“That’s still a lot of rain though. 31 millimetres is still pretty substantial,” said Environment Canada Meteorologist, Gerald Cheng, who says more storm activity can be expected in the coming days.

NASA is releasing new photos from its James Webb Space Telescope that offer a glimpse into dying stars and distant galaxies.

The United States agency released four new images today during an event broadcast worldwide, one day after the White House released the first image from the telescope.

The Webb, a US$10-billion joint partnership between NASA and the Canadian and European space agencies, is outfitted with two crucial Canadian-built systems, both of which are working properly.

Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) made an arrest following the discovery of counterfeit money that had been spent in Kenora.  

Officers made the arrest on Wednesday, June 29, at approximately 9:00 am. Police received a call about a person attempting to purchase goods with fake money at a store on Golf Course Road. Officers attended and located the person nearby where he was arrested.  

This week's REMR Roofing Person of the Week is Gord McCool!

Gord was nominated by Peter Foucher, who wrote in part:

"Gord has always put his community first, while raising 2 young children he has made countless donations to all types of community programs and most honorable he has been the driver behind the new central rink and we couldn't be more proud to call him our brother in law. This man truly is the definition of community insolvent and for that we beleive he deserves person of the week."

The level of Lake of the Woods declined slightly over the last week.

The Lake of the Woods Control Board says the average lake level declined slightly, by 1 cm over the seven days, and is expected to continue to decline by 3 to 5 cm over the next week.

The lake remains over the 95th percentile level for this time of year at 324.09 m (1063.3 ft), which is above the 2014 peak and below the record peak of 324.31 m (1064.0 ft), set in July of 1950.