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Marie Morrison of Making Kenora Home and Judy Underwood of the Northwestern Health Unit want to dual or challenge businesses, organizations and families to prepare and serve a meal at one of Kenora's soup kitchens for the second edition of the Hot Meal Challenge. Volunteers can make challenges to others during the week of Feb. 14-20, though each participant has until the end of 2016 to carry out their pledge. SHERI LAMB/Daily Miner and News

Meal challenge

Anyone who wants to do more to help out the Kenora community can offer or accept a challenge to prepare and serve a meal for the less fortunate during 2016.

Ryan King and the Beaver Brae Broncos junior boys basketball squad were schooled 76-8 in the championship game of the 2016 Jr. Kenora Invitational Tournament held at Beaver Brae Secondary, Jan. 29-30, by the Kildonan East Reivers of Winnipeg. SHERI LAMB/Daily Miner and News

Silver lining for Broncos

The Kildonan East Reivers were the class of the 2016 Jr. Kenora Invitational basketball tournament at Beaver Brae Secondary School on Jan. 29-30.

Theresa Stevens, executive director of Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services. FILE PHOTO

Lots of work to do

With the ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal this week acknowledging First Nation children were discriminated against by the federal government in its funding of child welfare services, the Grand Council Treaty 3 office is now looking for an “equitable allocation of resources” from Canadian governments.

Grade 7 St. Thomas Aquinas computer science students Katie Friesen Krocker and Stephanie Wallace watch as their robot tries to scoop up a piece of paper in the schoolís multi-skills centre computer lab on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. RYAN YOUNG/Daily Miner and News

Computer programming

This new generation of students know technology, and St. Thomas Aquinas is doing their best to keep challenging them.

A proposed change to Ontario's hunting regulations would allow the harvest of wolves and coyotes under small game licences in Northern Ontario without the additional requirement of a special game seal. File Photo

Ministry to blame

A coalition of animal protection and conservation organizations has come out against Ontario’s plans to ease hunting regulations for wolves and coyotes as a conservation measure to protect moose.

Kenora cyclist Susan Evenden, pictured on the road in Yukon, is currently raising pledges in support of Wounded Warrior Canada programs. She will take part in the organizaton's Battlefield Bike Ride in Italy this June. Supplied photo

Battlefield Bike Ride

A Kenora adventure cyclist is taking her love of two- wheeled travel on the road to raise awareness and donations for a worthy cause.

Sara Dias, executive director of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Kenora Branch, wants to remind people to watch their language when addressing someone with a mental illness and to be kind in offering them an ear to listen. SHERI LAMB/Daily Miner and News/Postmedia Network

Words can hurt

One day media campaigns may get people talking about mental illness in a positive light, but society still has a long way to go in treating a person with anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder with the same compassion as they would a person with cancer.

Dr. Jillie Reston, a family physician at the Paterson Medical Clinic and Lake of the Woods District Hospital, was one of two Kenoraites to receive Northwestern Ontario Visionary Awards (NOVA) at the SHIFT Network’s biannual NOVA Awards gala Saturday night in Thunder Bay. Reston, along with Chad Gropp, owner/operator of Gropp’s Country Catering, were among the Top 20, under-40 honourees. The NOVA awards began in 2010 and have had 60 winners and 237 nominees. More than 100 nominees were submitted for recogniation at Saturday’s gala. SHERI LAMB/Daily Miner and News/Postmedia Network

2016 NOVA awards

Dr. Jillie Retson was shocked to receive a 2016 Northern Ontario Visionary Award (NOVA) last weekend.