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Please note that due to the Canada Day statutory holiday on July 1st, residential garbage collection scheduled for the 1st will take place on Thursday, June 30th instead. Please be sure to have your garbage out at the curb a day earlier than usual. Thank you!

Anyone considering running for Mayor, Council, or School Board Trustee in the October municipal election needs to learn about what is involved and what is required to become a candidate. You are invited to a Candidate Information Session on Tuesday, July 12th, at 6:00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion. Ellen Baudry from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing will be there to give you important information and answer your questions.

Pre-registration is required, and a minimum of ten participants...

PROCLAMATION

May and June 2022 - Honeybee Appreciation Months

WHEREAS: the honeybee is responsible for pollination of nearly three quarters of plants that produce 90% of the world’s food. A third of the world’s production depends on honeybees and pollinators. Every third spoonful of food depends on pollination; and
WHEREAS: the honeybee is one of the most vital species that plays the essential roles as one of the major pollinators, thus ensuring food and food security, sustainable agriculture and...

Sioux Lookout, ON – The Municipality of Sioux Lookout is preparing for some major clean-up efforts as the spring flood waters continue to recede.

Municipal Clerk, Brian P. MacKinnon, says, “there is a lot of work to be done around Sioux Lookout. A number of Municipal properties have been covered in debris, much like our waterfront businesses and residents.” MacKinnon adds, “We are taking several steps to work with the community to minimize the costs of cleaning up the debris.”

One of these steps...

The Municipality of Sioux Lookout will be undertaking its routine, seasonal clean-up of decorative items left at gravesites over the past season that have now become unsightly and/or cause an obstruction to grounds maintenance at the three Municipally-operated cemeteries, namely: Hillcrest, Sacred Heart, and Northway.

Commencing June 15, 2022 and ending at the end of the day July 3, 2022, we ask all Interment Rights Holders to please remove Christmas wreaths, artificial flowers, solar lights, keepsakes,...

The Municipality of Sioux Lookout will once again be utilizing telephone and internet voting for the 2022 Municipal Election.

If you're unfamiliar with how the process works, please watch this brief overview of the system.

https://youtu.be/c8AZAvFHXbc

Still...

The Province of Ontario has activated the Disaster Recovery Assistance for Ontarians program in Sioux Lookout. Local property owners should visit https://www.ontario.ca/page/apply-disaster-recovery-assistance for details on qualifying for and applying for assistance.

Sioux Lookout, ON – As our community continues to contend with and begin the early stages of recovery from historic flooding, the Municipality’s administrative and political leaders have, on an ongoing and assertive manner, continued their efforts to have Sioux Lookout deemed a “flood area” by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH). 

“In conversations with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing today, the Ministry advised that a decision on the “flood area” designation...