OPP Beat

21 CHARGED FOR OFF ROAD PASSING (North Bay, ON) On Thursday October 9th, 2003 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

MORE BEAR SIGHTINGS (Powassan, ON) The principal at St. Gregory School located at 152 Fairview Lane, Powassan, Ontario contacted the police on two occasions yesterday after sighting a bear near the school. At approximately 11:00 a.m. on Wed. Oct.

Ontario Provincial Police in Mattawa are investigating a break-in to a camp located on Klocks Road, Papineau-Cameron Twp, where a 12-guage and a 16-gauge shotgun wre stolen sometime during the day Tuesday.

HOUSEHOLD ITEMS STOLEN FROM CAMP Mattawa OPP is investigating a break, enter and theft that occurred at a camp located on Perron Lake in Olrig Township approximately nine km south of Highway 533.

SEATBELT BLITZ Ontario Provincial Police in North Bay checked 5,471 vehicles from Sept. 26th to Oct. 5th, 2003, as part of the fall seatbelt initiative. Twenty-four seatbelt charges have been laid so far.

HOUSE FIRE IN BONFIELD The O.P.P. reports a fairly quiet twenty-four hour period. There was a house fire late yesterday afternoon in Bonfield that sent one male to hospital with burns. His identity has not yet been released.

Road Reopened To Transports Transport trucks are now being being allowed to travel along Hwy 17 approximately six kilometres east Mattawa. OPP had prevented transport traffic Wednesday night due to a low-hanging hydro wire stretching across the road.

Transport trucks are being prevented from travelling along Hwy 17 approximately six kilometres east Mattawa due to a low-hanging hydro wire stretching across the road, Ontario Provincial Police said.

FATAL ACCIDENT O.P.P. reports a fatal accident yesterday near Parry Sound. At 7:25 a.m., a southbound motorcycle collided with a northbound car one kilometre north of Still River on Highway 69.