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There is something to be said for sitting down to eat together. It’s an opportunity to listen, to enjoy, to learn, to serve and be served.

It all depends on how you define winning. For those of us who attended a recent YMCA triathlon training camp, crossing the finish line at the end of that weekend was indeed a triumph. None of us had completed a triathlon before.

It’s an amazing thing to watch when people take ownership of a situation — particularly a challenging one — and offer up thoughtful opinions and solutions about how to make the situation better.

During a time of crisis, support can be found from many different sources. Now that the big vote is over and both Vale Inco and the Steelworkers have given up on talking for a spell, we, as a community, are left hanging in the balance.

By the time most people read this editorial in its print form, the vote results will be rolling in after the almost 3,000 members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 weigh in on the latest five-year contract proposal put forth by Vale Inco.

If you are a consumer of Time magazine online, you might have seen a list the current affairs media giant recently published.

What do the Junction Creek Stewardship Committee, Olympian Alex Baumann, and educator Ernie Checkeris have in common? They, and a few dozen others who hail from our fair city, are recipients of a Community Builders Award of Excellence.

When the Heart and Stroke Foundation recently released its 2010 Annual Report on Canadians’ Health, media across the nation rallied to interview local experts on what we need to do to improve the odds of living a better quality of life — particularly

Douglas and Louise Goulais will spend their Christmas Eve mourning the loss of their son, Tyler, who was killed in a car accident last weekend. It is a bitter irony that these parents will be taking part in the funeral of their son on Dec.

The opening lines to the Sudbury Theatre Centre’s current production are spoken by a character who is the subject of rumour, speculation and, at times, great disdain.