Good morning, Greater Sudbury! Here are a few stories to start your day on this Saturday morning.
Fatal fire on Tedman Avenue
Greater Sudbury Fire Services reported Friday that a man died in a residential structure fire at 500 Tedman Avenue on March 25. Crews arrived quickly to the fire, Deputy. A search was conducted, said Oshell, as there were reports that one of the residents was trapped. That resident was pronounced dead at the scene. “Fire services extends its condolences to those affected by this fire,” said Oshell. The scene has been released to Greater Sudbury Police Service and the Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office. Oshell said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Video: Check out the new state-of-the-art medical learning centre at Health Sciences North
If a medical student ever wondered whether she or he would be able to perform their duties at the first sight of blood, they might want to check out one of the simulation labs at the Labelle Innovation and Learning Centre at Health Sciences North (HSN).
The official opening of the new $27-million facility was just last week, but already medical learners are booked in day and night to look after a variety of sick and injured patients in a way that doctors and nurses from back in the day could only dream about.
Their patients are not real. In the "sim labs" the patients are life-like robotic figures of men, women and children that can moan, scream, cry out in pain and display a host of other symptoms such as shortness of breath and loss of blood pressure. They will even come back to life again if they're given CPR at the right moment.
You can find the story and video here.
City streamlines process for installing traffic-calming infrastructure
The public support requirement for the city’s installation of traffic-calming infrastructure such as speed bumps has been done away with, but the requirement to consult with the public stands.
This much was decided during Tuesday’s city council meeting, which found the city’s elected officials support Ward 9 Coun. Deb McIntosh’s push to streamline the approvals process.
During the meeting, she was supported by Ward 1 Coun. Mark Signoretti, who used Robinson Drive as an example of where the streamlined approvals process might have been of benefit.
“Robinson was on the traffic calming list when the road was being redesigned,” he said, adding that the city failed to achieve the public support requirement of the day so it was dropped from the list.
“Now the residents would like traffic-calming in that area, and we all know that residents will move, different families will move into neighbourhoods, areas will change with demographics of seniors, of young families – it’s just the evolution of life. So now this road has to be put to the bottom of the list or re-evaluated.”
You can find the full story here.
The Five struck by Lightning in London, prepare to take on Titans
Lightning struck the Sudbury Five in London on Thursday night, as the squad came out on the losing end of a close game that ended with a final score of 108-105.
While the game seemingly could have went either way, the Sudbury Five carried the lead in the final stretches of the game, but the London Lightning battled back with just over a minute left in the game to steal the victory.
You can read more of the story, here.
Last year was deadly on Ontario’s roads, but North fares slightly better
It seems some drivers still aren’t getting the message that distracted driving and speeding are deadly habits, said provincial police.
The Ontario Provincial Police has reported significant increases in speed-related and distracted-driving-related deaths on provincial highways.
In 2021, 58 people lost their lives in distracted driving crashes, a 29-per-cent increase from the previous year when 45 people were killed, said Sgt. Carlo Berardi.
In the northeast region, the OPP said eight people were killed in distracted-driving crashes, up from seven the year prior, said Berardi.
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Police seize large cache of weapons including grenades from Blind River home
57-year-old man is in custody after police responded to a disturbance call in Blind River on March 16 and wound up uncovering a large cache of weapons, including grenades.
On March 16, shortly after 7:30 a.m., officers with East Algoma Detachment OPP responded to a disturbance call on Youngfox Road in Blind River, 164 kilometres west of Sudbury.
While investigating the disturbance call, information came to light that prompted officers to seek a search warrant for the home, which was granted. The ensuring search by OPP's East Algoma Crime Unit, Canine Unit and OPP Forensic Identification Services (FIS) turned up more than 80 firearms, which included prohibited, restricted and non-restricted firearms as well as various types of ammunition, high capacity magazines, rifle parts/barrels, suppressors, smokeless powder, flares, primers, grenades and explosives.
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Lifestory: Independent and self-possessed, Roma Griffin was a credit to L’Arche Sudbury
Roma Griffin knew exactly who she was.
She was a woman of Sudbury, a daughter of Gatchell, independent, self-possessed, and holding within her a capacity to understand human emotion that made those who knew her marvel.
At first glance, some may have reduced her based on her disability, deciding that her Down's syndrome meant that she was not a complex person, full of hopes and dreams.
But you couldn’t think that once you met her, her brother Ron Griffin told Sudbury.com.
You can read more about Roma Griffin here.
Not so warm this weekend with snow in the forecast
The weather this weekend will be decidedly unspringlike. Expect a high of 1 today with periods of light snow. The wind will be out of the northwest at 30 km/h, gusting to 50 in the morning. Tonight, the temperature will drop to -14 with flurries. For Sunday, expect a high of just -9 under cloudy skies. There is a 40-per-cent chance of of flurries as well. Sunday night, the mercury will fall to -17 under cloudy skies.
