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Sudbury pilots flying for a cause

Sudbury pilots flying for a cause

BY LAUREL MYERS A group of private pilots took to the air on Saturday to raise funds for cancer, as well as to pay tribute to the memory of a good friend and fellow pilot, Rheal Roy.
Organizers gearing up for Summerfest

Organizers gearing up for Summerfest

BY BILL BRADLEY Summer is all about having fun and enjoying good music. That is also the focus of Summerfest, the city's long running music festival held at Bell Park the weekend Aug. 21 to 24. Over 15,000 people usually attend.

Students do better at private schools: study

Marketwire - Low income families with children attending inexpensive private schools say their children do better academically and experience fewer social problems than children at public schools, according to the results of a new survey published by

Watoto Children's Choir

Greater Sudbury residents have several chances to experience the Watoto Children's Choir over the next few days.

Science North offers water festival

The main attraction at Science North this summer is our planet's most precious natural resource - water.
Xstrata team wins provincial crown

Xstrata team wins provincial crown

Xstrata Nickel's Sudbury Operations' Fraser/Thayer-Lindsley mine rescue team won the Provincial Mine Rescue Competition held earlier this month at the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology's training site in Onaping.

Not exactly a 'spoonful of sugar'

BY LAUREL MYERS People all across the country are showing just what bad taste they have, grimacing and contorting their faces as they choke down a single spoonful of Buckley's.
Aurore Séguin follows her heart to career in the trades

Aurore Séguin follows her heart to career in the trades

BY JANET GIBSON A 17-year-old girl who helped her grandfather fix tractors at the age of four has won a $2,000 entrance scholarship to Collège Boréal, where she'll study heavy equipment mechanics.
Blues For Food sets record

Blues For Food sets record

BY BILL BRADLEY Durham Street downtown was packed with hundreds of people Saturday for the annual Rotary Downtown Sudbury Blues For Food fundraiser. Bands such as Tightrope, Hipshake and Jake and the Fundamentals played power blues for the audience.

Raise your voice for epilepsy awareness

Epilepsy Ontario's Be Heard! Youth Challenge is now running. The challenge provides an opportunity for youth with epilepsy to voice their stories and opinions on living with the disorder.