Lifestyle

BY JANET GIBSON Besides getting oriented to campus life this September, first year students enrolled in health science, social service and education programs will join their upper year colleagues for a day-long event that introduces them to the pract

BY JANET GIBSON Sudbury Catholic District School Board, one of a handful of school boards outside of Toronto to embrace programs run by The Learning Partnership, will offer a third program to its students starting in January 2009.

What do Alex Trebec, Jeff Buttle, Alex Baummann, Robert Esmie, Darryl Brunt, and Joey Niceforo all have in common? The answer may be found in the new activity book, Bienvenue au Grand Sudbury, written and illustrated by retired educator, Angela Cicco

BY JANET GIBSON Schools in the Rainbow District School Board will excuse children who have lice in their hair as soon as their parents or guardians have been notified, said superintendent Norm Blaseg.

By Liz Fleming "A slow horse, please," I requested, surveying the meandering mounts, "And an old one, too. I don't really ride." In fact, most of my equestrian experience has been on carousel ponies - no manure and they never bolt.

By Marg Seregelyi "Slow down and move over," says Shawna Larose when referring to vehicles driving past riders on horses. Larose rides with a group of friends year-round in the Valley East area.

More than 100 leaders and decision-makers from science centres in 34 countries will visit Science North this week to take part in the facility's component of the Fifth Science Centre World Congress.

Tickets for Theatre Cambrian's second annual summer dinner theatre production, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, are now on sale.

A Canada-Wide contest to promote the Ontario-Québec tourism route and francophone resources available in Ontario is making a stop at Science North's Special Exhibits Hall. On June 17 at 5 p.m.

The Greater Sudbury Paramedic Association is encouraging citizens to learn Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, also know as CPR.