Lifestyle

BY KENT CORNESS The 2008 Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards (NOMFA) take place from Friday, May 9 to Saturday May 10.

Your Scrivener Press is celebrating two new spring titles - Ramasseur, a novel by Richard deMeulles, and Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario, a memoir by George Case - on Saturday with a book launch at a  local pub.

Nesbitt Public School students captured the gold and silver medals at the Greater Sudbury Math Olympics on May 3. For the sixth year in a row, they will represent northern Ontario at the All Ontario Math Olympics in Peterborough, May 30 and 31.

Lasalle Secondary School invites the community to come out and support this year's Relay for Life. The Lasalle Secondary School Students' Council will officially kick off their third Relay for Life on Friday, May 9. The event will begin at 7 p.m.

BY JANET GIBSON Two Rainbow School Board teachers will pitch an idea to board officials on May 8 that could revolutionize the way seniors and students regard each other.

(NC)-Builders are conditioned in the 21st century to be far more receptive to the request by property owners to use sustainable materials.

The Sudbury Regional Hospital's (HRSRH) Diagnostic Imaging Department and Regional Cancer Program (RCP), and the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) have taken a step forward in improving breast cancer screening and detection with the addition of

The 15th Annual Lucky Duck Dash takes place on May 10 at Lily Creek from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The duck race begins at 2 p.m. Proceeds from the event will go to the Northern Cancer Research Foundation, Rotary Park and other local organizations.

BY JUDI KOSKI One of the most talked about and sought after items at the Finlandia Village Mayfair is the Finnish home-baking.

105.3 EZ Rock will broadcast a live radio-thon from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday in support of Shelter from the Storm - the Canadian Women's Foundation's national fundraising and awareness campaign dedicated to ending violence against women.