Lifestyle

Halloween's traditions of candy, costumes and trick-or-treating can be a potentially dangerous and distressing time for pets, warns the Ontario SPCA.

The Sudbury and District Board of Health released its 2006 Nutritious Food Basket (NFB) Report Oct. 19, concluding that it costs $139.93 per week to buy enough nutritious food to feed a family of four. The health unit says this is an 8.

The city's chief of police has won a 2006 Ontario Medical Association's Community Service Award.

Roger Nash,  a philosophy professor  at Laurentian University and former president of the League of Canadian Poets, has published a collection of his work called Something Blue and Flying Upwards, New and Selected Poems.

Sudbury's Travelway Inn celebrated a milestone recently as it marked its 20th anniversary in Greater Sudbury. It is one of the few remaining independent hotels in the city. Located at the corner of Ramsey Lake Rd. and Paris St.

Governor General's Award-winning author Nino Ricci will be coming to Sudbury this weekend to conduct a workshop for the Sudbury Writers' Guild. Ricci will speak about writing fiction and will critique  writers'work.

BY KEITH LACEY It's taken six months of hard work to get ready, but Dave Morris and his business partners are expecting a full house when downtown Sudbury's newest bar opens.

BY KEITH LACEY After more than a quarter-century in the classroom, Ralph McIntosh insists students who gain an appreciation of the arts are more well-rounded, sophisticated and happy learners.

BY JOHN JAWORSKI After many years of dreaming of a trip to the Orient, my wife, Dorothy, and I travelled to China to begin a cruise to several locations around the Far East.

BY GIANNI UBRIACO There are approximately 14 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa who are looked after by  their impoverished grandmothers.