Lifestyle

Two comics, Denis Grignon and Rick Currie, will be deriding smoking with their best jabs Friday at Little Montreal, 182 Elgin St. at 9 pm.

Local inventor Pirkko Campbell of Hanmer is hoping her new garden tool, the Weedcomb, will be a hit on Dragon's Den, a CBC TV show about entrepreneurs. She recently returned from Toronto, where she was filmed for the fourth season of Dragon's Den.

Sudbury's 2009 Pride Festival runs July 13-19, and features a variety of events. Here are a few of the highlights: The festival's opening ceremonies take place July 13 at 10 a.m. at Tom Davies Square, where the rainbow flag will be raised.

UPDATE- The Elvira Kurt performance has been moved indoors to the the Science II Cafeteria (Alumni Hall) located on the second floor of the Fraser Auditorium building at Laurentian University.

Carrefour francophone’s new child-care centre called La scène des tout-petits is located at École Hélène Gravel school, 1412 Stephen St. This is Carrefour francophone’s eighth child-care centre in Greater Sudbury.

On April 22, the students and staff of St. Paul the Apostle School celebrated Earth Day in a big way.

Northern Life columnist Viki Mather may extol the virtues of eating from the wild , but these bears prefer to consume the garbage we humans leave behind. Photographer Marg Seregelyi took these pictures at the Whitefish Lake First Nation dump.

After 25 years in business, Peter Cousineau still enjoys making food for other people. He's the owner of Don's Pizzeria, 707 Lorne St. The business was Sudbury's first shop of its kind.

The dragon boats are coming. This weekend marks the return of 40-foot, 650-pound dragon boats and their 22 person crews to Ramsey Lake and Bell Park. The 10th annual Dragon Boat Festival opens Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.

Sudbury's abundant native fruit, the blueberry, is celebrated annually during the Sudbury Blueberry Festival next week. “I hear the blueberries are now ripe enough for blueberry pies to be made.