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BY ROBERT KIRWAN This Wednesday, March 30, the new Hart Department Store will open at the Hanmer Valley Shopping Centre. Madeline Mathieu and Mary Lee Mathieu prepare displays in the women?s fashion area.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN heidi@northernlife.ca Darrell Anderson may only be 23, but he?s already travelled halfway across the world to Iraq with the American army, been injured in combat and fled to Canada to avoid being sent overseas again.

With the creation of a new television series, Herb Jackson's Basement, creator Mark Fraser is looking for actors for the pilot episode.

Across Ontario, communities are embracing digital mapping and land information management technologies as fundamental tools for doing business.

In a move that has pleased both the company and the union, Inco's Ontario operations will now have a president based in Sudbury.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN heidi@northernlife.ca Science North weather guru and science director Alan Nursall has one overall assessment of Sudbury?s climate so far this July ? it?s really stinkin? hot out.

BY LAURA STEVENS The second Annual Business Challenge, hosted by Sudbury Secondary School (SSS), introduced 11 brand new businesses to the Sudbury community on Tuesday. These businesses were developed by the 2004 SSS Entrepreneurship class.

BY KEITH LACEY klacey@northernlife.ca Taxpayers have been stuck with a $500,000 bill relating to the contamination of Junction Creek more than 50 years ago.

BY KEITH LACEY klacey@northernlife.ca The only home Tracy McLaughlin?s two children know is Birkdale Village, the public housing project on Second Avenue in Minnow Lake.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN heidi@northernlife.ca Darrell Anderson may only be 23, but he?s already travelled halfway across the world to Iraq with the American army, been injured in combat and fled to Canada to avoid being sent overseas again.