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UPDATED — Feb. 7 at 3:05 p.m. Steelworkers Local 6500 president Rick Bertrand said he feels “very lucky” nobody was injured or died in an incident in one of the furnaces at the Copper Cliff Smelter during the morning of Feb. 6.

Greater Sudbury community calendar listings for Feb. 8-9. To put your listing on this board post e-mail [email protected] , phone 705-673-5667 ext. 367. All locations for Sudbury unless otherwise indicated.

Several options will be presented to city council on Feb. 9 to address stormwater improvements to alleviate flooding in the Mountain and Leslie Street areas. In the summer of 2009, residents in the Flour Mill area experienced extensive flooding .

The Regional Cancer Program at Sudbury Regional Hospital is offering a series of six sessions in March and April for cancer survivors who are within two years of finishing cancer treatments.

Elementary and secondary school students from the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) will be participating in a evangelism experience that will last until Feb. 11.

The city's medical officer of health is encouraging people to get their flu shots, as several people have been hospitalized in Sudbury due to the illness.

Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) is hosting open house events at all of its elementary schools Feb. 8 and 9 for parents wishing to register their child in junior kindergarten or who are interested in French Catholic education.

Students at Algonquin Road Public School, Lively District Secondary School and Espanola High School will share more than $3,700 in funding from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Sudbury Branch.

Gerry Lachance, who has an ice hut on Lake Panache, is concerned about the slushy conditions on the lake, located in Whitefish. In 35 years of fishing on Panache, Lachance said he has never seen it in this condition. Gerry Lachance.

The mayors of the five biggest cities in northern Ontario say they are concerned about delays in the release and subsequent implementation of the Northern Ontario Growth Plan.