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Health and safety advocate Homer Seguin gave Ministry of the Environment staff some advice about dealing with Vale’s request to have until 2015 to meet more stringent standards for nickel released in the air at the Copper Cliff Smelter.

Cutting through city hall's red tape is vital to increasing small business and keeping small business in Greater Sudbury, a report from the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce warned.

City residents have been phoning their councillors after garbage and recycling collectors have left garbage cans and blue boxes on the curbs, unemptied.

Mayor John Rodriguez and three of his challengers released their political platforms last week for the Oct. 25 city election. Ted Callaghan, a 16-year veteran of city council, stressed fiscal prudence.

The 2912 Sudbury Irish Army Cadets are heading out Oct. 1 to clean up an area of Pigeon Lake, northeast of Hanmer.

Local environmental projects, especially schools, have a chance of being funded by TD Bank’s Friends of the Environment Foundation (FEF). “We love to give away money,” Mary Desjardins, TD FEF executive director, said.

Although there hasn't been a forest fire in northeastern Ontario since Sept. 17, and the forest fire risk is currently low, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is urging the public to continue to exercise caution with fires in the outdoors.

Mayoral candidate Derek Young will host a meet and greet Sept. 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Fromagerie Elgin across from Market Square on Elgin Street.

Chiropractor Dr. Aaron Stauber encourages those with problems, such as chronic headaches, mental clarity or mood swings, or even children labelled as being hyperactive, to come into his office for a checkup.

There are some who believe that supporting the Northern Cancer Research Foundation isn’t the best way to bring down breast cancer mortality rates, according to a researcher at Sudbury’s Regional Cancer Program.