Local News

Residents of Lively who require a passport will be able to get free help from Sudbury MP Glenn Thibeau and his staff at a passport clinic on Nov. 13, at the TM Davies Community Centre. The clinic is being held from noon to 8 p.m.

Cambrian College will be taking its trades apprenticeship training programs on the road throughout northeastern Ontario, starting in the winter of 2010, with three transport truck trailers fully equipped as trades training centres.

Students interested in pursuing a health career in the cancer field will have a chance to see the Sudbury Hospital's cancer centre on Nov. 12, between 6 and 8 p.m.

FNX Mining Company Inc. had a consolidated net loss for the third quarter of $58.5 million on revenues of $18.8 million, compared to a net loss of $26.5 million ($0.31 per share) on revenues of $76.4 million in the same period of 2008.

Geriatrician Dr. Jo-Anne Clarke said she takes satisfaction in “stopping the down-spiraling trajectory” of frail seniors, and making sure they get the support they need to stay in their homes as long as possible.

A local woman, described as "selfless and kind-hearted" by friends, lived in a home that lacked insulation and was partially over-run by mold.

The interim president of Sudbury Regional Hospital said she wishes a flu assessment centre had been set up in the community earlier to deal with the H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak.

With construction on the one-site hospital 99 per cent complete, Sudbury Regional Hospital is set to open the hospital's new, permanent entrance on the east side of the building Nov. 23.

Sudbury’s economy, already suffering after layoffs at the city’s major mining companies, is now sinking even more because of the strike involving more than 3,000 members of Steelworkers Local 6500.

A spill of concentrated ore slurry at Clarabelle Mill, which occurred overnight Nov. 10, has been reported to the Ministry of the Environment.