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Mayor John Rodriguez recently announced that June 13 to 21 is Sudbury Food Bank Awareness Week in the City of Greater Sudbury. The designated week will raise awareness of hunger issues in the region.

Recent media reports have told how soaring gas prices are contributing to the closure of a Meals on Wheels service in British Columbia and is potentially threatening similar services across the country.

Vale Inco Limited, in partnership with the Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA) and the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), is pleased to announce the creation of the Tom Peters Memorial Mine Reclamation Award, which celebrates groundbreaking a

BY JANET GIBSON While Wembley Public School in downtown Sudbury has sat quietly waiting to hear if it will stay or go, a small group of parents is going to bat for the 100-year-old, red brick school.

BY JANET GIBSON The Sudbury Catholic District School Board has taken about a half-million dollars from its reserve fund in order to balance its budget for the 2008/09 school year. This amounts to 0.8 per cent of the board’s grant revenue allocation.

Xstrata Nickel gave Collège Boréal $225,000 for its new campus in Timmins on Thursday, the same day the college broke ground for the expansion, said the college's spokesperson Benoit Clement.

The Fraser/Thayer-Lindsley mine rescue team for Xstrata Nickel’s Sudbury Operations won the Provincial Mine Rescue Competition held June 6-7 at the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology’s (NORCAT) training site in Onaping.

BY JANET GIBSON The Northeast Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) wants providers of health care in this area to consolidate their functions so they can better serve their clients.

BY BILL BRADLEY As gas prices soar - climbing past $1.40 per litre this week - more people are riding city buses, said Roger Sauve, manager of Greater Sudbury Transit.

BY JANET GIBSON Rainbow District School Board has found full- or part-time positions for 56 of the 75 teachers who received pink slips in April, director of education Jean Hanson said on Wednesday.