Local News

The Sudbury Heart and Soul Campaign has reason to celebrate after the RBC Royal Bank announced it was making a donation of $175,000.

International management consultant Omar Aktouf will be the special guest speaker at a seminar set for Wednesday, April 25 in the Palladium Room of the Ramada Inn. Aktouf recently completed an 18-city tour of Quebec, Mexico and France.

Collège Boréal has appointed Wesley Romulus as vice-president, central southwestern region, effective May 21.

Maxim Jean-Louis, president and chief executive officer of Contact North, has been appointed by the province to the management board?s advisory council on e-Government.

Morry Brown has been named general manager of NetCentral.

Franco Mariotti, a Science North biologist, was part of the first crew to go to the African tropical forest of Gombe National Park to scout locations for the Imax film, Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees .

Laurentian University president Hermann Falter, and Paul Colilli, director of the school of graduate studies and research, hosted a reception Monday to honour students who were recently awarded 2002 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council o

By Rick Pusiak A manager at Cecil Facer youth detention facility fraternized with OPSEU pickets last week after he had been drinking.

By Ben Rowe The national broadcast of tonight's Juno Awards, honouring the best in Canadian music, will have a local twist. Two members of Canadian rockers Sloan appeared at Northeastern Secondary School in Garson March 21.

Seven Sudbury representatives are participating in a trade mission to Atlanta, Georgia. Brown?s Concrete, Cambrian College, Grandmother?s Pie Shoppe Inc., Knowledge Control Corp., Lumière International Corp., Neureka Research Corp.