Local News

More than 100 elementary teachers from across Rainbow, Algoma and other districts in Ontario will be in Sudbury today.

By Vicki Gilhula Correctional workers at Sudbury Jail havenÂ?t reported to work since last week. Local 617 president Marnee Campbell said the workers are refusing to work because of health and safety issues.

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.