Local News

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.

?Sisters Step Up? in a show of support on the OPSEU picket line. Irene Harris, executive vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, will join striking workers in Sudbury on Thursday.

Lockery Composite School is getting a visit from Secretary of State, Andy Mitchell. Mitchell is expected to make an annoucment concerning federal funds to support the Laptop Learning Program at Lockerby.

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum?s (CIM) annual general membership meeting will take place Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 pm in the Science North Cavern.

By Keith Lacey Two Norwegian union leaders received a hero's welcome Monday for their support of the workers on strike last year at Falconbridge Ltd.

The police foundations program at Collège Boréal will use a new laboratory, as of next September. For professor Gerry Hogan, this laboratory will be a major asset in teaching his subject matter.

Cambrian College's $2.9 million deficit for the upcoming academic year can be attributed to provincial funding, salary increases and enrolment, explains Sonia Del Missier, vice-president of academics.

Chief Alex McCauley recently presented two Greater Sudbury Police Memorial Scholarship awards to Wayne Rancourt and Veronica Quesnelle , CTS College students in the police foundations program.

Sudbury Catholic District School Board and the City of Greater Sudbury will host the annual Ontario Catholic Schools Trustees' Association AGM conference in 2003. The conference will be held in Sudbury from May 8 to May 10 next year.