Local News

By Tracey Duguay With its 28th anniversary right around the corner, the Sears Canada department store in the New Sudbury Centre is getting a major facelift. bottom Tony Commito, store manager, looks at the renovation floor plans.

Sally Guy of Wahnapitae has been elected to serve as a director on the board of the Ontario Dental Hygienists? Association, a volunteer organization with 5,700 members. Her term of office is for one year, effective May 2002.

Patricia Mills, the publisher of Northern Ontario Business, and a former reporter at Northern Life, will receive the Cambrian College Alumni Award at the spring convocation ceremony on Wednesday, May 22.

Laurentian University will host its second Kumbaya event, a weekend getaway for secondary school students who have applied the university and their families May 25 and 26.

Ontario?s Premier Ernie Eves made a campaign commitment Tuesday in Thunder Bay by announcing that a full campus of the northern medical school would be built in Thunder Bay.

The Rainbow School Board is creating peanut-free zones in all of its schools for students with this food allergy. An allergic child who sits at a desk where another student ate a peanut butter sandwich at lunchtime could get a reaction.

M&M Meat Shops raised more than $1 million in support the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC) last weekend at store barbecues throughout the province.

For the Record In the Wednesday, May 15 edition of Northern Life, it was incorrectly stated that in order to receive palliative care services from the Sudbury Regional Palliative Care Association; clients must be terminally ill with cancer.

By Rick Pusiak There are a lot of events in Alex McCauley?s daybook these days that could be called wrap-up appointments. Sudbury?s police chief is retiring and his replacement may be announced by the end of the month.

By Tracey Duguay middle The War Pensioners of Canada present a cheque for $1000 to the Sudbury Regional Palliative Care Association.