One city councillor wants a coffee table book produced on the new Thunder Bay waterfront. Joe Virdiramo believes there should be something to commemorate such a huge legacy project. He thinks it should include all the successes and failures that went into having the 58 million dollar project become a reality. Staff at City Hall will be reporting back on the idea at a future council meeting.
Lakehead University and the Thunderwolves hockey team have a new Head Coach. Bill McDonald replaces Mike Busniuk, who had been at the Wolves’ helm on an interim basis since taking over for Joel Scherban early this past season.
Thunder Bay's Safeway Stores continue to raise awareness and money for Special Olympics and Easter Seals. Easter Seals Spokesperson Rhonda Harrison says they'll be using their share of the money to send kids to camp. During the month of April, Northwestern Ontario Safeway stores will be asking customers to donate two dollars towards the charities in return you'll receive 5 bonus air miles points.
College and university students in Thunder Bay will have better access to mental health supports. The Provincial Government has announced over 900-thousand-dollars in funding over a three-year-period. Confederation College will design a "northern relevant" website for students and staff, improve counseling services and programs and create a peer support network.
City Hall is one step closer to collecting some outstanding taxes. Councillors have approved the sale of lands whose owners have not paid their taxes for three years. During the process treasurer Carol Busch told city lawmakers our track record for collection is pretty good, above the provincial average. The total taxes that are outstanding are 900 thousand dollars.
No injuries to report after a house fire on the city's south side. It happened on the 400 block of Empire Avenue just after 3 o'clock this afternoon. Neighbour Tony Rapino says that the owners weren't home at the time. He says they had just finished purchasing it and were renovating. The cause of the fire is not known.
The mayor of Greenstone can't contain himself these days. Ron Beaulieu
believes the economy of the community is about to get red hot with the
Ring of Fire mining project. So hot, says Beaulieu, he's expecting a
population explosion. He believes some wards could triple in size as
the result of the mining boom. Beaulieu says the challenge now is to make preparations to make sure there are the services in place to handle such growth.
