Around the North

Nominations can now be made for the 2010 Influential Women of Northern Ontario Awards.

The City of Elliot Lake has won a national marketing award in the under $200,000 budget category at the Economic Developers Association of Canada's (EDCO) annual conference in Vancouver, Sept. 24.

Sault College has turned the sod for construction of a new $25-million academic wing. The Sault Ste. Marie campus is accommodating its growing enrolment with the new three-story, 75,000-square-foot addition.

North American Palladium has closed its $50 million bought deal unit offering for mineral exploration and development in northwestern Ontario. The public offering of 16,000,000 units at a price of $3.15 per unit closed Sept. 30.

A new wood products company is setting up shop in the Thunder Bay area to process white birch into 'food-grade' wood products.

Dryden's largely undeveloped Wabigoon Lake waterfront is going under the public microscope. The city's development corporation is staging an open house Oct.

Thunder Bay accountant Walter Flasza has received the top honour in his profession. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario has announced Flasza as one of 75 Ontario chartered accountants named as Fellows of the Institute.

Having advanced a handful of its Northern Ontario projects to the drilling stage, Amador Gold Corp. (TSX-V: AGX) has announced plans to spend $1.1 million on drilling in the Timmins and Red Lake areas.

An agreement to exempt Canada from the United States' Buy American policies may be close to being a done deal, according to reports by CBC News.

Queenston Mining Inc. (TSE: QMI), which has a series of exploration projects in the Kirkland Lake camp, has completed the first $13-million portion of its previously announced $17-million financing.