Around the North

Municipalities stretching from northwestern Ontario to Parry Sound will benefit from a $400,000 investment by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund aimed at enhancing recreation activities in the north.

Earlton-Temiskaming airport officials seeking to resume weekday flight service to Toronto are negotiating with a prospective carrier and expect to make an announcements in the coming weeks.

The 28 per cent decline in aircraft and passenger traffic at Dryden Regional Airport in October from the same month in 2000 is being attributed to the pulling out of Calm Air.

A call centre is on the early Christmas wish list of the Chapleau Regional Development Corp. (CRDC).

For the time being, lumber industries in Canada will get a break from the 19.3 per cent countervailing duties imposed on softwood lumber.

The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund will invest $3,047,000 to complete the restructuring of the Ontario Prospectors Association (OPA) into a modern, professionally staffed association to serve the prospecting community.

The steel framework is up on the new aviation campus for North Bay's Canadore College, scheduled for a fall 2002 completion. The $12.

The assets of the Mattawa's Timber Train have been seized by the Royal Bank, giving notice to the excursion company on Nov. 14.

Bringing the natural world inside is the concept proposed by the designers of Mattawa's General Hospital project. The firms of Larocque Elder Architects Inc.

Officials with the City of Dryden anticipate a busy year for the construction industry next year, and into consecutive years, as major projects head into development stages.