Around the North

The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce has decided to pull the plug on its annual Tour of Lights event at Old Fort William. Poor attendance over the last two years is being blamed for the demise of the Christmas light show.

The second quarter finished on the upswing, but it was not good enough to overtake housing starts numbers from 2000, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. in Thunder Bay reports.

Thunder Bay's Confederation College has cut three of its programs due to a lack of funding from the provincial government.

The City of Thunder Bay is aiming at buying out leaseholders in Chippewa Park in order to convert the park to a public recreational site.

Statistics from the Thunder Bay Port Authority show 2001 year-to-date cargo volumes are up by half a million tonnes from last year's volumes. By August of this year, about 4.

Thunder Bay city council approved funding for the construction of a new $13.6-million bridge connecting McKellar Ave. with Thunder Bay mainland.

Officials with RMH Teleservices in Thunder Bay are hopeful 900 people will be working in the call centre in the near future.

Officials with RJK Explorations and its partner, Greater Lenora Resources Corp., have announced they may have found the source of two mineralized boulders discovered last summer west of Thunder Bay.

Plans are underway to develop extensive walking, hiking, biking and cross-country skiing trails throughout the Greater Sudbury region as part of the Trans Canada Trail system.

Inco Ltd.'s Copper Cliff smelter complex ranks as the second-worst polluter in Canada, according to a report released by the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation.