Around the North

Northerners are still going strong in their fight to save the Northlander passenger rail service.

Sault Ste. Marie will receive $100,000 from the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines to help fund a tourism marketing strategy. Ontario Minister Dan Newman made the expected funding announcement from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp.

Sault Ste. Marie will receive $100,000 from the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines to help fund a tourism marketing strategy. Ontario Minister Dan Newman made the expected funding announcement from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp.

Northmar Distributors announced recently it is closing its Oak Street West operation in North Bay. More than 50 employees are expected to be out of work by Aug. 10.

A contract will be awarded next month for the construction of a new $25-million jail on the site of the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital, Premier Mike Harris announced recently.

The man who helped lead St. Marys Paper Ltd. out of financial insolvency wilderness in the early 1990s is leaving the Sault Ste. Marie papermaker for a job on the West Coast. Norm Facey, who served as general manager at St.

Abitibi-Consolidated's Fort Frances mill was forced to shut down one of its paper machines in early June due to rapidly rising water levels from the Rainy River. Water was pouring in through a sewer in the basement.

Sudbury's Laurentian University is the recipient of more than $1.5 million in research and equipment grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for the next academic year.

Forest products giant Domtar Inc. is buying four American paper mills from Georgia-Pacific Corp. The $2.5-billion deal will transform the Montreal-based company into the third-largest producer of uncoated freesheet (photocopy and printing papers).

North Bay Hydro consumers are expectant of a $100 jolt to their wallets this year as the price of wholesale energy is set to rise in July.