Sault Ste. Marie

Sunnier skies appear to be on the horizon for a Sault Ste. Marie aircraft refurbisher. The recent recession cut deep into the aviation sector, causing some large aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul shops to go out of business.

Sudbury-based Novenco Consultants Ltd. has made a name for itself in the mining, construction industries

Entrepreneur Jim Hilsinger would never have guessed that when he opened Algoma Water Tower Inn in Sault Ste. Marie 35 years ago that it would grow to become one of the city's leading hotels.

The new corporate offices for Northern Credit Union in Sault Ste. Marie broke ground last week for the construction of $8 million building scheduled for completion next year.

When Denis Turcotte resigned as head of Algoma Steel last year, he could have written his ticket into any corner office. But instead of becoming a corporate turn-around artist with another struggling company, he caught the consulting bug.

Join us for the 23 rd Annual Northern Ontario Business Awards that will be held on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at the Great Northern Hotel and Conference Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. Visit www.noba.ca for more information.

Unless you were a connaisseur of German food or a devoted bunny hill skier, few people in the Sault paid much attention to Buttermilk Ski Hill.

Two to three new invasive plant and animal species creep into Northern Ontario every year. The latest unwanted pest is the winged emerald ash borer which touched down this fall in a Sault Ste. Marie residential neighbourhood.

Joe Meating only has to gaze out his downtown office to visualize what havoc the emerald ash borer could wreak on trees along Queen Street.

Cindy and Murray Joseph were understandably a tad nervous this past summer about launching an eco-tourism business.