Sault Ste. Marie

The Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce is contributing to the growing list of voices petitioning for the four-laning of the Trans-Canada Highway from coast to coast.

The Roberta Bondar building in Sault Ste. Marie will undergo a $6-million facelift to accommodate more staff with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. Lottery staff has grown from 415 to more than 500 in the past year.

After more than four years of planning battles, Sault Ste. Marie enters the big-box shopping era early next year with the opening of a north-end Wal-Mart store. The 100,000-square-foot outlet is expected to open in late January 2003.

Eight months after restructuring, Sault Ste. Marie's Algoma Steel posted a $21.6-million second-quarter profit for the period ending June 30.

Seeking to develop an international-relations strategy, the City of Sault Ste. Marie has retained local development consultant Doug Clute to explore and maintain international growth opportunities.

A leading Tembec senior executive has been appointed president and CEO of Algoma Steel Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie. Denis Turcotte, 41, will replace the resigning Alexander 'Sandy' Adam, effective Sept. 16.

St. Marys Paper Ltd. found its new mill manager from within its own ranks, appointing long-time woodlands manager Marc Dube as its top administrative official in August.

A pre-engineering study in Sault Ste. Marie is recommending a $23.5-million upgrade to the city's east-end water pollution control plant, and an additional $19.48 million to install secondary treatment technology.

Four North Shore towns are collaborating on a proposal to restore permanent air service between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie.

By Ian Ross Wawa’s diamond rush is for real. Pele Mountain Resources Ltd., a diamond junior working the bush near the town has recovered 53 commercial-size diamonds from their Genesis occurrence. In early September, Pele extracted diamonds from a 4.