Thunder Bay

A $66,000 provincial investment will help First Nations and Aboriginal associations across the North share knowledge and expertise to provide better local services to their communities.

The Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce and Weyerhaeuser Inc. are offering two scholarships worth $1,500 each.

By Michael Lynch When Ken Owen hears people talking about being in on the ground floor of Internet technology he proudly states, “I was in at the sub-basement level.” Owen was providing Internet services before they were invented.

The new president of the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, Ingrid Parks, has four issues she would like to pursue during her term. Parks, a Kenora councillor, says the softwood lumber dispute tops her list.

Northwestern Ontario businesses that have not paid fines for provincial offenses could soon have a bill collector knocking on their doors.

By Michael Lynch Northwestern Ontario communities and the area’s chambers of commerce have come together to develop the use of information, communications and geo-spatial technologies.

Funding of $39,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. has placed the Re-inventing Fort Frances committee a step closer to hiring a consultant.

The City of Dryden has submitted an application to the heritage fund’s economic diversification assistance program requesting funding of $280,000.

A hiring call for new employees at Weyerhaeuser's Trus Joist TimberStrand plant has workers at other Kenora businesses tendering their resignations for the lure of higher paying wages and job security.

Moose Creek Reforestation of Oxdrift wants to hire 44 people for the summer, and train them in forest tending. The 11-week training program is open to students, First Nations and the unemployed in the Dryden and Kenora areas.