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Anthony Rota wants the Nipissing-Timiskaming federal Liberal nomination so badly he announced his run at it in three languages.

The North Bay and Area Social Planning Council wants to brainstorm child poverty in the area out of existence. A new task force has been started to do so, and it began its work with a think-tank session this week at Emmanuel United Church.

Alison Herst doesn’t know how much more she can take. The North Bay Olympian has been in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for 38 days now trying to bring her adopted daughter Zoe back to Canada. Herst had gone down to the country Oct.

Susan Church has added a new member to her campaign team. Church is seeking the Nipissing-Timiskaming federal Liberal nomination. She previously announced Don Curry and Mike Gauthier had become her campaign co-chairs.

Tracy Johnston can't wait for her best friend Alison Herst to return to North Bay, complete with a new daughter. Herst and her adopted daughter Zoe, pictured above in an earlier photograph, have been stuck in Port-au-Prince, Haiti since Oct.

If you love green onions, the North Bay and District Health Unit says you should steam, boil or sauté the things for at least two minutes before eating them.

A shortage in skilled trades has prompted the North Bay Mining Week Committee to put together a new recruiting tool. Mining in a Box has just been introduced by the committee and will be formally launched May 17 during the Mining Week gala.

Vic Fedeli will donate his mayor’s salary to five different organizations over the next three years. Fedeli, retired and independently wealthy when he decided to run, said Tuesday he wants to lead by example.

Newspapers in three Northern Ontario cities including North Bay will have their newspapers monitored as part of an anti-racism program.

Two potential candidates for the Nipissing federal Liberal nomination have bowed out of the competition, citing family and business concerns as their reasons.