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Wednesday, January 10, 2001

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NEWS:

Cedar Bay site ideal for outdoor education

A needs assessment study completed last month concluded that the Cedar Bay recreation area, located on Pelican Lake on the northwest side of Sioux Lookout, is an ideal location for grade school and high school outdoor education

NEWS:

Prominent citizen killed on New Year’s Day

Bill Atwood, 58, died in a head-on collision with a transport truck at 1:30 p.m. New Year’s Day. The accident occurred on the TransCanada Highway seven km west of Dryden.

NEWS:

Eleven Nishnawbe-Aski Nation members complete x-ray course

Eleven people from seven different First Nations communities graduated with certificates in Basic Radiography November 24. The graduates were part of a 15 month Mohawk College and McMaster University program that first started in 1989.

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New Year’s baby happy and healthy

Sioux Lookout’s first child of 2001 was born to Jeri Graham and Roger Zilkowsky on January 4, at 5:30 p.m. in the District Health Centre.