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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Thunder Bay Multicultural Youth Council
The Council was formed as a follow-up to the special activities organized by the Multicultural Association of Northwestern Ontario (MANWO) in 1985 to mark the International Youth Year.
RMYC officers from the region meet quarterly (usually in Thunder Bay), or when funding is available to cover travel and subsistence costs.
The shaded portion of the map (from the shores of Lake Superior to the Hudson Bay and from the Manitoba border stretching east to near the town of White River) marks the general (807 area code) area of Northwestern Ontario we serve.
my.tbaytel.net /manwoyc/who.html   (1026 words)

  
 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thunder Bay is home to the largest Finnish population in Canada, with 10.7% of Thunder Bay being of Finnish descent.
Thunder Bay is the largest city in Northwestern Ontario, serving as a regional commercial and medical centre.
The city is served by the Thunder Bay International Airport, the third busiest airport in Ontario.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thunder_Bay,_Ontario   (2968 words)

  
 City of Toronto: Council Highlights
Council approved an agreement with the Region of York for the allocation of capital funding by Toronto and York as the municipal share of the proposed extension of Toronto's Spadina subway line.
Council supported a motion requesting that the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation's studies on the future of the Gardiner Expressway be shared with all members of City Council.
Council agreed in principle that the City should proceed with plans to make it mandatory for homeowners to disconnect their eavestrough downspouts from the sewer system.
www.toronto.ca /council_highlights/index.htm   (988 words)

  
 FOCA | Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations - Tax article from Thunder Bay Mayor
For Thunder Bay, this has happened with standards for Policing, Transportation and Homes for the Aged to name a few of the more critical and costly examples.
Over the last 10 years, the City of Thunder Bay has responded to the combined pressures of growing responsibilities and costs by holding the line on tax increases and reducing spending on operating programs and infrastructure maintenance.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a City of 109,000 located at the head of Lake Superior on the TransCanada Highway.
www.foca.on.ca /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=124   (1019 words)

  
 The Thunder Trail - Homepage.
The Thunder Trail will be a tourism asset that also provides our citizens with opportunities to enjoy enhanced quality of life and health.
The City's report concluded "the Trans Canada Trail represents a grand national vision on a scale with the construction of the national railways and the Trans Canada highway.
The Thunder Trail Committee is dedicated to the development and maintenance of a shared-use recreation trail to be Thunder Bay’s section of the Trans Canada Trail network.
www.geocities.com /thunder_trail/main.html   (398 words)

  
 KEEP THUNDER BAY WOMEN’S SHELTER OPEN: NDP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Conservatives are slamming the door in the face of Thunder Bay victims of domestic violence, NDP Women’s Issues Critic Marilyn Churley says.
She asked Elliott to listen to Thunder Bay police, city council and community members and keep the shelter open.
“Thunder Bay police, community and city council are demanding with one voice: Don’t close the shelter.
www.publicpower.ca /issues-news/printer_49.shtml   (155 words)

  
 www.netnewsledger.com - Thunder Bay's Underpaid Council?
The City of Thunder Bay is the largest employer in the city.
When you compare what the Council and Mayor are paid in Thunder Bay to what some of the executives of our other top employers are paid, the differences are stark.
Perhaps it is time Thunder Bay considered raising the pay of the Mayor and Councillors to a full-time level.
www.netnewsledger.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=268&Itemid=2   (581 words)

  
 A History of Bay County
Bay County lies along Saginaw Bay on the central eastern border of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, the center of a productive agricultural, fishing, and salt mine region.
Bay County assumed its present proportions in 1883, including 443 square miles of land, and 30 miles of shore line.
Bay City was incorporated as a city in 1855, under a new charter.
www.co.bay.mi.us /bay/home.nsf/Public/A_History_Of_Bay_County.htm   (560 words)

  
 Thunder Bay News, Radio Station, 580 CKPR, www.ckpr.com
At city hall Monday night, council voted 7-5 in favour of asking administration to look at the cost of replacing the two delisted homes, Dawson Court and Grandview Lodge and assess the potential economic impact of such a move.
City council made it official Monday night directing staff to look at the costs of replacing the delisted Grandview Lodge and Dawson Court slated to be turned over to the province in 2009.
That is the question council is wrestling with and it is a decision that will probably come down to three of the new city councillors.
www.ckpr.com /localnews/index.asp?cid=90055   (399 words)

  
 Thunder Bay Collaborative
Thunder Bay Collaborative’s unique combination of comic, subtle and transcendent elements evokes the world of nature as an active force in the unfolding of human events.
Thunder Bay’s dramatic worlds are manifested through striking visual imagery and music in an innovative style linking mask and puppet characterization with extraordinary voices, dance and acting.
Thunder Bay Collaborative creates and rehearses at its Winnicut Performance Barn in East Otis, South Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and also maintains a base in New York City and an annual season in New York State.
www.thunderbayus.org /about.html   (1819 words)

  
 Thunder Bay Recreational Trails :: Group History
In 1999, a number of "Town Hall" meetings were held to encourage the development of the Trans Canada Trail in Thunder Bay.
In January 2000, Thunder Bay City Council endorsed a route through Thunder Bay for the Trans Canada Trail as proposed by the Thunder Trail.
Thunder Bay Recreational Trails Inc. was incorporated in 2003.
www.tbaytrails.com /about_history.php   (74 words)

  
 Image, Community, Glory and Women in Office
In light of our decision to have women in office and the forthcoming discussion on that issue, a number of people have asked me to address the issue in a sermon for the purpose that the congregation might have a springboard for discussion.
In the middle of that new reality is the Holy City, prepared as a bride for her husband.
The Eternal city is the church, community in unity.
www.pbv.thunder-bay.on.ca /NetSermons/Gen127ser.html   (3501 words)

  
 Northern Ontario Business - Thunder Bay and North Western Ontario Business News Archive
Thunder Bay is in a state of flux, as the owners of small and medium-sized businesses brace for the impact of a slowing economy.
The Thunder Bay economic development department is taking a new approach to sustaining and improving the health of the city's economy by instituting a cluster approach for all industry sectors.
Thunder Bay business leaders are blaming their municipal council for a lack of investor confidence in the city.
www.nob.on.ca /regionalReports/ThunderBay/archives.asp   (9989 words)

  
 Silvermoon City - WoWWiki
Silvermoon City is the capital of the blood elves, located in the northeastern part of the Eversong Woods within the kingdom of Quel'Thalas.
The city of Silvermoon was founded by the high elves after their arrival in Lordaeron thousands of years ago.
The city contained the famous Academies of Silvermoon as a center for the learning of Arcane Magic and Sunstrider Spire, a majestic palace home to the Royal family of the high elves.
www.wowwiki.com /Silvermoon_City   (1448 words)

  
 Thunder Bay District Health Unit : News of August (10-30) 2005
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is announcing a Swimming Advisory for Sunnyside Beach at the Boulevard Lake because an excessive level of E.coli bacteria in water tests.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is announcing a Swimming Advisory for The Main Beach at the Boulevard Lake because an excessive level of E.coli bacteria in water tests.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is responding to concerns about air quality in and around Thunder Bay due to forest fires in the area.
www.tbdhu.com /Resources/News/2005/August/default.htm   (953 words)

  
 Biography: Curtis Munger - Bay City, Bay County, MI / BAY-journal
A heavy snowstorm from the north-east set in, and what to do they did not know; to remain would be folly, as the Winter had commenced, and they were getting hungry, as they had finished their last provisions two days before.
Joseph Parkerson proposed they should start in their open fish boat to Lower Saginaw, as Bay City was then called, and if they could reach there he knew an old lady by the name of Mrs.
Was for two terms elected county treasurer of Bay County, and many other offices of public trust, all of which he has filled with the entire confidence of the public.
bay-journal.com /bay/1he/writings/munger-curtis.html   (1455 words)

  
 About the Sanctuary/Preserve
Based on studies that document the presence of a large number of shipwrecks in Thunder Bay, and with the support of a local diving club and other civic organizations, Thunder Bay became one of the first State of Michigan underwater preserves in 1981.
Later that year, the Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC) was established to provide NOAA and the Governor of Michigan with recommendations regarding issues of concern to the local communities.
In November 1997, the City of Alpena passed a referendum opposing the proposed sanctuary (776 voted for the sanctuary and 1,770 voted against it).
thunderbay.noaa.gov /designation/history.html   (1240 words)

  
 Thunderbay IMC
Thunder Bay indymedia has played a strong role in the blockade from the beginning.
IMC Thunder Bay contributer Karli was allowed access to the Norampac Mill in Red Rock.
Youth out migration; economic woes; a declining and aging population; closing schools; environmental concerns: these are just a few of the issues that Thunder Bay citizens are concerned about.
thunderbay.indymedia.org   (1187 words)

  
 Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Frequently Asked Questions
Thunder Bay and the surrounding waters on Lake Huron contain a nationally significant collection of over 100 shipwrecks.
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is the first freshwater and Great Lakes sanctuary, the only sanctuary located entirely within state waters, and the first sanctuary to focus solely on a large collection of underwater cultural resources.
An inventory of Thunder Bay's underwater cultural resources, conducted by Michigan State University in 1975, suggested that the number of wrecks located in the area warranted the establishment of an underwater "reserve." A local diving club supported this idea and, under state law, Thunder Bay was declared Michigan's first Great Lakes Bottomland Preserve in 1981.
thunderbay.noaa.gov /info/faq.html   (1179 words)

  
 Thunder Bay Art's Council
Thunder bay Arts Council, inc., incorporated since 1971 and granted 501 status in 1972, is a voluntary educational organization which has defined its role with the following mission statement:
The Council is made up of some three hundred members and managed by a Board of Directors and Officers of twenty five to thirty persons elected from the membership.
The Council recognizes a need to act as a facilitator in networking among the various arts organizations in the area.
www.alpenatbarts.org /tbarts/info.html   (281 words)

  
 SeniorsArticle_200511
With regards to the City having three times the number of average beds/capita for Senior Homes, it's something we should be proud of, rather than consider a waste of resources and money.
The City’s plan was to gradually raise these rates, until it surpassed $100 and then give the responsibility over to the private sector.
Now City Council has exercised their indecisiveness once again, by voting to decide the fate of the water delivery system, at a later date.
www.angelfire.com /on/andyland/SeniorsArticle200511.html   (1865 words)

  
 http://www   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Many different reasons for the opposition were given ranging from machines taking jobs away from people, to computer hackers re-programing the machines and changing election results.
A quick and unofficial straw poll was taken at the meeting, with the vast majority voting for a return to having votes counted by hand.
Timko is expected to report back to city council at Monday's meeting.
www.wheresthepaper.org /ThunderBaySource05_05HostileMoodAtTownHall.htm   (264 words)

  
 Comments
The real impact of the smoking ban on the Thunder Bay Charity Casino won’t be known for a few weeks when revenue figures for the second quarter are in.
It will conform to the city bylaw as long as employees do not go out to the lounge area to serve customers, said Simon Hoad, health promotions planner for the Thunder Bay District Health Unit.
Council voted unanimously in favour of the Waruk move.
looped-ca.blogdrive.com /comments?id=104   (2738 words)

  
 Fort Frances Times - 2005-09-15 - Katona biking to Thunder Bay for cancer research Terry Fox Run goes Sunday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
And this year will be no exception as he and former Stratton resident Arnie Johnsrud plan to bike to Thunder Bay to raise funds for cancer research.
Katona was given 13 Terry Fox commemorative coins by Fort Frances town council to present to the City of Thunder Bay—a goodwill gesture he feels is appropriate given the Terry Fox Memorial is a regional landmark.
Katona said he and Johnsrud, who now lives in Lorette, Man. and is an experienced long-distance cyclist, will take about two days to get to Thunder Bay and then two days to get back (although they may take a day to rest, especially if the wind was against them on the way there).
www.fftimes.com /print_version.php/22734   (600 words)

  
 North Bay Virtual City Hall: City Clerk
Council meetings are held bi-weekly in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 200 McIntyre Street East at 7:00 p.m., Monday evenings.
Agendas are prepared for the meeting and contain the correspondence being dealth with at the meeting, draft resolutions relating to the correspondence being dealt with at the meeting, by-laws for readings, and committee reports for adoption.
A Council Agenda listing the items to be dealt with at that evening's meetings is available free of charge and can be picked up in the Council Chambers the evening of the meeting.
www.city.north-bay.on.ca /vch/dep_cityclerk.asp   (498 words)

  
 The Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay is located on Lake Superior between Toronto and Winnipeg, directly north of Minneapolis, and it is serviced by an international airport.
In addition to showing films, the Bay Street Film Festival brings together filmmakers and film lovers by offering exhibits, presentations and panel discussions that are free and open to the public.
Thunder Bay's film and video cooperative, was founded in 2001 and has an open door policy for anyone in the community who may wish to join.
www.shebafilms.com /baystreetfilmfestival   (735 words)

  
 National Marine Conservation Area
Under study as an NMCA are the waters that extend from Thunder Cape straight south to the mid-lake Canada-U.S. border and all waters from the border north and east along the coastline to Bottle Point, northeast of the Slate Islands.
Council sees this as meshing beautifully with the city’s plans for a new waterfront project and councillors agree that this NMCA designation will result in ecological and economic benefits for the entire area.”
While Terrace Bay residents are fairly positive toward the NMCA, Dean Main, the town’s coordinator for Recreation, Tourism and Economic Development, says there is a general concern over potential loss of boating, hunting and fishing.
www.lakesuperior.com /online/223/223nmca.html   (1906 words)

  
 Northern Ontario Business - Thunder Bay and North Western Ontario Business News Archive
Thunder Bay taxpayers and developers will get their first glimpse this winter at the completed multi-million dollar vision for a tourism and family attraction to expand a waterfront park.
Thunder Bay is in a state of flux, as the owners of small and medium-sized businesses brace for the impact of a slowing economy.
Thunder Bay Mayor Lynn Peterson is convinced that the city is poised to adjust to new economic realities under its new council, despite recent budgetary challenges.
www.northernontariobusiness.com /regionalReports/ThunderBay/archives.asp   (10101 words)

  
 Saint Anthony's Fire in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
Anthony Serrao, objecting to the re-zoning, at City Hall in March, that was declined by City Council.
Thunder Bay has a high vacancy rate, and many homes are available for thousands of dollars less than the value of these homes.
As of October 15, 2000 the Bishop's of Thunder Bay reside in a Mansion.
www.abeautifuldifference.com /webdoc2.5.html   (5777 words)

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