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FOREST FIRE UPDATE MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES ************************* Forest fire situation update - East Fire Region - August 7 There were four new fires reported in the East Fire Region on August 7. Parry Sound District Fire Number 24 is a 0.

NEWS RELEASE ALGOMA UNIVERSITY ************************ TIMMINS, ON - Algoma University will begin teaching two university courses on the campus of Northern College in Timmins, beginning in September.

Tonight's Sault Steelers game, scheduled for 7 p.m. at Rocky DiPietro Field, has been cancelled. The Sarnia Imperials could not field a team for the game and have forfeited. Word on Sarnia's status did not filter through until this afternoon.

Flakeboard in Sault Ste. Marie, can now add Superior medium-density fiberboard (MDF), Vesta no-added-urea-formaldehyde (NAUF) MDF and its full array of thermally fused melamine to its list of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified products.

ARCELORMITTAL DOFASCO INC.

Twenty-one years after Sault Ste. Marie's Beth Mattila died at age 59 after 21 tons of steel fell on her at Algoma Steel, her son was killed this week in a similar freak accident in Hamilton, Ontario.

NEWS RELEASE CHRISTIAN PROVENZANO ************************* Christian Provenzano takes the 100-mile Challenge Liberal Party candidate Christian Provenzano has challenged himself, for 30 days, to eat only foods that are grown, produced and sold within

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************** ATV accident on Laughing Lake Rd The Sault Ste.

Zaghareet is a wavering, high-pitched sound made by women to draw attention to good news. It's also the name of the local belly dancing troupe led by Katie Campbell (shown).