Local News

A historical look at events that happened on February 23.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* OPP Bound 2010 taking applications ORILLIA, ON - (February 23) - The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is preparing for its eighth OPP Bound recruitment program.

Statistics Canada is reporting this morning that life expectancy at birth in Canada has reached 80.7 years. That's based on the three-year period 2005 to 2007, up from the average life expectancy of 80.5 between 2004 and 2006. And, up from 78.

Sault Ste. Marie's West End Community Centre will be a reality in 2011 says EPOH Principal Architect Franco Pastore. Well, at least in part.

Terry Rainone admits he was a "weird kid." While his classmates dreamed of becoming astronauts and rock stars, the future owner of Palmer Construction Group was planning the day when he would own an asphalt plant.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASES ************************* Male arrested Twenty-six-year-old William McDonald of 101 Churchill Boulevard was arrested on the 22nd of February at approximately 11:30 a.m.

Terry Rainone's McRain Developments Inc. last night obtained zoning approval for a new manufacturing plant to build solar panels at 520 Allen's Side Road, near Second Line West.

Two Ontario figure skaters, Tessa Virtue from London and Scott Moir from Ilderton, have won a gold medal in ice dance at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Sault Ste. Marie City Council gave a rare standing ovation tonight to Donna Pearl Irving on the occasion of her last council meeting before she retires Friday after 14 years as City clerk.

Former United States vice president Dick Cheney has been hospitalized in Washington with chest pains, Fox News is reporting. Cheney has a long history of significant health issues, including four heart attacks, the first occurring when he was 37.