A dedication ceremony was held at Jean Hanson Public School today in honour of the former Director of Education for Rainbow District School Board. Trustees unanimously approved the renaming of Gatchell School in her memory at the regular Board meeting on April 29, 2014.

Update May 13th, 2014 - The woman airlifted to Toronto yesterday with third and forth degree burns has been identified as Diane Paquette. The condition of another woman who witnesses told us was administered CPR at the scene and transported to hospital is unknown at this time.

R.I.D.E. checks this weekend by Greater Sudbury Police produced two of impaired drivers resulting in 90 day license suspensions. One driver stopped during the R.I.D.E check registered a warning on the approved screening device and due to the fact it was this driver’s second time being caught in the warn range the driver had his license suspended for 7 days.

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As part of Greater Sudbury Francophone Book Fair (Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury) activities held in Sudbury from May 8 to 11, kindergarten students at Sudbury's École catholique Félix-Ricard received the visit of author Dominique de Loppinot who read her book entitled "Partis les bobos!" (Bye bye boo boos) to the attentive students. The kindergarten students presented the author a thank you card decorated with ban-aids!