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Six girls at Northern College started a community initiative as a school project, but through their efforts they have opened the eyes of the community and brought the issue of teen violence into the forefront. Yesterday they announced their group TRAA- teen relationship abuse awareness has raised and donated just over 38-hundred dollars to start up a teen emergency fund for VCARS- victim crisis assistance referral service. 

Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson has called on the Mines Minister to correct false information. Bisson says Michael Gravelle sent letters to constituents in the North regarding the Xstrata closure with information just to confuse people. He’s called on Gravelle to send follow up letters with the correcting the mining legislation in other areas. Suggestions have been made to Premier Dalton McGuinty to follow the legislation that Bisson put forward which is similar to Newfoundland’s in that it will ensure more value is added to our resources.

With the memory of the 2010 Winter Games still lingering, and the Paralympics right around the corner, the Spirit of Vancouver will hit Timmins. This Sunday, Timmins is hosting the regional special Olympic winter games. The Mac will be the main venue. Figure Skating will start at 8:30 Sunday morning, followed by the opening ceremonies and speed skating. Later competitors will head out into Schumacher for snowshoeing. The majority of athletes are from Timmins but there are some arriving from Kapuskasing, Hearst, Iroquois Falls, and Sudbury.