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Chassie in the life-saving game now
Erin Chassie still loves playing on a team but North Bay’s first female AAA hockey goalie ended up saving hearts as a dream career instead. Chassie, who played for Butch Turcotte’s Hal’s Marine Minor Bantams in 1988-89, has been an operating room nurse at the...
Bonus: Additional NBGCC centennial coverage
The North Bay Golf and Country Club teed off its 100th anniversary in epic fashion April 29. A four-page spread in the inaugural Back in the Bay Magazine, sponsored by advertisers, was part of the celebration. A longer version of the story published in print is below....
North Bay gearing up for Bloom contest in 2022
A perfect storm of community spirit is combining forces to spruce up North Bay’s natural assets – just in time for another run at the national Communities in Bloom awards in 2022. It’s been 20 years since the city felt the warmth of Canada-wide limelight. And there’s...
Back in the Bay Magazine clear for liftoff
There are 6,000 copies of the inaugural Back in the Bay Magazine rolling off the Beatty Printing press Monday, May 3 and circulation of the Vol. 1, Issue 1 Spring 2021 edition begins Wednesday, May 5. It's a very exciting achievement for all those involved in...
Something smells about official ‘average’ water level
One could be forgiven for thinking Lake Nipissing’s early April shoreline looked like low tide at the ocean. Some of the lake bottom had been exposed long enough for the wind to blow the dried sand into small dunes. Numerous near-shore islands were no longer islands....
NBGCC teeing off centennial celly
The North Bay Golf and Country Club is teeing off its 100th anniversary in fine fashion tonight. A multi-media retrospectives by Clark Communications is taking place at 7 p.m. with a virtual open house. Here's the LINK to sign up for the webinar. YourTV will also have...
An Ode to Mentors
My cousin Ritchie and I had a nice long visit via telephone the other day. During the pandemic, he made the decision to go back to school and he seems to be enjoying his experience. We spoke of our time sharing an apartment in Etobicoke. The adventures of two young...
Nurse with northern roots sharing COVID-19 reality
Critical care nurse Annette Trudel wants Northern Ontario residents to benefit from her experience treating extremely sick COVID-19 patients at Toronto General Hospital. Trudel, who grew up in Mattawa and started her career in North Bay, said it’s important to...
Positive news and history celebrated at North Bay Airport
Air Canada will be servicing North Bay Airport again – possibly starting in June if travel bans are lifted. Mayor Al McDonald broke the news April 12 after the airline and federal government hammered out a major loan agreement. It was a timely development and a rare...
Airport memories soar across the decades
When moving to North Bay from London, Ontario, in 1957 one of the first places Dad took us to visit was the North Bay Airport. The Department of Transport had begun to construct it two decades earlier. Years later our own family always attended the air shows, along...