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Police are looking for a suspicious man who they believe may have tried to lure a 12-year-old boy into his van Monday.

The city is looking for ways to save money through attrition after a budget meeting Tuesday evening.

While nothing official has been announced, sources told tbnewswatch.com Tuesday evening that Delta Hotels is expected to be named as the hotelier for the city’s waterfront.

The OPP underwater search and recovery team’s search for missing 15-year-old Jordan Wabasse has been stalled until Wednesday morning because of the lack of available light among other issues. The four-member team arrived in the city at 3 a.m.

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is losing its acting medical officer of health. The Health Unit announced Tuesday afternoon that Dr. Henry Kurban would be resigning from his position effective July 1, 2011.

The Second Career program changed Ralph Pilato’s life. The 42-year-old father of two enrolled at Confederation College in 2007 and three years later graduated. Pilato worked for Great West Timber Limited for 19 years before the company laid him off.

The city’s Seven Days with the Giant has been a “wildly successful annual summer campaign” that continues to help move Thunder Bay forward as Canada’s best outdoor city, said tourism manager Paul Pepe.

Thunder Bay's HAGI Transit is benefitting from a province-wide purchasing strategy. The Ontario transit body Metrolinx has purchased 27 new accessible buses in a joint procurement partnership involving 11 communities.

The next step is to find the scientists and researchers to execute it.

The city’s police chief says he’s not surprised, but admits he is concerned that local officers used force 40 per cent more in 2010 than they did in the previous year.