9. After a seven-month search, Ed Schmidtke took over the reins at the Thunder Bay International Airports Authority. Priorities for Schmidtke, a long-time executive at the airport, included ensuring safety and making the facility cost-effective.
8. A Grade 9 Hammarskjold High School student showed her knack for paleontology on the international stage, winning first-place in American Geoscience Institute’s geosciences award and a fourth-place grand award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh.
7. A man was hospitalized and two other men were arrested after a May 14 home invasion on Banning Street. The 43-year-old victim called police seeking help after an early evening altercation at his home.
6. A move to close a portion of Red River Road to traffic was brought to council by McIntyre Coun. Trevor Giertuga, who said the idea could help revitalize the so-called entertainment district. Options included closing the street between St. Paul and Court streets.
5. The city announced it was reviewing its major capital projects list, including the controversial event centre plan, in the wake of $15 billion in provincial infrastructure Building Ontario Up fund was announced. The plan was to present a list of priority projects for the next 10 years.
4. Dozens of marchers from Mishkeegogamang First Nation arrived in Thunder Bay after a 600-kilometre trek to raise awareness of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in their community.
3. A stubborn brush fire threatened a cemetery near Stanley early in the month. Nearly 40 firefighters from Oliver Paipoonge, Conmee and the Ministry of Natural Resources battled the blaze that broke out in a wooded area off Highway 11/17 near Pebblestone Road.
2. Residents from Hornepayne First Nation announced they were countersuing Nishanwbe Aski Nation for $3.4 million, but abandoned their occupation of NAN’s Fort William First Nation office after the governing body launched a $150,000 lawsuit in late May to force the group to leave.
1. The province’s special investigation unit cleared Thunder Bay Police in the 2014 death of 38-year-old child killer Kevin Guy Boucher. Boucher killed himself while surrounded by police in August 2014, after taking the life of his estranged girlfriend’s eight-year-old.
