THUNDER BAY -- This new feature -- Week in Review -- takes a quick look at the top stories of each week. The top stories are determined by user activity. Below are the top stories of the first full week in January, 2015.
5 It’s Winter: Deep freeze strikes Thunder Bay
Less than 24 hours after being in a snowfall warning, the city is experiencing the wrath of another winter element.
Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for Thunder Bay, as well as most of Northwestern Ontario as cold air and strong northern winds create frigid conditions throughout Sunday.
The deep freeze is the result of “bitterly cold arctic air mass combined with winds of 10 to 20 km/h will produce extremely cold wind chill values,” Environment Canada said in the warning.
4. All safe after daycare fire
Everyone is safe after a small fire forced the evacuation of a local daycare Monday.
Nearly 40 children plus staff had to be taken out of Schoolhouse Playcare Centre on Grey Street early Monday afternoon after a small fire in the electrical room.
The fire caused minor damage and was put out by fire crews quickly but the building remained closed until repairs were done.
3 City’s first baby of 2015, healthy boy
Kian Fleming will never have trouble remembering his birthday.
On Thursday he became the city’s first baby born in 2015, the third son of proud parents Jaiden and Mark Fleming, an air ambulance pilot who flew all night, only to arrive at home in the morning to learn his wife was going into labour.
Kian arrived at 11:34 a.m., weighing in at a healthy eight pounds, 10 ounces.
2 New Swing Bridge offer on the table
The city has received an offer from CN over the James Street Swing Bridge and the federal government is willing to mediate a solution.
City manager Tim Commisso said city council hasn't had a chance to review the offer, which will be discussed during the Jan. 19 meeting at the latest, as city solicitor Nadia Koltun needs to finish taking a look before making recommendations.
1 Homeowner attacked
One man is in the hospital, and another is in custody following an aggravated assault that now has the attention of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit.
Thunder Bay Police Service officials have confirmed that a 29-year-old was arrested after an alleged break and enter into a John Street home on Jan. 3.
Social Story of the Week
(Most shares and likes via the tbnewswatch.com Facebook page):
Thunder Bay is pound-for-pound greatest hockey
Thunder Bay has always been known as a hockey town.
Now there’s proof.
Bloggers at the10and3.com have put together an interactive map showing the origins of every NHL player between 1923 and 2012, and Thunder Bay (along with its predecessors Fort William and Port Arthur), was number one on a per capita basis.
NOTE TO READERS : The stories for Week in Review are based on readership volumes exclusively. Week 1 will be unique from other Week in Review features is it includes the first full week of January along with the Thursday, Jan. 1 and Friday, Jan. 2 before.
The social story of the week is the story shared via the tbnewswatch.com Facebook page that received the most shares and likes from that page.
