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The cats at the Thunder Bay Animal Services shelter were the recipients of some Christmas Cheer last week. Students from Sir Winston Churchill Elementary and from Agnew H. Johnston Public School donated boxes to the felines waiting for adoption.

City police have finished their investigation into a November auto-pedestrian collision. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the collision took place on Robertson Street on Nov. 3.

City police have charged the bus driver involved in a collision with a pedestrian.

It appears the gas crunch that hit this city and much of the region late last week has eased, at least for now. Gas suppliers report that transportation difficulties that resulted in supply problems last week have been addressed .

The city is asking health-care students who are home for the holidays to consider coming back for good one day.

Thunder Bay District Health Unit officials have confirmed there is a community outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus in the city.

Health Unit restrictions that forced the closure of the kitchen at Thunder Bay's Moose hall have now been lifted. The restrictions were announced last Wednesday after an outbreak of a food-borne illness that followed a weekend Christmas Party.

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Longtime Canadian Lakehead Exhibition board member Linda Gambee resigned as chair of the Christmas Cheer campaign after six years at the helm on Sept. 6. Gambee stepped down after she was ousted from the board Sept.

Three people died in two separate drowning incidents in one August weekend. The body of Kevin Spade,32, was recovered by OPP divers on Aug. 19 in Lake Superior after a cliff-diving adventure gone wrong two days earlier.