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The only topic of conversation in the Migliazza household these days is Jesus Christ Superstar.

A grassroots initiative to bring awareness to missing and murder women in Canada inspired Sharon Johnson to help start her own awareness campaign in Thunder Bay. Johnson started the local Full Moon Memory Walk in memory of her sister Sandra in 2005.

Mayor Keith Hobbs thinks this year’s citizens satisfaction survey shows council is moving in the right direction. Around 92 per cent of people say the quality of life in Thunder Bay is either good or very good.

A Rosslyn Road man is lucky to be alive after fire engulfed his home Monday night. Oliver-Paipoonge Fire Chief Mike Horan said the house is a total loss, after crews spent more than two hours battling the blaze.

Local fire fighters have been given wage parity with local police again. Members of the Thunder Bay Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 193 had been without a contract for the past two years.

Despite no financial commitment, city council fully supports the idea of a new youth centre for Thunder Bay.

The Lowery’s Sports Dome is closed for the summer. Facility spokesman Jake Satten on Monday said slower summer traffic flows made it the ideal time to shut the doors and make renovations totalling about $100,000.

Thunder Bay's elected officials and city staff are going to hear what you think about the job they've been doing. City council gets back to business tonight with its first regular meeting since its summer hiatus several weeks ago.

The walls of Confederation college are a little more colourful these days. On Monday the school officially unveiled its latest addition, Living in Landscape, an abstract Patrick Doyle painting donated to the school by an anonymous benefactor.

Investigators have identified the victim of a fatal house fire near Nipigon. Officials with the Nipigon detachment of the OPP say the body of Fern Marquardt, 66, of Lyon Township, was found at the site of a house fire in Lyon Township Friday.