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A driver did everything he was supposed to do and will likely not be charged after hitting a pedestrian early Wednesday morning police say.

Holding the last of their open houses Tuesday, the Norwester Mountain Escarpment Protection Committee says they want to convince city council to engage the public in a discussion about the proposed Big Thunder Wind Park.

Students in two more local schools will have longer days after the province announced Tuesday that Ogden Community Public School and St. Elizabeth School will have full-time kindergarten in 2011.

Other cities try, but Thunder Bay is one of the few that gets it, says musician Mark Potvin.

Canada Day in Thunder Bay will be minus one of its premier events this year. On Tuesday city officials confirmed the popular Water Street parade has been cancelled for this year while construction consumes Marina Park.

Despite a more than half-a-million dollar loan unresolved and additional phases to be complete, the regional emergency services training centre is still on the right track, says its new president.

One of the world’s most famous tall ships is expected arrive at Marina Park for a two-day visit starting Aug. 4. HMS Bounty was built in 1960 for MGM’s Mutiny on the Bounty , which starred Marlon Brando.

OPP officers in Sioux Narrows say the death of an American man on Sunday was likely an accident. Officers say 22-year old Gerald Jonasson of North Dakota died after allegedly jumping off of a bridge on Highway 71 in Sioux Narrows.

The city approved a contract Monday with over $1 million in reductions to the next step in developing the waterfront.

The OPP’s criminal investigations branch has received 13 tips on a 44-year-old cold case since launching a billboard and bus advertising campaign last month.