Vicki Gilhula
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Success: Sudbury couple wants to put some spice in your life
Customers can’t get enough of this unique spice blend created by Christina and Tyler Merrin → Read More
Success: Laurette and Arnel Michel on living long and well
The couple, married 65 years, owned several successful businesses, but built their entrepreneurial empire on a foundation of love and mutual respect → Read More
Memory Lane: Close encounters with famous folks
Private house concerts saw numerous huge musical stars play Sudbury under the radar. Have you had an encounter with a star you’d like to share? → Read More
Then & Now: Meet the pioneer women Skead and Azilda are named for
In a time when women’s contributions were relegated to the household, Katherine Skead Bell and Azilda Bélanger left their mark on what would become Greater Sudbury → Read More
Then & Now:A tale of how two Nickel City men became titans of Canadian industry
High-flying Robert Campeau and the more reserved Paul Desmarais both grew up on the rock and went on to become fabulously wealthy and influential → Read More
Inspire: This young Sudbury artist is leaving her mark at Sudbury Secondary
Not only do Kahlan Kivisto interests lie in art, but she is also a volunteer with Girl Guides, school parliament and Street Outreach Sudbury → Read More
Then & Now: Meet the Nickel City’s pioneering power couple
Thomas Ryan served three terms as mayor of the Town of Sudbury when it was little more than a railway camp, while his wife, Helen, was one of Canada’s first female physicians → Read More
Memory Lane: Theatre pros with Sudbury connections found their passion at Sudbury Theatre Centre
STC has not only entertained generations of Sudburians, it has ignited the artistic passion of several people who went onto to turn their local experience into theatre careers → Read More
Then & Now: Remembering ‘rebel’ Diane Marleau, still Sudbury's longest serving MP
Raised on a shoestring by a single mother in Kirkland Lake and once called the ‘Margaret Thatcher of Sudbury’, Marleau was an MP, a cabinet minister, a defender of public health care and skilled politician → Read More
Inspire: Art is life for this Sudbury Secondary student
Whether it’s performing, learning a new instrument or creating a colouring book, Raija Walli knows the arts are where her passion lies → Read More
Memory Lane: Remembering when STC’s Oliver! brought some theatrical joy to a struggling Nickel City
In 1982 when the Sudbury Theatre Centre opened, Sudbury’s economy was in dire straits, but when the musical version of Dickens’ classic was staged, starring dozens of local children, it seemed to strike the perfect chord for this mining town → Read More
Then & Now: Remembering W.E. Mason, Sudbury’s very own Citizen Kane
The legendary owner of The Sudbury Star and The North Bay Nugget was certainly divisive, loved by some and feared by others, died childless and left his considerable fortune to charity → Read More
Memory Lane: Sudburians recall how the city banded together to weather the 1958 Inco strike
Many of the men who hit the picket lines are gone now, but many of their children vividly recall those difficult three months in the fall of 1958 → Read More
Then & Now: This is the downtown corner where Sudbury as we know it was born, but you wouldn’t know it
Downtown takes a lot of criticism, but stand on nearly any corner in the heart of Sudbury and you are surrounded by the Nickel City’s rich history — and it’s about time we celebrate our storied past before it’s forgotten → Read More
Memory Lane: The 1958 miners' strike or the year Sudbury almost didn't celebrate Christmas
Share your memories of the 1958 Mine Mill Local 598 strike → Read More
Then & Now: New book details the rich (and convoluted) story of broadcasting in the Nickel City
CKSO was the first commercial radio station in Northern Ontario and gave birth to the first privately television station in Canada → Read More
Memory Lane: Sudburians recall how they came together to heal the city’s broken landscape
Efforts of thousands resulted in today’s green and verdant city → Read More
Then & Now: That time a Sudbury newspaper editor was convicted of fomenting rebellion
Arvo (or Aaro) Vaara, editor of the Sudbury-based Finnish-language newspaper Vapaus, was arrested and deported for, it seems, not being sufficiently sympathetic to the failing health of King George V → Read More
Inspire: COVID can't stop Kids Caring For Kids cancer crusaders
For decades the annual Kids Caring for Kids Cancer Drive has raised thousands of dollars every year for pediatric cancer care in the region. COVID-19 has made the drive more challenging the past two years, but the Lockerby Composite students who champion the effort say nothing will stop them for hitting $1 million in total funds raised → Read More
Memory Lane: It takes a community to plant a forest
Share your memories of helping to heal the landscape → Read More