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ST.THOMAS MAYOR HOPEFUL TO ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES

harold.kewley@century21.ca — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

St.Thomas Mayor Heather Jackson is back in St.Thomas after travelling to South Korea and Japan. This trip was for the SOMA Regional Marketing Group which St.Thomas is a part of. Jackson say's the got a lot accomplished in the week and a half that they were there.

Jackson say's that there is always some possibility to attract Japanese and Korean companies to our CIty.

YUREK MEETS WITH LONDON CITY COUNCIL

harold.kewley@century21.ca — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Elgin-Middlesex London MPP Jeff Yurek recently met with other London are MPP's at London City Hall. Yurek says numerous things were brought up, including unemployment. Yurek feels these meetings are very valuable to be a part of.

He mentioned the main focus has to be on the province getting their financial orders in place to provide stable and long term funding for municipalities. Yurek says untill the budget is balanced, the ability to provide municipalities across Ontario wit hadequate funding for infrastructure projects is going to be stretched and the provincial government need to recognize that problem.

YUREK AND PRESTON TO SPEAK AT CHAMBER LUNCH

harold.kewley@century21.ca — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The St.Thomas and District Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their 2nd annual MP/MPP Luncheon of Friday May 24th. Member of Parliament Joe Preston and Member of Provincial Parliament Jeff Yurek will answer questions in an open question-and-answer session at the St.Anne's Centre. Chamber President Bob Hammersley says he has several questions he will be posing as well.

Doors open for the event at 11:30 am which will be followed by a "working lunch" and the Q&A session. Tickets are $25. each and you can purchase them on-line at wwwstthomaschamber.on.ca or by calling the Chamber Office. Tickets must be purchased by NOOn today. (Thursday)

RELAY FOR LIFE VOLUNTEER NIGHT

harold.kewley@century21.ca — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Tonight (May 23rd) there will be a Cancer Relay For Life Volunteer Registratiopn and information Night at the Knights of Columbus Hall from 6:30 until 8 pm. Co-chair of Relay Bev Trethaway says the volunteers are looking good, but they can always use more. Trethaway mentioned that this event is open to people who have already registered or people interested in helping out.

She thinks that they could probably use 25-50 more volunteers. Trethaway says if they didn't ahve volunteers they wouldn't be able to have the relay, so they're vital to have. She also tossed in that if you still haven' t got a team entered and are interested, it's not to late to enter.