FedNor is providing almost $890,000 to enable a Northern Ontario showcase at two mining-related conventions in Toronto and Vancouver in 2020. Temiskaming Shores will coordinate the regional presence. On hand for the announcement were Temiskaming political leaders and representatives of the mining sector – from left, Temiskaming Shores economic development officer James Franks, Councillor Danny Whalen and Mayor Carman Kidd; Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota and Maria Story, president of Story Environmental and Story Geomatics in Haileybury, with the company’s new mapping and inspection drone; Julie Buffam of TIME Ltd.; Dan Cleroux, Coleman mayor and SMC (Canada) Ltd. vice-president and general manager; and Steve Hill, vice-president, business development, at Wabi Iron and Steel. (Staff photo by Diane Johnston)