There is a couple of dining options in the city tonight.One will set you back 550-dollars and help raise money for the Federal Liberals.

The other is a $5.50 dinner at the Navy League to help raise cash for Steelworkers striking against Vale Inco.

Sudbury MP Glen Thibeault says “it’s important to show the workers on strike that the community stands behind them.”

Olga Peroga’s generously donated the food for the lower-priced event which begins at 6:30.

The Liberal dinner is at the Caruso Club.

The colour of the week is Liberal red, as over 200 of the party’s leaders and officials hold their annual retreat here in Sudbury.

The federal Liberal caucus will be holding meetings and visiting the community over the next three days.

Many feel it’s a way to get back some of the support lost last fall when many formerly Liberal ridings when to NDP candidates.

Federal Leader Michael Ignatieff is set to hold a press conference this afternoon at the Holiday Inn.

There will no doubt be election talk as the party faithful will also be deciding whether to topple the Harper Conservative government.

One man remains in hospital this morning following a head on collision Saturday evening along Highway 144.

Police say the crash occurred just south of Gordon Lake Road in Dowling, when a southbound car crossed the centre line striking a tractor-trailer.

The 25 year old driver of the car was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital with non-life threatening injuries while his passenger and the truck driver were uninjured.

The Highway was closed for over six hours that night.

There’s no word on possible charges as the investagation continues but anyone who has information is asked to give OPP a call.

Pepper spray is to blame in an assault on Elgin near the Samaritan Centre Friday night that sent one to hospital.

That from police who say the incident happened around 11 when two male suspects used the spray on two other male victims.

Police say both victims are from the Sudbury area.

The two suspects are described as in their twenties, 5 foot 8 to 5 foot 10, 140 to 160lbs and a small stature.

One was wearing a red and white hoodie while the second a burgundy sweater.

If anyone has any information about the duo, they’re asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.

A head on crash between two cars last night closed Highway 144 last night for several hours.

It happened just before 5, south of Gordon Lake Road in Dowling.

It’s not clear if there were any injuries at this point.

The road didn’t re-open until midnight this morning.

Charges are being laid following a pair of accidents in the city yesterday.

During the afternoon, police were called to Notre Dame over reports of a car slamming into the back of a stopped vehicle.

According to police, the driver of the car, a 39 year old Sudbury man, had a blood alcohol level over two and a half times the legal limit.

Later that afternoon just before 6 a similar accident on Elm.

Police say the driver in a rear end collision, a 47 year old Sudbury man, was driving over three times the legal limit.

Both have court appearances to answer to the charges

A stabbing in the Donovan yesterday morning has police looking for the suspect involved.

According to investigators, it began in a Montague Street apartment around 5 A-M after two men got into a verbal confrontation that later turned into a fight.

Then one pulled a knife stabbing the other prompting police to be called.

The 17 year old victim was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Meantime police have several leads into the suspects identity, but if anyone has any information they’re asked to give them a call.

For the next four Saturdays Nickelbelt M-P-P France Gelinas and Sam Bruno will be taking on a mission.

They’re collecting names for a petition at the New Sudbury Shopping Centre, in hopes of bringing a PET scanner to Sudbury.

Gelinas says she doesn’t buy the excuse from the Ministry of Health that there’s enough scanners for Ontario residents

“And right now because the North-East is the only part of the province without a PET scanner…..to me this is discrimination,” says Gelinas.

Currently the closest scanner for cancer patients is in Toronto.

Both she and organizer Sam Bruno, a terminal cancer patient, have asked the province’s ombudsman to look into the issue.

Summerfest continues at Bell Park this evening.

Last night Bell Park was rocked to the sounds of Crash Parallel and Our Lady Peace.

Tonight the Stampeders and Edgar Winter Band take centre stage.

The city wants to also remind you they’ve set up a free shuttle service to the park over the course of Summerfest.

Buses will leave on the hour from the New Sudbury Shopping Centre starting at 7-30 and Plaza 69 at 8 o’clock.

Tense moments last night for residents of a New Sudbury apartment building.

Police evacuated the complex just before 7, after a threatening complaint, where a man threatened to do damage to a unit and hurt himself with what investigators describe as an accelerant.

Officers say the suspect did know the female tenant and she managed to escape without being harmed.

Then by 9-30 police attempted to make contact when he opened the door and was arrested.

A 43 year old Sudbury man is in custody charged with threatening and two counts of mischief.

Other charges are pending as the investigation continues.