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Creighton’s Ore Samples receives provincial grant for writers, performers

This time last year, Ore Samples didn’t exist. Now, the Creighton-based writers’ series is up and running, and will be getting some help from the Saskatchewan government.
Former exchange student returns to fondly remembered Flin Flon

Former exchange student returns to fondly remembered Flin Flon

It’s been nearly two decades since Antje Steller first left Flin Flon, but it still feels like her second home. Stellar, a German, first came to Flin Flon as a 16-year-old Rotary Exchange student in 1997. She recently paid a return visit.
Reflections: Jazz Regents were a Flin Flon phenomenon

Reflections: Jazz Regents were a Flin Flon phenomenon

We’ve all heard the expression, “Where did the time go?” Perhaps a few Flin Flonners can stretch their memories back 60 years (yikes!) to 1956.
Station museum reopens with new look and a historic monument

Station museum reopens with new look and a historic monument

At 54, Josiah Flintabattey Flonatin sure knows how to throw a party. On Sunday, Aug.
‘Big shoes to fill’: Alvera Koop new Northern Health Region volunteer coordinator

‘Big shoes to fill’: Alvera Koop new Northern Health Region volunteer coordinator

Alvera Koop is the new volunteer coordinator with the Northern Health Region. Koop took over last week from Brenda Veitch, who retired in late July after 15 years on the job.

Partnerships lauded as Youth Job Centre wraps up season

A local youth employment program is wrapping up after a successful summer. The Flin Flon Manitoba Youth Job Centre, based in the Barrow Provincial Building, helps youth gain work experience.
French outside of the classroom at Camp Soleil

French outside of the classroom at Camp Soleil

It’s 11 am on a Wednesday morning, and a classroom at St. Ann’s Church is a hubbub of activity. Thirteen kids ages 6 to 11 are carving designs into clay circles, creating their own unique Olympic-style medals.
Cranberry Portage Trout Challenge awards prizes

Cranberry Portage Trout Challenge awards prizes

Cranberry Portage anglers faced a mixed weather bag over the weekend as they cast their lines looking to earn bragging rights and prizes in the annual Cranberry Portage Trout Challenge.

Faith: The rumour mill

Town gossip! We have developed other names for it. It is called the grapevine or the rumour mill. A lot of news and information is circulated in this unofficial manner. Wherever people gather there will be talk.
Girl Guides attend 2,800-strong Alberta camp

Girl Guides attend 2,800-strong Alberta camp

Three Flin Flon Girl Guides of Canada members had a once-in-a-lifetime experience this month when they travelled to Alberta to take part in a camp with Guides from a dozen countries Girl Guide leader Nikki Rosenberg and members Haylee Dallas and Eden
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