In the Community

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.

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.

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.

At 54, Josiah Flintabattey Flonatin sure knows how to throw a party. On Sunday, Aug.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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