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“I wanted to live in a smaller community where, when you make a change or you do something, it actually has an impact.” DR. CONSTANCE McLEESE INCOMING SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FLIN FLON SCHOOL DIVISION

The winds of change will soon be blowing through the Flin Flon Station Museum. With a large collection of donated artifacts, the museum board is aiming to build a more cohesive and engaging exhibit, explained board vice-chairman Tom Heine.

No one was harmed in a smoky blaze that struck a Third Avenue home Tuesday night. The home at 36 Third Avenue was vacant when firefighters arrived after being summoned by a neighbour at about 10:45 pm.

Flin Flon Seniors Ladies’ Spades, March 15: Madalean Stevens, first, 822; Mary Lyons, second, 800; Kimberley Griffiths, third, 764; Effie Todoschuk, low, 622.

Ojibwe artist Kevin Anderson visited Flin Flon’s NorVA Centre on Tuesday for an artist’s talk. Anderson’s exhibit, Streetlife , examines homelessness, addiction, illness, racism, and abuse through the lens of graphic art.

A $6.1-million makeover of the Aspen Grove public housing complex continues to show progress. New siding – green on the lower portion, yellow on the top – had gone up on much of the building on Monday.

Flin Flon’s drinking water met provincial health guidelines last year, demonstrating again that the city’s multimillion-dollar treatment plant is doing its job, a new report shows.

The Northern Health Region had yet to award the tender for the new Flin Flon ER on Monday, adding that the provincial election campaign will have no bearing on the process.

Third-generation pharmacist Scott Davidson is following in his father’s footsteps in more ways than one.

This year’s flood risk in northern and northwestern Manitoba is “minor to moderate,” reports the provincial government’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre.