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Four local children shared the true meaning of Christmas with the Flin Flon, Creighton and Area SPCA.

In time for the holidays, Flin Flon’s Kinsmen and Kinette clubs donated seven boxes of food along with $1,200 to the Lord’s Bounty Food Bank. The clubs collected the food and $400 at their Christmas tree sale earlier this winter.

The Lord’s Bounty Food Bank received a $4,160 donation just before Christmas. Suzanne Daigle, a local Bowenwork practitioner, wanted to help the food bank, so she reached out to other business owners.

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Flin Flon's Wendy Broda was the winner of the Lions Club's Christmas Day vehicle draw. At 3 pm, her name was drawn for a 2015 Ford F-150 truck valued at $44,549. Broda purchased just one ticket for the draw, which saw all 3,500 tickets sold.

A summary of calls to the Flin Flon RCMP for the period of Tuesday, Dec. 15 to Monday, Dec. 21, as provided by the RCMP: Tuesday, Dec. 15 • Report of an intoxicated male under the ramp at Flin Flon General Hospital.

OmniTrax has accepted a letter of intent from a group of First Nations interested in purchasing the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Rail line, reports the Canadian Press .

An organization representing northern Manitoba First Nations welcomes Ottawa’s decision to stop enforcing a contentious transparency law.

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing northern Manitoba man. Yvon Shawn Guignard, 34, was last seen at the Thompson General Hospital in the early morning hours of Nov. 28.

Northern Manitoba’s medical system failed a two-month-old girl who died of an infection four years ago, an inquest judge has ruled. Judge Don Slough presided over an inquest into the November 2011 death of Drianna Ross of God’s Lake Narrows.