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Group meal and recreation programs organized by health care aides will no longer be offered at a Flin Flon seniors’ housing complex as of March.

The mother of a former Flin Flonner fatally shot by a Mountie says a witness contradicts the RCMP’s version of events. Shirley Huber, whose son Steven Campbell, 39, died in the Nov.

Christmas trees usually garner attention for what’s underneath them, but that wasn’t the case at Creighton Community School last weekend.

When Amber Larsen was a little girl, she loved watching the Ms. Fitness competition on TV. As those toned, muscular women posed before the camera, she would envision herself standing on that stage one day. Now 30, Larsen hasn’t forgotten that dream.

Flin Flon’s Santa Parade of Lights saw hundreds of residents line Main Street last Friday, Nov. 27. Bright floats passed by as Santa’s helpers dished out candy to children of all ages.

Wrangling a toddler into a ski suit, toque and boots is no easy task. It is worth the reward, though, for a group of active parents who meet at the Flin Flon ski club every Friday morning all winter long, skis in hand and bundled-up progeny in tow.

At the latest Creighton school board meeting, held Nov. 25, high school counsellor Joe Kowalchuk presented the results of his annual graduate tracking survey.

Manitoba’s Rent Assist program will now pay up to 75 per cent of median market rent for EIA recipients and low-income earners. The increase to Rent Assist took effect Tuesday.

Holden Daley of the Flin Flon Bombers helps members of the Flin Flon Figure Skating Club gather plush toys off the Whitney Forum ice last Friday, Nov. 27.

The mystery is over: the Manitoba government will open its promised northern trades training centre in Thompson. The province announced the centre in its throne speech last month but did not indicate where in northern Manitoba it would be built.