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Drilling continues to confirm “significant potential” at a mineral deposit near Snow Lake, says an exploration company. Ontario-based Wolfden Resources Corp.

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog,” American novelist E.L. Doctorow once said. “You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Floyd Brown (left), vice-president of the Border Explorers Snowmobile Club, presents a $10,000 cheque to Duncan Aamot, winner of the club’s 2015 snowmobile draw.

Hoping to simplify your Christmas to-do list? You’ll find a handy shortcut in this weekend’s Festival of Trees.

A veteran Flin Flon school trustee hopes to become a director with the Manitoba School Boards Association (MSBA). Trish Sattelberger will run for director of Region 4, which includes the Flin Flon region, in the March 2016 election.

Hudbay made its annual Christmas donation to the Lord’s Bounty Food Bank this week, with administrative assistant Fran Reibin (left) and executive assistant Brenda Niedermaier presenting a $2,250 cheque to Dennis Hydamaka, food distribution chairman

More Saskatchewan-trained family physicians are practicing in the province.

Expecting 58 guests, we were pleasantly surprised when 67 showed up for our November Flin Flon luncheon at the Viscount Gort Hotel in Winnipeg. We will chalk it up to great weather (no snow), and a desire to meet with old friends as well as new ones.

Manitoba plans to introduce changes that would give victims of domestic violence the right to time off work with pay, give employees a new leave for long-term illness and injury, and extend the length of leave for compassionate care.

This year will see the provincial government spend nearly $20 million on information technology projects designed to improve Manitobans’ access to digital health care services.