Local News

As children head back to school, the Saskatchewan government is encouraging parents to ensure their children’s vaccinations are up to date, especially those just entering kindergarten.

The Manitoba government will let landlords boost rents in 2016, but not by much. Under the province’s rent controls, rents at most residential rental properties will go up no more than 1.1 per cent next year.

A proposed purchase of the Northern Bus Lines garage by the City of Flin Flon will not proceed, after council resolved at the Sep. 1 city council meeting to cancel the deal and go forward with renovations at the existing garage.

A condensed summary of calls to the Flin Flon RCMP for the period of Tuesday, Sept. 1 to Sunday, Sept. 6: Tuesday, Sept. 1 • Report of a rock being thrown at a window on Hill Street. No suspects at this time.

Residents living outside Flin Flon and Creighton are being asked to step up and help with the cost of the area’s recycling program.

A year-round hazardous waste depot is an option for the Flin Flon.

At the Creighton town council meeting on Aug. 26, council agreed to purchase an annual membership in the Saskatchewan Economic Development Association (SEDA). Mayor Bruce Fidler will attend a SEDA conference in Humboldt in November.

Luminaries dedicated to loved ones will light up the Creighton ball diamond Saturday evening as locals walk a track in a night-long vigil to raise funds, awareness and the spirits of those who are faced with a cancer diagnosis.

As the Habitat 53° chapter of Habitat for Humanity prepares to wrap up its shopping year at the organization’s ReStore, the fate of the store for next year is unclear.

Desnethé-Missinipi-Churchill River riding Green Party candidate Warren Koch has seen health care issues up close. Koch works as a registered nurse and is dually trained as a psychiatric nurse.