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Sarah Stevens got a face full of whipped cream courtesy of Ava Kerfont last Friday at a Relay for Life fundraiser held in the Co-op parking lot.

A helicopter dropped water from above and firefighters charged into the bush below to douse a volatile wildfire near the Flin Flon ski chalet last week.

Denare Beach will belatedly host its summer fireworks display on Friday at 10 pm. The village had to cancel the fireworks on Canada Day due to a fire ban, but with that ban long lifted, residents are now ready for the big show.

If a major political party vowed to move Canada’s capital from Ottawa to northern Manitoba, its leader’s sanity would be questioned.

“I have a few friends that have passed away from their cancer diagnosis, says Flin Flon’s Virginia Leifso. “It makes me sad, and I want to fight back.

Four candidates are running for the position of Grand Chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO). The final list of candidates consists of incumbent Grand Chief David Harper, journalist Sheila North Wilson, Tyler Duncan and William Elvis Thomas.

Expanded trades training for students and excitement over northern Manitoba’s economy were central themes as provincial Jobs and Economy Minister Kevin Chief visited Flin Flon this week.

Leslie Beck’s friends were urging her to move on. But at age 20, having lost her husband to cancer, she simply wasn’t ready. “I just got really tired of people saying, ‘What are you going to do with your life?’” recalls Beck, now 55.

Striking Hudbay tradespeople say they withdrew their proposal for a better raise this week, but it wasn’t enough to resolve an impasse in negotiations to end the work stoppage.

A condensed summary of calls to the Flin Flon RCMP for the period of Monday, August 3 to Sunday, August 9: Monday, August 3 • Police responded to a complaint in Aspen Grove of a group of youths on the roof attempting to look in windows.