Local News

A large and appreciative crowd gathered a the Flin Flon Aboriginal Friendship Centre Sunday to celebrate National Aboriginal Day.

Manitoba Hydro workers run lines to a new power pole on North Avenue on Monday afternoon. Hydro plans to replace 90-plus aging or inadequate poles throughout Flin Flon before winter.

Flin Flon MLA Clarence Pettersen delivered the following member’s statement in the legislature on Wednesday, June 10: I have been looking forward to giving this member’s statement all session.

An 11-year-old Flin Flon boy has been found more than 24 hours after failing to return home from school. CBC reports that Joel Fidler was located Wednesday afternoon and promptly taken to hospital.

A high demand of shoppers at Flin Flon’s Restore location has Habitat Manitoba requesting the doors open an additional two days a week. Habitat 53º’s Kathy McCormack says doors will now be open Wednesday through Saturday, starting this week.

The Lords Bounty Food Bank benefited from the efforts of “Let’s Lose the Caboose” in this year’s Hudbay Wellness Challenge.

Six friends are on the journey of a lifetime, paddling from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. The group of Americans stopped in to Flin Flon recently for a few days rest after reaching the Sturgeon Weir River.

A Flin Flon School Division investigation of a schoolyard bullying incident earlier this week revealed a five-year-old child had not been chained to a goalpost, as was reported on Global News and picked up by the Reminder Online.

Roads in five northern Manitoba communities, including Flin Flon, will receive a facelift thanks in part to provincial funding, Municipal Government Minister Drew Caldwell announced last week. Churchill will see 12.

The wheels are in motion and the dollars in place for Flin Flon’s next major homecoming celebration. City council on Tuesday voted to provide $10,000 in seed money for a homecoming planned for late June and early July of 2017.