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Northlands College held its annual Achievement Day with a lunch and awards ceremony at Rocky View BnB last week. Overlooking Amisk Lake, instructors, board members and college representatives congratulated the students on another successful year.

The City of Flin Flon will review its mutual-aid arrangements with neighbouring fire departments, a process that includes determining whether current agreements are written or verbal. Coun.

Contractor Joe Ploschansky, known as Joe Plo, uses an excavator to remove dirt from the border of the fountain outside Jubilee Residence on Green Street last week. Looking on is Blake Wallaker of the City of Flin Flon.

A pile of rubble was all that was left after demolition began at 192 Centre Street last Thursday afternoon, June 4. The house was struck by fire in the winter and deemed unlivable after the Flin Flon Fire Dept.

Dark, billowing clouds poured over treetops along the Cliff Lake Road last week as flames devoured forest near the Flin Flon, Creighton and Area SPCA animal shelter.

Flin Flon city council passed first reading of its 2015 budget last week, but the plan won’t become law unless council’s special services levy (SSL) is renewed.

Students Aurora Cable (from left), Peyton Beauchamp, Caylyn O’Hare and Amasha Epa were thrilled with a donation made to École McIsaac School.

Flin Flon’s only nursing home smoking room is closing amid plans to use the space for spiritual ceremonies. With no elderly residents using it, the smoking room at the Northern Lights Manor is scheduled to permanently close in the near future.

The big question for area moviegoers has finally been answered: The Big Island Drive-In Theatre will open for another season. While a reopening has been confirmed, current owner Bill Leefe says he doesn’t know when it will happen.

W ould “one union, one voice” serve Hudbay employees better than “seven unions, seven voices”? That question is under fresh scrutiny after most unionized company employees signed a new contract while 180 of their colleagues remained on indefinite str