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A lower-than-hoped-for meeting turnout has pushed back elections for the committee that will oversee the potential Flin Flon Aqua Centre redevelopment.

Residents of the Flin Flon region are accustomed to the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border posing all sorts of challenges.

Blanche Forseille was born on a farm in Tisdale, Saskatchewan. She moved to Prince Alberta in 1947, and in 1951 Blanche and her sister Terry arrived in Flin Flon to visit their aunt Germaine Dubois and find work.

Dani Dollard (left), Tori Holmstrom and Charyse Jackson (far right) joined Jerilyn Wood, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ambassador for northern Manitoba, for a fundraising barbecue last Friday afternoon, May 29 at Scorpio Auto & Bearing Ltd.

Campfires, roasted marshmallows, swimming and company are all perks of the camping life.

Details of Hudbay’s final offer to its largest union emerged late last week as another union announced it had reached a tentative deal with the company.

A decision by two Hudbay unions, including the largest, to ratify an offer means Flin Flon-Snow Lake operations will continue on, says the head of the company’s Manitoba division.

C reighton town council has signed off on a new budget that boosts spending, holds the line on taxes and injects hundreds of thousands of dollars into infrastructure. The $3.

H udbay’s largest union is recommending members accept a tentative deal with the company as three days of ratification voting begin Saturday. USW Local 7106 informed members of the tentative deal Tuesday.

W hen the Flin Flon Elks Lodge was established, it aimed to serve the underclass of a fledgling community whose prosperity flowed unevenly. Eighty-five years, the underclass remains but the Elks are on their way out.