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A lot was said this past year. Here is a look back as some of the more memorable quotes from Flin Flon and area. **** “We’ve got lots of ore to mine in Snow Lake.

Trailer Court residents are calling on city council to snip the strings attached to their revamped land-levelling program.

Dr. Krishan Sethi has accepted the latest in a growing list of honours. The long-time Flin Flon physician was in Vancouver last month to receive his Fellowship in The College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Saskatchewan’s population continued to grow in the third quarter of 2013. As of Oct. 1 there were 1,114,170 people living in Saskatchewan – an increase of 5,867 in the previous three months and 19,797 over the past year.

The Manitoba government is asking consumers for their ideas on how to ensure they are treated openly and fairly by real estate agents when they buy or sell a house or condo.

Fourteen Manitoba municipalities have officially amalgamated under the Municipal Amalgamations Act. Municipal Government Minister Stan Struthers made the controversial announcement on Wednesday.

Creighton’s Community Policing Board is receiving funding to help better fulfill its mandate. Creighton town council voted last week to pass along to the CPB $5,000 from the RCMP’s National Aboriginal Policing Services Branch.

Needlessly noisy snowmobilers and ATVers may soon no longer be welcome at the Flin Flon Trailer Court. City council has approved initial reading of a bylaw banning off-road vehicles from idling between, or within 10 feet of, mobile homes.

When Heather Kowalchuk began collecting tabletop Christmas ornaments, she had no idea it would lead to this.

Queen’s Park upgrades cost over $200,000 more than the initial estimate, but the chair of the Flin Flon school board says the project was still worth it.