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Jonathon Naylor Editor In a bid to bolster participation and allow more private debate, the Flin Flon and District Chamber of Commerce is changing its long-standing meeting schedule. Starting next month, the chamber will each month hold one executive meeting and two general meetings as opposed to two executive meetings and one general meeting. And since not all chamber discussion is meant for public consumption, the executive meetings will only be open to executive members, not the media. President Kory Eastman said there had been some confusion around which meetings non-executive members could attend and which ones they could not. 'If people were not able to make that one general meeting, then really they've missed it for the month, their opportunity to come and be a part of chamber and contribute,' he said. The new media-free executive meetings, Eastman said, will 'allow for presentations from committees directly to formulate ideas and to construct what's going to be presented at the general meetings in the following month.' In addition, the chamber will begin holding general meetings in July and August, but only once a month. Summer will see the executive meetings continue as usual. Opportunity Eastman said the addition of the summer general meetings will give non-executive members further opportunity to participate. General meetings remain open to all members and traditionally feature a guest speaker. Effective May 1, chamber executive meetings will be held the first Tuesday of each month and general meetings will be held the second and fourth Tuesdays. In July and August, the first general meeting will be cancelled. Other highlights from the meeting, attended by 19 people at the Friendship Centre Restaurant: Treasurer Lois (Bunny) Burke announced that Tourism North has completed its redesign of the second of three highway signs it has taken over from the chamber. Efforts are still being made to contact the owner of the land on which the third sign rests. Erected in 2001, the 12-by-40-ft. southern Manitoba highway signs originally promoted fishing in Flin Flon. They are located near Eriksdale, Onanole and Morris. See 'FFNR...' on pg. 12 Continued from pg. 3 Laurence Gillespie of the Flin Flon Neighbourhood Revitalization Corp. announced the organization will be applying for a grant. The grant will be for a local project that involves the principles of crime prevention through environmental design. Anyone with ideas or areas of concern in the community may contact him at 687-6972. City representative Karen MacKinnon commended the new chamber newsletter.
