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There is currently no sale pending for the Egg Lake Rehabilitation Centre, despite what a government spokesman told The Reminder over the summer. A spokesman for Manitoba Government Services said yesterday that although there have been a couple of expressions of interest in the former minimum security institution, nothing is imminent. The property, 27 kilometres south of Cranberry Portage, remains on the open market. "It is an acreage and it would be assessed at what the current market value of land is," said the spokesman, "unless, for example, we want to turn it over to a group for a token fee." The province closed Egg Lake last July primarily because the facility was underutilized, running at about 60 per cent capacity. "I guess they're in the position where they have to make decisions, and sometimes they have to make some tough decisions," said Flin Flon MLA Gerard Jennissen at the time. Egg Lake had employed seven full-time staff who have now been transferred to The Pas.
