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It won't be long before Lynn Lake residents have to drive three hours to conduct their banking. In a major blow to the tiny Northern Manitoba town, CIBC has reportedly announced it will remove its Automated Teller Machine from the community's Northern Store by the middle of May. The ATM is the closest thing to a bank the approximately 700 residents have, as CIBC closed its Lynn Lake branch in the late 1990s. The closest bank or ATM is 300 kilometres away in Thompson. "It will make it extremely difficult to do any sort of business in Lynn Lake without the ATM," Mayor Audie Dulewich told CBC. "It would be impossible almost to get cash, and to do any form of banking. How would you do deposits or get cash from your accounts? The ATM is used now for paying bills, paying credit cards." Mayor Dulewich added that he plans to discuss the matter with provincial politicians. Meanwhile, about 75 kilometres southeast in Leaf Rapids, that community has proposed a curfew for residents under the age of 18. It would mandate that children under age 12 be home by 11 p.m.; children between 12 and 15 by midnight; and those aged 16 and 17 by 1 a.m.
