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Jonathon Naylor Editor The Flin Flon Heritage Project is celebrating a small but significant milestone. This month marks one year since the ambitious website was announced at a luncheon of former Flin Flonners in Winnipeg. The site, often abbreviated as FFHP, aims to shepherd the recorded history of Flin Flon and area into a single resource. Spearheaded by Richard Lyons and Doug Evans, two Flin Flonners-turned-Winnipeggers, FFHP features over 200 albums and more than 3,000 'exhibits.' The site has had over 56,000 visits from past and present residents as well as others with an interest in Flin Flon. Lyons told The Reminder last year that he gets immense satisfaction from how the site has rekindled interest in Flin Flon among the many ex-pats scattered throughout Canada and beyond. For him, that type of reaction, combined with the volunteer support the website receives, reflects the essence of Flin Flon. 'Was it because they were northern people or was it because they were just remote people?' Lyons said. 'It's hard to know why Flin Flon people gelled and connected the way they did. But I think a lot of the development of the community was based on that. People needed each other to survive and that made for a better community.' Visit the FFHP at FlinFlonheritageproject.com.
