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Taxes in Creighton and Denare Beach stand to increase "much sooner" without high school programming at Creighton Community School, states a booklet compiled by the Creighton School Division. The nine-page booklet, copies of which were distributed at public forums on the high school issue last week, provides answers for more than 20 common questions on the potential high school program. "The taxes have not been raised in the Creighton School Division for six years, but no one can promise you that there never will be a tax increase," reads the booklet. "However, our taxes will probably rise much sooner if we don't add the high school programming." The booklet states that the added revenue projected from the addition of a high school program, some $300,000, as well as potential savings, "will hopefully stave off tax increases for some time." The booklet addresses another common concern about the high school: that it would drive a wedge between Flin Flon and Creighton. "The communities weren't split when the grades 7 and 8 students were brought back to Creighton from Flin Flon in the late 1950s," reads the booklet, "nor when the grade 9's were brought back in 1968, and they probably won't be split now. We will continue to do all of the things together that we do now in the Flin Flon/Creighton/Denare Beach area." The Creighton School Board will vote tomorrow whether to establish a high school at Creighton Community School, or to postpone the decision.
