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Flin Flon’s student leaders have big ideas for their schools. Members of student councils from École McIsaac School and Ruth Betts Community School brought their requests to school board trustees during a meeting held on Nov. 20.

Award winner Tyler Banting didn’t receive an honour for what he’s done, but rather for what he doesn’t do.The National Addictions Awareness Week council (NAAW) presented Banting with this year’s Healthy Youth Role Model award on Nov. 24.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We are moving into celebration season (though that seems to be all year round in Flin Flon, Creighton, and Denare Beach) with two holiday performances coming up from the Flin Flon Arts Council.

The City of Flin Flon will implement the same tactics as 2016 for city street and sidewalk clearing operations this winter – a tactic that includes the same scheme for which streets are cleared first. “It’s almost exactly the same as last year’s.

It started with a semi trailer and a group of volunteers. Over four days in November 1992, 13 tonnes of used and discarded paper from the community was packed into a trailer and shipped out of town to be recycled.

Former Member of Parliament Rob Clarke announced he would be among the contenders for leadership of the Saskatchewan Party in a Facebook live video on Nov. 15.

Time and time again our region has been ignored. We are constantly fighting to get what other Canadians take for granted: Healthcare. Education. Housing. Basic infrastructure. Jobs and economic development.

Two classes at Ruth Betts Community School honoured a Flin Flon-born soldier this month. Students from the classes took part in a program called Postcards for Peace.

Outgoing Hapnot Collegiate librarian Corinne Mathews has found a new set of eager-to-learn students. Mathews has taken the reigns at the library for St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon, a college affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan.

Hapnot’s volleyball teams came close to a total sweep of this year’s Zone 11 titles. The senior varsity Kweens team won last weekend’s zone tournament on their home court.