Opinion

If there’s a silver lining to eventual workforce reductions at Hudbay Flin Flon, it’s Hudbay Snow Lake. As T he Reminder reported last week, Hudbay could be adding 100-plus workers to its Snow Lake operations in the coming years.

Dear Editor, For some time I have been contemplating the heartfelt interest of many Flin Flon area residents to return and preserve the Phantom Lake of old.

Dear Editor, Thank you for allowing me space to express my concerns. I proudly served with the (former) 21 Field Engineer Squadron, Canadian Military Engineers, a reserve army unit based in Flin Flon, for eight years.

With Hudbay planning to reduce its Flin Flon workforce in the next few years, our leaders would be wise to stop playing politics. Apparently that’s too much to ask.

Dear Editor, I have Parkinson’s Disease. My Parkinson’s isn’t that advanced yet, and I have hope that with otherwise good health and an active lifestyle I will stave it off for a while.

Dear Editor, A few years ago, I penned the article “Santa comes from Flin Flon” in honour of my grandfather, Ben Grimmelt, who immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands in 1926 and subsequently made his home in Flin Flon.

Dear Editor, It’s been almost two years to the day – March 2015 – that the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) informed us that the rock here was not suitable to store nuclear waste at the proposed site near Creighton.

Dear Editor, I have heard that 55-plus years of a part of Flin Flon’s history is to be reduced to one per cent of its existing display space at the Flin Flon Station Museum.

Greetings! Welcome to Healthy North, the first in a regular monthly feature with a mental wellness focus.

By this time in January, I have a collection of catalogues from various seed companies complete with colour photographs of perfectly grown vegetables and flowers. It’s enough to make you want them all – just the way they look in the pictures.