Opinion

Snow Lake’s 70th anniversary committee recently sat down to its first meeting since May of this year and although things are progressing, the group appears to be struggling.

As Flin Flonners prepare to welcome a new Co-op store along Highway 10A, we are also about to bid farewell to a true northern Manitoba landmark.

Few things define Manitoba more than Churchill and the Hudson Bay rail line. On July 25, OmniTrax shocked Manitobans with the sudden closure of the Port of Churchill. So the eternal debate resumes.

As a concerned taxpayer, I am writing this article to outline some of my concerns about the need for a fair and just tax system. We have always paid utilities four times a year for water and garbage at the cost of $279.24, which equals $1,116.

The quality of your family’s health care shouldn’t be determined by the size of your paycheque. That’s a core Canadian value. But now it’s in serious jeopardy.

A continual variation in the level of Snow Lake has long been a topic of conversation at the coffee shops and kitchen tables within the community.

This has been a tough summer for our region and our country. In our region we have seen the announced shutdown of the Port of Churchill and the Tolko mill in The Pas. Across the country our economy shrank with the loss of even more jobs.

Many of our favourite plants are perennial in nature, but not hardy enough to survive our winters outdoors. Some of these plants grow from tubers or corms that can be stored in their basic root form without any top growth.

As I drove to work the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was oblivious to the tragedy unfolding south of the border. I had been a staff writer with The Reminder for five months at the time.

There are several items I’d like to touch on within this week’s column. First, in mid-August a group of Snow Lake’s finest doffed their uniforms and picked up hammers to help out one of their own.