Opinion

First a few observations. The population of Flin Flon has been declining. Hudbay has stated that its 777 mine in Flin Flon will be finished around 2020.

A major Canadian retailer with deep roots in Flin Flon has just committed to spending many millions of dollars on a spacious new store that will offer a greater range of products to residents across the region. Stop me when I get to the bad part.

Might as well begin at the beginning. In the beginning, I was born at the Flin Flon General Hospital at 3:55 pm on June 8, 1940. Attending physician: Dr. Percy Johnson. I have no conscious awareness of this event.

Snow Lakers were out in force the first weekend of August for one of the summer’s premier events.

Now that the days are getting noticeably shorter and the days and nights are cooler, it won’t be long until the garden will need to be put to bed for the winter.

Northern Manitoba has been hit hard in recent times.

When it rains it pours. There are several ways of looking at that time-honoured idiom; however, in the case of celebrating the 99th anniversary of Herb Lake Landing, it played out both literally and figuratively.

Your perennials have grown and matured. Now some plants are not in the right place, while others are getting too large for their space. It’s time to move some plants, maybe discard some and divide others.

Do you have to be born and raised in Flin Flon to be a bona fide Flin Flonner? Some people seem to think so.

Dear Editor, Todd MacKay of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) supports Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall in his warning to the federal government not to impose a national tax on carbon (“Carbon tax won’t work,” The Reminder , Aug. 5).