Opinion

While in Winnipeg to take in the 2016 FCM (Federation of Canadian Municipalities) Convention, Town of Snow Lake councillor Brenda Forsyth was surprised to learn that there was a seminar taking place that held some significance for Snow Lake and what

Dear Editor, I read Christine Flowers’ column about the shooting of a gorilla after a child fell into its pit at the Cincinnati zoo (“Tragedy was avoidable,” June 8). Up to the last paragraph I felt she was being reasonable.

Eighteen months ago I worked full time as a minister, wrote books and edited two or three books a month for other people. Today it’s a struggle to get up in the morning. I work on a bit of editing, and occasionally get some of my own writing done.

There was no press conference to announce it, no end credits rolling across a screen, but it appears as though Flin Flon’s cottage-country annexation debate is over.

Snow Lake’s Town Council presented its 2016 financial plan to the community’s ratepayers at a sparsely attended (three people) meeting in council chambers at 5 pm on the evening of May 27.

“Now I’ve only got 10 years to go, then I’ll be 100 and we’ll have a block party,” JEAN CALDER FLIN FLON RESIDENT (Celebrating her 90th birthday this week)

When provincial government assessors were determining the market worth of Flin Flon homes in 2013, one of them is said to have remarked that the next round of assessments would likely show a decline in values.

As he did last year, teacher Clarence Fisher kicked off the Snow Lake Mining Museum’s fifth annual celebration of Manitoba Mining Week by raising his voice several decibels above the clamour of close to 185 patrons.

The visual was as shocking as it was potentially tragic. Jagged masses of wood and twisted pieces of metal strewn across and beyond the Stittco Energy Ltd property.

There has been noise of late with respect to following the lead of Leaf Rapids, Thompson and The Pas and banning single-use plastic bags within Snow Lake.