Opinion

USW Local 7106 vice-president Terry Hornyak recently presented a cheque in the amount of $500 to Teri Olafson of the Snow Lake Cordwood Bonspiel Committee.

“I think Flin Flon has got a social problem on its hands. It is not a panhandling or crime problem.” So wrote former Flin Flon area resident Ed Bowers in a 2013 letter to the editor published in The Reminder.

The second meeting on Snow Lake’s 2016 budget took place last month in the council chambers. Present were Mayor Kim Stephen, Deputy Mayor Richard Jones, councillors Jodie Wilson and Robin Turnbull, and Chief Administrative Officer Jordan Willner.

“Is it true that the Whitney Forum loses half-a-million bucks a year?” Several residents have posed that query to me in recent years. I expect to hear it a few more times given the apparent financial pressures on city hall.

Snow Lake’s Tyler Samborski reports that on Jan. 13, local Lions Club members joined (in Cranberry Portage) with others from the North taking part in the Journey for Sight fundraiser. The group travelled from Flin Flon to Brandon.

On Jan. 28, 1916, Manitoba women became the first in Canada to win the right to vote and the right to hold provincial office. A historic achievement, the result of decades of struggle led by women like MJ Benedictssen and, later on, Nellie McClung.

Dear Editor, The most commonly asked question at the Flin Flon Recycling Centre and of our board members is: “Why don’t we get money back for our drink containers like they do in Saskatchewan?” This is often followed by criticism of the Manitoba gove

The Snow Lake Health Auxiliary’s Agnes Hornyak advises that their newly elected chairwoman, Judy Steeves, visited the Gagnon family on the Jan. 16 weekend.

When it comes to youth in our communities, there’s a disconnect between what people say and what I observe. What people often say is that our youth are lazy, foul-mouthed, apathetic and too obsessed with their cellphones to develop social skills.

The Town of Snow Lake has provided notice that two people have filed nomination papers for a by-election that will fill a seat on the seven-member council left vacant when former Coun. Aldon Kowalchuk suddenly resigned at the outset of December.