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Colleen McKee, a frequent advocate and public figure in Flin Flon for over three decades, died Nov. 11 following a battle with cancer. McKee was 57 years old. - FILE PHOTO McKee (second from left, along with fellow councillors Tim Babcock, Karen MacKinnon, Ken Pawlachuk and Colleen Arnold) sat on Flin Flon’s city council from 2006 until her death. - FILE PHOTO Always up for a challenge, McKee took part in a turkey curling event earlier this year between councillors from Flin Flon, Creighton and Denare Beach. Denare Beach won, but the winners’ trophy disappeared not long after the victory....

Overall, northern COVID-19 cases went down significantly April 22. A provincial government data correction has brought the number of active COVID-19 cases in northern Manitoba down dramatically. The region, which 711 listed cases Wednesday, now sits at 450 active cases after a backlog of cases were marked as recovered. Most of the cases that were moved were in remote areas, including in several Indigenous communities. The biggest change in the north was seen in the Pukatawagan-Mathias Colomb Cree Nation (MCCN) district, which now sits at 16 active cases of COVID-19 - as of Wednesday, 146 ca...

Philomene Marie (Floch) O’Reilly was born September 27, 1921. She was predeceased by her husband Edward O’Reilly, sisters: Jeanne/Jim Reagan, Marie/Arnold Stephansson, Pauline/Armand Picard, brothers: Johnny Floch, Wilfred Watt and son-in-law Allan Corbiell. Philomene was born in Zenon Park on a farm just outside of Tisdale, Saskatchewan. Philomene came to Flin Flin in 1928. She was part of a large close knit family. Her father ran the local Floch Bakery, and Philomene and her eight siblings lived above. Philomene was a historical part of our community. She was one of Flin Flon’s pi...

- Gail Baker It was there that her mother, Dora (short for Fedora), settled while pregnant with Anna. Tragically, two months after their arrival, Anna’s father, a lumberman, was killed when a tree fell on him. Dora’s employer allowed them to stay, and after Anna was born they lived in Winnipegosis for about a year and a half. Friends of Dora’s knew of a man whose wife had died while giving birth. He had three children and desperately needed help. So, as often happened in those days, a marriage was set up and Dora and Peter Atamanchuk wed.

He said he spoke with officials who confirmed the decades-old church had not undergone fire or electrical inspections. When he gave trustees a chance to correct that statement, none did. “The due diligence, therefore, has not been done,” said East, addressing trustees at their Tuesday, April 11 meeting. “Unless I’m completely living on the wrong planet and in the wrong town in the wrong province, you will need an inspection by the Office of the Fire Commissioner and some electrical inspections before you can even contemplate putting students into a building that’s 68 years old. T...