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“I was pretty surprised,” said Cennon. The Kiddie Korner group had originally submitted a funding request not long before a final deadline, leaving Cennon pleasantly shocked that the group got the cash. “We felt like it was a very long shot, but we did want to try to give the opportunity to the community if we were able to.” The initiative received support from northern MLAs, including Flin Flon MLA Tom Lindsey, during its granting stage. The current plan will feature the program operating out of the former St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on Hiawatha Avenue, now occupied by the Lord’s Bounty Food Bank. The upstairs area of the building, currently owned by the Flin Flon School Division and used as “breakout space”, will be the home base of the program. The building is located directly across the street from Ruth Betts Community School and just down the street from Kiddie Korner itself, located in the same building as the school further up the bl ....
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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. Then you will need to set up tenders and then you will have to receive proposals back…and then you will find out what it’s going to cost.” ....
For at least the weeks leading up to Christmas, Collacott and Cassidy plan on driving around the area, locating people who appear to be underdressed, homeless or hungry and providing them with goods if their initial worries turn out to be right. “We have sweaters, we have socks, we have gloves, we have mitts, we have scarves. We’ll go and drive around - no particular spots, no particular day, and if we see someone who needs a coat, we’ll give it to them,” said Collacott. According to data from a 2011 Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network study on homelessness in Flin Flon, the city has a higher than average population of homeless people - at any given point, that number would be around 100 people, including people living in vehicles, couch surfing or staying at the Flin Flon Aboriginal Friendship Centre hostel. Many of the people considered homeless are Indigenous. Addictions, mental health issues and trauma were noted as being “significantly present in almost al ....