“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 block. The cur
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The Flin Flon district saw the most cases of any district in the NHR aside from the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak district, where 28 new cases were found. The origins and exact location of the Flin Flon district cases - aside from them being somewhere in Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage or Sherridon - are unknown. At least one case has been directly linked to a Flin Flon school. Ruth Betts Community School announced March 5 that at least one person at the school had tested positive earlier in the week and was at the school March 2 during a period when they may have been infectious. The person was in the Wolf cohort of the school, which consists of some of the school s Grade 3, 4 and 5 students. A letter was sent out to parents and the public on the school s official Facebook account March 5.
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.”
The Flin Flon School Division (FFSD) has proposed radical changes for Flin Flon schools, proposing to change Ruth Betts Community School to a K-3 school and make Ecole McIsaac School to a Grades 4-8 school and altering dismissal times and busing, among other changes.