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Remi Rheault, Rotary Club ShelterBox Ambassador for Northern Manitoba, poses with a ShelterBox, a kit that delivers emergency shelter and living supplies around the world to people whose habitats have been lost due to natural disasters.

Parishioners from St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church donated more than $500 worth of baby clothes and items to the Futures Family Resource Program through Project Dresser.

It's a done deal.

Around 40 first- and second-year medical students from the University of Manitoba were in Thompson for a weekend in December, where they learned about the unique practices of rural and Northern medicine.

The YWCA of Thompson is again seeking nominees for its Women of Distinction Awards, which will be presented in April. "We've restructured our categories," explained Regan Schroeder, chair of the YWCA women of distinction committee during the Jan.

Monday night, the Thompson District Planning Board confirmed the amendment to the bylaw which would allow the lands in the area of the proposed University College of the North (UCN) campus near the rec centre to be rezoned as public and institutional

The Thompson Citizen online at: www.thompsoncitizen.net has switched to a new commenting system called DISQUS (dis·cuss d-sks') , created by Big Head Labs, Inc.

Members of local Christian denominations will gather at St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church on Cree Road at 7 p.m. tonight for a service marking the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, held from Jan. 18 to 25.

In the latest in an unusual series of moves around the upper echelons of the University College of the North (UCN), Konrad Jonasson has been named interim president while Denise Henning will shortly be leaving for British Columbia.

Since moving to Thompson in the summer, Russell Peters has begun providing a new and unique service to Thompsonites - music therapy.