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The second-annual Artists, Crafters, and Small Business Expo was held Nov. 6 at St. Joseph's Parish Ukrainian Hall.

The annual Ten Thousand Villages Thompson Festival Sale will be taking place over the next week-plus at Advent Lutheran Church on Thompson Drive North. The event runs from Nov. 12-20, with fair trade goods for sale from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Manitoba Addictions Awareness Week (MAAW) runs from Nov. 14 through Nov. 20, and the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM) is gearing up for a week of education and activity.

To hear Mayor Tim Johnston tell it, the easiest way to understand the differences between the Thompson of today and the Thompson he envisions for 2014 is to take a trip into town from the airport, and then around Thompson Drive.

On Oct. 24, city council candidates at a forum held in the Letkemann Theatre unanimously declared that they would like to see Thompson get a greater share of video lottery terminal (VLT) revenues from the provincial government.

The Thompson Multicultural Centre and Thompson Citizenship Council elected their new board of directors Oct. 30. Front row (left to right): Claudia Erickson, Easter Letchman, Mervat Yehia and Carol Pelton.

With Remembrance Day just around the corner, École Riverside School students are taking part in an international commemoration of Canada's First World War veterans.

Wal-Mart received a plaque from the Red Cross in recognition of $2,000 raised by the store during an August fundraising campaign, an amount matched by Wal-Mart to bring the total up to $4,000.

Though the City of Thompson has repeatedly stated that they expect to begin charging Thompsonites for water usage beginning January 1, it appears as though the real start date will be much further into 2011.

The yeas had it on Nov. 8 at a public hearing on the proposed rezoning of lands to be used for the new University College of the North (UCN) campus.