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Local jeweller Don Johnson Jr.

Thompson city councillors Oswald Sawh and Charlene Lafreniere cut the ribbon at the official opening of the compost site for grass and leaves June 3. The compost site is now open to the public at 120 Seal Road, and accepting grass and leaves only.

30 Years Ago CBC engineers were conducting on-air tests of a new FM transmitter in Thompson in preparation for putting it into use full-time to broadcast CBC radio's full national and regional program schedule.

The Lindsays, the family that was chosen to live in the home that Our Home Kikinaw is building, symbolically put their shovels in the ground at the groundbreaking ceremony on June 3 behind the Manitoba Metis Federation on Juniper Dr.

Rogers launch will bring iPhone to Thompson

Kaidie Morris, an 18-year-old Thompson student who's back home for the summer from the University of Guelph in Ontario, is spending her break from school working at the Service Canada Centre for Youth in the North Central Mall in Thompson.

Firefighters were among the community members who chipped in at Tim Hortons June 2 as part of the chain's annual Camp Day, a fundraiser that will send more than 14,000 Canadian kids to camp this year.

30 Years Ago Heather Funk, Jackie Anderson, Mark Wilson, Jackie Vance, Louise Bruneau and Ester Remple of Thompson were chosen as members of Manitoba's youth choir due to tour the province in October.

The City of Thompson is taking a stance on whether or not Greyhound Canada should continue offering inter-city bus service in the North, saying that without the "affordable, dependable" public transit system Greyhound offers across Northern Manitoba,

Rick Stuart, owner of Thompson Lanes (on trailer), helps load up seats from the bowling lanes for transport to a new home. Thompson Lanes' last weekend of bowling was on the Victoria Day long weekend after 45 years of operation in the city.