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The University of Manitoba's Northern Social Work Program was celebrated in Thompson on March 5 with a luncheon and guest speaker Michael Hart talking about aboriginal social work in Canada. The event was part of Social Work Week.

New Thompson campus to be completed by 2013

Vandals seem to have left their mark on the front of the Scotiabank building on Thompson Drive North in Thompson. Judging by this picture, taken March 16, someone hurled a rock at a front window which broke through one pane of glass.

Stella Locker, Jan Hall, Colleen Smook and Freda Lépine were recognized for their contributions to the community at the second-annual YWCA Women of Distinction awards March 20 at the Juniper Centre.

Now that the snow has melted so early, are you worried we'll have a bad forest fire season this year? Larry Caplette (streeters fire 001.jpg): We might have an earlier season but not necessarily a bad one.

The federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (INAC) has agreed to provide emergency funding to "communities in crisis" in Northern Manitoba in the aftermath of last week's winter road meltdown.

This year's Winter Wonderland at McCreedy Campground in Thompson put on by Colleen Smook and her family, raised $2,552.35 for local community organizations.

But in a first, this time it is a planned shutdown

For the month of February, Thompson's A.C.E. (Acts to Cut Emissions) Online Survey was hosted on the Community Led Emissions Reduction (CLER) webpage of the www.thompson.ca website.

The School District of Mystery Lake has approved its 2010-2011 budget, which was originally proposed in a public budget presentation on Feb. 23, at a school board meeting on March 9. The budget means an increase of 2.61 per cent.