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While the second wave of H1N1 human swine flu cases in Manitoba peaked last fall - and was far less serious than many forecasts originally predicted - and seasonal flu has yet to appear at all, the BRHA is still urging residents to get their flu shot

Andrea Hatley, Thompson's climate change Community Led Emissions Reduction (CLER) pilot program co-ordinator, is zoning in on how the business community can help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the city.

R.D. Parker Collegiate students picked up four first-place prizes and 12 top-three finishes Feb.

New 69-room hotel in the works

It's under the same ownership and management, but Nickel City Motors has moved from 7 Station Rd. to 84 Severn Cres.

The annual Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative conference, put on by the Burntwood Regional Health Authority (BRHA), took place in Thompson from Feb. 23 to 25.

30 Years Ago John Ashton, head of environmental control for Inco's Thompson site, said arsenic levels posed no threat whatsoever to workers.

About 80 residents of Thompson turned up at the Letkemann Theatre in R.D. Parker Collegiate on the evening of Feb. 23 to discuss council's proposed increase of the property dig rate for water breaks for the third time in less than a year.

The Manitoba Water Services Board is sending the City of Thompson an agreement, which will allow the two entities to jointly undertake the meter implementation program in 2010 and 2011.

The main message of a conference on gangs that teachers in the Mystery Lake School District attended on Feb. 24 was outreach and awareness.