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The School District of Mystery Lake has contracted out Pinchin Environmental, a company based in Winnipeg, to do an asbestos inventory of all the buildings in the district.

Thompsonites and people from outlying Northern communities gathered at the Burntwood Community Health Resource Centre (BCHRC) at the Thompson Plaza on Sept. 9 to take part in a walk to raise awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).

Despite the warmer weather in Thompson in September, summer is definitely winding to a close - especially for elementary and high school students in the city that have already started a fresh new year of school.

R. D. Parker Collegiate's annual career day is happening on Monday, Sept. 28 this year, and is focusing on bringing in not only universities and colleges from around the province, but also representation from local businesses.

A youth on a bicycle was struck by a vehicle at the Mystery Lake Road crosswalk near McDonald's on the evening of Aug. 30, said Sgt. Rob Collen of the Thompson RCMP detachment.

A delegation of residents of Hudson Bay in the Burntwood area appeared before Thompson city council Sept.

At the end of Monday night's city council meeting, Mayor Tim Johnston, who was linked electronically to the meeting as he was on holidays out of town, discussed with council a letter he had sent to the provincial Justice Minister Dave Chomiak.

Thompson auxiliary firefighter Al Szabo lays a wreath at the flagpole outside the firehall during a ceremony to honour fallen firefighter Sept. 11.

September 11 not only commemorated the lives of 2,993 people - including firefighters and emergency responders - that were lost at the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001 after suicide attacks made by Al-Qaeda, but in the City of Thompson also ser

30 Years Ago Thompson Fire Chief Lynden Carkener said flex-line joints that posed fire or explosion risk and were being replaced in southern Manitoba had already been changed four years earlier in Thompson.