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Story: Not many people in Thompson know about a kind deed that a company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan did for the city during the near-week long boil water advisory which began on Aug. 13.

Steve Ashton, the longest serving MLA in the Manitoba legislature, resigned Sept.

Motorists and pedestrians making their way down Thompson Drive North this summer have probably noticed the construction work going on to ready the ground across from Tim Hortons for a firefighters tribute statue.

This summer has been a very busy one for the Thompson Public Library. In fact, the library experienced the highest circulation rate of books for July since 1990 and their highest month ever since 1996.

One Thompson student is trading the subarctic climate of the North for the tropical savanna of Miranpolis in the interior of Brazil as part of a Rotary Exchange trip. Zack Bennett, a 17-year-old student who graduated from R. D.

Hypnotist and locally popular showman Paul Royter will be back in town Oct. 1 to perform at R.D. Parker's Letkemann Theatre. Royter, whose show begins at 8 p.m.

Thompson RCMP were alerted by a civilian search team just before noon July 8 that skeletal remains had been found in a wooded area just off a hydro power line east of Thompson.

Steve Ashton, the longest serving MLA in the Manitoba legislature, resigned today from the provincial cabinet as minister of intergovernmental affairs and minister responsible for emergency measures to run for the leadership of the provincial NDP and

Greyhound Canada informed the Manitoba Motor Transport Board Sept. 3 that it will cease passenger operations in Manitoba in 30 days.

One of Thompson's most popular lunch eateries has been sold effective Sept. 14.