The Manitoba Government has provided more than 5.5 million dollars to support nearly 800 community organizations, municipalities and provincial parks that are delivering Green Team projects this summer.  Green Team grants are awarded to non-profit organizations and municipal governments to hire youth to work on community projects that improve neighborhoods, promote community involvement and help develop young leaders between May and August.

In our area the City of Flin Flon received a grant to hire for grounds maintenance and public works, Community Futures Greenstone for their Biz Kidz project and general office work and Frontier School Division for recreation and grounds maintenance as well as the community garden.

Municipal Relations Minister Jeff Wharton notes projects are incredibly diverse providing non-profit organizations with 100 percent of wage costs and municipalities with 50 percent of wage costs.