The Flin Flon Chamber Of Commerce held their first meeting of the fall yesterday at the Friendship Centre.

 

There were three guest speakers including Raj Sweda of the NHR, Emily Roberts Young from FDC Economic Development and Becky Cianflone of CF Greenstone.

 

Sweda touched on some developments happening in the health care sector including working on getting a full time walk in clinic, an MRI machine for the North which would be  located in Thompson and they have come up with a memorandum of understanding with Northlands College.

 

This will help with the challenges of getting people and keeping people. The NHR is also actively working with the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in using services that are provided by the hospital.

 

Emily Roberts who is the new Regional Economic Development Officer talked about some of the recommendations they have brought forth including building Indigenous relationships, Downtown and Main street development and accessing new business growth channels.

 

Becky Cianflone just came back from the Northern Transportation Symposium in Thompson and talked about the Devil’s Lake Rest Stop which will eventually become a all season rest stop in that location. There were also recent announcements from both the Sask and MB governments on Highway 283 that an upgrade is needed for both growth in critical minerals and forestry sectors.

 

Thompson Bus Lines is also expected to make an announcement soon regarding a Winnipeg to Flin Flon route filling the gap in the market due to Mahikan closing down.