Flin Flon MLA Clarence Pettersen says there were some important issues for our area in this weeks Manitoba throne speech.  He says obviously they mentioned doing the highway from Bakers Narrows into town but something very important came up and that was the 23 million dollars they are going to spend on the residence in Cranberry Portage at the high school there which is very important for the north in giving students from all over the north the opportunity to come to Cranberry to get their education.

Pettersen says the emphasis in the speech was on jobs and the economy adding there will be ongoing road maintenance and jobs in the north and they are working with municipalities on how they are going to spend the money from the sales tax increase.