The City of Flin Flon is happy with the progress that is happening  with  the Pine Ave Bridge  project.

Over the past few days, crews have been placing sub-base material in preparation for the next phase of construction.

The next step will be the installation of the new culverts, followed by backfilling and preparation around them. Once the road surface is completed, guardrails will be installed on both sides of the crossing, followed by the installation of a sidewalk along the north side.

 As work on this project continues, engineers will be coming in regularly to inspect for quality control.

Paving is scheduled to take place next summer.

Soup Days have started up once again and the Flin Flon Salvation Army will once again be running the program out of the Anglican Church in the downtown area.

One of the organizers Nelly Brown explains the program. " Well to start with they are for anybody and everybody, we welcome the entire community. We host the Soup Days every Monday and Friday at the Anglican Church Hall. They are one of our partners, the other is the Steelworkers. They help us with our grocery bill and we really appreciate that."

The Salvation Army is also preparing for their Kettles season where they will be ringing the bells to help raise funds for their Christmas Hampers and Christmas Toy Drive.

If you are interested in helping out with that this year you can contact Nelly at 204-687-4283 or the Salvation Army Church at 204-687-7812.

There are still a few more events to enjoy at this year’s Flin Flon  Culture Days, with some fun events planned for this weekend.

The Interim Executive Director Jon Davis tells us what they have planned. "Well the Public Library is going to be having the Book Tasting, where people can come out and sample the different authors and genres of books and it will be presented like you are going to a restaurant. They will have different menus and you can take a look at all the books. The Quilt Guild is going to be having an open house on both Friday and Saturday where you can come and see the work they do. They have had a very busy year where they have been helping people from the wildfires."

The big event, The Wild Rice Cabaret which will take place on Friday night at the Flin Flon Community Hall starting at 7pm. The event will feature Norva Artists who will come out to paint during all the musical live performances.

This is a free event and you can bring your own snacks and refreshments.