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Turns out there are 1,079 entries in Harry Bartlett’s NHL playoff hockey pool. That’s probably some kind of local record, even by Harry’s high standards. Of course being retired he’s got more time to throw himself into such projects. Who’s leading so far? We have no idea, but if Edmonton, Anaheim, Minnesota and the Islanders follow up their early success and win there are sure to be plenty of losers. (Editor’s note: this is being written with the playoffs only two days old.)
Here’s a website where you can check the standings of the pool. It’s officepools.com. Your user ID is ‘slavelake’, and your password is ‘theatre’ - without the apostrophes, of course.
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Holy office reconfiguration Batman! Have you seen The Leader offices? Your Page 9 scribe took a day off last Wednesday for a medical appointment in the Big City and when he returned the place was almost unrecognizable! Everything shifted around, totally new look with a net improvement in the working space of just about everybody. This doesn’t include Marilyn, our small but vital editor who is due to get booted right out of the corner she’s occupied for the past 17 years.
What it’s all on account of is the new neighbours, namely Rexall Drugs. They are taking over the Flicks space next door now that Flicks has moved up the street to the former IDA location. Rexall also gets the former furnace room and The Leader’s ex-darkroom (which since we gave up doing our own developing a few years ago has been a sort of kitchen/storage room). So we had to move a lot of stuff out of there and rearrange everything in the office, which we hear will be getting narrower and longer before the dust settles. Right now there’s plenty of dust all right, with no sign of it settling. So far, though, our weapons of mass distraction are all intact and if you’re reading this it means we succeeded in getting out yet another paper despite the disruptions. Thanks to Kathie and Kim for all the office redesigning and furniture shuffling.
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And speaking of shuffling, contrary to what some people might believe, the hard working individuals over at the Slave Lake Health Complex x-ray lab are not the ones responsible for Doreen Tompkins’ horribly painful wait for surgery.
That’s a specialized x-ray that Doreen needs, and it’ll have to be done somewhere in Edmonton. As a matter of fact, however, we got a call from Doreen last week informing us she finally has that date..she’ll have her x-ray later this month..and with any luck, surgery shortly thereafter. But to those who are picking on the local x-ray lab, back off!!!
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Just a reminder that the nomination deadline is getting very near for the 2002 Citizen of the Year award. So if you’re intending to do so, get busy on those nominations.
They can be mailed, or simply dropped off at the Lakeside Leader, or the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre on 6th Ave. NE.
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And while we’re setting records straight (yes, we were, just few paragraphs back), the Slave Lake Victim Services unit is not, repeat not, sponsoring any baseball team or game in the near future.
So if someone tries to sell you advertising, or solicit support for Victim Services through a ball game, don’t believe ‘em!! Victim Services is not going to garner one red cent. * * * * *
Well, that was some kind of ‘roast’ the folks over at Canada-Alberta Human Resources (or what ever they’re called this week) hosted for George Brown last weekend. It attracted many gone but never forgotten faces...like Elaine Grey, Richard Lightburn and even our buddy Gordon Byer. The latter, we learned, is once again on the province’s payroll, this time in a forestry/firefighting supplies mode in some remote Edmonton office.
It was an offer too good to refuse, says the former Town councillor..and we wouldn’t doubt that promises of retirement parties like George’s are a draw too.
(Kind of makes one wonder if the Boss has started saving for our retirement parties yet???)
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And while we’re on the subject of parties, we hear they hosted birthday parties for Eleanor Alook and Skinner Gairdner at the Slave Lake long-term care unit last Thursday.
There was cake and ice cream with all the trimmings, and a special appearance by Edmonton drummer and storyteller Denise Miller.
She’d just finished presentations at several local schools to celebrate Native Awareness Week in our community.
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In case any of those rabble-rousing anti-Toronto Maple Leaf types are reading.. ...na-na-na-na-na-na-a-a-a!
We won game one!