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‘This town should be embarrassed to have to put their Junior club in that dressing room.” That’s what Sawridge Hotel Manager Hugh McEvoy says about the Wolves’ quarters at the arena. He’s launching a campaign to build the Wolves and Winterhawks their own room worthy of the prominence of those two teams in the community and all the success they have had. McEvoy says he’ll be lobbying local government and business to get on board with time, money, materials – to hopefully have the room done for next season.
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Well, there was a hot time in the old Town hall last week, and they weren’t even talking about the proposed smoking bylaw -- yet.
In fact, when Margaret Moore appeared as a delegate to ask council to consider a smoking ban “anywhere that children under the age of 18 can go,” Mayor Ray Stern said council would take her request under advisement. But, he added, “the smoking bylaw is still at our lawyer’s” getting the legal once-over, so first reading of that bylaw will have to wait at least a month, and the public hearing can’t proceed until a month after that.
Be that as it may, Margaret said she and her army that make up to Tobacco coalition will be back to lead the charge .
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And we didn’t have time to write this one up either, but Jennifer Cowan was also acting as a delegate to take council to task about not only their potholes, but the sad state of drainage in the downtown streets that forced her to wade through ankle deep puddles when she walked from the Associate Medical Clinic to the Slave Lake Health Complex.
Operations director Allan Anderson told her that the streets will cleared of sand and stuff, and the potholes fixed “as soon as we have asphalt.”
(We hope the kind folks at the health complex gave Jen some cold medicine -- just in case -- after her doctor -- we’re assuming -- asked her to make that trek.)
Thanks for asking, Jen, we were wondering about all that sand and silt too.
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Well since we’ve seen and heard all those Canada geese that have been hanging out at The Point, we’re betting folding money that spring is really here. And just in case the white stuff returns, it was the sports guy who was betting.
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And speaking of the sports guy, the rest of the backshop gremlins are thinking how happy he must be that we gave him all those hints on Harry Bartlett’s big fat hockey pool!
Stay tuned.
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