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Look for big changes in Harry Bartlett’s hockey pool standings (probably already have been). Some of the first round leaders took a huge hit when Toronto and Colorado went down last week. Reduced to seven or eight players, they will be lucky to stay anywhere near the top as the second round progresses. You know who you are.
Some teams still have a dozen or so players left and should be moving up the ranks pretty quickly, barring a whole lot of 1 – 0 games. If Bill Guerin ever gets back and scores a few points, look for The Leader’s (the only one dumb enough to pick him in the first place) best entry (currently in 320-something place) to rocket up the standings to take the lead in the Media Challenge. On the line: a hot t-shirt from the Bartlett collection.
Remember to check your standings at officepools.com. The user ID is slavelake and the password is theatre.
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Well, well, what the hell. We’re under a half inch of dust here at the hard-driving newsroom of Slave Lake’s leading newspaper on account of all the destruction and construction going on next door. The good news: we aren’t losing a chunk of our office to Rexall expansionism. Further good news is that we were under just such a threat for long enough for Marilyn to clean up on, around and under her desk in anticipation of having to move it. (She hasn’t budged from that corner in about 17 years.)
No idea when construction will be over next door, but when it does the Rexall will be about twice the size it is now, providing easy access to the essentials (chocolate bars) and lots of other stuff.
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So what else is up in our little corner of the world?? (Besides taxes and gas prices, that is?)
Well, this might not have appeared elsewhere in the paper, but Slave Lake Native Friendship centre Executive Director Lucille Cook announced the Centre’s Volunteer Appreciation banquet and the Citizen of the Year award have been postponed to May 8 at the Friendship Centre.
In fact, they’re short-handed and some are sickly over there, so Lucille said she wants to do it up right -- even if that means delaying the event by a week.
The Leader also helps sponsor the Citizen of the Year award and we’re getting pretty excited about that contest. But that’s only because we just happen to know there are several very fine nominations in this year’s crop.
We only wish we could tell, but that’d likely wreck an excellent surprise.
Again, stay tuned, because you will be impressed!!
Guaranteed!!