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Top Stories This Week - May 21, 2003
 
Harry Bartlett and Darcie Acton were trying to make some sort of a point (we’re not sure what) with the gardening implements and straw hats at last Thursday’s coffee house in support of the community complex project. But their main message was clear: Slave Lake is due for a performing arts theatre.
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Province gets earful on Grizzly Park OHV access
The threat of losing most off-highway vehicle (OHV) access to Grizzly Wildland Park certainly got a lot of people interested in the public involvement process. At an information meeting last week, Parks officials received a 1,200-signature petition protesting the proposed restriction of OHV access in the new park to a couple of trails. They also peppered Parks District Manager Ken Zurfluh with objections, opinions and questions about the draft management plan for the park.
Assessment errors cause uproar among mobile home owners
When Theresa Spencer received her municipal tax notice recently, she couldn’t believe her eyes. It was up about 30 per cent, based on the assessed value of her mobile home, which magically had increased in value $14,000 since last year.
Angry and bewildered, Spencer started calling her neighbours. It was, she soon discovered, an epidemic.
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Sports Highlights
Tavis Harmata and his teammates head up the field in an Under 12 house league soccer game last week. Soccer is underway on all fronts after a snowy week delayed the start of the season. This past weekend several Slave Lake teams played at the Millwoods tournament in Edmonton.
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Something old, something new in fourth annual Corporate Challenge
Slave Lake’s popular Community Corporate Challenge is back for a fourth year. The 2003 edition retains a few events from past challenges and adds new ones to keep things fresh (and possibly confusing).
Twelve teams compete in diabetes race
First-leg runners in the fourth annual Diabetes Road Race take off from the start line at the Sawridge Truckstop just after 7:00 a.m. on May 10. The race took them all the way to Wabasca. Money raised through pledges went to support Canadian Diabetes Association programs and also to local healthy living programs in Wabasca.
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