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Our faithful news source Harry Bartlett was in the office the other day with the latest on his work for Northern Lakes College. It seems that college English course for high school students had a decent number of interested parties, but most of them hadn’t put any money down by the June 30 deadline. Harry was having trouble contacting some of them and asked our help reminding people to contact the college and sign up. The course is introductory English – needed for most college programs – and it’ll be in one evening a week starting in September. Aimed primarily at Grade 12 students looking to get a head start on their college careers – it is also open to recent graduates and adults. In fact three of the people signed up so far are adults. Call Harry at 849-4042 or the college.
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Anne-Marie Lacombe is the newest Lakeside Leader employee. She replaces Kim Wilde as our ad designer, and we’re sure she’ll do a fine job, not least because of her training at Northern Lakes College.
Anne-Marie has been a Slave Lake resident for a couple of years, after moving here from her home town of Toronto. She’s related to the local Lacombes through her dad who is from St. Paul. He was in the army and stationed in Germany when Anne-Marie was born. After moving to Slave Lake, she worked at the Northwest Inn, before taking a year off to study Office Administration at the college. Welcome to the crew, Anne-Marie!
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So we’re hangin’ around the office last Thursday and a call comes in from Dryden, Ontario, of all places, the stinkiest town on the entire Trans Canada Highway, if memory serves. It’s Terry Cunha of Alberta Sustainable Resources, wanting to know if we would like to interview somebody from an Alberta fire crew working on a fire that is so far from Dryden it might as well be in another province. He says some guys from Slave Lake are on the ‘Wawa Fire’, which isn’t really at Wawa (the place with the giant Canada goose), but nearer to Sudbury, which is a good 200 miles as the tanker truck drives from Wawa, and at least 600 from Dryden. Photos are coming too, says Terry, but don’t hold your breath on account of the Internet “isn’t quite as fast” as it is at home. Then Darren Frederick calls from some place closer to the action and it turns out that the fire isn’t near Sudbury or Wawa, but not far from Geraldton. The story is on Page 8.