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We heard from former Slave Lake newspaper reporter Lawrence Gleason by e-mail the other day. Lawrence was in town for a year or so, working for the competition and then for a while for the other competition. We can’t tell you what he’s doing though, because he left that information out of his e-mail. He still has a house in Granum, though, which is north of Ft. McLeod.
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We tried, believe us, we tried to get news of the Storm fastball playoff run in this week’s paper, but it seems nothing happened last week. Last we heard, they were waiting to find out if they would get the semi-final win over Gift Lake by default, since the Bunnies failed to show up for Game 3 on the Monday night. On Thursday we called Brian Bouchard, only to find out he was playing ball hocky at Trout Mountain of all places! So let’s assume that the Storm are in the final against the Faust Silver Bullets. The Storm will have to be at their best to beat the Bullets.
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Saw something the other day we’ve never seen before - a guy riding down the highway on a Harley Davidson, one hand on the bars and the other on a cell phone up to his ear. What next!
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Things are looking so fine down at the river and the lake these days it almost makes you believe that Slave Lake is the next tourist mecca. Lots of water, lots of satisfied fisherpeople, lots of people enjoying the beach and lots of campgrounds overflowing with Edmontonians saying: ‘Hey! We never knew it was so great up here!’
In fact there’s a bit of a story with pictures on Page 6.
Of course the weather helps. Maybe it’ll hold for a few more weeks.
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Rumours are currently flying around town about our good friend Harry Bartlett’s latest, greatest idea for yet another hockey pool (and we’re surprised???) Seems Harry has been on holidays (which begs the question, how do retired guys holiday??) and while he was away, spent a great deal of time planning of the mother of all hockey pools....with the winner taking home some pretty large coin.
The new lottery will have that great outdoor Edmonton NHL hockey game as its subject, but that’s all we’re allowed to say.
And by the way, this is really not a rumour -- first because you saw it in writing, and secondly because we heard it directly from the horse’s mouth.
(No, we aren’t calling you a horse -- or any of its relatives, Harry, but you prob’ly owe us a few free tickets for all this free advertising!)
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Q: Why did the bubblegum cross the street??
A: Because it was stuck to the chicken.
(Don’t blame us, it was Anne Marie’s joke!!)
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This is a little late, but we’d like to welcome back those galloping globe-trotters from our community who recently returned from a plane-train-bus-cruise holiday in Italy and the Greek Islands.
We don’t know all the names, save the fact it was several teachers, their significant others and a whole mess of friends including our great friend and former co-worker Kim Wilde.
She reports it was a great trip, but they could have done without the heat wave that was consuming Europe at the time. At any rate, we’re glad you had fun.