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Hey! We’ve still got a few pairs of tickets to the Mini-Hoops basketball show on Sept. 30. What do we have to do to give these things away? All you have to do is supply us with a publishable joke, or newsy item (birth, marriage, death?) or maybe a funny story about somebody local, and two tickets are yours. Give us a call at 849-4380, fax 849-3903.
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Harry Bartlett was in the other day to announce another hockey pool. This one is for just one game, the Heritage Hockey Classic on Nov. 22 between the Oilers and the Canadiens, outdoors at Commonwealth Stadium. Contestants will choose players for goals, assists and penalties, and goalies for the win or the loss. Harry says he’ll start selling them about mid-October, five bucks apiece or three for ten dollars. The money goes towards Slave Lake’s community theatre project.
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Speaking of the big game, congratulations to J. Lunn, J. Hebert, G. Kubel, J. MacIntosh, W. MacIsaac and K. Haner, the local ticket lottery winners for the Heritage Hockey Classic. That’s 24 tickets available to the six of them. We wonder who’ll end up going to the game. Two games actually – first an oldtimers’ contest featuring Wayne Gretzky and Guy Lafleur and then the regular NHL matchup. That should be about five hours of exposure to the elements.
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That was some mighty good coffee --and even better cakes over at the Vanderwell Heritage Place Thursday as that facility hosted the annual Alzheimer’s Coffee Break awareness session. Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pearl Calahasen dropped in, as did another politician, M.D. Councillor Jerry Wallsten.