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So here it is, Pitch In week in Slave Lake, and from what we’re seeing and hearing, it’s about darn time!
Seems the blanket of snow has been covering the evidence that our community is nasty dirty..and we sure hope everyone is doing their part to help Slave Lake clean up its act. (If, that is, the most recently-arrived layer of white stuff is gone by the time the week arrives.)
We had a message from the Excel Martial Arts Academy last week telling us that group was getting ready to give more than competitors the heave-ho this week – tonight (Wed., Apr. 21), to be exact.
We could tell they were really serious when they asked club members to wear their rubber boots and offered to supply the gloves to make the picking ‘ensemble’ complete.
Congrats for getting involved – to everyone who did!
(Wished we’d have thought of this a week earlier, but The Leader gremlins got involved and (silently) challenged every business in town to meet or beat last year’s garbage-collecting totals! And just in case this week is too miserable to allow picking and Pitch In week is delayed, consider yourself challenged!!)
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Q: Why do frogs have the easy life?
A: They eat everything that bugs them!
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Who’s winning the big hockey pool? It changes every day, but Rob Chalmers has spent his share of time up there at the top. First round upsets in the playoffs look less likely than last year, but as of this writing it’s still possible that Nashville could knock off Detroit, which would sink a ton of pool entries. First prize, keep in mind, is $1,500 smackeroonies.
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Well, well, well. And who isn’t going on a cruise these days? We’re not sure, because everybody we know is - either that or getting married in Hawaii, or just returned from Cancun for cryin’ out loud. But when a certain former Leader employee and current radio station honcho goes on an Alaskan cruise, things have reached a new level altogether. We’re thinking of closing the shop for six months to go trout fishing in New Zealand. No, wait a minute, we already know somebody who’s doing that!
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And details were almost non-existent Friday, but we did knowthat Dennis (the Menace) and Lora Barton’s horse Northern Neechietoo was expected to be in some major limelight over the weekend because she’d been nominated in three or four categories for the Oscars. Actually it was the Night of Champions, the equivalent of the Oscars for horses -- but every bit as important, we’re sure.
The nomination came through the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society, and the event was a swanky dinner at the posh Palimino room of the Round up Centre, Stampede Park in Cowtown. (And just for the record, maybe they should think about renaming that little city ot the south Horsetown, but we digress.)
This is probably Lora and Dennis’s baziollionth trip to the winner’s paddock, but no matter what the judges decide,we want to bethe first to congratulate them, again, for reminding people in the south just how important Slave Lake really is.