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Top Stories This Week - Jan. 5, 2005
 
No she didn’t deliver Slave Lake’s New Year’s baby – there wasn’t one at press time. But the executive director for the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre, Lucille Cook, took a well-deserved break after she and a couple of helpers prepared, cooked and served a New Year’s Eve feast to an estimated 80 elders Friday evening.
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Slave Lake's Thai twin hit by tsunami
Word that an earthquake that spawned a giant tsunami wave was wreaking havoc in southeast Asia the day after Christmas was enough to alarm former Slave Lake mayor Gerry Allarie. He realized that Thailand – and more importantly this town’s ‘twin’ sister town Phang Nga – were in the path of the huge tidal wave that first hit the tourist resort island of Phuket, then hours later, Phang Nga.
EUB to take a closer look at Acclaim Energy
Acclaim Energy’s Mitsue operations near Slave Lake will likely undergo closer regulatory scrutiny in the New Year. Thanks to the gas well blowout near Spruce Grove last month, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) is planning an investigation of the company. But contrary to recent reports, not just yet.
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Sports Highlights
Senior hockey has enjoyed some really good years in Slave Lake, and the tradition continues this season with the Winterhawks - shown here in an early-season contest against the Hinton Heat.
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Ups, downs - the hockey season so far
Ooops!. We were caught flat-footed over the Christmas break, expecting for some reason that hockey season would resume this past weekend. Of course it didn’t, with Jan. 1 being on a Saturday.
So with nothing at all going on in the world of local sports we decided to look back at the first half of the season.
Local players toil on distant ice
A quick scan of the Internet – that handy tool – over the Christmas break revealed a few details about local boys playing hockey in other leagues, provinces and even countries. From U.S. College to the Western Hockey League to provincial Junior leagues, Slave Lake is well represented.
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