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Top Stories This Week - Mar. 23, 2005
 
Fire and ambulance crews responded to a single vehicle accident north of Slave Lake on Hwy. 2 on Mar. 15. A passing trucker called 911 after he found the man pinned beneath his truck in the east ditch. Police believe the victim was thrown clear in a rollover.
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Unattended kitchen stove caused fatal trailer fire
An unattended pot on a cooking stove caused last week’s trailer fire that killed two people. According to Slave Lake Fire Chief Greg Gramiak, the pot of food caught on fire, ignited the cupboards above it, and a few minutes later two people were dead.
Council passes no-smoking by-law
Slave Lake joined many other municipalities in the country last week when Town council voted to adopt a new by-law that will ban smoking in public places accessible to children. The vote was unanimous, suggesting that even those councillors who had spoken against it in earlier debates saw that the writing was on the wall.
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Sports Highlights
Slave Lake’s Senior Men’s hockey team poses with the league trophy after defeating the Drayton Valley Wildcats three games to two in the final. They go on to the provincial championships this weekend in Beaumont.
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Winterhawks league champions
Winning at home is sweet. Sweeter still is doing it against an opponent that is good enough to beat you and has done it.
Pee Wee Elks go one for two at provincials
Slave Lake’s Pee Wee ‘A’ Elks proved on the weekend that they can rise above even the toughest of odds and emerge victorious in what Coach Ron Plourde says can only be called a ‘good/bad experience’.
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