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Top Stories This Week - May 10, 2006
 
Slave Lake’s 2006 Business Expo started off Friday afternoon in fine ceremonial style with a ribbon cutting. Sharing snipping duties are (l. to r.) Slave Lake Mayor Karina Pillay-Kinnee, Chamber of Commerce executive member Doug Babiy and Lesser Slave MLA Pearl Calahasen. Holding the ribbon are trade show organizer Kathy Wright, left, and Chamber office manager Annie Aarts.
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Seven million in projects in Town budget
It took several weeks longer than usual, but Slave Lake Town Council finally wrestled its 2006 budget to the ground last week. The resulting document calls for spending $10 million on operations and $7 million on capital projects, plus another $829,000 into reserves against future projects.
M.D. passes five per cent tax increase
M.D. #124 Council passed a new mill rate by-law last week that will see a roughly five per cent increase in taxes for both residential and non-residential types of property.
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Sports Highlights
Justice Maccagno of one of the Under 8 teams gets set to advance the ball as Dylan LeRoux of the black team and Jordan Nahamko and Cole Rogers give chase during a May 3 game at Roland Michener School.
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More than 300 kids take to the soccer fields
Soccer got underway in Slave Lake on May 2, with 23 teams and roughly 310 players. Most of those are in the house leagues, and the majority are in the younger age groups. Only three of the teams will travel to tournaments.
What kind of a community do we want to see in 20 years?
Put 28 people in a room for eight hours and ask them to come up with a vision for sustainable growth management for a community. What do you get?
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