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Top Stories This Week - October 18, 2006
 
Clean-up efforts in the Rainbow Pipeline spill near Slave Lake last week ranged from high to low-tech, including two guys in a rowboat on this oil-slicked beaver pond. Their job was to manipulate the yellow booms so as to move the sluggish oil towards the skimmer pumps.
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Beaver dams help contain oil spill
Mother Nature was both a victim and a clean-up participant in last week’s oil spill near Slave Lake. Thanks to at least one beaver dam, the 1,200-odd barrels of crude oil that leaked from a Rainbow Pipeline pipe did not flow further downstream.
Stalemate in council delays land sale
The sale of 17 acres in southwest Slave Lake for housing development hit a snag last week when Slave Lake Town councillors couldn’t agree on whose proposal they liked best.
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Wolves’ goalie Michael Kashuba makes himself as large as possible as Daniel Payou of the Sexmith Vipers fires a shot. That’s Kiel Ching down trying to keep the puck from getting to his goalie, and Nick Plourde off to the right.
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Rookies huge as Wolves smother Vipers
The Slave Lake Wolves got the monkey off their back on Sunday. After starting the season with four straight losses, they ambushed the Sexsmith Vipers for a 7 – 4 victory at home.
Midget Storm drop a couple
Friday the 13th was an unlucky date for the Slave Lake Midget ‘AA’ Storm. Playing in Barrhead against the Steelers, the Storm went down to a 5 – 2 defeat.
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