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Top Stories This Week - June 6, 2007
 
Lights, sirens, action!
Slave Lake emergency services responded to a sudden release of gas at St. Mary of the Lake School last Friday afternoon. Smoke billowed from the west side of the building as firefighters carried limp bodies from within. Fortunately, it was all staged and no one was hurt. Designed to test Municipal Emergency Plan, the mock scenario employed police, fire, and ambulance personnel as well as ATCO Gas, the Town of Slave Lake and social services. Very few people had prior knowledge of the event. It was real enough that EMS and St. Mary’s fielded a few phone calls from worried parents and townsfolk.
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Dredging clean-up costing M.D. $3,400 a day
A reasonable person might wonder why it’s so important to remove sand from the lake. But there are reasons and there are reasons, and the folks at Transport Canada have Municipal District #124 under the gun when it comes to the sand that was dredged out of the river channel just off The Point last November.
Boy hurt in mid-air quad collision
A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized after the quad ATV he was operating was struck by a pickup truck on Hwy #2A south of Smith. Emergency services mobilized around 1:00 p.m. on May 26 and traffic was diverted when police closed the road.
Headaches on Muskeg Road
People who drive Muskeg Road are finding the going pretty rough. The road that connects Hwy. 88 and the Old Smith Highway is a low priority for the municipal district. But for the few residents who live on it, it is high priority. Two of them appeared before M.D. #124 council last week to ask for action.
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Sports Highlights
Slave Lake Cardinals’ pitcher Blair Sinclair had a solid start in the first game of the season on May 30 against the Wabasca Indians.
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Southshore men’s league cracks into action
The Southshore Men’s Baseball League season opened last Wednesday night with a game between the Wabasca Indians and the Slave Lake Cardinals. The Cardinals ended up winning, but it wasn’t nearly as easy as it looked like it would be.
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