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Top Stories This Week - March 19, 2008
 
That might have been a false spring last week, but the results were the same as the real thing. Including the lake in the Sawridge Plaza Mall parking lot. Local companies were called on to pump it out and as soon as they did, it became a construction zone for the new town/provincial government building.
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Construction begins
Construction activity - or at least pre-construction activity - started on the new town and provincial building at the Sawridge Mall last week. First the surveyors showed up and didn't let mountains of snow stop them from finding property markers. Then a pile driver took over and started driving test piles. These will be checked in a week or so, says town manager Betty Osmond. They'll apparently tell a story about the permanent pile projects.
Tolko's new mill still in the throes of start-up
Welding rods, nuts, bolts. Construction leftovers such as these, believe it or not, are slowing down the start-up of Tolko's engineered wood products mill near Slave Lake.
Highway 88 crash claims the life of 24-year-old woman
An accident occuring 10km north of Slave Lake proved fatal for the lone occupant of a 2001 Jeep TJ.
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Sports Highlights
The Tetra Dog Islander goalie makes the stop on a Roughneck in the Rec League playoff tournament on Saturday at the Arctic Ice Centre. The Dog Islanders won the game 6-4 and went on to beat the Slave Safety Diggers 4-2 in the 'B' final.
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March's travelling art exhibit at the library 'Domestic Bliss' contains delicious eye candy
March's travelling art exhibit narrows its focus to family life through a series of paints and photographs by both well known and new artists.
M.D. Budget passes: calls for five per cent tax hike
Ratepayers in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River face a roughly five per cent tax increase. That's what the 2008 budget, passed by council at it's March 12 meeting, calls for.
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First annual International Women's Day cause to celebrate, pause to consider
Slave Lake's first annual International Women's Day celebration was an opportunity to honour women and, simultaneously, help the cause.
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