Slave Lake Soccer competes at first tournament
Leader staff Slave Lake Soccer sent its U15 team, the Slayers, to its first competition on May 26 to 28 in Sherwood Park. The team was just getting their feet wet, with competitive soccer in Slave Lake only in its…
U15 Heat go 1 – 2 at home baseball tournament
Leader staff Slave Lake’s AA 15U Heat baseball team hosted three Edmonton-area teams on the weekend. It turned out to be very tight, competitive ball – each of the Heat’s three games being decided by a single run. On Saturday,…
New at Canyon Creek
Homeless shelter averaged 11.6 people per night this winter
Pearl Lorentzen Lakeside Leader From November 14, 2022 to April 30, 2023, the Slave Lake Homeless Coalition housed an average of 11.6 people per night. During that time, the Coalition ran a Temporary Mat Program out of skid shacks on…
Letters to the Editor – from Arnold Viersen, MP
Federal Conservatives are supporting victims of crime To the Editor: May 14 to 20 is National Survivors and Victims of Crime week. It is well reported that violent crime across Canada has drastically gone up 32 per cent over the…
The Page
Here we go; another week of observations, tips, opinions and what have you. For starters, the May long weekend wasn’t exactly the big kickstart to the camping season that everybody in the business was hoping. We don’t have the numbers,…
Smash and grab at realty office
One walleye tournament canceled due to low water
Boat access trickier from the river, but do-able; Anglers Cup should be okay Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader One of the area’s major walleye tournaments was canceled due to low water at Spruce Point Park marina. The other big one –…
UCP’s Sinclair wins Lesser Slave Lake
Van Dijken returned in Ath-Barr-West Joe McWilliamsLakeside Leader A majority of Lesser Slave Lake voters chose Scott Sinclair of the United Conservative Party as their new MLA on May 29. Sinclair, a 38-year-old business owner, replaces the UCP’s Pat Rehn…
M.D. of Opportunity Council notebook
April 26, 2023 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Council adopted the April 26 agenda with the following additions: Calling Lake community meeting, gravel pit in Red Earth Creek, unsightly premises in Red Earth Creek, lease extension for something called ‘TJBSC…
Wash day pre-electricity
Architects in the making
When Beethoven and Bugs Bunny mixed
Commentary by Chris Clegg If you are as old as I am, you grew up on Saturday afternoons watching Bugs Bunny, better known as the series of Looney Tunes cartoons. As funny as Bugs Bunny was, I loved Foghorn Leghorn.…
Election? What election?
Last Wednesday at a checkout at one of the stores in Slave Lake a couple of the young-ish clerks were looking at the front page of the new Lakeside Leader. Clerk #1: “Is there an election on?” Clerk #2: “I…
Big rain needed
How much rain does it take to raise the level of Lesser Slave Lake by one foot? It’s some gigantic number, we’re sure of that. A few years ago we talked to a government hydrologist who had the figures. It…