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Tom Henihan Smoky River Express The U.S. is radically divided along political, economic, social and racial lines and while Donald Trump didn’t create these divisions, like most leaders with totalitarian leanings, he instinctively knows how to broaden the chasm to…
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The op/ed department at The Leader is like Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers fame, in the episode with the German guests. Fawlty is determined and keeps saying to his staff, ‘Don’t mention the war!’ But the temptation is too great…
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“Start walking now,” begins a Canadian Geographic article on ‘The Great Trail,’ “and you’d finish sometime in 2020.” That’s assuming you don’t take time off for hip or knee surgery, get mauled by a bear or get fed up with…
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This item was intended for an earlier edition of The Leader, but we held off, hoping for a photo to go along with it, that never materialized. So, better late than never…. The fundraiser at the Slave Lake Legion for…
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I’d love to stay and chat, but…

This little fella – probably a chipping sparrow – was inside The Leader office and trying to get out when we arrived at work last Wednesday morning. At this point, it’s looking at the open door and thinking about making…
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Leader staff The driver of a gravel truck who was pretty much out of his mind on booze will not be jeopardizing any lives on the highway for a while. Thanks to a call from somebody else on the road,…
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Outreach school graduates 17

The Class of 2018 was a particularly large one for the Lakeside Outreach School in Slave Lake. Sixteen students successfully completed their high school studies and were celebrated at a June 15 ceremony. Jed Finney receiving his diploma Friday night…
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Town of Slave Lake council notebook June 19 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Movement on the CN front Town manager Brian Vance reported that the sidewalk damage at two CN Rail crossings in town should be fixed soon. He’d been on…
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What’s going on in there? Fire chief Coutts has answers

Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader The ever-growing training facility in the Slave Lake fire hall yard has apparently been drawing some attention and not all of it positive. Chief Jamie Coutts gave The Leader a tour last week, explaining the purpose…
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Electrical in nature?

A fire that apparently broke out in the room housing the computer server equipment in the Lakeland Building in Slave Lake on June 20 brought out the fire department and others. According to fire chief Jamie Coutts, the “computer backup…
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Regional Tri-Council Notebook June 14, 2018 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Tri-council members got an update on the regional water line project from Town of Slave Lake Project Manager Doug Baird. The newsiest bit was that due to the recent…
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Leader staff A raid by police on June 11 near Grouard resulted in an arrest and charges involving drugs and weapons. The release from the RCMP says Lakeshore Regional Police and the High Prairie RCMP Integrated Drug Enforcement unit executed…
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Pictured are Tim St. Louis and the crew at the Edge Industrial Supply shop on Caribou Trail in Slave Lake. Open since February of this year, the company has a wide range of supplies for machinery and equipment, including safety…
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