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Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Things are brisk in the world of the Slave Lake Rotary Club – at least that’s the impression Harry Bartlett gives. Last week he updated The Leader on three separate fundraisers – one just ending, one…
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Callie Hermanson Lakeside Leader Their experience and backgrounds vary, but all are excited to be part of either Roland Michener Secondary school (RMSS) or/and Lakeside Outreach and working with the students in their classes. 10 new staff members – Brian…
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Leader staff Five people are facing a multitude of charges, after a joint forces operation nabbed four of them on Sept. 12 in Calling Lake and the fifth a day later in Wabasca. This was in response to “crime trends,”…
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Submitted On Sept. 14, 2018 at approximately 12 noon, Desmarais RCMP responded to a report of a quad roll over in Desmarais. Preliminary investigation indicates a quad with a lone occupant was driving on a gravel road and attempted to…
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Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Something like 80 per cent of respondents to an online survey last spring said they were in favour of cannabis sale and consumption being allowed in Slave Lake. That’s one side of the story. Another side…
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Sept. 18, 2018 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Please reconsider that setback distance Heather and Harry Bartlett of Slave Lake made a presentation to council on the results of their research on setback distances for cannabis stores from schools, etc.…
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Callie Hermanson Lakeside Leader The Lakeside Figure Skating Club is back on ice for another winter skating season. Skating club coach Jennifer Dierker says the club offers PreCanSkate, CanSkate, Figure Skating, AdultSkate, and PreCanPower programs.  She says every Skate Canada…
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Bear visits downtown, smashes window

Leader staff As bear stories go, this one might be a first for Slave Lake. Managers of two downtown businesses were quite alarmed to find a big hole in a glass window of a vacant space next to The Brick…
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Brian Giesbrecht Troy Media I’ve been paying attention to public event openings announcing that we’re now on treaty land. Perhaps the most unusual is the one advising people that they’re now on the home land of the Metis Nation. Does…
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Take us!

Friends Layla Emmrich Letendre and Summer Fry cuddling some fuzzy little kittens during the Slave Lake Animal Rescue’s (ARC) adoption event on Saturday, September 15. The event was the committee’s one year anniversary of being in their current location.
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Nicole Krikun For the Lakeside Leader Last week I wrote that our banding total could reach the top three if the weather cooperated with us… No big surprise it did not (I firmly believe the weather doesn’t like being taunted).…
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Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader “I usually have more than one book going at a time,” says Len Ramsey, this week’s Avid Reader, Such as? “Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg.” Yes, and? “It’s written by a trans-gender guy, about…
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Callie Hermanson Lakeside Leader On September 7, 2018 the Rupertsland Institute and the Métis Education Foundation announced a significant gift to support Métis student success at Northern Lakes College. “Today, I am happy to announce and celebrate yet another milestone,”…
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