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Gord Fortin Lakeside Leader Barb Courtorielle, of the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre, gave her take of the recently released University of Calgary’s study of rural homelessness in Slave Lake. Courtorielle started off by saying that she was disappointed that…
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Dec. 13, 2017 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Smith School gets its funding M.D. council passed an interim budget last week, and that was good for Smith School, because it doesn’t have to wait a couple of months to find…
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Fire department, RCMP recognize Hometown Heroes

Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Last week the Lesser Slave Regional Fire Service and the RCMP honoured several people who went well beyond what’s normally expected to help the firefighters, the police or a fellow citizen. In one case, a whole…
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Coming up someday soon in a Lakeside Leader: Carson Lehman recently returned from travels in such exotic locales as Nepal and Viet Nam. He’s agreed to tell us about it. * * * * * Pastor Danny Brown of the…
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‘Option 4’ offered on child restraint violations Gord Fortin Lakeside Leader Drivers who are ticketed for the improperly restraining a child in a vehicle have an educational option to pursue that can get the ticket withdrawn. Alberta Health Services (AHS)…
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Joe McWilliams Is there anything more Canadian than running into a moose? Not that it’s anything to take lightly. It obviously can be fatal, to both people and moose. It is one of the risks we accept, living where we…
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Danielle Larivee MLA for Lesser Slave Lake From making renewable electricity affordable to protecting Albertans at work, it was a busy few weeks in the Legislature where your government has been focused on making life better. I feel so lucky…
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The big traffic diversion through the Sawridge Plaza Mall parking lot on Dec. 15 was the annual ‘Candy Cane Checkstop,’ put on by various agencies with an interest in safety and the law. Each vehicle was stopped and a person…
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Community Letters Dear Santa, My name is Anthony and I am 4 years old. I am going to my great papas for Christmas this year. Please can I have some silly puddy and a spongebob toy, thank you. I am…
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Kinuso School Mrs. Yaro (Grade 6) Dear Santa Claus How is everything in the North Pole? How are your reindeer? Are they happy, healthy and good? How Mrs. Claus? I hope your all happy and working hard. For Christmas I…
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Francesca Giroux, CPA For the Lakeside Leader If you have a corporation, a shareholders loan is an accumulation of funds paid into and taken out of the corporation by the shareholders over the life of the corporation. For example, if…
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Kinuso School Ms. Gale (Grade 4) Dear Santa, Can i have a remot cancherol car plese. A Nintando swich plese, some sox to plese Hawe do you make so muth presents. Mary Mary crasmas. I want a phone, Maknakol Bole,…
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