Spotlight staff After five AMAZING seasons, on October 12, 2017 host Jon Montgomery announced that the adventure will continue as CTV has renewed THE AMAZING RACE CANADA for a heroic sixth season. And in a new twist, THE AMAZING RACE…
Art depicts murdered and missing women

Chris Clegg Spotlight To the naked and untrained eye, James F. Willier’s art is eye-catching on its own. But take a closer look and you will see a very strong message being delivered. Willier drew a picture with a red…
High Prairie Quilt Guild hosts annual show

Chris Clegg Spotlight Canada has celebrated its 150th birthday all year so it seems only fitting that the High Prairie Quilt Guild will use our nation’s birthday as its theme for the annual show and sale Oct. 21-22. “Our theme…
Ice Ice Baby

The Leader received a few calls last week about damage caused by heavy snow and ice. Here’s a tree on 5th Street NE that couldn’t seem to stand up against the elements.  

Francesca Giroux, CPA For the Lakeside Leader The Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP) is a provision of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that allows you to withdraw up to $10,000 in a calendar year from your registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs)…
Congrats!

Roland Michener Secondary School runners Zoe Lightening-Fillion (left) and Montana Ross (right) braved the blizzard last week at cross country zones. Lightening-Fillion finished 13 out of 24 and Ross came seven out of 24. Both of them will be heading…
Regional Arts Council hosts first annual zombie fun run

Ahhh…they’re alive! Jule Asterisk (front right) leads her fellow dead runners along the path in Schurter Park on Saturday, Oct 14 in the first annual five kilometre zombie fun run hosted by the Lesser Slave Lake Regional Arts Council. Here…
The Fix doing its bit for gourmet coffee culture in town

Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Here’s something you might not have known about Slave Lake’s gourmet coffee shop, otherwise known as The Fix: when it comes to flavour options, it has more than Starbucks. So says proprietor Georgie Gauthier, who got…
The Page

  It’s all fun and games until the power goes out – unfortunately that’s what Smith and Hondo residents had to deal with during last week’s flurry frenzy. A source told your Leader reporter that an ATCO worker may or…
Snip snip!

No this isn’t a new hair style…it is the Leader’s very own Sunny Kwon getting her hair chopped off for a good cause. Kwon’s hair was snipped at local salon Magic Scissors and shipped to the Canadian Cancer Society where…