15U AA Heat go 1-2 to start their 2023 season
Leader staff Slave Lake’s 15U Heat baseball team started off its season in Sherwood Park on the May 13 weekend, winning one and losing two. The weekend got off to a great start, with a 10 – 0, five-inning victory…
Dance Creations does well in Fort Saskatchewan
Four $1,000 scholarships, high golds, etc. Leader staff Dance Creations brought home 10 high golds and other medals from Heartbeat Dance Festival in Fort Saskatchewan. This Slave Lake dance studio sent dancers in both the performance and competitive category. Three…
Pro wrestling show returns to Slave Lake June 3
Leader staff Monster Pro Wrestling is back in Slave Lake on June 3, with a show at the curling rink. It’ll feature Slave Lake’s own Tarzan Hayes, in the main event. The show is called ‘Born to be Wild.’ “Me…
Time to bite the bullet on developer obligations, town council decides
Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader The matter of servicing the west end of the so-called ‘joint school site’ was back before Slave Lake town council last week. It’s a complicated file with a long history and plenty of pushback from the…
Town of Slave Lake Council notebook
May 16, 2023 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Paying town bills by credit card Town administration is proposing to set up a system whereby people can pay some town bills by credit card at the main office. This had been…
Elementary school fun and learning
M.D. of Lesser Slave River Council notebook
May 17, 2023 meeting Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader Truck fill issues Council got an update on a couple of issues regarding the truck fill in Smith. One had to do with an emergency shut-down on May 6. It caused some…
Wildfire crisis continues: new ones near Smith
Evacuations on Old Smith Highway Pearl Lorentzen Lakeside Leader On May 18 at 3:40 p.m., the M.D. of Lesser Slave River ordered the evacuation of people living on the Old Smith Highway between the road west of the Smith Bridge…
Bird report: Unusual week in songbird migration
Robyn Perkins LSLBO Bander-in-Charge For the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory (LSLBO), this past week has been unusual in a few ways. Some species seem to be late to arrive despite the unseasonably warm temperatures which have encouraged the trees…
Meet the new Slave Lake Canadian Tire owner
Joe McWilliams Lakeside Leader There’s been a change at the top of the Slave Lake Canadian Tire store recently. Lokesh Mahajan took over on Feb. 23 as franchise owner, making the jump from a small town in southwestern Ontario. That…
St. Francis pitches in
Getting behind the concert series
Loon River, Lubicon, and Peerless Trout enact child welfare law
Pearl Lorentzen Lakeside Leader Three of the Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council First Nations had planned to start protecting children under their own children’s services in the fall, but have enacted it early. In late-April, Mona Auger, executive director…
Slave Lake hosts wildfire evacuees from two Whitefish Lake First Nation communities – Atikameg and Whitefish River
