Things have calmed down so much on the wildfire front in this province that Alberta is able to send some air tankers to help New Brunswick fight its fires. It’s nice to be able to help our fellow provinces when they need it.
TC Energy recently sent out a helpful pamphlet on the topic of safety when ‘living and working near pipelines.’ Pretty much all of us in this part of the country do, so reading it could be helpful. It has a section on what utility markings mean; different colours mean different things. Yellow, for example, means there’s a line under the ground carrying gas, oil, steam, petroleum or ‘gaseous materials.’
Another section deals with what you can and can’t do on a pipeline right of way. Cutting hay does not require permission. Digging does. So do buildings and so on.
There’s lots more useful information. We’d like to say it’s all available on the TC Energy website, but we looked there and couldn’t find it.
Okay, we misspelled a name on Page 17 of last week’s Leader. It was under the photo of Premier Danielle Smith, with a trio of Northern Lakes College executives. One of them is the new VP of Finance and Admin, Mo Azim (see story on Page 7). We got his last name wrong. Sorry about that!
The Leader has a brand new reporter on the team, as of August 18. She’s Julia Magsombol, from Edmonton. Julia studied journalism at Grant MacEwan University and she’ll be out and about in the community, covering things and looking for story ideas. Welcome!
The worst typo is one on the front page and last week, both the Lakeside Leader and South Peace News fell into that trap. The Leader had an extra ‘this’ in the headline about Hwy. 686 and The News had ‘Driftpie’ instead of Driftpile. We’ll strive to do better this week.
On October 9, ‘Music of the Night: a celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest works’ is coming to the Legacy Centre in Slave Lake. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on Eventbrite.
The event is also on the Lakeside Leader’s online calendar of events.
Parade of Programs is a chance to learn about volunteer opportunities, support services, and activities in the Slave Lake area (see ad on Page 2). If you are part of an organization that would like to book a free table, email slavelakementalhealth@gmail.com.
Alouette came up in The Leader office last week, which led to the song and an online search. It turns out alouette means lark and the song is a Quebecois one about preparing larks for cooking, as they used to be a popular game bird. An updated version might be about plucking ducks or geese, or more likely buying chicken at the store.