Word from down the lake last week was that a salvage company was floating up a truck from the bottom of the lake at the narrows. The vehicle went through and sank sometime during the winter. What we heard (from a source that preferred not to be identified) was that initial attempts to bring it up were unsuccessful and they had to locate some bigger air bags (probably not the right term). They got back at it last week and (as far as we know) floated it up and towed it to shore.
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What we assume is a reliable source tells us the so-called ‘vandalism’ of a fence on the Devonshire Beach road (reported in the May 10 Leader) was not vandalism at all. It was done inadvertently by the bulldozers hired to plow the snowdrifts off the beach road last winter.
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A musical duo called ‘The Great Plains’ is putting on a concert next Wednesday, June 14 at St. Peter’s Ecumenical Church in Slave Lake. Otherwise known as Saskia and Darrel, The Great Plains plays (according to the blurb emailed to The Leader) ‘folk, celtic, bluegrass, country and gospel flavours.”
The show is at 7:00 p.m. and costs $15 per person. For tickets or more information call Ellen at 780-805-4346 or 780-849-3371.
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Three Slave Lakers were gallivanting around Germany last week on what is being called ‘The Reformation Tour.’ It kind of sneaked up on us, but 2017 is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s famous stand against certain practices of the Catholic Church he saw as unacceptable. A lot of us learned about this stuff in school – The 95 Theses on the church door in Wittenberg and the uproar it caused, Luther later refusing to take it back and the whole movement later dubbed the Protestant Reformation kicking into high gear as a result of it. For many people this is something to celebrate and these three gents, whose initials are H. P. and N., are apparently among them. Have fun and go easy on the beer, dudes!
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The big Rotary Duck Drop event will be sold out, we hear. Which means tickets are still available! It’s the modern version of the ‘duck derby,’ and this will be the second annual attempt at hitting a target on the Gilwood Golf Course driving range with 1,000 rubber duckies dropped from a helicopter. It’s an inexact science, targeted duck-dropping, but no doubt will get better with practice. What’s certain, however, is that one duck will be closer to the bullseye than the other 999, earning a nice fat prize for the owner of that bird. It takes place on July 8, during Riverboat Daze.
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We’re not sure what exactly (or even approximately) the fellows from Dardon Roofing were doing up top of the Slave Lake Plaza (Rexall and such) last week, but if the effectiveness of their efforts can be judged by how much noise they made, there shouldn’t be another leak in that roof for as long as we live.
To which we’ll add they were very accommodating and apologetic for the disruption and seemed very diligent in all respects.
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At Page 9, we’re not hip to the trends. For instance, we can’t figure out why anybody would walk around with their hood up when it’s plus-25 and sunny. We actually saw this. Can’t understand it at all, so we must be missing something.
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The Rotary Club is doing a fundraiser this month called ‘Loo on the Loose.’ If you see a green toilet in somebody’s front yard – it’s because somebody paid $10 to have it put there. For $20, explains Rotarian Joanne Rubisch, the victim can have it removed. For $30 they can have it put on somebody else’s yard and for a $40 bill they can purchase ‘toilet insurance,’ meaning it won’t be put back on their lawn! Loo on the Loose started on May 15 and runs to June 28.
“It’s been very busy,” says Rubisch.
Call her at 780-805-9422 if you want to get in on the action.
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We don’t want to jump the gun on anything, but the fact Points West Living employees have been locked out by the company at a seniors’ facility in Cold Lake must be making a few people in Slave Lake nervous. It’s the same employer and the union local, we hear, is negotiating for a collective agreement. It seems likely that the same sort of considerations apply. Workers in Cold Lake were negotiating on staff shortages, training and scheduling when they were locked out last December. The most recent update (if the reports are accurate) is that Points West is firing them and hiring non-unionized workers.