The discussion about lines on the street (or the lack of them) at the Sept. 3 Slave Lake town council meeting brought up a recent memory. A friend of Page 9, visiting from out of the province, mentioned the lack of traffic lines in downtown. What’s up with that, he said. You should tell the town to get it done, because it’s confusing.

Well, now we have the answer, as to why that bit of Main St. in downtown did not get its lines painted this summer. It’s because council had budgeted for a better, longer-lasting type of paint job, called ‘grind & fill.’

It’s done by a contractor, and as we know, contractors often show up later than we’d like.

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes something you haven’t heard of or even imagined.

‘I was barefooting the day before on the lake,’ said Calvin Couturier, ‘and I couldn’t hear $#@!.’ We had to ask what the heck he was talking about. It turns out he referred to waterskiing with no skis. Couturier was explaining why he missed something a town councillor had asked him at the Sept. 3 meeting. No harm done, but we’re having a tough time imagining a gent of his age barefoot waterskiing. ‘We’re all lake nuts,’ he explained.

Two people told us recently something called ‘BarBurrito’ is coming to Slave Lake. We had to look that up. It sounded like ‘barberito.’ What’s that, a smallish barber? But no, it turns out it’s a chain of Mexican-style fast food restaurants. But is it really coming to Slave Lake? Oddly enough, an online search turned up a whole page of promotional stuff on the Town of Slave Lake website.

Nobody has applied to the town for a development permit, or a business license, under that name.

The company, meanwhile, is being coy. Somebody from Barburrito got back to us via email saying: ‘We cannot share any details as of now; however, please stay tuned to get further updates!’

‘We’re sold out!’ That was Rotarian Harry Bartlett last week, on the Grey Cup Pool tickets the Rotary Club have been selling.

People looking for sports this weekend can choose from slow pitch and motocross. Details are on The Leader’s online Calendar of Events.