If there are any beekeepers in the area who would like to give a reporter a tour, please let The Leader know. The last beekeeping article we did was in 2020, at the McLaughlin Apiary.
The Alberta government sent out a news release in June about beekeeping that said that Alberta produces the most honey of any province – 41 per cent of the Canadian total. The leading markets for export are Japan and the U.S.
Also, if there are any other niche farming operators who are interested in having a reporter pop by, please let us know.
The calendar of events on The Leader’s website has been updated with local summer (day and one overnight) camps. Summer Splash (organized by the Town of Slave Lake) happens every week, so we didn’t bother adding it. However, we did add the ones organized by Slave Lake Gymnastics, Dancin’ Kids Slave Lake, Métis Nation of Alberta Region 5, and the Lesser Slave Lake Forest Education Society. If you know of any other camps, please let The Leader know.
In Kinuso, the Kinosayo Museum has events for kids Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m., starting on July 6 and running to the end of August. These are on The Leader calendar.
Aspen View School Division trustees and staff met with Grade 7 students about technology. They found that students had access to technology at school and at home and were aware of both the risks and the benefits. Going forward Aspen View plans to use some mental health grant money to provide information sessions for parents, students and staff on digital citizenship and cyber safety.
Highway maintenance was being done the last week in June on the portion of Hwy. 2 which was paved last year. A concerned citizen contacted The Leader with questions about the quality of work. Inquiries have been sent to Alberta Transportation, but could take a while.
With the town’s new quick electric vehicle (E/V) charging station open for use, it will be interesting to see what kind of use it gets. Apparently such a facility can lead to more people stopping in Slave Lake – maybe even more people deciding to drive up this way from points south. That’s the way it was being talked about, at a recent town council meeting.
One of those ‘If you build it – they will come scenarios?’
If the scene at Gilwood Golf Club the other day was anything to go by, it’s been pretty busy out there lately. A couple of days of rain in the latter part of June sure helped, and the greens and fairways were looking very nice (from the clubhouse deck).
Word on the street is that the M.D. of LSR is thinking seriously about extending the Lesser Slave River boat launch and is getting closer to having all the various permissions to do the work. Apparently it was getting tricky to launch a boat there when the river was very low. Likely there will be more about that in this week’s M.D. council notebook.
Some information on Riverboat Daze came in a bit too late for last week’s preview article. But it mainly just confirms the sponsorship for the fireworks by Vanderwell Contractors. In fact the sponsorship money is going to be divided, to provide fireworks also for the Beach Fest event on Aug. 12.
A story from the High Prairie South Peace News about Big Lakes County Council turning down a re-zoning application in Kinuso is oddly lacking in vital information (It’s on Page 21). It’s about the council voting against the bylaw change that would have resulted in a convenience store run out of a home being legal.
The lady who was selling her jewelry out of her mud room, plus a few snacks, is out of luck. She must be wondering why council opposed her application.
It turns out the reporter had to leave part-way through the meeting to do something else and when he got back all he found out is that the council had voted against it. He says he followed up with reeve Robert Nygaard, asking him for an explanation of council’s decision, but all he got from the reeve was ‘no comment.’ So there it stands.
