The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Well, the hole for the foundation has been excavated, preliminary construction work has begun, and judging from what has taken place thus far, Snow Lake should have two new personal care rooms at the Snow Lake Health Center by the spring of 2004. Construction on the site began shortly after the contract was awarded. No doubt to take advantage of an early snow cover that would keep the ground from freezing for a few days, and likely to get at it before too much more of the white stuff fell. Citizens, both young and old, continue to look forward to the commissioning of this new addition. Halloween, as always, was a big event in our little town. From the pre-school party and Haunted House put on by the Town's Recreation Department, to the Firemen's November 1st hoedown. It seems everyone likes to get involved when it comes to dressing up. Also, when it comes to dressing up, ingenuity and imagination certainly shines through in the younger crowd. For example, J.H. Kerr School held a student dance on October 30th. Several students obviously left home without costumes; however, this didn't deter them from coming up with one on the way to the dance. One young fellow walked in holding up a recently painted, dark green thumb. He announced that he was a gardener. Another, who was both hungry and in need of a costume, stopped at a local pizza establishment on the way to the dance. He walked in, holding a medium pepperoni and cheese in the air, declaring that he was dressed as the "Delivery Guy". In other news, a concerted and proactive attempt at stemming the instances of underage drinking in the community will see various representative stakeholders meet and discuss the apparent problem on the evening of November 11th at the Snow Lake Family Resource Center. Parents, teens, members of Snow Lake's school staff and student council, the RCMP, Family Resource Center, Child and Family Services, Teens Against Drunk Driving, and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission have all been invited to the forum. The idea behind it is to try to determine why some teens unlawfully consume alcohol and what options are available within the community which could be utilized to limit or eliminate this perceived problem. Corporal Bob MacKnight of the Snow Lake RCMP stated, "The RCMP prefers to take a proactive approach, rather than to provide a reactive response. This is particularly true when you consider that when police respond or react it is most commonly the result of an incident, which has negative and possibly tragic consequences." As in most communities, the problem of drinking underage has always had a foothold in Snow Lake; however, it has become of particular concern to many with an early September encounter between youths who had consumed alcohol and, as the result of a disagreement, a firearm was produced.
