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.
With a few swoops of the backhoe bucket, Snow Lake's old P&P Bakery building was, last week, reduced to a heap of twisted rubble. The building, which has been slated for demolition for some months now, finally fell beneath the hoe, however not before the roofing and rafters were removed and earmarked for a recycling building at the town's dumpsite. The removal of the building was made fairly tough due to its close proximately to the buildings on either side of it, but the Town of Snow Lake's hoe operator Pete Roberts brought it down with precision and accuracy. On the topic of the town's recycling setup, the Anglican-United Church congregation and Lions Club now have lights in their storage building, courtesy of the Town of Snow Lake. It certainly brightens the building up and has allowed the group to put up some high visibility signs directing workers to the storage areas for the various items they recycle. The building is now much better organized and a nicer environment to work in. On to another matter, an old Snow Lake ambulance is now on its way to the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia. Pam Petrucka, a Professor of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan, graciously accepted the ambulance on behalf of the people of the island and sent it on its long journey to its new home. Obsolete by Canadian standards, the vehicle will be an intricate and heavily used piece of the island's medical inventory once it arrives there. A framed crest from the Snow Lake Ambulance Service will accompany the ambulance to the Caribbean. It will no doubt make islanders aware of where the ambulance came from and the generosity of their Canadian benefactors. To still another topic, at their last regular meeting, the council of the Town of Snow Lake approved placing several signs in fields along Manitoba's #1 Hwy. The signs will denote the availability and price of the community's lakefront cabin lots. Simple in nature, the signs will feature minimal writing and direct interested people to the Town's Web site for further information. The council discussed staging a contest on the Web site that would offer one of the interior (not lakefront) lots as a prize. Particulars on the contest have yet to be fleshed out and discussions will continue. The council also discussed further development of lakeshore lots on a yet to be determined area along Wekusko Lake.
