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.
Friend and neighbour, Roger Wiesner is back, after being away from Snow Lake for a little over two years. You may recall that Roger is the miner who was hit by loose two years ago at the Chisel North Mine. He has been in Winnipeg since that time undergoing treatment and physiotherapy for a spinal cord injury that he sustained in the accident. The Wiesner home has been outfitted to accommodate Roger, his exercise equipment and motorized wheelchair. He states that he is glad to be back, and judging from the talk around the community, I'm not alone in saying that we missed him and we're certainly glad to have him back. On another topic, for years now several red and cross foxes have been making the Town of Snow Lake a meal stop on their daily rounds through the area environment. This past fall, a coyote also took up residence in the area and has been scoffing the odd meal from garbage cans and dog dishes. I actually had this docile little fellow follow me half way to work one morning, and on another morning, some weeks previous to this, I noted him sitting on the dock at the beach munching on his ill-gotten gains. Funny thing about it is that three ravens had also taken notice of this "wily" coyote. They were dive-bombing him, trying to steal his breakfast, and the coyote was jumping in the air snapping at them. This was quite a little show for an audience of one. Then there are the bears that come into town from the dumpÉ well; we won't even get into that one. However, I saw something this past Sunday morning that eclipses all these sightings by far. I had just sat down in my front room with a coffee and the paper and looked up to see three moose, moving at a fair trot, crossing the street in front of my house. I jumped up, ran to the window and watched them move down the back lane across the street, then down Olson Street, going towards the trailer court. I called the local CO, Greg Shaw, to report the citing and he said he'd just had a call from someone else who'd noted them across from the beach. Shaw felt that wolves had likely driven the trio into town and that he was just on his way out to see that they made it to the lake okay. In conversation with the CO, he stated that he'd had someone tell him that several decades back, during years when the snow was deep, wolves would chase moose into town and they'd set out feed for them near the community's forestry dock. Not uncommon, but the citing certainly took me by surprise. In last week's column, I mentioned that the J.H. Kerr School Sr. Girls volleyball team was off to the Provincial "A" Championships on the weekend. Back in Snow Lake and a little disheartened by their showing, it was noted that they still had much to be proud of. The 10th ranked team (out of 10) managed to win one set in a losing effort against the 6th ranked St. Jean Baptiste Saints and had an extremely competitive game against the 2nd ranked Glenboro Panthers. Coaching staff from other teams at the competition remarked that they were impressed with the solid effort put forward and strong spirit displayed by the J.H. Kerr Tigers. Still on sports, but now a little something on hockey. The community hosted a Bantam Tournament this past weekend. The Snow Lake Bantam Spartans finished the weekend with all the marbles after coasting through the tournament undefeated and besting Flin Flon in the final. The Bomber team finished second, OCN took third and The Pas was forth. In closing, a term custodian position at the local arena received a fair number of applications from interested townsfolk; former Secretary Treasurer for the School District of Snow Lake, Arnold Assoignon, was the successful applicant. He started in the position last week.
