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.
Snow Lake now has its very own fitness establishment. The Community Weight Room opened in a vacant classroom at Frontier School Division's J.H. Kerr School on Monday, November 29. J.H. Kerr's physical education classes will use the weight room during the hours that school is in session and once it closes for the day, community members will be allowed access to the facility. For a yearly fee of $50, anyone wanting to get into, or keep in shape, can use the room's fitness equipment. As it sits now, public hours for the weight room are between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on weeknights and between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. each day on the weekend. Nestled in those hours are a variety of periods that are set aside for women only use of the facility. On to a Town council matter, the Snow Lake Cabin Owners Association (SLCOA), represented by Lillian Haines and Leone Langan and Craig Hanley of Intergovernmental Affairs' Community Planning Services appeared before the council at their November 16 meeting. The appearance was a follow up to August discussions that the council and cabin owners held in relation to the development of a new cabin subdivision on Wekusko Lake. In response to the SLCOA's concerns about the aesthetic value of a new subdivision directly across from the present Berry Bay cabin subdivision and low water in the area, council agreed at that time to look at three alternate proposals. The three areas suggested were: The west side of Snow Lake, Wedges Point on Wekusko, and the North End of Anderson Bay. After that initial meeting, council submitted the proposals to the planning branch and asked that they determine the feasibility of placing subdivisions in those three locations. Making his assumptions from topographical maps, Mr. Hanley stated that "Anderson Point and Wedges Point would be very expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain and that the west side of Snow Lake was not likely to provide marketable sites because of the small area of the lake, its proximity to the townsite and the extreme slope conditions." Mrs. Haines explained the SLCOA's aversion to the location that council was proposing and countered that after walking the proposed area the weekend before, she felt some of the lots there would also be unsuitable due to rock ridges. She then read a prepared statement in relation to how the SLCOA sees things proceeding in relation to the development of lots on the lake. Mayor Zamzow thanked the groups for attending and the council resumed its regular order of business. Moving on again to an item that could fall under the heading of "Local Girl Makes Good", former Snow Lake resident Marla Becking is certainly becoming noted for her writing ability. In an email she sent a month or so back, she advised that in June of 2004, she won a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for short fiction with her short story called "How to House a Woman". Further to this, she also won the Chicago Literary Award for fiction with the same story. The story was published in the fall 2004 issue of Another Chicago Magazine. Another story of Marla's, entitled "North of the 53rd", will be published in a magazine called Passages North in spring 2005 (the magazine is based in Michigan). Marla is presently working and writing in Toronto and plans to teach overseas in 2005.
