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.
A technician from Native Communications Incorporated (NCI) was in Snow Lake on August 16th and with the assistance of the community's public works crew, he installed the equipment necessary to bring the broadcaster's FM signal to the town's airwaves. After installing the 1.2-meter dish and FM antenna (at the top of an unused community water tower) and doing a bit of fine-tuning, residents were locked on and listening to 96.3 on their dials. All through the week, NCI used airtime to welcome the community into their fold and comments were made on a number of occasions about the natural beauty of the town and area. Many locals are extremely pleased to have this new station to listen to and apparently coverage stretches far past the cabin subdivisions, 10 km outside of town limits. In other town associated news, at an early August meeting the community's Administrator, Chuck Dunning, apprised the council on the number of entries that have been received in a town-sponsored raffle of an interior lot in the Taylor Bay Cabin subdivision. To date there are 125. Eighty are from Manitoba, 34 from the rest of Canada, and 11 are from the United States. The lot, which has a value of $5,500, will be raffled on December 24, 2004 and should make a very nice Christmas present for someone. To enter, one need only visit the Town's web site and fill out the form there. In another cabin related issue, it was reported at the Town Council's last meeting that several members of the council met with cabin owners from the Berry Bay subdivision. The cabin owners came before council to voice their concern with the location that the Town has chosen for the new Wekusko cabin subdivision. Their spokesperson stated that their unease lies in the fact that they don't want to have to look at cabins across the bay from them. They state that when they purchased their lots, it was always assumed that the view would be of the shore, water, and woods, not another development across the bay. The group felt that council should consider and cost study several other locations. Council will address their concern after looking at other possibilities. Several issues back, I mentioned that the Town was awaiting an August 15th visit from judges associated with the Provincial Communities in Bloom Committee. Well they came, they saw, and they judged; however, their report has yet to be released. Councilor Dave Powell, a member on the local committee and the council member delegated to travel around with the judges, gave a verbal report on the Communities In Bloom tour at the last council meeting. Powell explained that two different people from the previous year did this year's judging and that it appeared the criteria had also changed. He stated that they did look at the general appearance of the town, but also wanted to see the community's dump and toured the Sewage Treatment Plant. "They seemed to be more interested in environmental issues," said Powell. Powell also stated that a self-review of the local Communities in Bloom Committee would be undertaken in the fall.
