It’s time for a roundup of Snow-Lake-related news items.
BacTech bacs out
BacTech Environ-mental Corp. CEO Ross Orr has advised the Town of Snow Lake that there is a low probability of establishing a business in the community.
In April 2011, the Manitoba government awarded BacTech a contract to remediate the former Nor-Acme gold mine tailings stockpile.
BacTech had proposed to build a high-tech plant that would recover usable metals still contained in the tailings while neutralizing the contained arsenic.
The big 9-5
Snow Lake’s eldest resident, Pearl Doak, celebrated her 95th birthday on Aug. 18.
Doak joined family and friends at the Diamond Willow Inn, where they enjoyed supper, conversation and cake.
She ended the day as she started it – looking not a day over 65!
Chosen few
An August news release advised that the group Junior Canadian Ranger held an enhanced training session at the Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre in British Columbia.
Cole Dunbar, 17, son of Larry and Olinda Dunbar of Snow Lake, was chosen as one of 30 participants from across Canada to attend due to his exceptional community leadership and commitment
to the Junior Ranger program.
An honour
In a mid-August news release, the Manitoba government announced that former Snow Laker Scott Wishart has been presented with the first ever Minister’s Community Service Award for Wildland Fire Fighter of the Year.
The award honours public service efforts both on and off the job. It was presented to Wishart by Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh.
Wishart, who lived in Snow Lake as a child, is a seasonal fire ranger in Cormorant.
Sad news
And now a bit of news that many considered sad: the Snow Lake Elks are in the process of selling/have sold the Elks Hall.
With a decline in rentals and an increase in maintenance costs, the club found itself unable to keep operating the hall at a loss every year.
The club will continue to meet monthly and take part in service work within Snow Lake.
Big payout
New York-based Casablanca Capital recently succeeded in gaining control of Ohio-based Cliffs Resources’ board.
Six of the 11 board members elected were nominated by Casablanca, a minority shareholder in Cliffs.
One of its nominees has taken over from former New Britannia mine general manager Gary Halverson as the new chairman, president and CEO. It was reported that Halverson is entitled to $11 million in severance.
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