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June 23, 2010
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One man's stand
Max Ostermeier donned a suit to
wear to Prairie River Junior High
School the afternoon of June 18.
Ostermeier says he wore the suit
to show the teachers students
could look nice and as a reward for
three years of hard work. PRJH’s
Grade 9 students voted to scrap
the Grade 9 Farewell this year and
have a dance at the school June
25. Please see full story on page
11.
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Gift Laker wins 'Worst Handyman' title
Deen Flett is celebrating his 15 minutes of fame
after being crowned Canada’s Worst Handyman
Movie Gallery closure confirmed
It’s official!
High Prairie’s Movie
Gallery store is closing
its doors, adding to the
list of other businesses
to close in town in recent
months.
'Lucky Lynn’
strikes it rich!
She may not have won the major $50 million Lotto
Max jackpot June 11, but the $250,000 Lynn Herben
won will do just well, thank-you!
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NLC to offer EMT program this fall
Trevor Davies puts a patient into the back of an
ambulance, and then gets an IV started.
Fingerprints can point to guilty person
When police process a crime scene, one of their
many tasks is dusting for fingerprints, which can
lead them to the criminal, RCMP Sgt. Bob Dodds
recently told a group of Grade 6 E.G. Wahlstrom
students.

School holds ‘Fun Across Canada’ games
Students at Joussard
School enjoyed their
Fun Across Canada
games June 18.

Oil spill condemnation valid, but. . .
Looking at the recent covers of
Ducks Unlimited and Ducks Unlimited
Canada Conservator,
with their richly-coloured pictures
of waterfowl, and contrasting
them with images of black,
oil-slicked birds in the Gulf of
Mexico, one can only hope we
never see pictures of Canadian
wetlands and other sensitive
ecosystems destroyed by disasters
of such epic proportions.
Doing
what's right
What’s the difference between 700 Alberta grizzly
bears and 700,000 people living in Edmonton?
Graduation is a time of reflection
We’re at this time of
year again, when young
adults finish high
school or post-secondary
education and are
leashed upon the world
(got life insurance, everyone?).
Years of effort
have finally paid off in a
piece of paper that
says, “Now I’m qualified
to ask if you want
fries with that.”
‘Prince Caspian’
is for older youth
The movie debut of
C.S. Lewis’s ‘The
Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, The Witch
and the Wardrobe’ was
outstanding as a fantasy
tale, and while
‘Prince Caspian’ is a
worthy successor, the
appropriate audience is
older youth and not
young children because
of the darker nature of
the story and battle sequences.
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