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Personally, I'm hoping the recent editorial making the case for a Recreation Director is heeded! • That the Manitoba government is moving ahead with legislation that will open older birth and adoption records, and make new adoption records more open. The changes are being introduced to help adoptees and birth parents connect with each other. • That MaryAnn Mihychuk plans to vie for the Liberal nomination in the Federal riding of Kildonan-St. Paul (in Winnipeg). Last week, Mayor Fisher was asked to respond to how this news affects her position as EDO; he hadn’t replied by deadline. • That if you plan to run for council in the fall, drop me a line at editor@ Snow Lake Mining Museum; INSET: Museum Chairperson, Paul Hawman ~ file photos by Marc Jackson undergroundpress.ca. Getting the word out now can only help, as I would like to include names, issues, and platforms area, nature trail renaming and signage and mining equipment uring recent discussions at the Town of Snow Lake’s council in future issues of the paper. D placement within the community. table, it came to light that the Snow Lake Mining Museum will “The project has already started, with planning, request for undertake a Manitoba Star Attraction Enhancement Project with • That senior homeowners will save up quotes, selection of suppliers and ordering the items required,” a total budget of just under $30,000. Not long after that meeting, to $1,335 on their property taxes this said the museum board chairperson. “It is scheduled for the museum board’s chairperson, Paul Hawman, was contacted year with the provincial government’s completion by Mid-October (2014).” new Seniors' School Tax Rebate pro- and asked to provide an overview of the funds and the proposal In the coming year, the museum will enter the field of gram. Seniors can start applying when for which they are intended. He responded immediately, filling *Experiential Tourism, where exhibits of mining equipment, they receive their property tax state- in a number of blanks on the Museum Board’s extensive and complete with descriptions, will be placed throughout the ment from their local municipality. To ambitious plans. It appears certain that their overtures will not community. Hawman says that these exhibits will be accessed qualify for the new tax rebate, a senior only brighten our community, but in the process bring some of by maps that guide people through Snow Lake, exploring the must: own and live in their home, be the area’s spectacular history to the forefront. community on the way to finding the equipment that they want at least 65 years of age by the end of Mr. Hawman advises that the total project budget of $29,500., to see. “These pieces will consist of things like a muck car, 2014, and have school taxes not already is made up of $15,000 from the Tourism Secretariat at Tourism, sheave wheel, or bit machine that have been painted and installed fully covered by the existing Education Culture, Heritage, Sport and Consumer Protection, in addition to on a concrete pad,” said Hawman. “Each piece will have an Property Tax Credit. ‘in-kind’ contributions from the Town of Snow Lake, HudBay, interpretive sign explaining what it is, how it was used, and and the Mining Museum. Hawman says the project has several where it came from. Equipment will be placed in locations where • That there are only 968 days until components to it, and they are: A new rock and mineral display people will be able to stop and look them over while enjoying a Snow Lake's 70th Anniversary and area, new showcases and bookcases for an enhanced display wall, walk in and around the community. At this time we anticipate 2808 days until Snow Lake's 75th An- a photo opportunity display complete with props and costumes, niversary (70th in 2017, 75th in 2022)? that there will be three pieces of a multi-directional sign pointing to every producing mine in the MJ equipment placed in 2014,” he added. See MUSEUM on page 3... Sweet Nothings Get Stream 20 for Please see us for giftware, souvenirs, jewelry, computer parts and $29.95/mo!† service, baby and bath items, flowers, pictures, and the work of a * Speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. 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Being a band with a played a number of well-worn Editorial bit of a history, Sabbath attracts models during the two hour laid down $7.00 for my first ever album: Black first heard Black Sabbath in the spring of I Sabbath – Paranoid! fans from a large and diverse concert. Butler is a fine finger 1970. I was 13, and even though I was a diehard I bought it from Woolworths in the Thompson base. There were lots of bald playing bassist. This guy has Jimi Hendrix fan (and remain so to this day); I Plaza, and I can remember distinctly trying heads, gray hair, and sagging never owned a pick and when he liked Sabbath off the hop. Their music was dark to decide between it, Creedence Clearwater’s breasts (and that was just the wasn’t plucking, he was slapping and that suited my mindset at the time. The song Cosmos Factory, and Santana Abraxas. Paranoid guys). There were also a lot of the strings. Both he and Iommi NIB, from that first album, was classic; both in won out, although I would later buy Abraxas as young folks in attendance, and as have forgotten more about their its lyrics and licks. Ozzy Osbourne’s well placed well. I walked home with it tucked protectively is the case with concerts in every instruments than most will ever “Oh Yeah” no doubt enticed many besides me to under my arm and no sooner got through the era and venue, the smell of pot know (come to think of it, that’s give Sabbath a listen. door when the cellophane was off and it was on permeated the air, and it seemed not actually a compliment at As my older brother liked essentially the my bedroom turntable. I listened to it over and the odd beer was being pounded their age… though it was meant same music I did, there was never any reason over again and funny, I never did tire of it. To back as well. to be). for me to buy albums. He did, or he borrowed this day, cuts from the album such as ‘War Pigs’, As noted, the boys from Ozzy is an icon! Although he them, and I, of course, listened to them. It was ‘Iron Man’, ‘Fairies Wear Boots’, and ‘Paranoid’ Sabbath are fairly long in the stumbles, stutters, and stammers around this time that our parents split up and are among my many favorites. So imagine how tooth. My guess is they were through life, he’s in his element my brother went to live with our father for a it felt to finally see the band live! the oldest guys to play at Rexall on stage! He started a tad off period, while I stayed with our Mom. Without Let me qualify that last statement for you. Place since Smyth, Ference, and key with War Pigs (first song), him around, there wasn’t much to listen to other It wasn’t back in 1971 that I saw them, but a Hendricks skated in the waning but recovered quickly and was than my mother’s Frank Sinatra and Nat King couple weeks ago in Edmonton! Forty three hours of the Oilers’ regular on the money with most of Cole albums. Although I didn’t mind them, I years after I bought my first album, I got to season.

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