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However, council elected to defer a decision until budget time and never did proceed on the matter. My apologies for any confusion this inac- curacy may have caused. • That the first home ever built in Flin Flon by Habitat for Humanity will be owned by former Snow Laker An- gela Bennett? CFAR Radio reported on Wednesday, September 3rd that a group of workers came in from Snow Lake the previous weekend to help locals in build- ing the home. The station reported that Local Committee Co-chair Ted Elliott advised, “The crew from Snow Lake was awesome, they were well organized and very skilled, just a great crew to work with.” The Habitat home is at 189 Ste- venton Boulevard and when completed it will be purchased by Angela and her son Austin through a no down payment no interest mortgage. (L): Big Dave McLean and Jimmy Guiboche showing who they play the Blues for. ~ photo by Marc Jackson hat Mark Steeves of Thompson • T The Blues is music that originated at the end of the 19th century (Grandson of Judy Steeves) and Connor rowing up in Snow Lake certainly didn’t give Jimmy G in African-American communities of the southern United States. Faulkner of Rankin Inlet were chosen as Guiboche the blues… far from it. What it did do, was set him on It hatched from spirituals, work songs, and field hollers. Online the goaltenders for the Triple ‘A’ Midget a musical path and help him to develop a great appreciation for overviews advise that the blues form is present in jazz, rhythm Norman Northstars for upcoming season? the genre that he’s made his own. Guiboche started out life in The 17 year-old, 6’ 2”, Steeves also and blues, and rock and roll. “It is characterized by specific Snow Lake, but after moving west as a young man, he became tended net for them last year. chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most a student of the blues… and he learned his lessons well. He’s common,” a Wikipiedia entry notes. Those who play the blues an exceptional purveyor of the music and a skilled slide guitar • That The Aurora Borealis Arts Council normally follow the same framework and lyrics for a given song, player who is well known and respected in a business where the will host a show by Jimmy Rankin of the but instrument solos are typically improvised and as such are Rankin Family on November 6th. Watch talent is as creative and wide ranging as are the nicknames. seldom the same. for further information on this. The Snow Lake Motor Inn was the venue for a two night Jimmy Guiboche’s musical background evolved after he stop on a short Northern Manitoba Tour for Jimmy and the moved to Edmonton in early nineties and in doing so he was • That,Wade Schnieder advises he now Sleepers. Being Guiboche’s first ever foray home to play for a exposed to a lot of the blues. Guiboche, 45, notes that his has water and water pressure and is damn crowd of childhood friends and acquaintances, he brought along glad to have it? He says that he hopes influences are vast and that his friend Big Dave is included a special guest, Big Dave McLean! A legend in the industry, to have his deck back up in the not too foremost amongst them. “You know, also guys like T-Bone McLean owns a Juno Award and has no less than seven albums distant future as well. Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf,” Guiboche says of his to his credit. The group didn’t disappoint. They were tight, the inspirations. “I was influenced by a lot of the slide guys, like vocals were gutsy, solos were nothing short of mesmerising, and • That there are only 842 days until Snow Robert Nighthawk, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Elmore Lake's 70th Anniversary and 2668 days the crowd was appreciative, not only for the band’s talent and James. It was mainly the Chicago Blues that grabbed me the until Snow Lake's 75th Anniversary (70th effort, but for the fact that you could talk and be heard over the in 2017, 75th in 2022)? MJ impressive music they played. See BLUES 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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Full disclosure is a person’s Editorialstretch, as well as why they weren’t passing the have a nice day. This was nice, I right under the law and if sought, ell, I guess you could say that I learned my W obviously slower bus. could tell that despite our initial requires the prosecutor to provide lesson… saw the light, so to speak. Problem was; At the time, the sky was overcast, visibility problems, there was a chance we all evidence that the crown will it started with a flashing light in my rear-view was excellent, the temperature was +4 C and the could still be friends. present against the person during mirror! Some acquaintances will be aware of this highway was dry, so I pulled out a bit to look at the , Anyway the car was pretty trial. I asked specifically for a already; others probably won’t care, so I’ll advise oncoming lane. There were headlights far in the quiet after that. What with me copy of the officer’s notes, from them right now, things probably won’t get any distance on a long (probably 5 km) straight stretch, brooding about blowing my his notebook; any notes written more interesting for you as you read on and this is the line was broken, and so I pulled out to pass perfect driving record and my on the back of the traffic ticket or a long one, so perhaps cut your losses and move on all four vehicles at once. I went by the van, then wife no doubt recounting (to citation; a copy of the Court Brief; to another area of the paper. the SUV, and as soon as I was up on the Charger, herself of course) the many times a copy of the readout from the This offering involves me being charged for flashing lights went on. I passed the bus and she’s reminded me to slow down radar device, as well as the make speeding with six demerit points and a fine, if immediately put my blinker on and pulled over to or drive more carefully. But I and model of the device, and a found guilty, of $731.50 as well as a charge of the side of the road. couldn’t help but wonder what copy of the statements of any Careless Driving; worth six to eight demerit points, I took out my licence and had my wife pass me the officer could have seen that I witnesses. if found guilty, and a fine of no less than $200 and the registration and I handed them to the officer didn’t in order to charge me with After listing all this and no more than $2000. as soon as he came up to my window. I could tell Careless Driving (other than my explaining to the prosecutor It all started around noon on Monday, November by his demeanor and voice that he was angry. He speed of course)? He, himself, why I wanted it, she promptly 4, 2013.