Get ready Slave Lake for the '94 Arctic Winter Games

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Okay. We know it's spring time out there. But in the North, the cold likes to hang around a little longer. So there is still a lot of winter in the Arctic Winter Games, even though they only finished a couple of weeks ago.

This set of photos comes from the 1992 games, held in Whitehorse, Yukon. Northern Alberta fielded its largest team ever, sending about 200 athletes to compete in traditional and modern sports.

The games have been growing since starting in 1970 and they have become a

truly international event. In recent years teams have been coming from as far away as Greenland and Siberia.

In 1994, the games are coming to Slave Lake. It will be the first time they have moved out of their traditional circuit of Whitehorse, Yellowknife, N.W.T. and Anchorage, Alaska.

Slave Lake representatives were on hand at the Whitehorse games, picking up organizing tips and getting an idea of the preparations they will have to make. Town officials and games organizers are trying to get a second arena built to accommodate the event.

In the meantime, here are some pictures of what Albertans can expect when roughly 1,500 athletes will converge on Slave Lake two years down the road.