Lac La Biche News

RCMP have provided an update following a shelter in place that was put into effect for a few hours on March 13 near Lac La Biche.

The Lakers defeated the Edson Eagles 3-2 on March 18 to advance to the National Junior Hockey League (NJHL) finals against the Crowsnest Pass Crush.

La Cabane å Sucre, which was held as part of Alberta Francophonie Month events in the Lac La Biche region, took place in Plamondon on March 15.

The event is a fundraiser for the Craigend Community Hall.

The event, which has taken place over the past couple of years during Ramadan, was held on the afternoon of March 14.

Germain has been involved with education for 30 years and has also been a councillor with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.

While the number of contract nurses working in Alberta Health Services (AHS) owned hospitals in the Lakeland has decreased, the number of locum nurses and the length of time locums are being brought in for is increasing.

Leo Johnston, who was originally from the Lac La Biche area, along with RCMP constables Brock Myrol, Peter Schiemann, and Anthony Gordon, were killed in the line of duty on March 3, 2005 while executing a search warrant for stolen property and a marijuana-growing operation on a farm in the Mayerthorpe area.

The Lakers defeated the High Prairie Red Wings 3-2 on the road on March 11 to advance to the second round of the National Junior Hockey League (NJHL) playoffs.

The fifth annual Robbie Burns Dinner and Celebration took place on March at the Royal Canadian Legion, McGrane Branch #28 in Lac La Biche.