Lac La Biche News

The agriculture industry in Alberta not only includes large farming operations, but also small, family-run enterprises such as Little Beau Seed Co. 

Chaffic Moghrabi of Lac La Biche Sporting Goods says the business sells quite a few canisters of bear spray at this time of the year when bears are emerging from hibernation.

The price per acre of agricultural land varies depending on such factors as use and soil quality.

This year, due to low registration numbers, Lac La Biche minor ball will not have 15U A and 18U A baseball teams.

Simeon King, who lived in Lac La Biche until the age of 15 and still has family connections to the area, will be setting out on June 1 from Victoria, and cycling 7,500 km to St. John's with the goal of raising $100,000 for Type 1 Diabetes.

The event, which is hosted by the Lac La Biche Boxing Club, features boxers from across Alberta and Saskatchewan, and some from the Lac La Biche area also.

The birth of triplet calves comes four years after another set of triplets were born at Amisk River Ranch in Kikino Métis Settlement.

Four projects, a new building for Vera M. Welsh Elementary School, a Cold Lake South solution, a new school for Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement, and modernization work to Ecole Plamondon are the board's top priorities.

Work on installing fibre optics will be taking place in the hamlet of Lac La Biche over the next couple of months.

A dog that fell through the ice of a pond in a Lac La Biche area park is safe after being rescued by local firefighters.