Lac La Biche News

The Northern Lights School Division is hosting a series of public consultations as they seek the help of parents, students, and community members to help determine which school programs should be kept in the face of looming budget cuts.

How much should a county councillor be paid? Ask some councillors, and the answer is more than the current amount. Others say the issue is one of pay equity between municipalities.

The Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP) will define how land is used across the region, from conservation, to recreation, to industrial, uses.

A candidate showdown for Lac La Biche County residents interested in federal politics is looking like a non-event after three weeks of unsuccessful attempts to roundup the four contenders in the Fort McMurray-Atha­basca riding.

The Interpretive Society is no longer pursuing construction of a building, and have instead focused their efforts on preserving the history of the Lac La Biche region.

Lac La Biche County councillors passed the municipality ’s 2011 bud­get last Tuesday. The $50 million document passed by one vote.

“We want to start telling our story,” said Rod Webb, a member of the Lakeland Interpretive Society, about a recent $100,000 donation from the group to help rebuild a 98-year old ship model.

Students Colleen Kaufman and Michael Wheeler along with other Lac La Biche area students are gearing up for the 38th year of the Music Festival which starts tomorrow.

A blocked culvert is being blamed for a Sunday evening flood that left a large part of Plamondon with water damage.

Nancy Hollman re­members sitting on her dad’s knee, listening to him tell stories of a Metis heritage that now faces extinction. “Cree is a dying language. It would be devastating to lose our Cree. It’s a beautiful language.