Lac La Biche News

It was around 4:45 a.m. on March 15 when Christine and Andy Cardinal woke up to icy cold water spraying out from under their bed in their basement master bedroom.

After 10 years of playing shows across the country, The Trews have been nearly everywhere. But they haven’t been to Lac La Biche.

The Lac La Biche Skating Club warmed up the ice on March 26 with their presentation of Dragon's Breath, a story of a medieval village visited by a dragon with bad breath. The villagers plead to the princess for help, and the village heroes, wizards and witches are called in to solve the problem. Like most fairy tales, in the end the dragon is cured, the villagers are happy, and they all live happily ever after.

Grade 8 YAP student Taylor Schamehorn gets a helping hand from Job Corps staffer Delbert Gambler on one of the Youth Achievement Program shed building projects. The YAP students sell the well-built sheds at the end of their school program.

It’s a $17 million debate that Mayor Peter Kirylchuk says Lac La Biche County residents can’t afford to lose.

Federal opposition leaders toppled Stephen Harper’s government last week, forcing a federal election set for May 2. It’s a move local Member of Parliament Brian Jean says is “unnecessary and ridiculous.

Officials at the Kikino Metis Settlement are conducting a labour market survey in an attempt to discover the variety of skills of their members. Community leaders are calling it an inventory of the settlement’s human resources.

Lac La Biche County has seen a series of violent crimes over the past two weeks, including a brutal murder where a victim was put through a brush cutter, a stabbing where a 28-year-old man died, a shooting believed to be in retaliation to the stabbin

Each year, the Fraser Institute releases a ‘report card’ ranking Alberta’s schools based mainly on the marks students receive on their provincial achievement tests.

The Portage College board of governors have cut $1.68 million from the college’s operating budget, partly through eliminating 19.92 full time equivalent positions.