Lac La Biche News

Half an hour after the polls closed across Lac La Biche County, mayoral hopeful Aurel Langevin was leading the way with all of the rural voting centres reporting their unofficial results

8:45 P.M. Aurel Langevin is leading with 231 votes over Tom Lett's 162 and Ray Ewaskiw's 38 with six of the 13 polls to count, including all LLB stations and the advance ballot boxes.

Just over 100 votes separated Langevin and Lett in the Lac La Biche County mayoral election. With over 1500 total votes, the victory for Langevin was close right until the very end.

When the officials of the Lakeland Senior Games gathered in the Devon Room at the Bold Center to hand out gold, silver and bronze to the winners, they ran smack into the result of a design flaw built into the very walls of the Bold Center.

In the wake of another tragedy on Highway 881, Lac La Biche Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw and Drew Barnes, the MLA for Medicine Hat, began a road trip information tour last week, driving Highways 881 and 63.

This past Friday marked a last goodbye for many of the J.A. Williams graduating class of 2012, as the new alumni filled the school gym one last time to receive their hard-earned awards.

Northern Lights School Division is implementing the controversial restricted zero policy this year—a policy that has made some waves in Calgary and Edmonton with educators and parents alike.

Thanks to generous contributions by individuals and local businesses the Headstart Program is very close to purchasing a new bus.

Citizens filled the McGrane Theatre at Portage College last Thursday at 8 p.m. to hear the platform promises and back-and-forth debate from the three mayoral candidates running for the office on Lac La Biche County Council.

This year’s Hylo Harvest Festival went off without a hitch, and even the rain couldn’t keep the smiles off the faces of the men and women who were at the event. “What rain?” joked Terry Ekins, who was named the King of the Harvest Festival this year.