Lac La Biche News

It started and ended with a bang. Fighter jets from 4 Wing Cold Lake got the 50th Pow Wow Days started Friday morning with a screaming flyover down Main Street before the parade.

There was some wholesome and family-friendly entertainment filling the Bold Center last Saturday as country music star Charlie Major rocked the house to celebrate 50 years of Pow Wow Days.

Every year at the Senior’s Fish Fry at McArthur Place, Lac La Biche’s Citizen of the Year is named.

CN Rail is remaining tight-lipped over potential increases in train traffic in Lac La Biche County due to the company’s plans to ship vast quantities of oil sands crude by rail.

Anticipating growth in the area, Lac La Biche County Council says expanding the airport to accommodate larger planes and more passengers is one of the top priorities for the municipality.

The history of the Lac La Biche Mission shows a particular fascination with the printed word, and with the process of digitalization, the Mis­sion can open up these historical vaults to the public.

On Friday, July 20, the blessed month of Ramadan began—as it does every year, on the first day of the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar.

For the first time since the early years of Pow Wow Days, Lac La Biche will host a Traditional Native and Métis Village. In the old days, Aboriginal groups from all over Alberta would come and pitch teepees for the Pow Wow festivities.

Portage College continues to innovate, this time by creating Alberta’s first Pipeline Training Facility.

Alberta Health Ser­vices has yet to commit to a permanent dialysis treatment centre inside the William J. Cadzow Health Centre, despite some very pointed words from local and provincial politicians. Last week, Lac La Biche-St.