Lac La Biche News

After seven years serving the community, Elizabeth “Kami” Lucas has decided it’s time to leave her job as Victim Services program coordinator to let some fresh energy come in.

Each year, the Scouts sell Halloween insurance to the community to help raise money for special events, trips or badges they intend to earn and to help clean up any Halloween trickery.

Honest polling – or shady tactics? Those are the questions being asked of the Wildrose Party after a telephone “push-poll” they conducted was accused of being unfairly tailored to smearing premier-designate Alison Redford.

A Lac La Biche teen pled guilty to the Dec. 21, 2009 second-degree murder of 36-year-old blind man Hector Cardinal. The Crown Prosecutor’s Office of St.

Minister of Finance Ron Liepert and Treasury Board president Doug Horner were at the Bold Center last Tuesday evening to talk to invited community members about Alberta’s 2012 budget.

It started small – just a few people huddling together for warmth near the entrance to Central Elementary on a chilly morning. But then they started walking, and in the space of a few blocks their numbers swelled to dozens and then hundreds.

Lac La Biche County lacks information to accurately report on their financial situation due to major gaps in accounting and bookkeeping throughout the year, according to a report made public by council last week.

Icy road conditions on Highway 881 last Tuesday kept firefighters busy as they dealt with two rollovers – and a vehicle that slid into a fire truck arriving at one of the crash scenes. Around 7:30 a.m.

This Friday’s Remembrance Day will be the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of this century — 11-11-11. The date will mark the end of World War I, when an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany in 1918.

Decorative cutting, trimming, cornering, pasting and lettering were among some of the things people found at the first meeting of the new scrapbooking club beginning Nov. 5 at the Stuart McPherson Library at the Bold Center.