Lac La Biche News

Side by side, shoulder-to-shoulder, their helping hands are quickly covered in dust and dirt.

Lac La Biche firefighters weren’t putting out fires with their water pumper truck last Wednesday, but they used it for another cause as they cleaned off cars during a fundraising car wash and barbecue in the parking lot of Centennial Arena.

The county council will be drafting up a bylaw that will allow Lac La Biche county to proceed with the creation of an economics development services board.

Last week’s announcement by the government saw the approval of the Bold Center high school project, one that was a long-time coming for some.

The day J.A.

The day J.A.

“I didn’t think we were going to get out alive,” said Lac La Biche RCMP Constable Chris Clark who was doing traffic control in Slave Lake on Sunday two weeks ago when the flames began to spread.

In a Lac La Biche and District Chamber of Commerce roundtable meeting last Thursday, county councillor John Nowak told members of the chamber to go against the mayor’s wishes and begin vocalizing their opinion on the potential loss of $17 million dol

UPDATE The smoke in the air is from the Slave Lake and Janvier Fires. Forestry officials say the wind shifted from the southeast to the northwest overnight. No major fires are burning within the Lac La Biche area.