Lac La Biche News

Simeon King, who lived in Lac La Biche until the age of 15 and still has family connections to the area, will be setting out on June 1 from Victoria, and cycling 7,500 km to St. John's with the goal of raising $100,000 for Type 1 Diabetes.

The event, which is hosted by the Lac La Biche Boxing Club, features boxers from across Alberta and Saskatchewan, and some from the Lac La Biche area also.

The birth of triplet calves comes four years after another set of triplets were born at Amisk River Ranch in Kikino Métis Settlement.

Four projects, a new building for Vera M. Welsh Elementary School, a Cold Lake South solution, a new school for Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement, and modernization work to Ecole Plamondon are the board's top priorities.

Work on installing fibre optics will be taking place in the hamlet of Lac La Biche over the next couple of months.

A dog that fell through the ice of a pond in a Lac La Biche area park is safe after being rescued by local firefighters. 

The event is hosted annually by the Lac La Biche Regional Health Foundation as a fundraiser for the William J. Cadzow Healthcare Centre in Lac La Biche.

Lac La Biche County Council will be voting on the appointment of an Integrity Commissioner at a later date, following more than two hours of discussion in closed session.

LAC LA BICHE - The Lac La Biche Agricultural Services Board is still mulling over their next steps in a dispute with the Lakeland Forage Association over the management of a grazing reserve in the southern part of Lac La Biche County.

Residents of the Lac La Biche area who are looking for a family doctor have a few options, according to Heather Stromquist, chair of the Lac La Biche Attraction and Retention Society (RARS).