Advantages 

Lacombe is the perfect place to start a new career, grow your family, or enjoy your retirement.

Lacombe offers the little extras that makes life in our community so comfortable. We have an abundance of well maintained trails, ponds and playgrounds. An abundance of shopping and professional services are available in Lacombe, helping to make your life just a little bit easier and comfortable.

Lacombe has many advantages due to its ideal location. Within 10 minutes of Gull Lake and Aspen Beach Provincial Park, 20 minutes from Alix Lake and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain House in close proximity to Alberta's Rocky Mountains. Recreation is never far making it the perfect home base for you.

On the business side, you know that you are only 1 hour from Edmonton and 1.5 hours from Calgary, making the potential for provincial, national and international business ventures very convenient. We apologize, there won't be the daily traffic to battle and you won't have to worry about how expensive your

Lacombe has one of Alberta's most diverse range of schooling options available to its residents. In addition to a strong public education system, Lacombe is also home to a Christian school system, an Adventist school system and a Catholic school system.

Our proximity to the city of Red Deer (pop. 80,000) makes it convenient for you to find the little extras, while we expect further retail growth to come on stream in the future. We are open to new development and work hard to encourage businesses locate here. We do so by focusing on "stable growth" paying close attention to the with small enough to retain the quality of life often missing in large cities.

Lacombe offers a unique lifestyle conducive to all sectors of the population with its local college, federal and provincial research centres, its petro-chemical association and its strong ethnic, cultural and agricultural base.

Lacombe offers a long list of advantages

• strong community clubs and social groups
  
• an efficient hospital and related medical services
  
• an active Farmer's Market - where you meet the people who grow the produce and the skilled craft persons of the region
  
• some of Central Alberta's best 18-hole golf courses
  
• a large number of professional people and a wide selection of technical people in such broad fields as petro-chemical engineering, field crop research, livestock breeding, furniture manufacturing, and the list goes on
  
• a good geographic location - on the Edmonton-Calgary industrial corridor, neighboring Red Deer, and neighboring the petro-chemical plants at Joffre
  
• close to Sylvan Lake and Gull Lake which offer exceptional summer recreation
  
• in the heart of a strong and diversified agricultural region
  
• an exciting downtown, the site of Alberta's most intact Edwardian main street. Lacombe was one of five communities selected for the Alberta Main Street Program, a joint program of the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism and the Heritage Canada Foundation
  
• a large number of annual activities, such as the Music Festival and the Rotary Club Carol Festival, Lacombe Days, antique machinery show
  
• excellent tourist accommodation facilities
  
• a broad selection of churches.
  

But maybe what makes Lacombe the enjoyable community it is, is simply that one can feel comfortable walking into a coffee shop knowing you will find a friendly person to chat with. Lacombe makes you feel comfortable.