Janice Sarich, the two-term Edmonton-Decore MLA and Catholic school board trustee, died on Friday. She was 62. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2021 7:56 PM MT | Last Updated: February 28 Janice Sarich is dead at 62. The two-term Edmonton-Decore MLA served as a Catholic school board trustee before her election to the legislature in 2008. (Janice Sarich) Janice Sarich, a two-term Progressive Conservative MLA and Catholic school board trustee, is dead at 62. Sarich died on Friday night, three weeks after she received a cancer diagnosis, Premier Jason Kenney said in a tweet Saturday. Born and raised in Edmonton, Sarich was elected to the board of Edmonton Catholic Schools as a trustee in 2001. After two terms on the board, she secured the Edmonton-Decore riding for the PCs in the 2008 provincial election.