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New documentary traces roots of iconic Burger Baron chain

By Lethbridge Herald on April 15th, 2023

Craig Albrecht Local Journalism Initiative Reporter An iconic fast-food chain which traces its roots back to Lethbridge more than six decades ago is the subject of a documentary premiering this spring at a prestigious film festival. The Lebanese Burger Mafia is billed in part as a “meaty saga of a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious ... Read More »

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Residential street sweeping to start this week in city

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on April 15th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com If you don’t move, you will lose and possibly get ticketed. Yes, it’s the season for residential street sweeping and City crews will be hitting the road. On Monday, signs will be placed in the first zone with sweeping starting in the far south area of the city on Tuesday. Sweeping will be ... Read More »

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Turban Day celebrates college Sikh community

By Lethbridge Herald on April 14th, 2023

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com Members of the Sikh community at Lethbridge College on Friday hosted their second annual International Turban Day to share information on the turban’s cultural significance.  Those who were interested could also have a turban tied onto their heads. College research scientist and president of the Sikh Society of Lethbridge Alberta, ... Read More »

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Battle of the Belly River project in spotlight at SACPA

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on April 14th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com A project that looks at the historic Battle of the Belly River from an Indigenous perspective was the focus of Thursday’s talk to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs. Camina Weasel Moccasin of the Galt Museum and Kris Hodgson-Bright of Lethbridge College gave a joint presentation on the Battle of the Belly ... Read More »

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City rolls out second phase of green cart program

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on April 14th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Eight-year-old Ryker Bourassa was looking forward to the day a green cart would be dropped off at his house on the westside. When that day came Thursday, he and his younger brother, six-year-old Harlan, excitedly dropped a couple of chayotes, or mirliton squash, into the cart to celebrate the occasion. The Bourassa family ... Read More »

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New UCP candidate for Lethbridge West wants to bring positive change to riding

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on April 14th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com She had planned to seek the nomination in Lethbridge West for the UCP last summer but a personal matter prompted her to change her mind. Now Cheryl Seaborn – who resigned as constituency president last year to mount a run at the nomination – will challenge incumbent NDP MLA Shannon Phillips for the ... Read More »

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New program aimed at finding better employment opportunities

By Troy Bannerman - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on April 14th, 2023

The Lethbridge Interfaith Food Bank and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are partnering on a program to help community members find better employment. The free 10-week program will start April 17 and run until the end of June with people coming weekly on Mondays from 10 a.m until noon. Attendees will have to ... Read More »

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Fair connects families with community disability resources

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on April 14th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Autism Alberta’s Family Resources Centres Lethbridge Region hosted a resource fair Thursday at the Multicultural Centre to connect members of the community with various organizations. Family resources co-ordinator with the Autism Alberta’s Family Resources Centres Lethbridge Region, Brandon Rudics, said they wanted to have multiple organizations under one roof to make it ... Read More »

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Indigenous artists sought to represent LPS values in Blackfoot

By Lethbridge Herald on April 13th, 2023

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Police Service is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from local Indigenous artists for a project that will visually represent the translation of their organizational values into Blackfoot. During a media availability Thursday, LPS Deputy Chief Gerald Grobmeier publicly thanked LPS 2022-2023 Community Futures Treaty 7 summer student, Trissly ... Read More »

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NDP promising $20 million to expand cardiac care at CRH

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on April 13th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com If the NDP is elected as the next governing party of Alberta, it will invest $20 million to expand cardiac services at Chinook Regional Hospital. That promise was made Wednesday morning by Lethbridge West MLA Shannon Phillips and Lethbridge East candidate Rob Miyashiro shortly after the UCP government announced a $2 million investment ... Read More »

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Local producers helping grow region’s tourism industry

By Erika Mathieu SOUTHERN ALBERTA NEWSPAPERS on April 13th, 2023

LETHBRIDGE HERALDssnews@sunnysouthnews.com Tourism Lethbridge is gearing up for the 2023 spring and summer tourism season, and doubling down on positioning the region as a premier destination for locally grown and produced food and beverages. “We promote ourselves as Canada’s Premier Food Corridor and Canada’s agriculture destination, so it just makes sense that we are active ... Read More »

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