Bill Graveland THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE – The first debate in the Alberta NDP leadership race was mostly a civil affair Thursday but it wasn’t all smooth sailing for former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi. Close to 500 people turned out at the Yates Theatre in Lethbridge to hear Nenshi, three current NDP members of the
Read More »A University of Lethbridge professor spoke on the topic of existing arguments for and against limiting freedom of expression at the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs session on Thursday at the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization. Guest speaker, associate professor of philosophy Susan Dieleman, posed the question, “why place limits on freedom of expression?” She ... Read More »
15 hours agoA 96-year-old Lethbridge woman doesn’t hold back on her passion for painting and sharing it with the community. Cynthia Wilson is a local artist who rediscovered her passion for painting at the age of 91 and has continued painting since. Wilson, in an interview at Age Care Columbia where she lives, said her passion for ... Read More »
15 hours agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Funding is available businesses, building owners and tenants in the core to address security issues. The Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) grant provides funding for permanent property improvements that enhance security and crime prevention measures. The program provides 50 per cent of matching funds up to a maximum of $5,000 per successful ... Read More »
15 hours agoBy Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Time is ticking for people to get their tickets for next week’s Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the 2024 class. Inductees include boxer Carmen Rinke, kickboxer Brad Wall, Judge John A Jackson, who passed away years ago, for multisport, soccer coach Randy Bardock, judo athlete Michael Tamura ... Read More »
20 hours agoThe Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs varsity team salvaged a split in the two games against the VIU Mariners during Canadian College Baseball Conference action at Spitz Stadium on Thursday. The afternoon game was one to forget for the Dawgs as they got shellacked 17-4. A big fifth and seventh inning by the Mariners, where they ... Read More »
20 hours agoBy Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Two Chinook Coyotes graduating volleyball players have committed to play post-secondary right at home in the city, while another has decided to compete down south beginning next season. Both Robyn Austin and Asha Hurkett have decided to stay at home and play as teammates with the Lethbridge College Kodiaks women’s ... Read More »
20 hours agoLEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – managing editor Eight months from tomorrow I’ll be working my last shift in journalism after 44.5 years. It seems just like yesterday I loaded up my portable typewriter, clothes and a set of weights into the trunk of a two-door Chevy Caprice and pulled away from my dad’s ... Read More »
13 hours agoAl Beeber Managing Editor How important are volunteers to a community? In Lethbridge, more than half of residents do volunteer work and the average is 90 hours per year, contributing $135 million annually to the local economy. That information comes from Amanda Jensen, executive director of Volunteer Lethbridge who spoke to The Herald’s Alejandra Pulido-Guzman ... Read More »
1 week agoDAVID B. CARPENTER On December 7 of 2023, I fell on the city sidewalk, fractured my femur in a comminuted fashion, could not move and had three lovely neighbourhood ladies and my wife hoist me up and call an ambulance. I met an exceptionally attentive ER doc as well as really great nursing staff and ... Read More »
1 week agoEditor: A month or so ago, I just finished reading a book, “The Oldman River Dam Building a future for southern Alberta.” Ken Kowalsky, Alberta’s previous Public Works minister said at the time of the dam’s completion “that all our water problems will be solved now with the completion of this dam.” I would like ... Read More »
2 days agoEditor: Al Beeber, in your column of April 12, you wrote, “If there is a god why didn’t that deity intervene when millions of Jews, along with homosexuals and others were being slaughtered by the Nazis?” Well, he did intervene. Early on in the conflict, he made sure that leaders at the highest levels in ... Read More »
3 days agoEditor: Despite Premier Smith stating in a recent news briefing that the April 5th rotating blackouts were the result of not enough wind energy being online the reality is that the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) mismanaged this particular situation. As is predictable, the premier was dissing wind, building up fossil fuel generation and, in ... Read More »
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