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State of the City address opens a new year
By Lethbridge Herald on January 17th, 2025
FROM THE HALL Blaine Hyggen – Let me welcome you to the first Mayor’s Column of 2025. To those new to reading this: I write this monthly feature on behalf of Lethbridge City Council to keep people informed on matters of importance in the community, as well as to highlight achievements by members of our ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Think about about others when you’re behind the wheel
By Lethbridge Herald on January 16th, 2025
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER – Al Beeber Let’s have a little talk here about Whoop-Up Drive. And speeding. Actually, let’s talk about speed period in Lethbridge. Anyone who commutes across the Oldman River inevitably during the year will be delayed due to a collision on Whoop-Up Drive, the Crowsnest Trail or even both. Those delays ... Read More »
11 responsesUniversities are the intellectual batteries of community
By Lethbridge Herald on January 16th, 2025
DAN O’DONNELL – GUEST OPINION Universities are where we collect advanced knowledge and tap into the most important intellectual and scientific currents around the globe. Because their faculty almost all come “from away,” universities are where we benefit from the research, education, and creativity developed in other cities, provinces, and countries. When we attend a university ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!There’s no place like home, especially when it’s Lethbridge
By Lethbridge Herald on January 15th, 2025
POINT OF VIEW Scott Sakatch The older I get, the more I appreciate the little things in life: a really good meal, a joke that makes me laugh out loud, pulling into the drive-thru and being the only vehicle in line, calling customer service and getting an actual human being on the other end of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Working for Lethbridge, advocating for Alberta
By Lethbridge Herald on January 11th, 2025
AT THE LEGISLATURE Nathan Neudorf – MLA for Lethbridge East As we embark on a new year, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on the work being done on behalf of the residents of Lethbridge-East and all Albertans. It has been an honour to serve as your MLA, as well as in my ... Read More »
17 responsesBack in the saddle in a new role for a new year
By Lethbridge Herald on January 10th, 2025
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER – Al Beeber I’m back. After seven working days off to relax, I’ve gotten back in the saddle in my new role as a part-time reporter. I promised I’d continue with the column on a bi-weekly basis and I can’t think of a better way to ease into my new role ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Is there a better way the City can help navigate westsiders home?
By Lethbridge Herald on January 8th, 2025
POINT OF VIEW Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Living on the westside of Lethbridge has many benefits, but it comes with the challenge of being able to actually get back home whenever an accident takes place on Whoop Up Drive. On Wednesday, as I was heading to take the last photo of the day for the Lethbridge Herald, ... Read More »
13 responsesMining the ‘modern’ Coal Policy
By Lethbridge Herald on December 27th, 2024
LORNE FITCH I interrupted my Christmas shopping to listen with rapt attention to Energy minister Brian Jean and Environment and Protected Areas minister Rebecca Shultz explain the new, modern coal policy for the Eastern Slopes of Alberta. According to them, coal is good, except where it is bad. Where it is bad no one will ... Read More »
9 responses2024 had challenges and much to be positive about
By Lethbridge Herald on December 21st, 2024
FROM THE HALL Blaine Hyggen – Mayor of Lethbridge I want to begin this month with a sincere Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our Lethbridge residents! Thank you to our community for continuing to be a source of optimism. I’m always so proud of how we show up for each other. Family and ... Read More »
2 responsesA full-time career in news is coming to an end
By Lethbridge Herald on December 20th, 2024
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – managing editor Nearly 45 years ago, my newspaper career officially started after a telephone interview with Jim Cumming, whose family owned the Fort Frances Times and Daily Bulletin in a small northwestern Ontario town I’d heard of only because a journalism school classmate at the Southern Alberta Institute ... Read More »
2 responsesWriting to discover helps people express themselves better
By Lethbridge Herald on December 20th, 2024
DAN O’DONNELL My column last week was about the new movie, “The Conclave,” starring Ralph Fiennes. And about how humans can use writing to transcend time by leaving notes to the future. And about how it is often the things that are not meant for posterity, like receipts and business documents, that are nevertheless the ... Read More »
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