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SPC to face number of funding requests
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on May 7th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council will be hearing multiple submissions today when it meets at City Hall. The meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. in council chambers. The SPC includes the mayor and all members of council. This afternoon’s meeting has 14 submissions from City staff on various ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City urging residents to be prepared for emergencies
By Lethbridge Herald on May 7th, 2024
Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com This week marks Emergency Preparedness Week and the City of Lethbridge, along with the Lethbridge Fire Department, is reminding residents to be ready for future emergency situations. Jamie Anderson, Emergency Planning Administrator with the City of Lethbridge said Monday this year’s theme was “be prepared, know your risk.” “That includes ... Read More »
1 responseMan to face preliminary hearings for sex and child porn offences
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on May 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Numerous attempts to resolve several sex and child pornography charges have failed, and a 45-year-old Lethbridge man could be headed for trial after all. Lethbridge lawyer Scott Hadford and his client James Martinac had hoped to avoid previously scheduled preliminary hearings, and any subsequent trials, and were working out plea deals with the ... Read More »
3 responsesVR Hackathon event challenges students with real-world problem
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on May 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge College Spatial Technologies Applied Research and Training (START) Centre is hosting the first of its kind Virtual Reality Hackathon this weekend. The college is one of three institutions across the province taking part in the Hack and Seek: Alberta XR Career Quest, which is also happening this weekend at Bow Valley ... Read More »
1 responseMayor calls inter-governmental workshop a success
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on May 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Mayor Blaine Hyggen is calling a Thursday workshop with representatives from Alberta’s mid-sized cities a success. The inter-governmental workshop was staged to discuss challenges faced by communities in Alberta, as well as solutions that are being developed. About 70 people roughly a dozen communities attended either in person at City Hall or online ... Read More »
3 responsesFLVT students ready to showcase ‘Madagascar’
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on May 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Father Leonard Van Tighem School Performing Arts students are ready to showcase their latest production, Madagascar: A Musical Adventure Jr. at the Yates Memorial Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. Directed by Michele Hammel and Alexie Beaulac, Madagascar: A Musical Adventure Jr. takes the audience along the journey to freedom from zoo life of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New grant program geared to sport and recreation facilities
By Lethbridge Herald on May 3rd, 2024
Delon Shurtz – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com At a towering six-foot something, Tourism and Sport Minister Joseph Schow stands out in a crowd. Put him in a dark suit with loud and brightly coloured sneakers, and he sticks out like a sore thumb. But maybe that was the point during a media gathering in Lethbridge Friday. Schow’s ... Read More »
3 responsesWar orphan’s story coming to city theatre
By Lethbridge Herald on May 3rd, 2024
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com He was found at the edge of a bomb crater in a quarry by Canadian troops as they battled to free Italy of the Nazis in 1944. The starving orphan boy was on the precipice between life and death. The Canadian soldiers ignored their rules and rescued the child, taking ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ceremony to remember the Battle of the Atlantic
By Lethbridge Herald on May 3rd, 2024
Glenn Miller – for the LETHBRIDGE HERALD The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous battle of the Second World War and one in which Canada played a central role. The battle began on the opening day of the war in September 1939 and ended almost six years later with Germany’s surrender in May 1945. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge rejects claims of self-defence, finds Tailfeathers guilty of manslaughter
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on May 3rd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Cullen Drake Tailfeathers was not acting in self-defence when he brutally beat to death a much smaller Linden Blair Grier nearly three years ago in a Fort Macleod home, a Lethbridge judge has determined. “The facts show me, that he intended to inflict harm on Mr. Grier,” Justice Kristin Ailsby said Thursday in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Geek Fest to offer everything geek-related under one roof
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on May 3rd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Geek: A person who is knowledgeable about, and obsessively interested in, a particular subject, especially one that is technical or of special niche interest, as in a “computer geek.” There was a time when the term geek had a negative connotation, but not so much anymore. What was considered geeky, is now embraced ... Read More »
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