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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 »
1 responseFair 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 »
2 responsesIndigenous 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 »
2 responsesNDP 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 »
4 responsesPolice lay charges in fire that destroyed city hotel
By Al Beeber & Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on April 13th, 2023
Charges have been laid against a city man in the fire that destroyed the vacant Lethbridge Hotel in February. Lethbridge Police Services say Michael Randall Big Swan, 29, is facing charges of shopbreaking and commit arson. He was remanded into custody and appeared briefly in court Wednesday before he was thrown out. Big Swan passed ... Read More »
7 responsesLocal 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 »
2 responsesFamily keeping alive memory of child who still inspires many
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on April 13th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A local boy whose life was cut too short three years ago has inspired many here to “slow their roll” and enjoy the little things in life while his parents keep his memory alive through initiatives that give back to the community. Charles Douglas McIntyre was born on Jul. 15, 2009 and tragically ... Read More »
2 responsesProvince announces design funding for cath lab at CRH
By Lethbridge Herald on April 12th, 2023
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge is getting a cardiac catheterization lab at Chinook Regional Hospital. The announcement was made on Wednesday by the provincial government. The lack of such a lab being specifically included in the recent provincial budget was a sore point with mayor Blaine Hyggen who last month made an announcement at ... Read More »
2 responsesYoung women get taste of careers in trades and technologies
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on April 12th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com It wasn’t that long ago that women working in the trades was virtually unheard of. Welders, carpenters, automotive mechanics, plumbers, heating and air-conditioning technicians and engineers were all occupations monopolized by men. Those days are gone, however, and more and more women are looking for careers in trades and technologies, and more and ... Read More »
2 responsesJigging workshops invite dancers to experience Métis culture
By Troy Bannerman - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on April 12th, 2023
The Galt Museum and Archives and the Lethbridge Public Library this month will host jigging workshops by Brittany Lee. She will be at the Galt Museum today from 6 until 8 p.m. as part of a Métis Music and Membership program. Lee will also do a workshop at the Lethbridge Public Library’s main branch on ... Read More »
2 responsesCANstruction helps to stock shelves of local food banks
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on April 12th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com After wrapping up last week, CANstruction YQL was able to donate more than 8,600 cans of food to the Interfaith Food Bank, the Lethbridge Food Bank and the Lethbridge College food bank. Chair of CANstruction Lethbridge board, James Walshe, said the goal of CANstruction, which originated in the United States over 20 years ... Read More »
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