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After-hours care an issue in hospitals for Alberta Medical Association
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta Medical Association is once again sounding an alarm about a crisis in the provincial healthcare system. This time it’s about the challenges being faced by General Internal Medicine physicians in Alberta’s hospitals and the need to incentivize after-hours care. On Monday morning AMA president and Medicine Hat emergency room doctor Paul ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Disc golf courses host inaugural amateur championship
By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024
If you saw many flying discs in the university and Nicholas Sheran areas over the weekend it was because disc golfers were competing in the inaugural National Amateur Disc Golf Tour (NADGT) Canada national championship. There were a couple dozen qualifiers across Canada and disc golfers were invited to the national championships from those events. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Relay races ride out Whoop-Up Days rodeo
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 27th, 2024
The action-packed rodeo of Whoop-Up Days concluded with the popular relay races. Whoop-Up Days Rodeo is the only professional rodeo in Canada to host Relay Races as part of its main event. Relay Races are a team sport where the rider, who rides bareback, transfers to two different horses in three laps. The first one ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alcare Manor celebrates recovery
By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024
Southern Alcare Manor hosted Celebrate U at Henderson Lake Park on Saturday afternoon to make people aware of the recovery that does happen in the city. “Celebrate U is about stepping up and enjoying the company of other people that are also celebrating recovery from whatever their addiction might be,” said Holly Lemieux, SAM program ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!LHA reaches 50-year milestone helping those who need homes
By Lethbridge Herald on August 26th, 2024
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com For half a century, the Lethbridge Housing Authority has provided low cost shelter for people who need it in the city. On July 26, 1974 appointments were first made to its charter board of directors. Those directors included Clint Stata, Elizabeth DeArmond, James R. Dunstan, Douglas Sutherland and chairman Leonard ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City post secondaries host community breakfast
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 24th, 2024
Community members enjoyed a free pancake breakfast courtesy of the University of Lethbridge and Polytechnic at Rotary Square on Friday. Stephanie Savage, alumni and engagement manager for Lethbridge Polytechnic, says this is the second year the institutions have banded together to show they work hand in hand. “The idea started because we are two awesome ... Read More »
2 responsesLocal organ transplant recipient competed at national Games
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on August 24th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A local organ transplant recipient is sharing her takeaway from attending the 2024 Canadian Transplant Games that recently took place in Ottawa for the first time. Sarah Lowry, who is a local liver donor transplant recipient, attended the games with her two sisters – one of them her living donor – and they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Neudorf pushes back against Nenshi claims
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 24th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com MLA for Lethbridge East and Minister of Affordability and Utilities says Alberta has a stable electricity grid and its treatment-based approach to addictions is working. Neudorf on Friday at his constituency office addressed several matters discussed by Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi on Tuesday during a wide-ranging interview with the Herald. Nenshi told ... Read More »
8 responsesWhoop-Up Days go to the dogs
By Lethbridge Herald on August 23rd, 2024
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Extreme Dogs stunt show at Whoop-Up Days is so popular it can be ruff getting a seat in the stands. But those who do today as Whoop-Up Days winds down will definitely have a bark. And they will learn that perhaps it’s possible to teach old dogs new tricks. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Southland shows that trades have changed
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 23rd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The owners of Southland Trailers consider the people who work at the company’s six plants in Lethbridge and County of Lethbridge as team members. Those 550 valuable men and women were among the throngs lining up for the seventh annual Whoop-Up Days pancake breakfast staged by Southland on Thursday morning for four hours. ... Read More »
1 responseFair food meets appetite of Whoop-Up Days revellers
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 23rd, 2024
As community members build up an appetite by making their way through the fairgrounds at Whoop-Up Days, there are many food options to curb hunger.  Many local food trucks from around southern Alberta are participating in Whoop-Up Days with several of them having specialty menu items for attendants to enjoy. These food items ranged from ... Read More »
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