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Ex-girlfriend tells of fatal attack as manslaughter trial begins
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 24th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Cullen Drake Tailfeathers and Chantelle English had only been dating a few weeks in 2021, but they were already getting ready to move into a new apartment together. The plan was short lived, however, and by May 24, 2021, only two months after they began dating, the couple had broken up and English’s ... Read More »
1 responseOpposition NDP calls on UCP government to listen to Albertans on pension plan
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on January 24th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Alberta NDP Finance Critic for Insurance and Pensions and Lethbridge West MLA Shannon Phillips called on Danielle Smith’s UCP government to listen to Albertans’ response in recent polling data on the provincial pension plan during a press conference Tuesday. Phillips began by stating that during a year-end interview Smith said she will continue ... Read More »
1 responseEverything Scottish celebrated at Multicultural Centre
By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on January 24th, 2024
A Scottish flavour was in the air during the second annual Celebrating Everything Scottish night at the Multicultural Centre on Saturday night. The evening began with the Address to the Haggis by George Fowler, while people could enjoy Scottish music by the Celtic Routes, bagpipes from Alec Chisholm, a traditional Scottish meal of haggis and ... Read More »
1 responseCity council votes to support Exhibition MOU
By Lethbridge Herald on January 23rd, 2024
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The new Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre was not built to accommodate livestock, city council heard Tuesday in a presentation on a Memorandum of Understanding signed Friday by the City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge and District Exhibition. Council also heard predicted revenue expectations for the hub were optimistic and expense’s ... Read More »
3 responsesCity council to hear about Exhibition MOU
By Lethbridge Herald on January 23rd, 2024
Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD City council gets back to business today with the Lethbridge & District Exhibition in the spotlight. City manager Lloyd Brierley will be making an administrative submission regarding a Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Exhibition. In December council gave the financially challenged Exhibition an emergency operating grant of $250,000 ... Read More »
1 responseRetired game warden shares memories in book
By Lethbridge Herald on January 23rd, 2024
Alejandra Pulido-Guzman LETHBRIDGE HERALD A local author is sharing behind-the-scenes stories in the life of an Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officer through his new book titled “Alberta Game Warden behind the badge of 172.” After retiring from a career as an Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer, Jim Mitchell decided to share his 38 years of ... Read More »
1 responseUkrainians celebrate Malanka
By Lethbridge Herald on January 23rd, 2024
Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald While she came to Lethbridge from Ukraine 10 years ago, Maryna Iamkova considers the annual Troyanda Ukrainian Dance Club’s celebration of Malanka a way of still connecting with her traditions and culture. Malanka is a Ukrainian New Year celebration and the annual event was hosted on Saturday at the Agri-Food Hub ... Read More »
1 responseWoman charged in death drops out of preliminary hearing
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 20th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com One of five people charged in relation to the death of a Fort Macleod man two-and-a- half years ago has dropped out of a preliminary hearing scheduled in March. During a brief hearing this week in Lethbridge court of justice, the preliminary hearing for Miranda Mae Turuk was “vacated,” but not for the ... Read More »
1 responseNew retail and housing units expected in city
By Steffanie Costigan - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 20th, 2024
Investments in the community will add approximately 700 new units including a mixture of retail and multifamily units, according to global commercial real estate firm Avison Young. “We’re definitely seeing a lot of an uptick in the number of units started this year. They’ll be units that will be started again next year that are ... Read More »
1 responseCity men honoured for work with veterans
By Lethbridge Herald on January 20th, 2024
Eight Albertans including two Lethbridge residents have been recognized for their unwavering support to Canada’s veterans. The eight were honoured with the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation during a ceremony at the Military Museum in Calgary on Wednesday. Making the presentation were Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence. ... Read More »
2 responsesCourt hands out seven-month jail term for assaults
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 20th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 58 year-old man has been sentenced to seven months in jail for several criminal offences, including assaulting his girlfriend. Kevin Gordon Marsh was sentenced after pleading guilty in Lethbridge court of justice to two counts of assault. At about 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 23 of last year, police received a report from ... Read More »
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