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Ag Expo heralded as a success
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 7th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The first edition of Ag Expo in the new Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre is a wrap and it was hugely successful, according to director of community engagement Paul Kingsmith. Ag Expo was the first event at the Hub since its opening last summer to utilize every square foot of the facility during ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UCP modernizing provincial power grid
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 7th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The provincial government is making efforts to help the Alberta electricity system adapt to new technologies and the changing ways consumes interact with the grid. The UCP on Tuesday proclaimed the Electricity Statues (Modernizing Alberta’s Electricity Grid) Amendment Act. “By modernizing our electricity grid, with the input of Albertans and industry stakeholders, Alberta’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sentencing adjourned for man who resisted arrest
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 7th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A man who called police from a motel and claimed someone wanted to hurt him, ended up getting arrested for resisting a peace officer. At about 1:40 a.m. on October 2 of last year, Jonathan Lee Wells called police from a room at the Motel 6 on Mayor Magrath Drive South. When asked ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Elder abuse response program losing funding
By Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization executive director Rob Miyashiro announced on Wednesday that funding for the Lethbridge Elder Abuse Response Network (LEARN) has been terminated. Miyashiro said the LSCO has been receiving funding from the provincial government for the last 12 years and on Feb. 29 they were told that will ... Read More »
8 responsesHearing adjourned until summer
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A preliminary hearing scheduled to run this week for a man charged in relation to a human trafficking case has been adjourned to another day. The accused, Fadi Chtewi, was scheduled to have the hearing Monday in Lethbridge court of justice, but the matter did not proceed as expected by request of the ... Read More »
1 responseFlight from police lands man in jail
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com It wasn’t exactly a high-speed chase, or even a slow one, but a Lethbridge man still refused to stop his vehicle for police, which earned him a brief stint behind bars. Dillon Allen Houghton pleaded guilty earlier this year in Lethbridge court of justice to a single charge of flight from police and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP’s Ganley wants inquiry into well cleanup liability
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Provincial NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley feels Albertans should know the full scope of cost of cleaning up orphaned and inactive well sites. The MLA for Calgary-Mountain View is also promising that she would if elected premier call for a review and overhaul of the Alberta Energy Regulator. In a phone interview Tuesday, ... Read More »
8 responsesAnnual music and speech arts festival nearing
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival is gearing up to welcome artists from all ages to this year’s festival running from March 11 to the 23rd at various venues across downtown Lethbridge. Festival general manager Jaimee Jarvie says the festival this year will see the return of accordions to its ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Child porn charges resolved with peace bond
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man caught with child pornography on his computer has resolved his charges by way of a peace bond. Eric John Heitman. who was facing two counts of possession of Child Pornography and one count of accessing child pornography, was placed on the one-year peace bond Tuesday in Lethbridge court of justice. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mom overcomes grief by writing children’s book
By Steffanie Costigan - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on March 6th, 2024
A local woman is sharing her experience of a devastating loss and how she found the silver lining by writing a children’s book. Last summer on July 28 Greg Gaudette a local paramedic/firefighter and his friend Jonah Swen – who was a paramedic and registered nurse in Calgary – died in a hiking tragedy in ... Read More »
1 responseYWCA to honour women of distinction
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Friday marks International Women’s Day and with it the return of the YWCA Lethbridge and District Women of Distinction Awards ceremony where four women will be recognized this year. YWCA Lethbridge and District CEO Jill Young said she is very excited to once again witness women in the community get recognized during the ... Read More »
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