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New teachers network with employers at U of L symposium
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on December 10th, 2022
Student teachers finishing up their final semester at the University of Lethbridge came together Friday for the PS III Large-Group Seminar and Symposium. Wrapping up their Professional Semester III, Education students got the chance to network and prepare as they get ready to graduate and enter into their careers as teachers. The seminar is the ... Read More »
1 responseWinter recreation awaits in Waterton
By Cal Braid - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on December 10th, 2022
When winter settles upon Waterton Lakes National Park, the landscape is transformed from colourful beauty into a place of subtler contrasts. Shining white at times, a muted grey-white at others, it’s still a place where nature’s immensity can be enjoyed. The park makes opportunities for hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, alpine touring, and wildlife viewing accessible ... Read More »
2 responsesLocally-raised author pens book about risk and rescue
By Cal Braid - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on December 10th, 2022
Author Cathalynn Labonte-Smith has a new book, Rescue Me: Behind the Scenes of Search and Rescue (2022), which details stories from search and rescue specialists throughout North America. She spent her childhood in Lethbridge and southern Alberta and now lives on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, where her husband Stephen volunteers with search and rescue. Seeing firsthand ... Read More »
2 responsesAutopsy report in Tailfeathers homicide delivered to defence
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on December 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com After waiting months to receive an autopsy report relating to the death of a Fort Macleod man in 2021, lawyers for five accused finally have the information and are now waiting to schedule a preliminary hearing. The matter for Miranda Mae Turuk, Richard William Lavell, Randy Lee Giroux, Michelle Lee Toth and Edward ... Read More »
1 responseImpaired motorcycle collision results in conditional sentence
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on December 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man who drunkenly crashed into a pickup truck with his motorcycle with enough force to knock the truck onto its side, has received a custodial sentence, but one he will be allowed to serve in the community. During a hearing Friday in Lethbridge provincial court, Roy Garnet Scarrow was handed a ... Read More »
1 responseKorean family lending musical talent to patient performances
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on December 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com A volunteer music program at Chinook Regional Hospital is providing comforting sounds for patients, visitors and staff. The ongoing program called Music in the Atrium, run by Volunteer Resources, has about 15 musicians coming regularly to the hospital to perform in the atrium and on different floors. One group of musicians is a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta municipalities ponder wide range of tax increases
By Lethbridge Herald on December 9th, 2022
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Provincial municipalities have until the end of December to adopt their operating budgets and are working on establishing property tax rates. Lethbridge city council in November approved an annual residential property tax increase of 5.1 per cent for the next four years. If all initiatives put forward to council had ... Read More »
4 responsesFake vehicle inspection used to dupe buyer costs man 45 days
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on December 9th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man in the market for a used vehicle didn’t have any reason to be suspicious when Gerald David Thurber offered to sell him a 2003 Pontiac Aztec. Thurber provided the buyer with an inspection report from an AMA certified automotive shop, which confirmed the mechanical fitness of the SUV. What the ... Read More »
2 responsesLPS officers serving up for Special Olympics
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on December 9th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Police officers will be serving the community in a different way this Friday during a fundraising event in support of Special Olympics. The Cops, Pops and Pizza Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) fundraiser will take place at Boston Pizza South from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. LETR director and LPS constable Braylon ... Read More »
2 responsesCurriculum debate ‘partisan and ideologically driven’ SACPA told
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on December 9th, 2022
Settling on a school curriculum that satisfies the majority of Albertans has never been easy. The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs hosted its weekly seminar Thursday with Amy von Heyking, associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the U of L, to discuss the curriculum in Alberta for K-12 students. Discussing the history ... Read More »
2 responsesGroup hopes to spread reconciliation message to non-Indigenous
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on December 9th, 2022
A grassroots action-based organization, Honouring Traditions and Reconciliation for Society, is working in Lethbridge to help spread Indigenous awareness and education. Working within the community, the group helps spread Indigenous knowledge to non-Indigenous people to help develop ways of implementing culture into practices. “We are building relationships with our non-Aboriginal people. Everybody who is on ... Read More »
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