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Tanning workshop teaches old skills to new generation
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on April 1st, 2023
The Blackfoot Resource Hub hosted a four-day leather tanning workshop at the Interfaith Food Bank this week. The Hub invited people to learn the art of Indigenous leather tanning and customs and culture. The workshop was aimed at teaching skills of the trade that are being lost to time – passing along the teachings and ... Read More »
1 responsePhillips wants Smith investigated for interfering in Pawlowski case
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on April 1st, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com NDP MLA for Lethbridge West Shannon Phillips is calling for an independent investigation into Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s interference with in the courts on behalf of Artur Pawlowski. “I am joining our leader Rachel Notley and calling for an immediate independent investigation into Daniel Smith’s meddling in the courts. This investigation must be ... Read More »
6 responsesCurtain closes on a successful music and speech festival
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on April 1st, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival is wrapping up today with its Stars of the Festival Showcase at 2 p.m. at Southminster, after hosting well over 3,000 participants. Festival general manager Jaimee Jarvie said this year’s festival exceeded her expectations not only from the level of skills showcased by everyone, ... Read More »
1 responseNew Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre nearing completion
By Lethbridge Herald on March 31st, 2023
Al Beeber –Â LETHBRIDGE HERALD –Â abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com It looks huge from the outside while driving past but to walk the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre gives a whole new perspective to the roughly $80 million facility. Two years to the day a groundbreaking ceremony was staged, Lethbridge Exhibition CEO Mike Warkentin and Blair Grier – project manager ... Read More »
1 responseToday the last day to prune elm trees until the Fall
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 31st, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge residents who are planning to prune their elm trees have to do it today, or wait another six months. The province-wide pruning ban for all species of elm trees takes effect Saturday, and won’t be lifted until Sept. 30 when elm bark beetles and Dutch Elm Disease are no longer a threat. ... Read More »
1 responseCinderella Project making sure all students graduate in style
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 31st, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com My City Care has kicked off its seventh annual Cinderella Project and Tux Shop to help financially struggling high school students with their graduation gowns and suits so they can have an unforgettable experience. My City Care executive director, Jennifer Tribble said other communities like Taber, Claresholm and Medicine Hat have also started ... Read More »
1 responseLethbridge UCP candidate Torry Tanner resigns
By Al Beeber & Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 31st, 2023
Torry Tanner has resigned as the UCP candidate in Lethbridge West after the surfacing of inflammatory comments in a social media video made during the nomination process about Alberta students being exposed to pornography and being helped to change their gender identity by teachers. In the now deleted video, Tanner stated “we are seeing increasing ... Read More »
3 responsesUkrainian refugees find support in church community
By Lethbridge Herald on March 30th, 2023
Al Beeber –Â LETHBRIDGE HERALD –Â abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Recent arrivals from Ukraine who have escaped their war-torn country are feeling Lethbridge is home thanks to support from the community. And that community includes the parish of Ss Peter & Paul Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The northside parish was founded in 1920 and rebuilt at the same location after ... Read More »
2 responsesNo asbestos fibres found in city water after testings
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 30th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge is among at least 85 communities in Canada which still use asbestos cement pipes to deliver drinking water, according to an investigation by CTV’s W5 program. The City of Lethbridge on Wednesday confirmed there are 177 kilometers of asbestos cement pipes here, which equates to 29 per cent of the total. A ... Read More »
3 responsesFreeze-thaw cycles impact pothole numbers in city
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 30th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Have you been wondering why there are so many potholes on the roads across the city, and how they seemed to have come out of nowhere? Have you ever wonder how potholes are formed? Civil Engineering Technology instructor at Lethbridge College, Doug May said the number of potholes is proportional to the freeze-thaw ... Read More »
1 responseLegal assistance offered at two-day event
By Troy Bannerman - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on March 30th, 2023
Lethbridge Legal Guidance will be hosting its Ask a Lawyer event this week for two days. The event runs Friday and Saturday Kathryn Linder, the community program manager at Lethbridge Legal Guidance, spoke about the upcoming event in a recent interview. “Ask a Lawyer event started out initially once a year in April in conjunction ... Read More »
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