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New memoir explores Pass life in 1950’s
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com With the contributions of a few of his fellow “Coal Town Kids,” former Crowsnest Pass resident Duane S. Radford has written a book about life in that community during the 1950s and early ’60s. Radford, now living in Edmonton, left the Pass when his father’s trucking company folded after mines shut down in ... Read More »
1 responseImpaired driver who drove over victim sentenced to six months
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A woman who drove over a female victim following a night at the bar three years ago, has been sentenced to six months of incarceration. Jessica Lee Gearing, who was charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm, was in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday where provincial court Judge Kristin Ailsby sentenced her to six ... Read More »
1 responseNew executive director outlines vision for SAAG
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com For executive director Su Ying Strang, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery is a space for all to feel welcome. It’s a space where contemporary art is not only exhibited but in which dialogue and questions about art are part of the experience. Strang came to the city after spending nine years at The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Downtown hostage taking leaves victim in serious but stable condition, charges pending against 40-year-old woman
By Lethbridge Herald on July 14th, 2022
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com With a loud bang and the sound of what seemed to be gunshots, a hostage situation in downtown Lethbridge Thursday afternoon ended abruptly an hour and a half after it began. A female employee of Lethbridge Legal Guidance at 423 5 St. S., who was taken hostage by another woman, ... Read More »
1 responseBoy bitten by loose pit bull on westside
By Lethbridge Police Service on July 14th, 2022
Lethbridge Police responded to a report of dog bite incident which occurred at a westside school yard on Wednesday. Just before noon two pit bulls were reported loose and unattended in the school yard of Dr. Gerald B. Probe Elementary School in the 100 block of Rocky Mountain Boulevard West. An eight-year-old boy, who was ... Read More »
1 responseLawyers debate dates for Fort Macleod homicide case
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on July 14th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lawyers for four out of five individuals charged in relation to a one-year-old murder case appeared in Lethbridge provincial court Wednesday to discuss their matters. The lawyers representing Miranda Turuk, Randy Giroux, Richard Lavell and Edward Goodrich appeared in court Wednesday to discuss their clients’ matters, but were asked by the Crown to ... Read More »
1 responseCollege’s Field Day showcases agriculture innovation
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 14th, 2022
Lethbridge College welcomed Western Canada’s agricultural community to its Field Day on Wednesday highlighting the college’s rapidly expanding Centre for Applied Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The experience gave industry professionals and farmers a chance to see what the Centre has been working on, from irrigation control to post-harvest storage. The event took place on the ... Read More »
2 responsesAmazing Race episode spotlights Lethbridge
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on July 14th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com CTV’s hit reality series focused on Lethbridge Tuesday night, giving national exposure to a few city landmarks. Fort Whoop-Up, Helen Schuler Coulee Centre and the High Level Bridge were featured prominently in the episode that had contestants tackling two difficult challenges in the city’s river bottom. Tuesday’s was the second episode of this ... Read More »
1 responsePost-pandemic study focuses on brain effects from social isolation
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on July 14th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A new study done at the University of Lethbridge is looking into how important social interaction is and how it affects the brain when such opportunities are limited. Gerlinde Metz and Jamshid Faraji from the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience led a group of researchers in examining the effect that physical and social ... Read More »
1 responseSheet music theft devastating for Lethbridge Big Band
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on July 14th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Whoever broke into the garden shed in Paul and Nancy Walker’s westside yard may not have been expecting to see what was inside the rolling locked container they stole. Inside that black plastic wheeled bin with red lid and stencilled with the letters LBB was sheet music belonging to the Lethbridge Big Band. ... Read More »
2 responsesIndigenous youth experience trail training this summer
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 14th, 2022
Trans Canada Trail is announcing the second annual edition of its Outland Youth Employment Program, a trail training opportunity for Indigenous youth in partnership with OYEP running from July 19 to August 19 in five provinces across Canada. Youth are employed in a stewardship role to learn hands on skills such as chainsaw handling and ... Read More »
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