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Métis Experience shines light on cultural traditions at Fort Whoop-Up
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on July 16th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Fort Whoop-Up offered visitors a Métis Experience Friday, where people were able to learn about their culture, artifacts and history from Métis Elder Roderick McLeod. Fort Whoop-Up site coordinator Abbilynn Thom said the Métis Experience is an opportunity for visitors at Fort Whoop-Up to encounter Métis culture through hands-on activities, storytelling and history ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Blood Tribe Police Service hosts recruitment pancake breakfast
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 16th, 2022
Blood Tribe Police Service held a pancake breakfast for the community Friday morning aiming to improve recruitment within the community and helping close barriers hindering Indigenous members from careers in Canadian Law Enforcement. Hosted in Standoff, recruiters from multiple branches of law enforcement in Canada were present including the Lethbridge Police Service and the Royal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police say tactical team likely saved hostage’s life
By Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Believing a hostage’s life was in imminent danger, Lethbridge police on Thursday acted swiftly. The hostage, a 54-year-old woman who had been taken into an office at Lethbridge Legal Guidance by another woman armed with an AirSoft air pistol and a knife, was stabbed multiple times in the neck as ... Read More »
1 responseCrews respond to fire at westside apartment complex
By Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – Lethbridge Herald – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Fire and EMS were called to a residential fire at the Westhaven Estates in the westside of the city Friday. There was no injuries and people were able to go back to their units within approximately an hour after being evacuated. Platoon chief Shawn Folk said they received couple ... Read More »
2 responsesImpaired 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 responseQuebec students participate in college teepee raising
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 15th, 2022
The Lethbridge College English Language Centre is welcoming several students from Quebec to its campus as part of the Explore Bursary Program, returning to an in-person experience after two years of COVID pandemic restrictions. Lethbridge College’s Indigenous Services has been providing opportunities for the students to experience Indigenous culture with a teepee raising on Thursday ... Read More »
1 responseLethbridge gymnastics coach charged with sexual assault
By Lethbridge Police Service on July 15th, 2022
Lethbridge Police have charged a local gymnastics coach in connection with the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl. On July 5 police responded to a report that a seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted while attending a session at the Lethbridge Gymnastics Academy along the 3200 block of 32 Street North. Further investigation by members of ... Read More »
1 responseTranslation issues prompt further adjournment in human trafficking case
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com One of ten people charged in relation to a human trafficking case had his matters appear in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday, but they were adjourned for another month. Lethbridge lawyer C. Lebenzon appeared on behalf of K.S. Hadford in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday to ask for another month adjournment in the Fadi Chtewi ... Read More »
1 responseCity begins ‘compassionate cleanup’ at homeless encampments
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The City of Lethbridge on Thursday mounted what mayor Blaine Hyggen called in a press release a “compassionate cleanup” of the tent camps at Civic Centre. With police watching from the Civic Centre, crews wearing fluorescent vests and two vehicles emblazoned with the logo of the Downtown Clean Sweep were visible at the ... Read More »
1 responseNew 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 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 »
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