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Impaired 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 »
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 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 responsesBoy 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 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 »
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